St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-21
OUT OF 4 LIVING HE'LL
Two Young Girls Escape From
a Stockade Den at Grand
Rapids.
They We're Sisters, Lured to
Their Ruin by Promises
Of Marriage.
Pitiful Tale Of Cruelty by the
Younger One--Beaten
Nearly Blind.
Sixteen Other Inmates, Re-
ported, Who Are Guarded
by Bull Dogs.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH. Mimi, Feb. 20.-Two young
girls have escaped from a stockade at
Grand Rapids, Mimi, and are now in
this city. They tell the most heartrend-
ing tales Imaginable of human deprav-
Ity. The girls are sisters. The eldest
escaped from the place in the night
about two weeks ago and made her way
to Duluth. She then sent for her sister,
who arrived here last Friday with her
face badly mutiated by the kicks and
blows of the man who keeps the place.
For some time the conductor of the Du-
luth & Winnipeg has noticed that men
have frequently gone up there with
young girls, have left them there and
returned day or two after. When this
had been repeated several times he be-
came suspicious. Later, when a girl
the train and had no money
to pay her fare to Duluth his
suspicious were naturally confirmed.
The house where the girls were practi-
cally imprisoned is about mile and
half from Grand Rapids. 1t is dance
house OF the worst character, and is
patronized by lumbermen. A man
named Mccartney vas shot there in a
row some time ago by the former pro-
prietor.
The story Told
by the elder of the two sisters when she
first arrived in Duluth was that she
had married a fellow named Raymond,
and that they started off on their we'd
ding journey and took her younger sis
ter with them. Raymond took them to
this place at Grand Rapids and left
them there. They were subjected to
cruel and every form of indecent treat
ment, and she and another girl
made up their minds to escape.
This they succeeded i'll doing 10y
going out one night and walking
through the snow to La Prairie. After
she got to Duluth she sent man after
her sister. After the older sister had
escaped the younger was treated to in
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ing story: Il never expected Minnie
would get away. The proprietor said if
he could catch her he would kill her.
They had four big bull dogs there and
a hound, and they went after her. 1t
was an awful cold night, and | cried all
night, for l was sure she couldn't get
away. After that they were afraid |
would get away too, and they took my
shoes, cloak and hat and locked
them up. One night about
week after the proprietor came over
to me standing by the stove and took me
by the hair and dragged me out into the
middle of the loom. He kicked me all
over and hit me in the eye. | was sick
for several days in bed and couldn't see
at all. | was sure | was going to be
blind. They wouldn't have let me go
away only they thought that the man
that came for me was detective. Ac-
cording to the story of the two girls
who have escaped, there are sixteen
other girls in the dance house, many of
whom are extremely young, and who
were persuaded to 90 there by lying
promises. If the girls refuse to do as
they are told they are whipped ami
beaten into submission. The two girls
who escaped refused to make their real
names known for fear their parents will
hear of it.