Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Inhuman Meanness. [ARTICLE]

Inhuman Meanness.

In a certain town in Rhode Island the parents of two children, a boy and a little girl, died, leaving them to the cold charities of the world. A meeting of the local authorities was held tb decide upon action that would relieve the town of the expense of supporting the children. The matter was discussed freely, and at an adjourned meeting, held at a private residence, the children were required to be present; and this was the way the

case .was managed : The boy was told to go into an adjoining room, whore he would find a man asleep, in a certain described pocket of whose clothing was a five-cent piece, which he was to bring to the committee. The boy obeyed the order. The girl was sent to another room where a woman was sleeping, from -whose pocket a piece of money or scrip was to be taken. She also obeyed the instructions given her, and the children were afterward arrested upon a charge of petty larceny, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the State reformatory school during their minority. Corrtr spotiderirt Providence Journal.