The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-05
JOHNNY AT HOME.
Taken From Miss Grants
Tender Care By His
Hoboken Uncle.
HAPPY TO BE RELEASED
Tells How Her Treatment Drove
Him TO Make The
Escape.
HAPPY TO BE RELEASED


johnny Siiioiu was sieehes IA q p7
easy cnatf ny y issiu . ins
nome AZ NO. 10 nAs. sues
1dsl evening WHEN Ne~
caiica there 10 see hhh. DeSpi.o 10 sao
dlneloh "iich mas aiHrost topats ioDDA
nun 81 nus eyesishe ne was iiaLpy'
was sida 70 pe ones more witn N.Y. "no
careu lor mn aiio ~ oe ilee ooy.
Johnny was taken from MISS nosaiie
o@nes fiplie " tre Dim " ene
i0use q ms uace' ihoiias = Sitno
" n@suay aipeficon' y iAs ieiatisss
=. eaiihs 70 nave diyeiins more pun
Isheu III the newspapers about MN, had
e~Edeavored to keep his whereabouts a
secret. He is a bright youth. and al
though ne is seventeen years old, ne IS
no -larger than~a boy of ten.
In answer to .+he renorteq,s questions
Johnny gave the followlng account OF MS
experience
THE newspapers were good to me. and
-
published about my position I believe
Sister Rosalie would have had me locked
up III mat room IN her Home until l
died. When | first went to the Home
to have nv eyes treated 7 did not want
e. ..-
good to me and / received the best of
care. This treatment lasted until about
six months AGO. sister Rosalie for some
reason which I cannot explain, tur<Sd
against me. On October 80 last because I
said tnat 7 saw bar heat ,rbaresa ~ mnball
ana - - - $3.50 -
one OF the inmates, she locked me In a
room on the second floor. 1t was from
this room that asoaned az TUESDAY
n.ah+ ~ lueeuas
hsht, Two Jays peTore TINS sheN had
logged me and cracked a stick over my
back because lei tbe dos ,oosa in or5er
- 49, -
W prlns II IN the mouse. l became angry
over the treatment and she said, I see
YOU are going to run away, amt your
III give yon all the run away you want
she was going to lock me up so /
screamed. She pushed me into the room
aud locked the door. A few minutes
later she opened the door and said,
Give me them shoes stockings
Twenty minutes later she onened the door
again and said, Give me them pants
Then she said. Get in bed there and
vent out, locking the door behind her.
When viii you let me out of here? /
shouted after her, and she replied. When
| see ft.' This was at ten O'clock in the
was pretty hungry when she brought me
my supper. | did not get out of that room
until | escaped. Some laws [ onlv got
two meals a day.
The first two weeks 4 was in the room.
a man named ohm Grant. Sister Rosalie's
adopted brother, who is 26 years old,
slept with me. He said to ne. I feel SCR
ny for you. I shouldn't think She would
lock you up that long. Two days~ is bad
enough for little punishment but II goes
too far when it lasts three weeks Sister
when she heard that he had sympathized
one to ,l talk t to. Th ess was vas no a5o heat Vim n the he
room and | was cold. The door was kept
when my meals were brought in. Tn
room was on the south side Of the house
and had three bay windows.
Sister Resale came to me and said she
smelled gas. She accused me of tryine
to turn the gas on with the intention Of
such a thing. She then cot a MONKEY
wrench and turned off the gas and sad.
I wouldn't care if I came in the room
give one snap for your body. It's only
for your SOUL
II was getting very lonesome when I
discovered that Maggie Leyden, q years
old, a simple minded girl. partly blind
like myself. was locked IN IN the rom
next to me. / talked with Mage q thysoYeh
the kew hole She told me 40 eha Lsd
been IN the room sinca T,,,S, o. 81 a
a breastpin and fifty cents from ona of
the inmates and Sister Resale furnished
her by locking her in the room the same
as she did me. Maggie was kent in the
room for fourteen weeks. She told me
through the key hole that she put tne
fifty cents She stole in the poor hoy In
st. Patrick's Church when she attended
mass one Sunday morning. I felt sorry
Tor the girl and told her tina I would try
to get her out. She said she had break
fast one Monday morning, ard then had
nothlng until the following Thurs
day. morning. She only got one
meal q day sometimes. and
Twas Setoom she got two; She was let
out OF the room on November last and
rflnoVed 70 me room on the next floor
above because Sister Rosalie heard US
ia4h-hg through the Fey hole. Two days
asf $1,000 was taken away. I think
- olaehWetLs island. Sster Rosalie
ny ~ ~ sgs i.tl rn snake tilll, but she was
s ~ p a n 5ne State. me poor girl was
RIinS To- or ne lev torh institute for the
Ilne s,eailns I'VE years ago last
9rfion. ~ hhe NE WaI Or the inst
~ tseht nef over 10 sister Rosalie,
p%srinfend srs's Wait dosa / th Eot p fof f by sn !
Liter. MY Slg0I WAS 50 had that r onril--4