The Irish standard., 1916-03-04
GULLIeLE GIRLS HEAR ANNA M.
LOWRY.

LOWRY.
Lectures to Ladies Only" on the
confessional" and to All But
Infants on convents-Liked
Them So Well She En-.
tered Nine.
| From Standard & Times.
Philadelphia still seems to be sus-
pected of having a goodly number Of
"Gullible Professionals" who furnish
an easy living to anti-Catholic lee
turers and publishers. Circulars and
, typewriter notices on the chain let
ter plan were handed around last
week, with request to pass them
along. They told that Anna M. Low
ry, ex-Nun, Author of Martyr in
Black and 'Rome's Awful Persecu-
tions Of Anna M. Lowry" would
give two lectures at the North Broad
Street Drawing Room, us North
Broad street, favorite hall with Jay
W. Forrest last fall. They were to
take place as follows: Friday after
noon, 2:3O P. NJ. (sic), ladies only,
The Confessional; Friday evening, 8
P. M. (sic) sharp; everybody well
come; Convent Life and Why l Be-
came Protestant The authors
two latest works were to "be on sale,
25 cents each," and the circular said,
NO Infants Admitted
OF course, it was necessary to tell
the gullible girls that $3.50 P. M. was
afternoon and P. M. evening. Even
Anna would not trust their intelli-
gence that far. No infants may have
meant minors" or it may have been
precaution to avoid squalls. Anna
sold at least one book bound as usual
III anarchistic red. 1t was "Rome's
Awful Prosecutions" and the pur-
chaser who had no doubt heard the
lecture and misspent fifty cents on
The Confessional" sat rigidly in a
Route 10 car staring as if she had been
badly stunned, if not stung, and
clasping tightly the treasured volume
until she reached Forty-sixth street,
when she arose within two squares of
convent, and we hope arrived safely
home.
Anna is one of the few nuns on the
nti-Catholic platform who really has
any claim to the title. Ordinarily they
either have been or should have been
inmates of a reformatory. Anna has
been In converts, and evidently liked
them pretty we'll, since she was in
nine different converts without es-
Gaping from one. Baptismal records
produced as evidence in court showed
she was born in Clean, N. Y, in 1857.
She first entered the Convent of the
Holy Cross in Bolton, England, where
she remained six years. She became
dissatisfied and left She then went
to the Convent of Mercy at Bermond-
sey. London, remaining only a short
time. The superior gave her money
to return to America. She then en-
tered a convent at Bordentown, N. j.,
where there is a house of the Poor
Clares, and remained about a wear.
From there she went of her own ac-
cord to Buffalo, this time gaining adj
mission to convent of the Sisters
OF st. Joseph. After year there she
went South and entered the convent
Of the Benedictine Sisters at San An
tonic, Texas. There she remained
seven months and then went to Pilot
Grove, Mo. From there she went to
a Benedictine convent at Nauvoo. H.
linois, and after short stay went
to another convent at Paris, Illinois,
This lady seems to have had no
difficulty in getting out of converts,
and she certainly was not Gagged and
taken from one to the other On
March Is, 1904, she entered the con-
vent of the Benedictine Sisters of the
Sacred Heart, Guthrie, Oklahoma,
took the veil and final vows and re-
NAMED until June 20, 1911, period
OF over seven years, when for the
ninth time she quit a convent.
The Guthrie Leader" a daily pa
per Of July Is. 1911, dubbed her the
Tramp Nun" When she left the con-
vent she went through the streets
begging money from Catholics and
Professionals in the garb of nun, until
Father Staudaert warned the public
through the Guthrie Leader" and
soon thereafter she bobbed up serene
ly at Aurora, Mo-, as an employee of
the Menace"
Miss Anna M. Lowry (Sister Jus.
tina) formed the acquaintance of w.
K. Cunningham, aged seventy-nine,
and married him at Sprague, Wash
ington, October II, 1913. She sued the
Sisters at Guthrie for $500 per annum
for the term of her natural life. The
case was tried i'll the District Court
OF Logan county, Oklahoma, before
Judge A. H. Huston, and a demurrer
sustained. The case was not an.
pealed. 1t was brought out at the
trial that nun had at any time a
right to leave. right which Anna
had muchly exercised Anna lectured
IN Winona. MIMI, March Is. 1914, and