The menace., 1919-11-15
RISKS DEATH TO
ESCAPE 4. 0. G. S
Another Young Woman Injured
in Leap from PapaI Prison


Another Young Woman Injured
in Leap from PapaI Prison
On Monday, October q, a trag-
edy that should arouse the nation
from Maine to California occurred
in the national capital. Two days
earlier, according to the police,
Elizabeth Wilkins, sixteen-y year
old girl, had been committed to the
Roman Catholic House of the Good
Shepherd BY the juvenile court Of
the District of Columbia.
Two days in the horrors Of that
slave pen was alt she could endure,
and shortly before daylight on
Monday morning, she leaped from
her bed room on the third floor to
the sidewalk, where a policeman
named Toinardy found her in an
unconscious condition a few min
utes after her tragic leap. She re-
gained consciousness later and
told her name and the facts as here
stated. S.@'+9 ,--,' 4
From all reports, no earthly den
could well be more loathsome and
degrading than this fatal trap of
the papal empire Once committed
or ennaredsinto its dismal slavery,
girls are more completely lost to
their parents and friends than II
kidnapped byith most brutal ban
dts or sayages. that walk the earth
They can neither send nor receive
mail or messages of any kind with
out the rigid censorship of the wo
man in charge Of the institution
and parents Of. many of The in
mates have liO idea whAeqatheil
daughters are. 5ta iss) a!~iiAd1
A few girls have succeeded in Is
Gaping from this horrible den, anC
many have lost their lives Or brok
en- their limbs by leapihg from thC
windows in the effort to escape. Els
eaped inmates have reported tha'
as many thirty girls are re
Iquired to occupy one bed room, ant
that windows Of that room ar,
closed and locked usually at nigh
to prevent, efforts to escape.
Bye what principle of American
law or justice are juvenile court
; given power to- deliver victims int,
: the horrors Of this den that defie
, inspection by1 officers Of the law
, How long will parents tolerate tn
; dozens of such slave pens whicl
, the papal autocrat maintains il
) our land? w
1t was the juvenile court Of tn
g District of Columbia that Romal
! Catholic Representative Ben John
son Of Kehtuclyas chairman of th
{ house coMfmittebim thei Districtr0
r Columbia and his Rome-serving as
sociates on that committee tried S
Q hard gtos clother with greatly en-
t larged arbitrary powerscsome thre
| years ago. They would have sue
5 ceeded If THE MENACE had ne
thwarted their designs. Represen
| tatives Ben johnson and Georg
= Holden Tinkham took turns a
Y publicly railing at this paper 70
+ its service I'M defeating their un
Q dertaking. is
e An escaped inmate Of a Roman
Catholic House of the Good Shep
herd in Detroita few years ag
sued the, institution for wages am
damages. 1t was, shown at tn
{ trial that slavery of'the inmates a
the wash tub and other menis
! drudgery brought an income 0
more than 100000 q year. One 0
= more wagons bearing the name 0
: these papal slave pens can be see
3 on the streets Of most any grea
city gathering up and deliyerin
! laundry. 1T would be interestin
! to learn how many hotels are col
rupted or driven under the lash b
enthroned bishops Of Romeeto pa
, tronize exclusively these untaxe
! laundries run by slave labor.
To what extent, if any, is tn
, Pullman service paying money
/ even now when under government
! control, to the Houses Of the Goo
ShepherdY How many restaurant
and barber shops and other cor
!. Germs requiring laundry work al
. doing the same thing9 Tn additio
to the direct earnings Of these ii
i stitutions, many of the inmates "a
4 their parents are entrapped I
4 driven ino paying them large sun
: Of money on. the pretext that the
!, are. charitable or educational estal