The Irish standard., 1915-05-22

which resulted in the directors with.
drawing the charter from the Home
Watson, Thomas E.: Arrested on
June 8, 1912, for sending immoral liter.
ature through the mail. Indicted for
the offense b: the federal grand jury
at Augusta, Ca, November 10, 1912
The jury stated that the writings were
so immoral that, contrary to the Gus.
tom of the court, they should not be
spread in full in the indictment. (Au-
gusta Chronicle" November 20, 1922
NOTORIOUS ANTI-cATHoLIcs OF
PAST YEARS.
Chiniquy: Born in Kamarouska,
Canada, ordained priest in 1843, sus-
pended and deposed from the priest
hood for irregularities on Sept. %,
1851. Left Canada, and for several
years doomed up at various places in
Illinois; Bishop of Chicago suspended
him on Nov. 20, 1856; travelled in Eu-
rope collecting money for pretended
seminary in Chicago. In 1862, his
fraud was discovered; accused of fraud
and gross swindling by the Protestant
Synod of Chicago. For few years
with Presbyterians, but soon accused
of having squandered great sums of
money entrusted to his care. He later
lectured against the Church and wrote
a virulent anti-Catholic book Fifty
Years in the Church of Rome"
Bishop: One of the
earliest of the ex-priests was John
Vincent Mcnamara, who had been a
member of the Lazarist Order, and
held pastorate at Raleigh, NJ c..
He organized a colony of ex-priests
in New York, in 1879, among them
the Rev. John A. O'Connor of Chi
cago, who subsequently usurped his
place. Mcnamara married a Miss
Gilmore in 1880, and was received
into Baptist church by Rev. Justin
D. Fulton. In the A. P. A. days, he
became lecturer on their platform,
making the usual libelous charges
against the Catholic priests and sis
tiers. He was arrested for SANDER,
convicted and fined $500.
Monk, Maria: In 1886 book was
published which has been termed "The
Uncle Toms Cabin" of Nothing
ism. Maria Monk, a girl of evil char.
acter, had been placed by her mother
in Magdalen asylum, at Montreal
under charge of Catholic sisterhood.
Aided by former paramour, she es.
capped and shortly fell into the com.
pany of one Rev. ]. j. Slocum, who
with others concocted a sensational
and obscene narrative of her expert
ence in the assumed capacity of 8
nun. Maria Monks disclosures had
an immense sale-exceeding that OF
, any American book up to that time
published. Ministers recommended II
and churches feted its author. She
was taken into the bosom of Christian
homes where, after a time, her de-
pravity was perceived. A party OF
Protestant clergymen visited Montreal
to verify the awful disclosures" and
!, pronounced them fabrication. Col
; w. L. Stone. editor of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, also made q
: thorough investigation, visiting the
: Hotel lDieu at Montreal from celia,
to garnet. 1.-THE result" he wrote
, lis the most thorough conviction that
Maria Monk is an arrant imposter
that she never was num-" etc.
O'Gorman, Edith: 1.-THE ESCAPED
, num-" lectured about the country
from 1870 on. She has been living
in England for the past twenty-five
. years. and was heard of only last yea,
in letter to an American A. p. A
paper (Jan. 3, 1910. Her book, Con
vent Life Unveiled" alludes to he,
: escape from New Jersey convent
She married one Auffray, and both
!; did profitable business peddling lu
dicrous stories to emotional minds
She says that she was mobbed nc
less than seventy times.
Shepherd, Margaret A.: An Eng
ltsh prostitute. swindler and drunk
ard, who gave out that she was an
ex-nun and travelled around the coun
try under various aliases. Florence
, Booth, of the Salvation Army, writing
: of her, says: "She has never been q
nun. She was taken as a prostitute
into the Roman Catholic penitentiary
at Bristol, England, from which place
she ran away" She had two, If moi
three, living husbands. Her real char
, acter was disclosed by her under oath
in a SANDER trial in Toronto. She
was confined for time in Hoxton
, England. lunatic asylum. She forged
checks on Mr.. Truefit, Sir Astely Coop
| er and Rev. Lord Archibald Douglas
She spent some time in Bodmin anl
Tothall (England) prisons. She was
afterwards taken from q life Of shame
by the Salvation Army.-Milwaukee
{ Citizen.