The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-08
VERY DUBIOUS TALES
The Charges Against House of
the Good Shepherd.
STORIES POSITIVELY DENIED.
Mrs. Noble r.. Ryther Di~credits the
Statements OF Maynard Giris-No
Confederation Offered.

The afHfavit OF Amelia Peitier as 20 i'm
nro1rietiss at the House Of the Good Shep-
herd has elected an affidavit by E. @.
Granville, who is in business on Pike
street.
Edward @ Granville, being first duly
sworn on cath. says that he Is. and for
two years last past has been. a resident CT
Seattle. Wash. that he is In the rnercan-
tile business at No. 1sa Fourth street. in
said city: that he is not a member of the
Roman Catholic church. but has been a
member of a Protestant church: that he
makes this affidavit voluntarily and upon
his own motion. and not at the suggestion
of any other person.
"Afflaut further SAYS that he is acquaint-
ed with Amelia Peltier. as we'll as with
her mother. Mrs Laducier: that the moth
er of said Amelia. in the presence of said
Amelia. during the month of March. 1895.
told this affiant that said Amelia had been
ulistreated in the House OF Good Shepherd
and recited the details of said alleged mis-
treatment substantially as printed in the
Times OF this sth day of August, 1895; that
thereafter also in the presence of said
Amelia her said mother stated to .affiant
that all of the statements concerning sad
raistreatrnent were untrue: that the House
of Good Shepherd was all right: that she
was sorry she had said what she had
against it: that she had made said state
rnents at the instigation of the A. r. A. :;
that they had promised TO help her out
but had never done thing for her. She
also said that old Carnes was no good
1 consider the said Amelia Peltier an i'm
beetle These statements were made TO
me in the course of business which had
with Mrs. Laducier.
EDWARD G. GRANVILLE.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this
sth day of August. 1895.
"E. d. BENSON. Notary Public
Mrs Noble f. Ryther. who maintains a
home for unfortunate women. connected
with Protestant mission. will not be sus-
pected Of any nartiality for the Catholic
of girls however. and knows something OF
their faillngs. An affidavit has been pass
ed around on the streets made by Maud
Pagan. a girl of 16 years of age. who stop
ped with Mrs. Ryther after she left the
House OF the Good Shepherd
Mrs Ryther said she did not believe the
stories told by the girl about immoral
practices.
~ don't believe the story of the immoral
practices there. / don't know why the
girls who have been there should tell such
stories because know they are not true.
The house should be closed up, for they
work the girls too hard and don't feed
them anything.
Amelia Peltier was here seven months
after she left the House of the Good Shep-
herd. She is almost idiotic: she hasn't any
mind hardly at all. remember when she
made that affidavit. I told Mr.. carnes and
Mr.. Bushell. the editor of Seventy-Six. at
the time that the immoral part of her
story was untrue. and advised Mr.. Bushell
not to publish that portion of the story.
knew that was not true and told him
he'd better not publish it,
Cecilia Grimes, a girl who was taken
out by her parents to go TO them in Cali
fornia, was examined in order TO ascer-
tain il the stories told by Maud Pagan
were true. but she denied them She was
shocked at the other girls untruthfuluess.
and remarked: II never heard such an
awful string of terrible stories as that girl
told"
The mother superior says she hopes that
the matter will not be allowed to rest but
that an investigation will be made.