The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-11-11
GEuE EIunzI + n
Same Old Story OF ROTnanist
He'll Holes.

A GEORGIA girl, Dewey Hills. was
ruined by her Jew employer, and went
into the bad life; on being brought into court
she was sent to the Romanist 'House of the
Good Shepherd, , in Cincinnati
Has an Atlanta court the power to sentence
Atlanta girls to Romanist prison. in Ohio?
Not at all. Then how came Dewey Hills
imprisoned in Cincinnati?
| don't know, and can't find out All [
know is. the fact.
The New Orleans Item of October o. 1915,
gives an account Of an attempted escape from
one of the Papal dungeons which the State
authorities are not allowed to even examine,
much less control:
GAS the first light of day touched the sky Wed
nesday high-powered motor car, bearing three
young men, drove along Cont street and stopped
at Dorgenois street. in the shadow of the high
wall that bounds the House of the Good Shepherd
The car stopped but the engine continued cnug-
ging at racing speed. Several early morning
pedestrians saw the car and watched it with
mild interest
Suddenly at the top of the stone barrier the
dim light revealed the head of a girl A second
later and she clamored to the top of the parapet,
flung down to the street the rope up which she
had climbed and slid down it into the arms Of
three who by now were grouped against the
wall. moment more and the girl and her three
resources leaped into the automobile, threw the
clutch into high speed, and in d and flash
the escape was under way.
Alarm Soon Sounded.
Hardly had the motor car whizzed around the
corner and into Broad Street when the alarm
sounded from within the institution Five
minutes more and second automobile sped up
to the scene of the escape. This car was laden
with city police. The sergeant IN charge held a
brief consultation with the sister superior of the
home and then the police motor roared off
the trail of the fugitive machine.
The report issued by the police after the chase
had been vainy ended shows that the runaway
car was sighted at the edge of town. The report
says that furious undertaken but
that the machine with its three and girl
occupants succeeded IN OutdlStanclng the police
motor.
"They took the road to Baton Rouge" the
report ends.
Statewide Search On.
Police officials in that city and in every in
habitated locality of the surrounding country
have been notified to look for the fugitives and
to apprehend them.
investigation of the escape develops hint of
romance The girl is Irma Jordan, II years old,
of Magnolia, Miss
Notice how ready the police we're to begin
a statewide hunt for this girl, against whom
no charge was pending, no warrant sworn
out and no legal cause for loss Of personal
liberty assigned.
They found her trying to escape imprison-
ment and involuntary seryitude, and instead
of investigating the case to learn the facts,
they 90 to chasing the girl as though she
were criminal.
The sequel is told in the Hattiesburg News,
two days later
New Orleans, La Oct. 30.-Risking her life in
scaling a 15-foot wall around the House of the
Good Shepherd and believed to have fled in an
auto with the alleged imam in the CASE IrEla
Jordan. 7 years old, brought about her own cap
ture Wednesday night and Thursday morning
returned to the institution.
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