The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-02
JUVENILE TORMENT.
A WALL FULL OF INSTRUMENTS OF
TORTURE.
Museum of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Chiidren-The Prince
Leo Law Maggie, the "An-
gel Maker"
New York Heard

New York Heard
Hanging on the wall in the office of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty e.
Children is a frame containing two protraits,
beneath which is large pair of shears in
one portrait a chilli is shown to be cut and
bruised all over her body, and her counte-
nance is sorrowful, while in the other she is
Shown to be healthy and happy Beneath
thr photographs and shears are the following
printed lines:
LITTLE MARY ELLEN
Rescued from the cruel treatment of
woman named Connolly,
by the
Officers Of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children.
1874
!. Condition of Little Mary Ellen" whom
rescued
2 Little Mary Ellen ono year afterward
in happy home.
g. Shears used by the woman Connolly in
beating and cutting Little Mary Ellen
"That little girl was the cause OF the estab-
lishment OF this society" said Supcrintend-
ertt Jenkins to Herald reporter, rs he
pointed to the pictures of little Mary Ellen,
and from this society like societies have
snrnng up in London, Liverpool, France, It.
ally, Spain, Calcutta, and nearly every state
in the Union. Quite a girl, hey, Yc,; a
lady came to Mr.. Henry Bergh one
day and said that she hal tred III vain to
rescue the child from the woman Connolly,
and asked for his assistance He went to
her aid. rescued the chilli and then issued
the appeal which resulted in the organiza
of tho Society for the Prpvautio, of Crueltv
tn Children which I bo,o one of thcsa days
will he in n bpildino as big n, the nosta(fice
avon may know what hIessint, tbo eoci-
ETY. has beeo - resumed Snnerjnte,dent
Jenking ",yhen Won look at these instrn
ments of torture that we have wrestni from
the c1uel hands of narants and ouorIiaps "
Turning to one side the SUPERINTENDENT
hrousb+ a., ,,,,,,,t,, lofo., ,,,f,ot ,,oIl f. II
Of every canceivable kind of veanon and
other means of torment, each one If which
,nptelv smoke columns Of human
WOO There vera vioIjr,s aud tambour:nas
ravyhileS ana chains. sticks Of wood and
ron pokers and leather STRAPS with bic iron
| buckles
Chloe victims and tanborripes mr., roljcs
| of fine r,d,..,a sv,sta,n which wa b,,l,, ~.
some wear. ago" said Mr. Jenkins "vbnn
! Antonio Giovanni Aucarola was sentenced
30 five year, in Auburn 1rison. Aucorola
came out of prison a short time aro and
coming to see us. said he intended to leave
the country, as he could no longer carry on
his business. There is a possibility that the
system is vet carried on to a small extent
the bootblacls around town probably beiu -,
| the victims but We rarely discover any dan
gerous existence of it.
THAT base ball bat was used by a man 70
| beat his stepdaughter, who was but 10 years
of age, and that shoe-brush alongside of it
was used by coiored man to chastiSo his
BABY, years Old. The man who used the
| club was sentenced to five years impriSon-
ment, and the shoe-brush wleldcr got only
one month There's big piece OF kindlnS
Wood mat drunken mother Killed her boy
| N.tn' Inc potato lnasher You see hanging
| htlIe ABOVE was me means OF almost RIDING
| a liehIsn IotheF OF MS httle, unioNed BOY.
Inc enid was MISSING l"r day or two ana
we louhu nun crouchlhg, auhHst dead, be-
hihd an clubhouse door me boy S SISTER
'oo, was uiScoNeleH III pitLtoIe cohdiJlo.'
Sun ,7rI from neglect ana hi-neatmeAI
" nav was 'ha' o4c broom USED ioF: aS"ed
tne reporter, IN a puzzle
AS buck and gag The broom was
p'iSSed across ooyS legs under The Knees,
anu he was iiaue 10 SCoop doWh ana remain
IN that position lor DAYS, with ms wrists tied
TO either end OF the broomstlck. broke
INTO the house. where the father was be!ab
! orils 'le BOY upon lie naked nouy' WINE II
'nis t'oS''io'' Win i"iiS, Cileh Slilp Oh
feather. Long "eitS llau peeh cut mo thI
ooS lleNn.
A Ittlo pair Of red socks were said to have
baeh worn by "Ernce Leo, VINO was the IN
nocent cause OF the Prince Leo law" They
had leather buttons, and were used by a lit
tie boy who had done the sliding-ropc act a
the Tivoil theater He had been hirel from
his father in Philadelphia, who farmad ou
all his children for leading the blind and
other like professionals" by a man who sup
| ported himself and his alleged wife on tht
EtIe fellows earnings. The boy wouls
climb up = wire carrying a heavy piece O
gas-pipo as Il balance pole and when h,
reached the ceiling he slid to the stage
There was rope around his waist, with
slack of about four feet, and held by mar
in the flies, but the physicians said that has
! the child fallen the rope would have caused
rupture. The boy was adopted by a gent,o
man i'll Brooklyn and is now in Missouri
| Besides other crueltics the boys trainer
would stand him on horseback and horse
whip him and bend him back and forth t
make him supple and keen his bones pliable
described rs having inflicted wounds on ,