The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
A CHAPTER ON CRIME.

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A CHAPTER ON CRIME.
Story of a Girls Downfall and a Young
Mans Arrest for Criminal Abuse of the
Girl Who is Sent to the State Train
ing School.
Last Tuesday Dora Bingham, a young
girl between thirteen and fourteen
years of age, who for the past eight or
nine years has lived with her grand
father, Nathan Buckingham, was
taken by Sheriff Claggett to the State
training school at Red Wing. This
bare statement under ordinary circum-
stances should suffice. The mantle of
sweet charity should be thrown over
the hayward and the downfallen. and
those stained with sin left to the re-
deeming influences of the correctional
and charitable institutions of the State.
There is nothing to be gained by pub
licity in affairs where human character
is blotched and blackened by crime.
but there are times when the veil
should be lifted and crime of the worst
character exposed to public view.
Here is young girl over whose purity
and chastity the frowning figure of the
law stands guard. It has thrown about
her it's strong arms of protection, and
to have carnal knowledge of child so
young in years is one of the blacklist
OF crimes, and the penalty fixed by
statute while severe is not sufficient.
This little girl at a tender age was
left without father or mother to look
after her, and she went to live with an
aged grandparent. In an unguarded
moment and through the corrupt in
fuences with which she came in con-
tact in innocence of childhood she
wandered into the paths of sin through
the damnable temptations of social
vipers. Because of her incorrigibility
and waywardness complaint was re-
Gently made to Justice Chadhourne,
and when it seemed that the only
thing to do was to commit the girl to
the training school, it was suggested
that she be sent to some relatives in
Iowa, and her folks wanted to take
her to Minneapolis and put her aboard
the train for her destination, but this
plan the girl objected to and saial.she
would go herself if given the money.
This she was not allowed to do, as it is
said that there were parties who were
awaiting an opportunity to spirit the
girl away, and these very parties were
watching proceedings in justice court
to see what disposition would be made
of the girl.
It is said that relatives of the girl
induced her to tell her story of sin and
she did so, and her admissions were
taken down and the girl signed the
same. In her testimony she implicated
Frank Goulding as one who has Grim
inally abused her during the last month
or so, and other chapters in the girls
story connect other parties with the
crime, one of whom is travelling man.
The story is one of moral rottenness
and filth and the only regret is that it
is not possible to make an exposure of
the whole affair. With the evidence
at hand there was only one thing to do
and that was arrest Frank Goulding
who was charged with the criminal
abuse of child under fourteen years
of age. Sheriff Claggett armed with
the warrant went to Minneapolis W here
he found Goulding and brought him
back. He was taken before Justice
Chadbourne Monday, waived examina-
tion and was placed under a $4,000
bond to appear before the grand jury
next September.
Feats of Magic and Mind Reading.
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