The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-01
seek TRANSFER
OF YOUNG GIRL
Officials of Home for Girls
Wants Penitentary Inmate
Turned Over to Them
HER PLIGHT DEPLORABLE
AMONG MANY NEGROES
Comely Lass Convicted OF Forging
BY Her Father Compelled to
March, Work and Eat With
Black Women.

Efforts are being made by officials
Of the Virginia Rome for Girls. or
ganiztd and started with funds raised
by popular subscription and AN appro-
priation OF $4,000 froh the last legis-
nature. TO have ati the courts through
out the state exercise the right given
them to commit offending girls to the
institution Instead sot jail ana the peni-
tertiary.
Under the terins of a bill passed by
the last General Assembly AT the solicit
tation OF the board OF charities and
corrections. the Justices and judges
are authorized, IN their discretion, to
turn all convicted prisoners seventeen
years old and younger. 10 probation
ojcers for confinement In homes or
schools for correction. instead of 10
institutions for punishment.
Appeal to Governor.
Officials OF The Girls Home are es-
pc cially Interested at present in the
case of Il comely. well educated girl
uf good family who Is serving a term
OF tye years In the State penlte4tlary
She is only sixteen years old and comes
within the jurisdiction OF the home.
Owing TO the fact that there was re
troactlve provision In the recent Law.
officials of the home have decided to
appeal to Governor Mann, not TOR d
pardpn but TOR "a transfer from the
penitentiary to the Bon Air institution
The case of the young giri 10 whose
case the ofictaas have now directed
their attention. Ii patheticaliy temt-
nine, and femfninaiy pathetic. She was
sent to the peniteutiary ON the COM
plain OF her father
Forged Fathers Name.
Possessed OF strong craving for
nv f,,asn 10.
not better than any girl In her neigh
horhood, she forged the name of her
father 10 an order ois q miiliner for
AN expensive hat. The Partisan con-
fection was give her on the strength
of the order and subsequently sub
stantiai bill wsss a-aderea hsr father.
The latter refused ~ pay the charge,
saying he had not authorized the mill
liner to give his daughter the rat. The
order was then produced. The irate
father branaed il It forgery and had
his daughter arrested for forging his
signature. In court he was relentless
and the girl was sent to the penlten-
tiary.
She has served less than year of
her term. Had the case come up In
court subsequently to the passage OF
the new Law, the court could have
sent her 10 the Homo for Girls. II
view OF the tACt tnAt 1t came up SeF
eral months before the new law an
order from the Governor for the trans
fer Is necessary. Formal application
for the transfer win be filed with the
Governor within the next few days,
together with the girls good record
since her commitment 10 the peniten-
tiary.
=. :. Jninvittng Conditions.
Officials OF the home are particular
~ interested In the girls case be-
cause she Is one of the three white fe-
males in the penitentiary. The other
two white women are beyond the are
limit named in the new law ard efforts
on the part OF the officials in their
behalf would be without avail. They
are especially anxious to oatain the
transfer order as soon as possible as
the conditions under which she lives
at the penitentiary arc not particu-
lar inviting
The other two white women at the
penitentiary chum together because
their agese are almost the same and
they bagan their terms about the same
time. In forming In line to march to
work or meals the two lock arms to-
gether. In the instance of the white
girl. there being no other white Woman
In the ranks for her to march with, she
10 compelled by the guards 10 lock
arms with some negro woman, work
beside q negress and eat her meals
with negroes ----------