Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-13

ment OF Young tirls-Ihe Testimony 50
Far Taken aud q Life sentence Awaiting
this vllest Of Women and Companion.
Elsewhere the GLOBE has endcavored to
regale its readers with the history of the
new cult known as the Order Of the White
Rose, but our old acquaintance, Ann Odelia
Diss de Bar, discounts any cult so far in
vented since Mahomet allowed his follow
ers all the concubines they could manage
on this earth and as many houris AS could
sprout wings In the other world But Diss
de Bar is up against the real thing in Lon.
don, England, and a life sentence now
stares her In the animal face nature gave
her and her grossness developed No more
notorious semi-prostitute than this de Bar
woman ever cut q figure iu the public prints
Her career on this side of the water was one
succession Of immoralities, blackmail and
ingenious schemes for the bleeding of male
victims as well as the corruption of the
young and innocent of the other sex.
The tales transmitted TO us of Sodom and
Gomorrah pale their Intellectual lights of
dcyiltry before the originality of this mon
ster of her sex In devising liceutious
tableau and peryersions in the natural re-
lations of the sexes Her latest and un-
speakably shocking travesty on religion in
the creation of anew cult styled the "Thco.
cratic Unity, and for which She is now being
tried had for its corner stone the ruin of
young and innocent girls. Only the young.
emotional and religi0usly inclined were ac-
cepted into this Theocratic Unity aud
those familiar with the Yelled Prophet of
Khorassau by the Irish poet Moore. can
form an idea of the orgies of the Diss de
Bar household when assembled for Worship
under her unholy ministrations I'm brief
this vile woman, with a man named lack.
son, whose name she has assumed made it
a portion Of the ceremonies initiating young
girls into her "Theocratic Unity to submit
TO Jackson and to other male libertines with
whom She had made previous arrangements
for the ruin of her confding victims The
testimony $50 far developed stamps tnis
i9ic.t '.outou inia ny as a1 many degrees
nearer hell than even the Cleveland street
Sodomite scandals Of the modern Babylon.
or even than the other establishment which
supplied and kept on it's books a list of
medically certified virgins with the prices
set opposite their names
Our London advices give this account of
the preliminary arragnment of the Diss de
Bar woman and the man Theodore Jackson.
before the court in that city during the past
week. The evidence is not an In and sew.
eral sittings of the court win be required
before the case is completed, but sufficient
has already been developed to warrant the
prediction that both Jackson and the Diss
de Bar woman will be put away for life.
The hearing of the case of Theodore and
Laura Jackson, alias Horos, who are charged
with c)nspiring 70 defraud women of money
and iewelry by formne-telling. was resumed
there Thursday, Laura Jackson formerly
Ann Odelia Diss de Bar of New York. made
a strange appearance She wore in the dock
the loose, cream -colored decollete garment.
resembling surplice, over which was
pale blue silk robe. which she wore when
rcmanded September co.
Mr. Charles w Mathews, senior counsel
TO the treasury, represented the treasury
He detailed three charges against the pris.
oners obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, procuring girls, and rape. The
oheuses, said Mr.. Mathews, were commit
ted by fraud unique 90 the annals of crime.
The Horoses established religious sect
called 'Thcocratic Unity" claimed the
OF divine power, and induced
girls TO misconduct themselves with Theo-
lore, under the belief that it was ueces-
sary part of their religious devotion.
Poverty, chastity and obedience" were
The watchword of Theocrauc Unity. which F.
also was known as the Purity League. |
Chastity, however, only applied to married |
people Neophytes joining the Unity were /
obliged TO vow secrecy and profess belief In /
the divinity Of the Horoses, both of whom.
said Mr. Mathews. possessed mesmeric .
power especially Laura. The latter FREE .
lueuty interrupted counsels with loud
screams Of false
A well-bred woman, tweuty-three years of .
lge, who, the prosecution say, is the oldest
)f the many victims of the Horoscs. testified .
u support of Mr.. Matthews statement
The identity of Laura with Ann Odelia .
Diss de Bar has been thoroughly estab.
ished Laura Jackson conducted "a vigor-
)us cross-cXamination In her own aud lack.
on's behalf The court was half filed with
'oung and pretty girls waiting to testify
.gainst the couple
1t has been learned that the accused were
married in New Orleans Ia 1905 came TO
,ondou In 1899, and then went TO Paris and
,ape Town Returning to England, they
established the Theocratic order here.
Jackson is said TO be a convicted conf
lence trick man.
II will be noticed that the account saws
he court house was half filed with
'oung and pretty girls waiting to testify
gainst the couple The number of their
ictims, IL can be easily inferred is some
hing appalling How many homes have
.cen destroyed, families dsgraced and
oung girls ruined by this fendish woman
7ill never be known as it is only natural to
uppose those who have been ruined and
an conceal the fact will not appear against
he wretch. The young girls in attendance
re those whom the police no doubt had
oguizance of and there was no escape for
hem from the notoriety of the affair, Hence
heir attendance