The herald., 1897-11-30
The GaIIways Make Com
plant to the Sheriff
A MOB THREATENS DEATH
A WHIPPING BY PROF. CUTLERY
DISTURBING POMONA
An Azusa "vag" Makes Break for
Liberty-The Filkins Case does
Over-Foshia Has to Pay Up


disgraced certain of the Eastern states
are to be duplicated in Los Angeles, II
the story of a complaint made last even
ing to Sheriff Burr is not to be dis
credited.
]. Galway, with his wife and small
child, when they appeared in the sheriff
office had a most curious story to tell.
The husband is big, burly fellow, who
looks as if he could give good account
of himself in a scrap, but his wife is
undersized, thin and weakly-looking.
She has been an invalid for six years,
according to her husbands version.
The fragilty of her physique, however,
did not prevent her tongue from wagging
at a great rate, she acting as chorus to
her husbands solo.
The story told was to the effect thai
on Saturday night about fifteen or eigh-
teen men massed in front of his house at
1922 Buena Vista street, number OF
them forcing their way in. They claimed
that he had ILL treated a fifteen-year-ol old
girl, and they were going to kill him
If he didn't mend his ways. Mrs. Gall
way attempted to force her way into
the street, but was held by couple of
the men. She contrived to break away.
however, and ran to find police officer.
Meantime her husband, fearing for his
life, whipped a knife off the table and
stood on the defensive. With knife in
front and the police on their track be-
hind the unlimited visitors took their
departure, promising to come again and
do both Mr. and Mrs. Galway up in good
style.
The sheriff informed the couple that
a mans house is his castle, and, save in
the case Of an officer armed with war
rant, can be protected by the owner.
Anyone crossing the threshold against
the wishes of the owner does so at the
peril of his life. That appeared salts
factory to Mr.. Galway, who stated he
was ready to protect himself, but OBJ
jected to figuring in the courts even in
just cause.
He explained that his business was
that of bartender, but that he had been
unable to get job. In this city, he
said, the saloons took bricklayers and
all kinds of hobos in as bartenders, and
consequently he had to look around for
other work. He took in laundry work,
and, his wife being an invalid, he did
the washing himself. The girl he had
been charged with ill-treating was his
daughter, but not by the present wife.
She is nearly sixteen years old, and, so
the father said, utterly incorrigible.
She wouldn't do anything but run
around with the boys and engage in dis
reputable practices. He had spoken to
the Humane officer, and that official had
told him that nothing could be done for
the girl save to send her to the Florence
home. Not wishing to have her asso-
ciate with women who had belonged to
the thoroughly disreputable class, the
father had refused to have her sent
there.
That is about the sum and substance
of the explanation given by the Gall
ways, but there is another side to the
story. The neighbors allege that the
sixteen-year-old daughter referred to
has been made the veriest slave of the
Gallways; that day after day she has
been kept at the washtub, and was the
only one Of the family that did any
washing at all. Clothed in rags that
failed to hide her nakedness, her toll
was broken only by the unmerciful beat
ings administered to her by the man who
claims to be her father, and acquiesced
i'll by her step-mother. At such times
her cries for mercy aroused the neigh
borhood and at no time had opportunity
been afforded for the girl to meander
around with the boys, even had such
been her inclination.
While some contradictions in the story
as told by Mr.. and Mrs. Galway seem to
lend color to the claim of cruelty made
by the neighbors, their explanation of
her disappearance-for, sure enough
she has disappeared-seems to indicate
that there is something radically wrong
somewhere. Mr.. Galway told the
sheriff he didn't know where the girl
was. He said that he told her she we s
so bad he couldn't have her about the
place any more and that she must go
out to work. That was on Friday last
Mrs. Galway said that the girl had told
her that she had got employment with
a lady on Bunker Hill avenue and she
had accompanied her part of the way
when her stepdaughter went to her new
home. She didn't learn, however, where
the girl was going to, and so the fact re-
mains that both father and stepmother
DO not know where the girl has gone.
According to the neighbors, it is safe to
say that if still alive she is infinitely
better off than when bending over the
washtub in the squalid basement ON Bu-
ena Vista street. But, meantime, where
Is the girl?
A WHIPPING SCANDAL
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