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Show FAVORITE TRICK "OF BIGOTS. One of the favorite tricks of anti-Catholic anti-Catholic bigots is to exploit so-called escaped nuns and girls who, having been placed in religious reformatories by parents or guardians, elude wise-restraint and lie to order. We learn from an Australian exchange that Mel- 1 bourne has been the scene of an adventure ad-venture by one of the latter. She was arrested for drunkenness and disorderly disorder-ly conduct on a street, was sent to prison for seven- days, and being placed on probation was, at her own request, sent to a convent.. Six. months afterward after-ward she absconded' attfT ''for' sum of money, gave a fanciful 'tale' to' an anti-Catholic anti-Catholic paper. The slander was com- pletely exposed. In a sworn statement before a justice of the peace the girl'a mother declared that her story was false in every particular and 'also said that her daughter had for some years been wayward and intractable, had run away from home 'three times and was" utterly untruthful. These facts were publicly substantiated by the girl's father before a justice : of the peace. And thus was another thrilling tale of an escape from a convent punctured. |