The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-05-14


my dismissal from there went into Sir
James. stayed there a few months
and left in temper. 1 then commenced
a life of dissipation. obtained pounds
by false pretcnses.
II went to Portsmouth and led gay
life there, until l found the police were
after me. | then managed to go to
Plymouth | married Mr. Parker under
the name Of Douglass. l spent his
money, and then, when he said it would
be good thing for tho Cornish people to
fancy WAS some relation to Lord Archi-
bald Douglas, I gave cut that he was my
father, for had no idea he was priest.
1t was then | signed his name to those
bills. and the trial took place. was
taken up for being intoxicated several
times but the people always paid my
fines, because l used to argue the law
with the magistrates. l was always
half tipsy
you may think great deal of this is
Imagination. The detectives of Old
Jewry, London, would tell you passages
in my life that never could because
you would not believe that any woman
| would have brain or courage enough to
do what | have done. don't think
there is any possible trick in swind!ing
that have not practiced."
Florence f. Booth, Salvation Army,
wrote CT her March 10, 1888: We sent
her to America because it seemed the
only chance to get her away from her
Old haunts. am sorry she has imposed
upon and deceived our Salvation Army
people in Canada | am very anxious
that something should be done to pre-
vent her deceiving any more kind
hearted people,"
May %. 1891. Miss Booth writes: I'VE
did not receive her back into the Home,
her in lodgings until her departure for
America"
March 19. 1891, j. F. Southal Sal
Walton Army, Hamilton. Ont. writes:
She was sent to us, bringing note
referring TO herself as reclaimed FRI. N
bad life. and rs having been such Il
stranger to truth that she hardly knew
when she told . lie. CT which we were
soon convinced after she came"
May 9. 1891, w. T. Stead writes of her
as an extremely clever but slightly mad
young woman. who was introduced to
me as reclaimed prostitute"
G. p. Merrick Protestant chaplain of
Wormwood Scrubs prison, London, says:
June 1G, 1897 She was convicted on
two occasions for fraud and felony. When
she was heard OF again it was in eonnec-
ton with a great number Of frauds in
the west OF England"
In May. 1891, she WAS tried by Il court
OF the Society of Loyal Women" of
Chicago, OF which organization she was
first president. The official report says.
The charges against her were so awful
that it was almost impG ssitIe to listen
TO the reading Of them. She confessed
to some of the aravest Of the charges
against her. she was convicted and
expelled"
1,
Methodist Episcopal parsonage, wrote
April a. 1898: She is woman of no
principle: tried to defend her when at
tackled through the press. but found
it impossible. She is as morally rotten
as she is bright"
Rev. VIM. ID. Thompson, parsonage of
Central Methodist church, Brooklyn, N,
". April 90. 1905: Mrs. Shepherd wa,
in New Haven three years ago. She is
an impostOr. The truths that | UNI
earthed about her We're. that she had
been the mistress of one CT more than
one; she had been induced to leave a
house Of ill-fame in London; that she
had meyer been q nun al all: that she
joined the Salvation Army and wretch
cdly betrayed the trust that was placed
in her."
l.. S. Cabot. at whose home she lived
long in Cambrdgeport, Mass, writes
Aprll 10. 1891. IF she wants Riordan,
with whom she was living. why does she
continue to do Sc by Mr.. Shepherd? 1t is
notorious that she lived in adultery with
Riordan in Chicago.
May l3 Mr.. Cabot wrote: "iIar Ceht,
in this section will aggregate nearly
$4,000"
MIR. Asa Shepherd whose name she
bears. and whom she married while she
mad two or three husbands living, wrote
May, 1891: Il told YOU she was away
from Mrs. Cabots from Oct 5 to- Oct. 6.
y few days after her return, Il commit
toe Of ladies Of the board came. saying
there were rumors of her name with
Riordan. She told them she was with
mo In New York. A little later she told
Inc of it. and said IL | did not write the
board. her character would he ruined
wrote a letter at her dictatiOn, as she
assured me that she had intended to
come TO me at the time, hut had been
decoyed away. | confess that did very
wrong In writing that letter. did not
know the truth and have written an
apology to the Loyal Women Rcrdan
told me that they had not met till April,
but Mrs. S. says they were brought up
tOpethcr"