The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1907, Page 3

ee | Tragedy of Little Viola Boylan, Who Was Abused and Strangled to Death, Reveals the Lack of Protection for Girls Who Go Abroad tn the ‘Tenement Streets of the City le ererremcton Danger Lurks for Them on Every Side, but Particularly in the Crowded ] Italian Quarters. STEPS ARE NEEDED. In the Last Week the Grand Jury Found) fj Nine Indictments for Attacks on Little Girls, } ‘The brutal murder of Viola Boylan in Harlem's Little Italy has brought | thie community face to face with a serious situation. Policemen, court of | ficers, judges, newspaper reporters and men and women connected with | charitable organization’ bi known for some time past that girls of this city are not adequately protected against men of tnhu stincts. It may be that the terrible death of Viola Boylan wil] bring | the public at large the neceasity for remedying this state of affairs While the danger to girl children is rife in all sections of the city— | particularly in the tenement districte—it Is more apparent in the Italian settlements than elsewhere, The numerous Little Italy commu infested with young and old men whose pursuit of little girls ts ruth unceasing. The court records show {t. Occasionally the culprits go the extent of murder as in the Viola Boylan case, but in thousands of in stances the parents of the helpless victims hide ‘the famfly shame in fear of the vengeance of what appears to be a powerful organization oi lustful | jaw-breakers. | MANY CANDY STORES NESTS OF VICE. | The ordinary policeman is powerless to prevent brutality to children or DRASTIC to capture the men guilty of such brutality in Italian districts. Most of t fathers and mothers of the unfortunate little ones are ignoraat, & and fearful. With a clannishness that an American cannot co! the Italian de themselves balked on prompt them to help they will shield the most despicable wrongdoer. Even trained to cope with this remarkable condition, find every hand by persons whose every interest should rather than hinder the cause of justice. The neighborhood in which Viola Boylan lived anc of ati Italian @ietricts. Father Wall, the past Rosary, told an Evening World reporter yesterday Italiane in hie parish made him sick at heart was murdered is typic © of the Church of hat the situation many ga le wine shops run by Itellans and freque Ho declared that stores, ice cream perlors and iit exclusively by Italians are noth: batched and accomplished For months—perhaps years—young Italians about Ons Hundred and street and Second avenue annoyed litte girls passing the wine shops and stores on their way to and from school or while playing tn their only play ing more than nests of vice, where crime Many Dens ineteenth andy | Ground—the streets. | CHILDREN FEAR TO BETRAY ANNOYERS, Aaa pa ja dl apie avg (agit Of the hundreds of little girls approached few @Ared may anything about ane : their experiences to thelr parents. The @espoilers of childhoal, knowing ful: moat y 2a well of this secretive trait in the tenement giri or boy, grew bolder and bokler, | em wd ung loafers. ¢ unt they went to the length of seizing thetr wiethins on the street in the sag FE MgB Ariel apatites! Light of day. ung girls who we Finally two of these men killed Viola Boylan. Then the police woke up. I! / Ja necessary thatthe police remain awake. Gome of the readers of The Evening s dive, § World, in writing to the editor about the Boyian affair, have mu 4 that) ‘ ays ae the Police Cominissioner form @ special bureau for service in ¢ertain sections of Bs hed the city, with special reference to the welfare of children. Another suggestion yt e fe that every report that reaches Headyuarters of « missing gir! be eaeproeng PE A e by Ar ny « re kw by trained detectives, who shall be kept at work until the missing one ts found. |f 0) yon wen gi sche St Mrs. Boylan reported that ber daughter Viola wes missing on Monday night | family a atin at the East One Hundre and Twenty-etxth street police station. Reports back of t missing children are not novel in @ station-house, Bo many children warder | V!or! . nearest ap: away and return that the policemen are disposed to regard the “lost Kid” pnown as rapes reports with indiffereace. Nothing was done for poor Mrs. Boylan by the p of Devéry authorities until the brutally abused body of her darling was found in a coal!) T eS Bin in the cellar of ber own bouse. same ¢ Har BOYLAN GIRL MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED. ‘disorderly places. Hed there been & vigordus house-to-house search of the neighbornood imme i @iately following the report thet the child was missing, the awful crime might} Vive Renmget: There, have been prevented. It is almost & certainty that the perpetrators of it would hile the: polices T8i¢ Vigorite’s pi fhave been caught. It would seem that the honor, perhaps the life, of a litte | TSIarly. It continues to t girl should be as much the concern of the Police Department as the residence lt mmirsioner B “ bam would on it he would of @ millionaire or (he business house of a banker de ‘These places are protected not only by the police force day and night, but = ma by uniformed watohmen in the hours of darkness. Has the time arrived whes | se the ba the city of New Xork ts unable to safeguard its Mttie citizens who should grow [». 2 up to be the mothers of Its families and from whom should be kept every sug re ther Ha that wilt Sheds gestion of vileness and depravity? watching by the police ts run by Some action ts necessary to prevent & repetition of the Viola Boylan horror, | MeWinters, @ negro ex-pe vilist ) Tt does not require many occurrences such as this to cause fathers and mothers| Undret and Twenty-s * ‘and brothers t take vengeance into their own hands. — cieagh avenue, ¥ se requently in ¢ with CRIMES OF MORAL IMBECILES. in bis be The poll : Keyran J. O'Connor, Assistant District-Attorney, and well acquainted with | P*°*e? @enditions n the tenement districts of the east side, declares that just now | ** °F * place tton there ts an epidem'c of crimes in Manhattan similar to the one of which nine | 8! he P by i res. year-old Viola Boylan was a victim. Mr. O'Connor lifes at No. 28 Fast One) ast ® Hundred and @txteenth street, a block away from the spot when the child's! Ha nt body was found. jare sca “ . “Huch outrages are the work of moral imbeciles,"” sald he, “and the only |!” ni . ° , remedy I can suggest ie education and lessons in civilization for emigrants who | 1 Sta 86 Board 5 nd have been neglected in ihetr native lands As prosecutor for the county AR. * . New York in cases like that of the Boylan child, | find the evildoers of we oy Poe § ae. mind. uneducated and with the passiona of a wild animal Thyse Dens Number 50. “In the inet week nine men were indicted by ¢ rand Jury ‘of this county | Mkltan wine bs by glass. for fret degree assaults on girls between the ages of eight and sixteen years | ave barre! nly to pers ‘This is @ record speaki king terms wit shop “The spectacle of nine men, well-dresned and all wage earners, othe Wine Ser ape this howrthle crime, rouses a strong feeling of resentment in wee mien | lie urge thew minded man. The judges are not lenient, the sentences in such cases running © detectives find 1 to me from ten tb twenty years | ~— 04 “In the last year one hundred and seventy-five men have been #led for saulta on young girls, One hundred more were arre: Jon charges of or seme x stteneted| (ET oles Dives { I'll Quit,’’ Is eeeauit and impairing the morals of children. Pac palling condition of affairs. —_——.—_ CHARGE OF ATTACKING A CHILD. Goctety rooms to fay 308. | fonine een, UN OO ® WiReNT Sulita W. B. amade hier of | ot Lignelld, Peraga & Co.'s bank, at One Hundred and Bixteenth street and Firw STRAUS ON OFFICIAL TOUR. | avenue, says the police protection in WASHINOTON, June 2.—Hecrotary | ‘Little Italy” ls @ huge Joke fitraua, of the Department of Commerce Labor, aeoompanied by Mra Straus, Police in Little Italy Mard to Find.) "One may as well look for bank notes im the gulter as for « policeman on the ald Mr. Lansada, “The torce tfelent end the upper east wide should bave better service, Re- ports from @uthoriauive sources reagh oe RAL Wige te te ful) Dies in ad of Police Capt. Walsh | $300 reward | —_——— Capt. W u | Joseph Vole thirty-nine, was arsjand Twenty-sixth strest station, sue |faigned in -Yorkvilie Court to-day Bul , ‘ | charge¢ with misusing Rosie et ng | ago, and “has not yet gotten into the ep years old, of No, 34 Bast Elev-| *wing of aftaire in the prectnet entiratreat, where Vole lives, on the| “I mean to raid disreputable | ame floor. The Ittle girl told her| piace, and reorts to which young girls |mother last night that had been | #¥e } be doalt wh at onee,” | fi | dragged into « room yesterday by Vole Dives in 1 |The child was taken to the Children's muet go, of I'l quit) on wry, w THE EV EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, of Vice to Which Girls Are Lured Abound in Upper Part ot the City are herd to se dnight in re passed ash r { th vable number ‘of the ‘ B.S Price, who ta tn charg i ve Rurea a ften they are unable pa Rr nt . Mi a Many times aimnflar chises te this Must Go or the Ultimatum than 4 ngre » on © ' My Sheriff Nicholas J a Light ¢ Hayes, who o nation ne arres feels that the er and he is using his personal in and money to rua down the city ugh to make ® man of fam. ly sick with dread,’ said Sheriff Hiayes, “and it te a lesson, too~s ter rible lemon, 1 have heard hundreds of fathers declare that would no longer be pe on the streets at might atier ¢ o'clock. “Tiink of that! Children are not sate | on the sidewalks of the biggest olty of the Weatera Hemisphere after sun: | {) wet! Gheriff Hayes Invites Confidenves. 4 would willipaly give my night's sleep for Uae next week to get hold of Dinka Marien 6 mamathamda Askar amae Sim JUNE 29, e 1907 as pure Ufe prisun sdutences fer such S. Montfora. principal of o ol No. 159, the i veg that be i be {be given to calidren the crowded east side. School Children Warned by Teacher ‘ id be detalied at 1 bioeK.” 8a wot the * and they @ ) not to speak to ted them: also f any kind from rule fo! t their mplete confidence Father Wall Fears Race for Manha crime in Truancy Leads to Crime. W. Fo MeCusk East ¢ Hundred and X member f the Pocass respected citizen of Harte ye ans are GETS 60 OWNS FOR SQUEEZING A GIRL s even | sot he gave Hike tue Jushee oda r riminal Court of Jermey City he co fowned thet he had ingeed = M nenty and also that he had He defended hi mio y complains she hooked ob ong woe ip vain. Mise Doserty maid that the prisoner and (wo other men had foiwwed her ai) ousted ber on her way hamp. 6) hat when Uetem tarew bie arn er the weed her umbrella for a wee two mea with the hugger took ete heels just aa BR A. Newman, an express | wer, Came 10 er rescue. Ho sauste | Urtam and held him watt @ policeman took hin in chante. “Young man” mbd the Court, "oo sont le one of tie requisites of *hucstug end kiewlng under the laws One: wise i sonar | ot poral Jt Fas ~ ‘GU-IT-ALOWE GIRLS TOURED ALL EUROPE |Schoolmates of the Murdered Little Viola Boylan and Men Who Seek to Protect Them SATS Porrerenrns OE ot, Four Colle Unch > Maids peroned T Five Months, ip of “ to-da from a fiv bape charming }A Ruth Haynes, American college girls retu the White nths m ss Moasha Smith, all ber ot iM An The tnnocenta had the very day they met in New ¥ Feb. 1—until they tripped down kangplank to-day and once more tou ed With one ehirruped t Jn great time fre American sot! a for a « seeing tour remotest ne a8 as epokesgiri for the oppened at Tangiers. We ma 2 on the White Star lin ) is going back some arrived saf : Afier a little turn around Bpa we salied for Tangiers that's in Mor » you know-—on a Iittie tab of steamer Only Once Needed Aid to Tangle » dik seas and the t ve all kin and Whi storm had kick scared ¢ boat—was di fom and the He was a § skers od down the ders Moles in whole ve menihs when e pligrin wt yer acmonted sacked 6Gultan's Palace. and a gentle amil -| SOLVED Back From and Los rk the olce they 4 trom | VACATION is man abroad misne G agents or apply L. F A Sad Thing to Rob Children of Confidence in Humanity, but Situation Demands It, Says Mrs. Hastings, | { | ; | BY ALIC What can we do to save onr litt! The tragedy of Viola Boylan and the great question ft involves tn jaaving little girls reverts to the problem of the home. Mrs. Harry Hastings, member of Willam rectly to the home circle. | 0 say what we ought to do, in j almost impossible,” said Mrs Lioyd Garrison Club and the most brilliant women, brings the difficult and overpowering problem @- E ROHE. le women? i, the local Schoo] Board, member of the ew Yorkers, one o* New York's | one aie such a menacing state of affairs ts Hastings. The best safeguard of our little girls is in the homejraitting. Mothers cannot be too emphatic in warning thelr children not to accept offers of pleasure from strangers. f “It Is a sad thing to rob a child ae | First Lesson With Parent. is, however, such a thing a nt ing of the child. Auto suggestion ble crimes some- es works a bad result, The least 4 to er Mre ¢ obedience the better. Hastings ts earnest in her desire something done to check f crime against little girls whigh | Beems to have been on the increase ja'/ New ¥ how to ompl rhe aye one of the most p’ problems tn modern ctvilization way: Do you not think the women of New York—the club women—the mothers ) do something by concerted ac | abe was asked. | by organized movements,” re- Mrs. Hastings.. “The good that ean done lies within the individual home The first lesson ia with the parent “This brings us to the most vital point that of @bedience. Obedience tp always necessary tn a child for its own future srowth, but to-day more than ever the effects of obedience will be felt. If children remember thel? parents’ advice and mothers warn thelr little ones of the dangers of accepting attentions from strangers, or from any one without the parents’ permission, many would be avoided.” Suggests Warning Schools, Lessons “Then there is nothing you suggest n dealing with this situation, Hastings was asked, “except the train- ing In the hom “Lt would be well to bave ilttie lessons | A the schools arfully impressed upon | he children’s minds so that they ‘will trink in the advice concerning too much ‘rust in strangers, and the absolute necessity of refusing all overtures, “As for the home training, ney find thein disobeying-in regard to Accepting attentions from atrangers. By punishment forever ugen the child's mind the vital aportance of the fault they have com- mitted in disobeying their parents. But do you not think that the efty could do something to protect the chil. tren?” Mrs, Hastings was asked ‘So far am the police are concerned,” | sald Mra, Heatings, “I do not think there PROBLEMS For information see any of Eastern Passenger Agent, 1216 corner 30th Street. but tho situation demands it The mother must teach the child to| beware of strangers who offer them) andy and amusements. Of course, In s case, ax I understand it, the little sirl had been warned; yet It seems she must ha been enticed Into some piace. crimes | In| Mrs./ mothets | Id do well to punish children when | this I do not necessarily mean corporal; but something to impress! of {ts sweetest gift—confidence In bu is « policeman in New York hot risk his life for « Mttle bea: of the Guilty, so far as the law concerned, Is to Sive these men limit of paniahment and make t | amples. For my part, 1 belleve more, publicity given to these Unelr effects, not acco: Staffelt,” That introduces another Involved problem of* our new “In discussing such an subject mnot accuse the * and the Influences ane beyond our conttgl; we cannot public opinion, for’ it is al defined upon ‘the subject Kreatest problem of crowded and while Wwe oan never children from the morbid Gexenerates wy oan try them by teaching them to tis, * owever, an | the boltce ty. Drews Toph bebe little children are enticed evil condition ts known definitely ¢ ewty the fat the police can protest childrer en for unexpected ortmes the “chiles tn in the bande, ep far as can of Its parents. eolution, prob Hew first on ‘all in the of E | i ad wa The Sunday World's “Want” tory makes more offers of than any other two mediums in universe. 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