Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — ABUSE OF MARY PRINER [ARTICLE]

ABUSE OF MARY PRINER

frleet and HU Houwkt«p*r Sent to Jell on Preliminary Trial. Neillavllle, Wis., Oct. 17.—The examination of Father Jungblud, the Roman Catholic priest, and Lizzie Nolan, bis housekeeper, charged with assault upon a girl, took place yesterday before Justice Dudley. Several -witnesses testified as to wounds received by the girl, Mary Priner, including the doctors who treated her. The girl testified that two days pre;ediDg i he arrest she was bound around the arms with a rope and swung to a hook in the ceiling, remaining each day from some time in the morning until some time in the afternoon, during which time only her tiptoes were allowed to touch the floor. She was whipped, she testified, because she could not remember the hard words in her catechism. The defendants were bound over in $2,500 in each case, and committed to jail in default of bail.