Show A A WOMANS WOMAN'S PERSONAL LIBERTY There Thore are arc some American officers of the law with very small regard for Ol the personal liberty o of citizens and especially women and children and with knowledge exiguous indeed of oC the fundamental tal till l rights of American manhood and womanhood The facility with which ignorant sufficient self policemen policemen po policemen po- po and detectives so 80 called nay may enter houses and seize upon persons entirely without warrant is a matter mattel of oC surprise to foreigners especially to Englishmen accustomed as they are to the e esteem in which in their count country personal liberty is held It Itis Itis is singular that Americans should have come in n any noticeable degree to forget foret the sacredness o of i individual individual indi indi- di vidual liberty and the majesty of American citizenship citizen ship A remarkable case in ill point recently occurred in Cincinnati all the more remarkable because the sanctity of a home bome was outraged ted and the ri rights Of Ofa Ofa f a 3 woman to liberty so 80 grievously violated as tH to dr drive e eh h her r to self destruction A young oun woman Charlotte Cox Cot of inapproachable ahle character keeping lions house for father brothers and sisters sisteLs fell under unde-r the suspicion of or a married woman who accused her of alienating her husbands husband's affections The husband in question was it appears expending his money in ways wa not satisfactory to his spouse sponge and as the latter fo for some imaginary reason felt the cash was going to Miss Miss' iss' iss Cox f she sale confided her troubles t to toa a police officer one Denis Sullivan Sulli Now ow Denis Penis is one of thc these m police officers el and they are arc not so few in number who feel fee that the modern uP date up-to-date date twentieth century police poUce officer is If when occasion demands it Judge jur jury anc and executioner rolled into one The case of or Charlotte Cox as told him him by his jealous female friend was just the one Denis needed to ass assist t II his is full official prerogatives and amI powers He Ile proceeded t to appl alpl an Irish coercion act to the Cox hou household Here is how he did it Sunday the final blow came In Ii Inthe Inthe the morning Patrolmen Sullivan fend and Fink who says he did hot not know what were Sullivans Sullivan's intentions until riHl they g got t there thew went to the home Charlotte was not dressed The family say Sullivan with an I oath ordered l her to put on her clothes and come with him hint She did so fiO She pleaded with her father not lot to allow this di disgrace grace which she was sure would kill cill her The father could do nothing hut hilt let his daughter go o. o The rhe girl giLl be begged ged that she be spared the shame of riding in a It patrol The patrolman promised prom prom- sed but hut called a wagon and told toM the crew to have her locked up tip charged with loitering Thi was done Th The father finally secured the girls girl's release She broken brokenhearted But nut dr because because be be- was she was eyed dry eyed cause she a resolve And that night light she carried it t out Had Dad not Charlotte Cox driven to despair by the cruel injustice inflicted on her bel by Sullivan an t taken aken her life we should not likely have ever heard of the latter's laUer's grievous ous mi misconduct conduct He Be may not under inder strict construction of words be a murderer but jut he is certainly personally responsible for the doing to death of a poor innocent sensitive girl whose blood cries out to all American citizens to protect protect homes bomes girlhood womanhood and manhood too oo from the insolent officiousness and audacious ignorance of uniformed depravity |