Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-09
Astonishing Cruetics perpetrated
On a Young Girl by
Priests
AWFUL FORMS OF INDIGNITY.
Said to be Possessed of Devils, She Is
Forced to Walk Barefoot for Miles
Bearing Heavy Gross.
Special Correspondence

special correspondence,
- ENENA, June 2s-Henrlette
| | Gays case has provided striking
j proof of the almost incredible
ignorance and superstition stlll
existing IN those countries In Europe
which are commonly supposed to pos
scss the highest civilization.
Henriette Gay Is IS years old. Until
recently she lived in the tiny Swiss vii.
lage Of Fina-Haut, not far from Geneva.
She IS the daughter Of peasant pos
sessing a few acres Of land In the VIII
lago, but at an early age Henriette
showed signs Of having been born for a
higher station In life Her father, how
ever, was coarse. rough agrlcuturist,
who had no education and understood
nothing but the tllllng of his fields ana
the care OF his cattle. lie could read
only with difficulty aud write little but
his own signature, Her mother also was
a peasant woman of low birth OF ~
manners ana scanty education
The girl had two brothers and two
sisters, all OF whom Inherited the char
acterlstIcs OF their parents The broth
crs We're heavy, clumsy fellows, with
huge, ugly hands and ungraCious fig
ures The sisters worked in the fields
and were devoid Of every touch of re-
hnoment The whole family lived I'm "A
wooden hut consisting or two rooms,
furnished and fitted in the most prim-
tive fashion
Ilenriatte was I'm many ways strik-
ing contrast TO her own family, and
10 all the people Of her natiye Village.
with a soft fair skin and an Unborn re-
hnement Even her companions at
school had an uncomfortable feeling
that she was superior to them and be-
longcd 10 another sphere At home her
parents felt that she was different from
their other children while her brothers
and sisters looked upon her as a strange
being
As she grew up into womanhood these
characteristics developed more strong
~ and she drfted further and further
apart from her relatives and neighbOrs,
Though her sisters began to work In
the fields at the age Of 10, Hcnrette
never sOiled her long, thin arlstocratln
fingers with Instruments of outdoor
labor Her sisters attended the fair at
the nearest town and bought finery at
one cent yard, while Henriette sat at
nome and read poetry When her sis
ters went out on Sundays with their
rustic admirers, Henriette sat in soll-
tude and drew clever sketches OF the
animals ON her fathers farm, She
looked like a lady and she had the in
stincts Of one.
In spite OF her natural superiority To
her own family and her neighbors,
however. Henriette was by no means
spoiled by the instructive feeling which
she had that they We're uncongenial and
unsuitable companions for her She was
good sister, ever ready to lend help
ing hand 10 the other members OF the
family. She was also a good neghbor
and never showed by the slightest touch
Of arrogance that she felt herself n
grade above the others Nevertheless,
not only the neighbors, but also her
own brothers and sisters, end even her
father and mother, hated her because
they had themselves the unmistakable