The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-09-20

still talking about the case OF =
nun who badly injured her leg Ia
trying 70 escape three weeks age
from the monastery OF the DO,
minican Sisters of the Perpetual
Rosary, on Haddon avenue. When
she was picked up a few blocks
away from the convent and re.
moved TO a residence II is alleged
that she told n physician who was
called a most narrowing story OF
priestly lust OF which there are
few parallels in even the black his.
tory Of the Roman Catholic church.
81 determined TO escape" said
the injured nun, "in order 20 save
the life OF my unborn infant. II
was about eight months ago that
several priests from surrounding
parishes came to spend a pleasant
evening in the convent, as they arc
wont to do. / had not been in the
convent very long and did not
know all the priests, or the Gus.
toms Of the convent.
when the holy fathers arrived
they seemed 70 be in high spirits
and greeted the nuns in the most
Jovial manner. Then three OF
them gathered around me and told
me that they would like 20 see
what repairs and improvements
had been made in the building
since their last visit, and asked me
to escort them upstairs. Little
suspecting anything, / lead the
way TO the upper floors. noticed
they laughed and joked, in a most
astonishing manner, about many
things they saw. After the first
floor i showed them the second
hoor, and as / was passing the last
bedroom on that floor they pushed
me into 1t and closed the door. Be
fore i realized their intent / was
thrown on the bed, and bound.
gagged, blindfolded and raped by
the three of them and left living
on the bed. I do not know which
one Of them is the father of my un-
born child. Since that time have
learned that such occurrences are
common in nunneries that are
visited by priests, and it is an
lron-bound rule that all infants
born 20 nuns must be extermin-
ated at birth. II was 10 avoid this
last horror that | escaped from the
convent" "
Menace Starts Investigation.
Immediately upon receipt of in.
formation regarding the case from
several men on the Firing Line.
living in and around Camden, the
Menace despatched a reporter 10
The scene 20 get all the facts in the
,ase and, If possible, locate the in.
Iured nun.
Description Of Nunnery.
The Dominican nunnery is 10.
,ated at Euclid and Haddon ave.
lues, Camden, and housed in a
granite building about one hun.
ired and fifty feet in length by
about forty feet in depth. Its !
ongest side faces Haddon avenue /
At the left side, directly connected /
With the main building, is the |
priests house, while extending /
urther to the left, from the |
'riests' house 10 the fence, is /
dummy" hot-houSe. At the ex.
RENE right of the building is a
mall passage way which leads 70
heavily bolted door which shuts
III egrees TO the grounds beyond. /
There is an electric puSh.button at
he side OF the door. while a sign on
he door reads, Beware Of the
Jog"
The grounds of the nunnery ex.
end along Haddou avenue about (,
our hundred feet. They are
'ounded on the north by Euclid
venue; on the east by 0rmond
venue, on the south by a field and |,
n the east by Haddou avenue
completely surrounding the
rounds is a heavy. staunchly
uilt fence, ten feet in height Il
'as over this fence at the corner
{ Ormond and Euclid avenue
hat the nun climbed and fell.
Exporter Behind Convent Walls.
There is but one entrance to the
onyent and that is in the center
the fence on Haddon avenue,
trough a small wooden door.
lyer this door is a sign which