Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 23, 1920, Page 2

HORRID S'I'0RYOF INHIIMAN CRUELTY Locked in Clpronrd Three B%. Payo, Burned With Irons, Flee_p From Father | By Margery Rex Written for International News Service 4 “New York, April 23.—A child lock. E ed three days in a dark cupboard! i d again eating out of garbage cans aml drinking “where the horses k!, Instead of kind carresses, a m over the head Wwith a bit: of ‘wood containing a sharp nail! Locked 3n a trunk! Burned with'a hot iron, “and having a grave dug for her! No, these are not spirit suggestions to have sent across to the shade of - ‘Dickens to tell him how he might have improved upon Oliver Twist and Bill Sykes and Nicholas Nickleby— merely the story.of a. pretty Iittle girl who brought her father, John Gallender, into court here to answer to the charge of fenonious assault. Minnie Gallender said in answer to a--question - that she was eighteen yurs old. She doesn’t look it if she is," Burnished brown curls tumble over shoulders. She hangs her head bashfully when she must tell some unpleasant bit of her tale. Ang now and then she uses sbme long and un- usual word,- picked up somewhere, strangé’sounding from her. And her naivete and pretty face make a sad contrast to the horrors she claims wero inflicted upon her. /“Iran away and was gone for three days,” she said. “I know it was three juse the sun came up that many imes. I ate out of garbage cans, f0iind a bone with meat on it, and 3 few buns. I drank water where the| horses drink.’ * ‘1¢T ‘can’t be sure of dates when things [uppened becuufie 1 never wen to school much.” Yet the child—she. is really one— has a sense of fairness towards her father, John Gallender. She correct- ed several statements made about "One time I was locked up in the pboard for three days and Annie, little sister, came with a bun for me, and she said: ‘Papa hnrt his toot —don’t make a noise or cry’.’ Agam—“No, my father didn’t do that—not that part of it—he did all the rest if it, though'’—protesting against some charge that was lbrought forward against the man in regard to the particular number and kind of articles he threw at her. “Did you wear your hair ‘dowin then, Minnie?” was one of the ques- tions put.to her. She looked down, lips trembling.. “Never had any -hair then,” she said quietly.. Shelater told that her step-mother threw lye upon her head. She told, too, of an unpleasant epi- thet called her, first by this’ woman and later by childrén ‘who were not friendly. “Only my brother and sis- ters liked me,” she said. The cross-examination of the eigh- teen.year-old _girl ‘was held at the hearing to determine her credibility, so her father’s attorney, Samuel Lie- roclous. bowitz, said. Her story is one un- usual cruelty. Yet when one is apt to think she exaggerates, she always stops to correct the defense in what seems to her to be a false impression she has given. Throughout the pro- ceedings, the choleric looking, florid- faced Gallender seemed hugely enter- tained, turned about to look for ap- probatioh. But most of the evidence caused sympathetic murmers and ex- clamations in his daughter’s behalf, ‘For almost two and a half hours the young witnees sat under the cross examination. When . someone sug- gested adjournment and that thegirl mlxht. be tired, .she quickly. demied such’ a posslbm y: 0 “I'm not a bit tired,” she said, and the examination went on. " Gallender. has heen married three nrea His) jeeand wlfe “Istepmother. Two children fighting: anlnst their father. Minnie, with ‘her . shining curls and rosy cheeks whose color has Improved since her removal from home, warely showed serious confu- |- sion, It will be interesting to see if: the defendant holds ‘out against the processes of law as well as ‘his young relative and opponent, Minnie has a good deal of personal pride as revealed by the niceties: of her appearance. ' White silk' gloves covered: her hands, and seemed in- congruous as she held them to show the width of the cupbeard, where she was’ lockel ‘up, or the length of the stick which had a nail ‘at one end. And she didnt seem very happy when asked where she lived, to which her answer was “The'Children’s Society.” Di Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Are a Harmless Substxtute Dr. Ed “Glive T: ::tult E vlsa:ds ve ablets are lbe with ’call thesetablets .(a. tagl d mixed’ \‘\!l’mpol(wev?fle) me c:n;%oyarie pramce \mh Fren all 'the that calomel aftcr effects. v.hey Take Dr Edwards’ “Oliye Tablets feel. *heavy, Eskimo’s Summer Home. 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