Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-23
WOES OF A MOTHER
N JAIL WITH CHILDREN ABOUT
HER.
SIX INNOCENTS INVOLVED
Arrested Tor Passing COuAerIel>
Money. Tue \, oman DreakS UUm Il
botu III >pIIIL ana DVuy--A HAPPY
home SauIy " reckeu-A touching
Case-Sisterly sympathy Needed.
Madison, May -.

Disheartened, frie1ulesS anu SICK
Mrs y. feIIarul Lies on an uncUuIUrt
able little Get ~ = gIUJMy Gel ia
Lame count! jail auu ,-rIeOl Lul-o
one Of tie most pIdtuI ia.es ,ua.
mas ever come uuUcI me uUtIce VI ,uc
JaIer or most dIy Utner person III
Alaulsun for JnaI mattel.
Last Sunmer III \, est superior LLert
was i happy family oI nus ouuu. vile
ana SIX cuIIuren. one day Il stranger
named FRANK LOurgeon was Intro
duced into the family circle by a Iuu-
tual friend and he prevailed upon the
family 10 take him as Il UOaruer. Tour
SeUn was 4 man Of fine manners and
pleasing ways and soon won the con-
hdence ana respect Of all lie came in
contact with. The children especially
took great fancy 10 him. Every
morning he WOuIu take his dinner
pail ana leave the home going, as he
said, TO his work on the docks. Every
week lie gave L 50 gold piece to his
landIady. lie lived with the family
about eight weeks when an officer az
ing. Then is developed that the i've
or six gOId pieces paid the landlady
were counterfeit. The landlady had
passed them in the belief that they
were good. The landIady was forth
with arrested for passing counterfeit
money.
That took place about November
OF last year. She was confined in .
cell that was cold enough at night to
freeze water. Being Of al exceedingly
nervous temperament and being eN-
pOSd to extreme cold her health, never
rugged, was completely shattered. Her
six small children were thrown upon
the charity Of Il cold world. The Pres
byterian ladies raised fund Of $50
and turned it over TO sisters Of char
ity for the care Of the youngest child
ren. To add to the Door mothers woe
was the publication in Il Superior
paper Of an article stating that i'm
proper relations had existed between
her and her b0arder TOurgeOn. This
nearly claZed the WOmn and aggravat-
ed her illness. She was too sick to be
removed to Madison for trial in the
federal court and remained confined at
Superior until four weeks ago when
she was brought to the capital
TOurgeOn was tried here and found
guilty Of making counterfeit money
Judge Bum sentenced him to five
years in the penitentiary.
y week ago Friday morning Mrs.
PellardiS six children arrived in Madi-
son, being sent here presumably by
he West Superior authorities. The
oldest is Is ID and the youngest a
Nabe Of , II. The latter is bright
! ed, curly haired little tot who doesn't
taem to care much as long as she is
permitted to romp about and play
with her doll. The others are bright.
Intelligent looking children who chat
ter continually in French or English
to one another as fancy impeIS them.
When a Democrat reporter saw them
first yesterday afternoon they were
playing about the jail yard. Later
when he was talking to the mother as
she lay on her bed Of pain, the child
rem came trOOping into the cell, for the
kind hearted jailer allows them free
access to their mother When they
first saw him they looked him over
curiously, but shortly turned their at
tention to their childish pastimes.
They are being cared for at the h0rae
of Paul Kingston.
DIS. Harper and Sheldon attend the.
sufferer, but she does not seem to im
prove She is COMPLETELY disheartened
and discouraged and at times is Lut
Of her head. The Jail attendants
watch her continually lest she do h~r-
self violence. Her pallid face shows
plainly the traces of intense pain and
sorrow and her emaciates hands and
arms betoken a fern racked with dis
ease.