Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: February 28, 1880 SUFFER LITTLE CHILDRED! Rev. COWLEY, he of the "Shepherd's Fold," where little children were gathered in at one dollar a week and systematically starved, has been convicted of cruelly treating and starving the tender flock, and sentenced to one year in the State prison, and fined two hundred and fifty dollars, the extent of the penalty of the law. Children were fed for months on coarse bread, diluted milk and thin soup, with meat but once a year, until scrofula and other diseases were engendered. Little LOUIS VICTOR, who had been taken there by his father a rosy cheeked, healthy boy, was taken from Cowley's Fold to a hospital a sickening skeleton, dying from starvation. The stories of hunger and distress told by the twenty- four children under this tender shepherd's care, were but the repetition of the doings of Dotheboy's Hall, under the management of Wackford Squeens, as told so graphically by Dickens. Let us humbly pray there are no other Cowley's to be found in the children's homes and orphan asylums of our goodly land. This Cowley misinterprets the divine injunction, and so abbreviates it that the command shall read, "Suffer little children." And, under his ministerial garb, they did indeed suffer.