The Irish standard., 1915-05-01

does not live with her husband who
was 70 years old at the time of their
marriage, instead of travelling about
with other men, is a question Miss
Anna M. Lowry, alias Mrs. w. R. Gun
bingham, alias Sister Justina, alias
Martyr in Black" alias Tramp
Num-" should explain.
Following the publication of her
book Miss Lowry was urged by her
friends, the enemies of the church, to
sue the Sisterhood for sum equal to
$500 year for her natural life. The
case was tried in the district court of
Logan county, at Guthrie, Okla, be-
fore Judge A. HI. Huston, who, after
hearing all the testimony sustained
the demurrer and dismissed the case
before it ever reached the jury. From
this decision Anna Lowry and her
attorneys never appealed. "The fact
was brought out during the trial"
says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, DC.
tober rs. 1918, that the laws of the
Benedictine Order required full obedi-
ence to the VOWS imposed, but that a
nun at any time had the right to leave
the cloister and return to the world.
Sister Justina had voluntarily failed
to exercise this right
The writer has not heard Anna
Lowry, who lectured here both in the
Central Baptist church and the I'm
manuel Baptist church this week, nor
has he any desire to hear her.
Judging from what happened in WI
mona, Mimi, one would not be led to
believe that Miss Lowry entertained
very high, regard for woman
hood. The following communication
halls from Winona, and shows that
Annals talk was not fit for the public:
Upon the sworn complaint of a
resident of this city, who was present
at lecture delivered Sunday, March
Is, 1914, by Anna Lowry, who styled
herself an 'ex-nun,' a warrant was
issued for her arrest on the charge
of having used language unfit for pub
lie address. Anna Lowry left Wi
mona Immediately after her lecture,
before the warrant could be served.
"The arrest was made on May II,
when Anna Lowry appeared again in
the state of Minnesota She was taken
to Winona and placed in the city Jail.
The following day she was given a
hearing, at which she pleaded not
guilty. Her trial followed May 16.
In giving his decision the judge stated
that the evidence on both sides at
tested the guilt of the prisoner. Sen.
tence was pronounced. Penalty was
fixed as fine or a period of conflne-
ment in jail.
"The decision of the Judge was fol.
lowed by prohibition on the part of
the mayor Of the city forbidding Anna
Lowry access to any public hall in
Winona for the purpose of disseminat.
ing her malicious and immoral teach.
ings.',
No one acquainted with the facts
doubts that the unfortunate woman is
an ex-nun, but many doubt her stor.
les about the converts. If the con.
vents are such prisons" and the Sis.
tiers are such ignorant, brutal" crea.
lures as Anna Lowry would have peo
pie believe, it is hard to understand
why she entered nine such places and
remained, all told, twenty years in
them without paying one cent dowry
when she claims an entrance fee is
always exacted of those who enter;
or why is it so few who enter leave
after they have taken the veil anG
made their final VOWS of obedience
chastity and poverty?
Another strange thing so hard tt
understand Is: why so many people
are ready to believe what one ex-nu1
says and are not willing to believe
what thousands of pious, pure, goot
and holy women, who have remained
faithful to their VOWS, say of the in
situations they choose to live in ant
call Rome.-South Guardian.