The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-14
MADE oRIpPLs TO BEG.
Young Chil1rsn the Victim Of Most
BarbarO Gus Traffic
From he Nesc YORK Star.

DAYS ago delicate lad, who had run away
from j is home, was branded by rei-hot
iron and prussic acid in order that b
might be ter excite sympathy among chart
table people. He had been picked up in tht
streets by two thieves, who forced him t
beg and steal. For fu ly month the La
was sent out day by day, uader threats o.
beati and turning him over to the police
What be secured by begg ng was no,
enough TO ga; isfy his human taskmasters
who ext tried to make thief Of him.
The bog was pot success in this lire
and be was seized and his night arm bra dee
bv a red hot iron. On his left was poured
prus ic acid. Without money The Injured
lad as hen sent out to beg again. All
manner Of horrible torture was tnreater ed
him if he told how he got his burns. The
police e ally j scovered the case, d found
another lad who had been similarly treated
One is in the s. ital at he point of death
and the other wa taken to tine rooms OF the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty t
Chlldre
The agent of Mr.. Gerry's society was tell
ing yesterday of terrible cases IN this city
where FaGid, TIE Jes in "Ohv-r Twist, ,
ha been outrivaled; where cripples had
been made to order, and bra ded and tor
tured til dsfgured in terrible and sick
enir G manner.
There are many of these cripples turned
out from tie scums of the city ev -ry year y
said the agent. Every nov aud then tbs
police succeed 10 ca chi q so ne f in
human brutes wIo systematically make
cr.rples TO send out on the street TO beg.
The man who ha, real Victor Hugo's
'L'Honfne Qui Rit can recall the vivil
chapters in winch the IN aster of sensational
fiction lescr b9s the exquisite tortu as to
IL .A.f 3,.r.
pic ition 4 tie k life % certain te idons in
ord r to pr duce the d sired result.
at is among Italians that tue most in.
hun acts are resorted to, to make Grip.
pies. who, in their pit,fJl condition, car
better APPEAL to the sympathy OF the public
Padrones have brought many of these Grip.
ri made to order from Ita'y, bus 10
" Mulberry and a ljacent streets little b be
are being cut and hac; ed, and pu- in re.
@ceptacles of strange slio1 to dwarf tn il
gr1wth. Poi issional beggars IN New York
are CO. sta thy on inc ease. The ugh Isl
and most malformed are the most valua ole
the res most likely to caCch the eyes of a
pedestl ian.
Until the passage of TIE paupar act,
Europe was constantly exporting cripp e
beggars-' he beggars w o had been made
in sunny Fra ce and in Italy. the land Of
grand opera. The f reign mar ct was
drugged by these cripple-, and thev were
taken n uand by padroDes and shipped to
America. Blu nov Kings are different.
Crippled beggars can 10 lc ger be sent t.
this country, a dthey must he made among
the.foreign colonies in New Yor5.
II venture to say that at lea t 100 children
are annually turnei Oh the streets of o IT bi p
city to beg, after they ave oeen for two,
three or four years subjected TO the mo,t
cruel rtu to make them a sight, hor-
rible but ORIGINATING. The tia ian now
saws. Me makee the cr-i-p-ple5 in New
Yo, kee'
HE can no longer depend on the 'qhip-
PEE Capitaine' to ring him his stock in
trade, and now estsbl saments are con
stantly- on he Increase, in a small way of
course, where Ii tie ones suffer a living
death"
But what Of the society Of which you
are all Officerr' asked tie reporter.
tsAh, yes, there it is The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children is daily
unearthing crime Of all sorts against little
lnnocelis, but 1t tades time and assidious
labor to fe ret out cripple-making estab-
hshment IL Little Italy or n a nest of dives
Or rookeries in some of noto us streets
off he B )we Y or on the river ront.
Tits naFd, very hard, to penetrate the
secrets of localities that have been seething
with crime for many years. There are
SAID to be beggarS' associations in this city
which traffic In bum a flesh The worst
and most notorious of the padrones and
thieves who trad in ipples have either
been sent to jai or driven out Of The CITY.
Chicago, Boston or some other pig CITY now
shelters m ny Of tue owners Of deiorm id
beggar lads. Bit it is lard to check the
evil in a & eat city, aad, TO be frank, it will
probably continue on, buy III a more sgcre-
tive manner"
A visit to Mat on Webb at the lost chill
Dire 5 DEPARTING in police haadluarters
proved the truth Of some of tie sta eme IS
ma e by Mr.. Gerry's agent Matron Webb
every now and the has placed tanporari V
In her care, by the police WAC pick them of
the streets, many little enid en- who have
been maime1, disfgured aad crippl by
taskmakcrs who sent the out to beg.
A case of the little d who ad been
probably fatally burned by prus ic acid ex-
cited MatrO Webb, sympathy greatly.
She said, pointing to a 10 year old boy 1T
play on the fl nor: "Whe he wa b ought
here by an officer from Capt McCulagh's
piecllc, g had the tendons of his 40 arms
cut so that Trey were doubled up under his
armplts. Some one, With AWFUL cruelty.
mad taken fine cord and tied the two por-
no.s OF each arm together, bound dirty
rag about the u, AMI then sent the poor
S''N 'Nh'N " 10 ~ OoEs w non IOuiiu DY
the offic he was crying pitsous Y. He hal
pen kept under treatment 70 a long time,
but the pam ad not vet left bis arms. He
VIII never again regain use Of them, the
doctors tell me.
"A other little fellow was found on
Bro DIV y ono day. Every limb was ap-
pareutly perfect when he was brought
mere. stel pei out of the room for a
uornen, and to my horror and asst nis1-
MehV' when retur ed found one Of he
most rep" lsive objec,s had ever witnessed.
~ ~ boys steat Was miserable, hidsous
Htue "re CT with both of his legs tut Of
9oln1 a his arms doubled up under him.
~ d moment though he threw himself into
suape again. | asked if he ,uffe ell any
pam and lie said that for long long time
10 thought he would die, but thar it did not
In!S nm now to TWIST himself out Of
4, Al the thickly populated lower section Of
one CITY little cripples Of the most grotesque
1nu fantastic shapes can be found ia the
sul'erS or in t. balls OF big rookeries. Ire
Poheman on the beat knows. nine cases
Suo VI zen, what made the CT ppe but he
- P1"erless to &C. So the lvil goes on, a I'd
b tiae ~ eet COZ ners CONF nue b. be popuia, cd
=! slekenlng sights OF deformity.
having in our official capacity as mem
pers SCI the Plymouth hospital com nittcs
Oeen asked to ties and prove the effective
ness oil many different articles 10 be used as
HislhleCtants in sick rooms and a. Dravent-