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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 10, 27 June 1884, Page 18

The horrible revelations brought out in the trial of " Shepherd " Cowles in New York, a few years ago, have been paralleled by the exposure of another children's home at Chicago, within a few days Mrs. Anna Schock was the matron of the latter institution, which was supported by charitable contributions. The Humane Society had her arrested two months ago, and the officers testify that the score of children under her charge have been treated with shocking inhumanity. The children range in years from two to twelve. They were housed in a cold basement, part of which' was used as a cow stable Broken windows allowed the snow to come in and lie in heaps on the floor, the wretched stove fire not being brisk enough even to melt it The children were almost naked, and covered with vermin, and halfstarved on a diet of poor mush. The woman is now on trial but the maximum penalty of the law is only three years' imprisonment • and of she be found guilty of half what is chaiged against her the punishment is not a tithe of her deserts. — Pilot.