New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
BRITAIN IN DEVILS GRIP
Satan Too Busy There to Go
Elsewhere. Says Cardinal.
WHITE SLAYER GETS "CAT"
Self Styled American Faints on
Hearing Sentence-Victim's
Brother Welded Lash.

London. Feb. S-"The people Of England
arc Keeping tho devil so busy" says tho
Cardinal-Archbishop OF Westminster,
that lie has now no time for sleep or to
tempt the rest Of the world
Dr. Bourpe's remark was cngendered by
the columns OF scandal of all sorts which
teen daily through the pages OF the news
papers. With the divorce calendar choked
by a record army of petitioners for relief
and the police OF the country rounding up
white slavers> by the hundred, the i'm
preston is certainly given that his Sa-
'tanic majesty has certainly been working
overtime in this country.
Peers. representatives. Of the Church.
army and navy officers. as we'll as com
moners Of lesser degree, figure in these
cases Of vice exposed.
In one OF the most abominaDlc stories
ever told i'm a court OF law a dapper
Young American figured as the agent OF
the devil He told Justice Darling. i'm the
Old Bailey. that he was a well known
short story writer-had written many sue
cessful snort stories for The Boston
Transcript and other American publ
cations. Timothy Patrick O'Connor was
the name under which he was tried. In
respect to the famous "Tay Pay the
name was at first suppressed, but the
famous Irish Journalist and statesman IN
sisted that IL be given to the public. say
ing 1.-THE prisoner Is not the first cuckoo
who has fastened and fattened on name
above 'reproach." The police ascertained
that the man had at least a dozen other
names: that he had married no fewer than
five young women. and that he was driven
out Of the United States for his activi-
ties in series OF scandalous transactions
In addition to two years Imprisonment he
was sentenced to receive thirty strokes
Of the cat" He tainted when he learned
that his back would be barred 10 the scor-
pion touch OF the whip,
To many people the cat may seem
cruel and unusual punishment: but the
experience OF the authorities here in the
enforcement OF the white slave law proves
It's efficacy. The cat terrorizes these
outcasts as no other punishment could.
The author" screamed. ragged and
tainted by turns when the whip was ap-
piled with no tender hand. 1t transpired
lndl tIlc DiiSOi wei Nth "HO
the whipping Is brother Of one Of the
girls wronged by the convicted scoundrel.
The authorities were unaware Of the fact
until after the event. Poetic Justice.
The compliments story-only the testi-
mony OF the latest wife" was taken
was mostly unprintable She was a
raving lunatic for three weeks after the
events Of one day within @ week OF her
marriage" and she shuddered several
times when telling Justice Darling and
the jury the horrors through which she
had passed Nine men. In addition to the
prisoner were implicated in the episode.
She was the daughter of q rural clergy
man, eighteen. and in the witness box
though I'll and wan, 1t was plain that she
must have been wondrously beautiful
tall. fair, blue eyed. One exhibit was a
photograph taken just before she came
under the influence OF "O'Connor" 1t
showed a superbly proportioned blond
young woman.
The prisoner smiled while the woman
gave details Of the treatment to which
she had been subjected. The judge and
jury noted the smile. And there was no
pity when the coward collapsed at the
mention OF the eat"