The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-17

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fornlatory, prison or house of correc-
tion. and that it bears the reputation
Of being place where delinquent
girls are sent and kept by courts Of
probate for wrongful conduct. And
that the inmates of said defendant
institution are confined therein much
the same as prisoners are confined in
prisons, reformatories or houses of
correction, are not advanced in edu-
cation and are compelled to work at
hard labor. That plaintiff was forci-
bly, detained, imprisoned and COM
PEELED to work at hard labor in the
said so-called House of Good Shep-
herd from the said fifth day of March,
A. D. 1912, to the first day of De-
cember, A. D. 1917, upon which last
named date sister of plaintiff Sc
cured her release from said defend
ants institution by habeGs corpus
proceedings issued out of the record
er's court for the city of Detroit. That
said defendant so detained and inn
prisoned plaintiff without any war
rant of law whatsoever and abso-
lutely against the will and protests
Of plaintiff herein.
Third, That because of her said H.
legal incarceration in said House of
Good Shepherd by said defendant,
plaintiff is looked upon as an ex-con-
vict by many good people since secur-
ing her release, and is Stunned as a
woman whose moral character is
wholly bad and as unworthy of asso-
citation with decent people, all Of
which; first, the fraudulent and illegal
entry; second, the forcible and illegal
confinement for five years and nine
months; third, the disgrace and pro-
found injury to plaintiffs reputation
for good morals has all contributed
to cause plaintiffs prolonged, con-
tinued and most acute mental Suffer-
ing, grief and pain as well as physical
suffering and deprivation of educa-
tional advancement or the opportun-
lty OF earning competence or suf-
ticient livelihood during the period
Of her imprisonment contrary to the
laws and statutes in such case made
and provided and to the damage of
plaintiff herein in the sum of five
thousand dollars.
SECOND COUNT: AssUMPsIT.
The plaintiff says:
First, That defendant forcibly COM
PEELED plaintiff to do hard work and
labor for period of two hundred
and seventy-seven weeks from March
9th, 1912, to December 1st, 1917, in
the manufacture of wearing apparel
and by operating a power sewing ma
chine, and therefore declares on
the common counts for work. labor
and services rendered and performed,
for the value of said work, labor and
services as follows:
For twenty-six weeks from
March 5th, 1912 to July
2Sth, 1918, at Sc per week. $l56.0 90
For two-hundred and fifty-one
weeks, from July Goth, 1918,
to December 1, 1917, at $40
per week ............ 2,510.00
Total. .S2y66 90
Wherefore, plaintiff claims a judg-
ment for seven thousand six hundred
and sixty-six dollars (S7,666.O0).
Dated Detroit, August End, 1918.
Now friends You can see what it
is that interests Rome in the court
Of probate. A few commitments to
the II. 0. G. S. every month or
year looks like small matter when
put forward under the plea that it
is done in the name of religion and
reform, but when it gets down to
brass tacks it is a case of kidnapping
and forcible confinement of inno-
cents in dozens of cases, coupled
with a coming of free labor by an
institution that pays no tax because
it claims to be religious property
and pays no salaries because it
claims to be refuge and reforma-
tory for fallen girls. This is the
kind of place that completes with
your laundries that have to pay not
only salaries but their share Of the
tax that Rome escapes. No wonder
il is convenient to have willing tools
in handy places You had better
have no judges of probate than have
either Hubert or Command.
We wonder how much Of the
whiskey and champagne that Rome
served your city and county officials
at the Jubilee at st. Stanislaus
church was paid for, indirectly at
The Bosses Dummies
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