The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-11-16
SIGNIFICANT LETTER FROM M 8
n MORGAN.

lcttcf non MrA ~ Morran. menfioned
In the above aNorn statement AZ nav.
lnE found the telitala underwear, 20
Mira Martens The letter ls as FOB
lows:
Minneapolis. Minn-. Oct -. 1914
Dear Mrs Martens:-
Your letter received this morning.
! am very much surprised that you
have not gotten your little girL Viola.
yet
-lt Mr.. corksll ls 70 blame for ushat
have seen with my own eyes, Il
surely should not take long 10 send
him 10 some place Tor the rcst OF bis
life. and Mira Corkell with him.
1T is an awful thing when you stop
70 think that a good father and mother
must hEhi all their lives 70 set thia
child away from those two. Sometimes
the law is very funny. What Mrs.
Benson can tell about that child
should take her away from them.
"Mra Benson is one good. true
woman. She was 20 sorry for poor
Viola. would have written TO Mrs.
Benson but ! have been Ia the hos
pital a long time and am not well
now.
4 never had better friends In my
life than hr. and Mira Benson were 90
me. Give them my best love.
Mrs. Martens. ! am more than sorry
10 think that you have not gotten
Viola yet. that you have 10 nght the
Corkells all the time. Anything ! can
do. Mrs, Martens, to help you, I will
DO gladly.
Il am sincerely your friend.
MRS H. MORGAN"
A stated In The Menace last week
Henry Martens petition Tot the Gus
tody OF his little daughter, Viola, was
granted by q court order entered Jan
26. 1912. and sustained by a denial Of
a petition OF Yiola's own mother. now
Mrs. corkell, dated April 25, 1919.
During her short stay In her fathers
homo. as previously related In The
Menace, Viola told OF the unspeakable
crime committed against her BY Daniel
Corkell. her stepfather Then the out
ragged father wrote the following letter
to his lawer:
HENRY MARTENS DEMANDS PUN.
GsHMENT OF CoRKElL
Mr. Russell Clark
Dear sir:--wouid you please ash
his honor. Judge Walker, 10 issue
warrant for the arrest OF Corkell2
This man must be punished. I AN
acting on your advice and restrain
my self from punlshing Corkeh am
upset and heart-broken-to think that
a man like Corkell can go free after
what he has done TO Viola, and that
my wife and I shall suffer for the evil
deeds Of both Corkell and his wifel
Hoping that Corkoll will get his
punishment and that justice will be
supreme. remain,
Yours very respectfully,
II. c. MARTENS.
14Ol n. Hamlin Ave-
OF course the idea Of justice being
supreme" in Chicago was 90 per-
fectly ridiculous that both Russell
Clark, lawyer, and his honor
Charles NJ. Walker, merely treated the
fathers plea as a huge jokel
But the tip was quietly passed on
that Henry Martens had learned the
horrible truth and that he was actually
demanding the punishment OF his lit
tie child's british seduoer-and that
he was becoming dangerousl And
then came the astounding spectacle Of
a mother moving heaven and earth
and the courts therein through Catho.
lie aid, bought with bloody money. TO
protect the man who had betrayed her
own flesh and bloodl On or about tho
2Oth day Of April, 1919, Mrs Corkell.
through her attorney, one S. ID. Hur.
ley, a rampant Catholic. filed another
petition demanding:
THAT the order heretofore entered
on to-wit: January 20, 1879. be modi-
fed 10 the extent that the said child
be taken from the custody Of the said
Henry Martens AND PLACED IN
SOME SUITABLE CATHOLIC EDU-
CATIONAL INSTITUTION until the
further order Of the court
That the said Henry Martens, the
defendant herein, BE COMPELLED
TO PAY for the support, maintenance,
education and clothing OF the said
child while in said INSTITUTION
UNTIL SHE ARRIVES AT LEGAL
"' That the stepmother,
Katherine Weber, now Katherine
Martens. be restrained from visiting
or communicating directly or indi-
rectly with said child In case said
child Is placed in an institution"
In next weeks lnstallment Of this
exposure of a cowardly Catholic con.
spiracy TO ruin a home and 10 blight
human lives Al WhatpVpr eoef IN nro-
tect the monks brotherbrute, Corkel!,
We shall follow this case as decided
by Judge Walker In detail, introducing
an unbreakable chain OF evidence
showing the almost unbelievable
power Of Catholicism that, protected
BY travesties on the laws OF the land.
can, rough-shod. trample the tenderest
ties Of American home-life into the
dust Of bitter mockery and with i'm
punity drag from the puny arms OF
American parents a darling. fair
haired child TO the degradation Of Ro-
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