New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-25
SHE SAYS SHE WAS A SLAVE.
THE STORY OF A PERUVIAN GIRL.
BEATEN OVER THE HEAD WITH SHOE by
LILLE ,rrrr, az conS1,1 crNEn Al nIrINTANA.

BEATEN OVER THE HEAD WITH ohor Di
THE WIFE OF CONsUL-GENERAL QUINTANA
A young girl whose raven black hair. brown
almost coppercolored. face and soled garments
were covered with blood that flowed from several
wounds in her head rushed out Of the apartment
house No. l02 West Eighty -fourth-st. at about
: 30 o'clock Monday evening. The lanltor treo
to stop her while he asked her where she was gong
but she answered him a few words In broken
English and dashed into the street She ran ie"
blocks TO the house of Annie O'1en n servant
whom she had met at the Catholic church whlch
she attended. and told her such story of i'll
treatment and hard usage that the woman TOOK ier
to the West Observation-Disclosures police
station. There Agent Barkley. of the Society Tor
the Prevention % Cruelty to Children. took charge
of her and took her to the headquarters OF the
society. at Twenty y-third-st and Fourth-ave.
The clotted blood was washed from the hair
and face Of the girl clean garments were put on
her. and the wounds on her head were dressed.
There were three scalp wounds, one Of them over
an inch long from which most of the blood had
flowed. Besides. the girls head was swollen IN
several places where blows had been struck when
were not sufficient TO break the skin. Inc chlid
body also had numerous bruises on 1t. some OF
them being nearly healed and others evidently OIL
recent origin.
The Girl was Maria Fcborscia, fourteen years
old n native of Peru. who had lived with the
family Of Juan Quintana, Consu-General OF feru
at this city, at the house in Eighty-fourth-st Inc
child could not speak many words OF Englsh' ou1
she was able TO make her hearers understand that
she had for some time been subjected TO extremely
harsh treatment by Mrs Quintana and that she
was kent by the Consul-Generai as a slave, he
having paid her mother $500 for her. The girl
had oil bpr np Monday
evening to button her. Mrs. Quintana's shoe
The girl declares she could not find buttoncr.
whereupon the woman beat her over the head with
/ the shoe.
| Yesterday morning the girl was brought before
Justice Diver in the Harlem Police Court. Mr..
! Quintana was present. but his wife was not, as
! She is ILL., The case was adjourned. the girl being
| placed in the care of the society NO charge or
assault was preferred against Mrs. Quintana, as
| her condition is such that She Will not be able
| to leave the house for some time. In all prob
! ability Maria will remain in the custody of Mr..
/ Gcrry's society, and there the case will rest.
Last evening a man who has sper much time
in Peru visited Maria at the society's headquarters
| and had a talk with her. She is fourteen years
| old and is descended from the mountain Indians
| OF Peru, although there is also Spanish blood IN
! her veins. She talks native Peruvian dialect.
| IlcT features anu tOHipcNl'H
She saws that her father is dead and that her
! mother is Door. She was born at Pachacayo,
near Lima, Peru She said thnt her master had
! never sent her To school and that her mistress
! sometimes beat her with "A STICK
! Mr. Ouniana called at the soclcty's oHlce yes
icrGay morning and offered 10 send the Glrl pichS
to Peru. He did not deny that his .wie h%a'l %
beaten the girl. At first he saii ne had Douene
her hut he afterward declared that he meant 10
say that he had brought her TO tins country, Iie
denied having paid her mother S"VV LOT ,., nei,
From information IN the possession oi Il ttIoms .N
Jenkins superintendent Of the society, II L s'vnls
| RAJ The Consult Gcneral agreed 10 pay the mother
dat smu. int failed 10 keep his bargain. MI
! Ouintana declared that the girl was hnPu"ch, " w
! lis wife and refused 10 OBEY ncl'
Tbercunon the mistress chastlSed hcr.
lie said that five years ago he did give the MI
! - thor $500 hut not in payment TOT h'l cnilu,
,,ho remained AZ home nearly two years ai.c' 'lap
t;,rc He saws that the mother was gIH 10 hthc iI
fine Girl placed in the hands of cooG Iail!lN. ,t,
hrouobt her 10 the United states el2htIcn u'" us'n
| AGO lie had often found Maria lihPu4rh' w" y,
! and six months ago wanted - s'hu M "e,n 1l
! Porn There were no slaves in Peru; he dccIarrl:
| WLothrr thc ul-Gcncrll paid Mrs trhofS',h. ~
| e2oo Tor her child or not. Maria was ccr'iiIE w
tre,,ed os nearly like n slave rs well could "' Hc
,ros NOT scnt to school had 10 wait on ,die ills ms
tress attend the three little children, ana "sHr'
| vras often badly beaten, sometimes WIN =, - Ln n
Snncriutondcn' jenkins says that me sorru,A nos ~
fiird I'm several eases that girls We're prouIIIt ~
,Lie country from the West indies or SOUTH N.I' ~,
lon as slaves II was difficult 10 prove "io ,"H !;
had actually been bought, but theN W,'I' @ r ~
! rcoIitv and some of them had no douol "'ch pun
| chased like cnttc.