"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"Fresenborg, Bernard
Religion
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
Fresenborg, Bernard
Anti-Catholicism; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature; Catholic ex-priests
"He stated that when they received their $25,000 ransom from Cudahy
that it was divided at the cottage where the crime was committed. He
stated that it cost him quite a sum of money to stay with friends a
few days in Omaha, but that he soon disguised himself as an inmate of
the Jesuit College, a school for Catholic boys.
"He stated that he traveled on a 'permit' as Father O'Connor to
Kansas City, and stated that from there he went to St. Louis,
disguised as a Catholic priest, and that the conductors on the train
spoke to him as 'How do you do, Father?'
"When I arrived in St. Louis I went to St. Anthony's Church, where
you can obtain most anything from that saint. I rang the bell for
confession. I confessed all kinds of things. I confessed to murder,
robbery, kidnapping, and the Father Confessor was impressed with me
because I was a 'big fish' in my line, and because I had done no harm
to the millionaire's boy. I told the inmates of St. Anthony's Church
that I wanted to make confession and do penance the remainder of my
life.
"A brother came with the scissors and I received the 'tonsure' for
the third time, which left only a circle of hair around my head, and
no Pinkerton detective, or even Bertillion himself could have
identified me.
"In a short time I left this St. Anthony Church in a 'Catholic
Habit,' which disguised me as a Catholic official, and I went to
Omaha and passed myself off as 'Brother Clement from St. Louis.'
"When I reached Omaha I had no trouble in passing myself off as
'Brother Clement.'
"After I had remained there awhile I excused myself and in my
priestly robes I walked to the banks of the Missouri River and raised
my buried treasure, as I had left a part of the money that I received
from Cudahy buried near the river, and I took the train to St. Louis,
and from there to New York, and from New York I took a German steamer
to Southampton.
"I stayed in London two weeks and read in the papers all about Pat
Crow. London was not the place for a man like me, as I had been there
before, and they knew me; so I sailed for the diamond fields of South
Africa, where I am now free, by the system of 'asylums' (which are
Catholic monasteries) of the Catholic Church. Pat Crow wound up his
story by telling me that if I ever needed to try this plan that I
could do it, and stated that the Catholic Church was the refuge of
criminals."
Now, bear in mind, the reason that the Catholic Church is such a
refuge for criminals is because no police or detective is ever
allowed to cross over the door-sills into these places of Catholic
refuge, where the worst chapters of crime never will be told, and
where these criminals flee to avoid the punishment of their crimes.
This is the first time in the history of the world that this awful
history in regard to Pat Crow and Catholicism was ever given to the
reading public.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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