The Irish standard., 1898-05-21

mirers of Mrs Margaret l.. Shepherd"
have by this time had enough to satisfy
them OF her unsavory history. She was
compelled 10 give the details of her att
photography on oath at TIM Toronto as
sizes the other day, and j, is a mild way
of putting it to say that they arc unfit
for publication i'll any respectable and
decent newspaper. She sworc that she
did not know her fathers name, and was
therefore ignorant Of her own. AS .ou-
lisa Egerton," she was convicted Of
stealing in England, and spent six
months in Jail for the oifnnsc When
the judge insisted that She should tell
what her real name was al the time sha
sworc it was Margaret Esan.' She
further testified that her fathers name
was not "Egan." She admitted havine
ESen known as Georgia rarkyn," and
claimed 10 have been married TO il Cap
tain Parkyn.' AS "Margaret Herbert"
she worked with the Salvation ARMY.
and she swore that she had changed hoy
name several times ION account CT a
great deal Of sorrow tina, she had had"
While living in Ireland, in separation
from her husband, she was not doing
anything for a living. but was supported
by someone" She took part in lie
abominablc work described by Mr. Stead.
under the notorious term of 'lhe maiden
tpihntt - i1h oil,
months in Jail. She sworc that she was
married to MIR. Shepherd in 1886 aud
that she had two husbands living al ne
same time. She is not living with either
CT them now, it need hardly he said
1t is just as well for the Information
and protection of decent, bur misguided
people that this woman should have a
chance to gi,cr her experience on oath.
If any are now deceived by or about her
they will have themselves To blame"
Needless to state that she had never
been a num- or an inmate in any Catholic
convent, except during the time she
spent in reformatory institute. kept
by the Sisters of The Good Shepherd in
Bristol, England. In justice to her
shady reputation. We must admit she
does not at this point in hGr spectacular
career, claim to have been ii nun; only
"consccrate" penitent, whatever That
may mean. Catholic religious commune
ties know no such ornament. OF course,
10 one can fortell what this enterDrising
female may claim to I've, Or to have been,
SIN months from now. The female
branch of the infamous a. ~ A. urganiz-
alton, that called itself The Loyal
Women of American LIBERTY" was on
ganiZed, as she claims by This travelling
fraud. Well, she was a worthy mother
of such promising progeny She sue
ceaded in fooling the sapinnt bigots CT
Boston for years. She twas not SO sue
cessful in moro enlightened Chicago The
editor OF the British American" news
paper, published in Chicnsb. in the in
terest of loyal Americansn, and sup
ported by A. p. A. dupns, got the inter-
esting record of this worthy president,
as she succeeded in making herself, of
the Loyal Women of America, and they
at once, with better Judgment than their
Boston sister bigots, repudiatcd the un-
savory president.
AS a result Of correspondence held by
Mr.. William Barclay, editor of a bitter
A. Z. A. sheet published in Chicago, ana
called "'rhe Western British American"
the Chicago branch of '"rhc LovaI
Women OF America" withdrew from tin.
national organization in May, 1891. Mr..
Barclay got the unsavory record of Mrs.
Shepherd, alias 'Parkyn, Herbert, :"
'Egerton," etc, from Salvation Army
officials in England. from Mr.. Stead, Of
the Review Of Reviews. and from the
Church OF England chapl,ins of Mil
bank prison. London, and Bodmin pris-
on, Cornwall. All assert that she was
an accomplished swindIer, a notorious
liar and deceivcr. She had claimed at
one time to be the daughter of a Church
OF England clergyman. at another the
daughter of a Catholic priest. The evil
dence presented at the meeting Of these
violent anti-Catholic Loyal Women OF
America was SO overwhelming. that
they repudiated Mrs. Shepherd and ner
leadership. although she was present at
the meeting, spoke in her own defense,
and even threatened to return to Roman.
ism, even to become an agnostic, should
they reject her. This meeting was held
in the parlors Of the Grand Pacific Ho-
tel in Chicago. on the 5th of May, 1891.
The good people of the Salvation
Army gave this wretched woman shell
ter, when she was an outcast on the
streets OF London, and, true to hcr rec
ord, she betrayed the confidence they
reposed in her. She was sent to the
United States by MI. w. r. Stead in
1888, to get her away from her malodOr-
Gus English haunts of vice and crime.
During the past twelve years in this
country and in Canada SHE has pros
pcred On the gulllbility of American
Protestants. Protestant rlcrgyman in
Boston, Brooklyn, New Tlavcn and Cam
ada have been victimizcd by this wom-
an, and in all humility aud penitencc,
have given their fearful testimony to her