The Irish standard., 1898-05-21
A NOTORIOUS WOMAN
"EI-NUS' MARGARET L.. SIiEPiI,s::',
OF uNSAsORY RECORD.
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED BY FIR. CLEARLY
HER AWARD LIFE, GIVEN FROM
AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
PLAYED RAINY DlSR:PUTABlE PARTS.
HAS BEEN AN INNATE OF PRISONS
AND REWORMATORIEs.


Last Sunday evening Father Cleary
discussed the influence of escaped
following is brief synopsis OF his dis
course: blessed are you when men shall
revile you, and shall say all manner of
evil against you falsely, for my sake. Re-
joicc and be exceeding glad for your re-
ward is very great in heaven" This COM
forting assurance of our divine Savior,
expressed in his Sermon on the Mount,
is the soothing consolation that makes
patient forbearance possible for the
Catholic when his church and ministers
are revilcd by a lying tongue. AS the
and DETAINED the eternal Son Of God SO
their kind continue TO reviie his follow
ers. 1t is a very significant fact that Il
is the Catholic church alone that is thus
attacked by the venOmous tongue Of
SANDER. People who lay claim to calm
Judgment and to broad intelligence are
found ready to believe with unQuestion-
ing credulity every improbable and dis
gushing calumny. by a strange perTer-
sion OF human Judgment. the more alb
surd and revolving the calumny the more
readily q large class of our American
people are found to believe and indorse
it,
People who not believe the candid
statement of respectable priest in good
standing in the Catholic church, will
NEST credulously accept every absurd
statement that man might utter, should
he have the misfortune to fall, and
merit censure for scandalous conduct.
The surest passport to tho confidence
OF Protestant bigotry, is a scandalous
life and disrcputable career. The OK
priest" the escaped num-" and THE
converted Catholic have exposed, even
better than phineas II. Barnum had, the
Willingness Of the American people 20
be humbugged and deceived. The life
and the heroic purpose Of the unselfish
sister of Christian charity are snecred
at i'll public halls. and sometimes in
Protestant churches, while shameless
woman, who had dishonored her sex
dctied the laws of God and the tr,d-
tons of common decency, is applaudnd,
respected and believed This does not
happen in ignorant Spain. Such a dis
graceful scene is not witnessed in be-
niShted Italy. Lands that are commonly
supposed to be under the blghting spell
of superstition and crafty priesthood
have not yet fallen so low as to support
with lavish generosity. and to welcome
with glad acclaim shameless villifiers Of
the nOblest heroines OF divine bencvol-
ence that bring untold blessings upon
humanity. 1t is in gullible America,
blush as an American to be forced TO
admit it, such palpable frauds as "es-
capped nuns" pursue profitable indus
try.
/ have no inclination, did even ne
cessity demand it. to offend against
common decency by giving the true, il
repulsive, record of an unfortunate and
Wretched woman. The place in Which
l stand is too sacred to be defiled by
telling the terrible tale of damning facts
in dissClute woman's dark and degrad-
ed life. ] have too much respect for
my audience to ask you to listen to the
disgusting story that | might tell of
hiGeous vice and shameless crime. In
all this world there is no creature whose
influence is SO enrolling as is that of
pure. unseltish. honest woman In all
the sewers and s1ums CT human life there
is nothing found SO utterly repulsivc as
a fallen, shameless woman. Suffice fer
me to assure you, or the evidence Of
most reliable and undisputed testimony,
on the testimony of the woman herself,
which must be accepted when against
her, no woman has ever fallen into
deeper depths Of infamy, than the vile
creature who has SO sorcly offended pub
lie decency in this city, and disedfietl so
many of our people. In her own letters,
she declares that she was "as black as
it was possible for any mortal soul to
be-" that with exception of murder and
stealing, she had committed every pos
sible crime. She has been a common
drunkard, an inmate of different penal
reformatories, on account of dissolute
life, bigamist, forger, and a COM
mon swindler.
The following appeared in the Proyi-
dence Telegram. May ], 1894: Toronto,
April 30, 1S94.-Mrs. Margaret l.. Shop
herd. the ESCAPED num-" who for some
time has figured prominently in alleged
exposures directed against Roman
Catholics, has under oath Exposed"
herself. and worse than any Of her crit
les. She appeared as Il witness here on
Saturday in the sensational and filthy
SANDER case of Marion VS.. Youmans, and
when put Oh the rack of ss-examina-
ton gave herself away" in such a man
ner that perhaps she will hardly care
to make herself very conspicuous for G
time at least Mrs. Shepherd for some
time past has been occupied in editing
the British Canadian; but of her pre-
y.