Stevens 1894-07-29

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Visited both Schools. Asked Miss S Dix not to employ Nelsie Golder as a teacher at present, as serious charges were made against her. Very sultry morning. Thunderstorm and heavy rain in afternoon. Sent for Henry Bishop and told him of the charges made against Nelsie Golder, his step-daughter, and recommended that in the girl’s interest she should be quietly withdrawn from the school and sent out to service with elderly people where there were no children to be corrupted, if it should seem on enquiry that she was guilty, which I was afraid was the case, because little children could hardly invent such stories. Mrs Langley had spoken to her and so had Mrs Haynes, and she had not denied the charge to either. She had moreover made use of a very indecent gesture to Mrs Haynes. Bishop expressed himself to the effect that the girl was very troublesome and that he did not know what to do with her.