| | 1 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Only a Child.  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "The Press of May 27 publishes an account of
the suicide in the House of Refuge at Philadelphia
of a boy who was only twelve years old. He was
locked up in solitary confinement. They found him
hanging by the neck dead and cold. Tired of wait-ing for the release that never came, he had at last
escaped—from that House of Refuge!"—THE
WORLD. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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