Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City: As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News"Toronto News
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Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City: As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News"
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He gave her money to go at once to London and a letter to a kind-hearted
Church of England clergyman in that city, promising to send further help
on receiving news of her arrival. He heard from her several times. Two
years afterwards he saw her again in Toronto, driving in a cab with two
other girls. She turned her face away. Once more he was summoned to visit
her. She was ill in a poor cottage on Elm street. For the last time he
visited her, when on her deathbed in a wretched tenement on Teraulay
street. She was dying, not from any disease, but simply from exhaustion,
worn out with sorrow and despair. A name that is not her own is inscribed
on the humble tombstone above her grave. Her parents, who are respectable
people in good circumstances, have never known what has become of their
lost daughter. “And the man whose selfish lust has brought about this
ruin,” said the Rev. Mr. ⸺, as he concluded the above sad and over true
story, “still walks the streets of Toronto prosperous and respected;
still has the entree of the best Toronto society. I am a clergyman but
there are times when I feel like taking a horse-whip and teaching that
fellow a lesson which in this country can only be taught by lynch law.
The Charlton Bill for making seduction a criminal offence, is necessary
if private vengeance is not to be practically legalized. It is all
nonsense to talk about the danger of black-mailing; a jury can always
judge of facts and discriminate between cases of real moral turpitude and
those which may be got up for the sake of money or intimidation.”
A BABY FARM.
A Methodist minister of much experience among the Toronto poor
corroborated to a great extent the views of his brethren. Among his more
novel experiences the following was communicated in reply to questions
about baby farming:
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