.KNOW why he violated his oath in that way?
Don’t be mealy mouthed about it. Get
SASSY, and stay so, until you get your Sena
tor and your Representative to feeling that you
ain t dead, and that you are paying attention
to the way they are squandering your money,
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Holv Pennsylvania Deals With Pape.
On a Sabbath day, in February, 1909, Charles
Bowman, a citizen of Philadelphia, was walk
ing along Spring street. As “he- was passing
the front of the house numbered 1007, his at
tention was attracted by a letter, lying on the
sidewalk. Opening it, he read these words,
“For God’s sake, come and rescue me from
a life that is worse than death.”
Charles Bowman called in the police, num
ber 1007 was searched, the padlock of a cer
tain door was broken and in the room they
found lying,—terribly emaciated and guarded
by a negro man, —a white woman, 24 years of
age. Her name was Lillian Washburn.
She was a poor orphan girl of Reading, Pen
sylvania, and she had gone to Philadelphia to
get work. T*he second day after her arrival,
and while taking a meal in a restaurant, she
„,.had been drugged. While unconscious the
negro, Alfred Brown, bad taken her to his den
and locked her in.
■ There he assaulted her, and kept her for his
.sensual use for seven months. He had not
allowed her, once, to leave the room. Not one
peep of sunshine had she been able to get, dur
ing all that awful time. What she had to suf
fer, every day and every night, makes one
shudder to think of.
At last, she managed to steal an envelope
and strip of paper from the negro man’s coat.
