Coos-Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Six  Children Rescued September 24, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 24, 1904
Brutal Father Is In Penitentiary And Mother Is A Public Charge
Yesterday afternoon Stephen Gallier,Sheriff of Cos County,Oregon,by his 
deputy,C.C.Cady,delivered six children to the Boys and Girls Aid 
Society,committed from Coos County as follows: Florence Suckau,aged 13; Tillie 
Suckau,aged 12; Elsie Suckau,aged 10; Sadie Suckau,aged 7; Roland Suckau,aged 
4; Lottie Suckau,aged 2,minor children of A.E. Suckau and Eva Suckau.The 
father has received a sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary for criminal 
assault on one of the children,and the mother is in charge of the County of 
Coos,snd unable to care for the children and is reported to be somewhat feeble 
minded.
Superintendent Gardner reports it as one of the most pitiful cases that has 
come under his notice for some years. The children are all very large for 
their age,but one of the younger girls and the boy are not bright. None of 
these children have ever attended a school in their lives with the exception 
of Elsie and Tillie,who went for a short time while at the poor farm in Coos 
County.But these children have been subjected to the cruel treatment of an 
inhuman father for some years; the mother also came in for a share of cruel 
and inhuman treatment at the hands of the father,whom the older girls say 
frequently whipped her mother both with his hands and with clubs,beating her 
about the head.The man is aged 54 years,and the 20 year sentence received for 
his crime will be equivalent to life imprisonment,but the family is certainly 
better of without such a brute at its head.
It is the intention of the management to be careful in the selection of homes 
for the children,especially the older girls,as they would have to enter 
primary grade at  the public school,and it is hoped to be able to place them 
with some competent person in the city who will teach them at home and so fit 
them to enter the public schools.

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