New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-05
MURDER OF THE IsNOCENrss.

Strange revelations made in odd ways Mary
Cullough, No ls6 East Thirty fourth strees-ae-
cordrg to accounts given By our city reporters
had several euplcynents. Que was helping her
self to ladies' and gentemen's apparel, and MOI
leaving even tue bed.clothes of Nh j. W. Barker.
No. 1872 of the same street. Mary being aided asd
sbetted by another Mary, ps'ronymcally Fitch, q
servant in the house. Mary No. 7. had scoess to
the dwelling, as she helped Mary No. H. in her
daily work. Although the two Msrys stole Mr..
Bsrkers shirt-c collars and stockings equsly with
bis daughter. silks and hsndk. rchefs it is not our
purpose 10 dlate on a theft 30 comr,on and com
monplace. But, in ferreting out the stolen property
at the lodgings of Msry No T., Mr.. Barker, sad
Mr.. Stokely of the Independent Police, came upea
three starved and skeleton-looking babies-nos in
the woods, but worse, in the dirt-oamo
upon three starved and skeleton looking
babies-not starved to death, but in process
thereof Mary No. H. is one of the angels hired
BY the Aims House rs a nurse. The oldest baby
in question is twenty eight months, the youngest
thirteen. They were found in dark room! Tney
reeked with filth, strangers h fresh water! Their
teds aud their rags stank with foulhess They
had not strength to cry Not even II pnched
They were motionless with exhaustion Their
limbs we're shrunk to an inch in diameter, aad
heir hands looked like birds claws One OF tho
little innocents, in the agonies Of starvation, had
sucked its arm to an unnatural shape They bad
evidently been drugged Their eyes we're idiosic
snd CHASTITY And all within stones throw Of
the palaces Do you hear, mothers, who i've in
the great houses--cose beside you-systema tised
child-murder By slow degrees
And Mary No. III, the sweet Cullough, gets
dollar q week for the filthy murders. "Mn.
Frost" goes to see the babies 20 being murdered
once III ,aib, aud Ear. Maloney, ono of the Gov
ernors goes often, too. II they are seen in dark
room, and are dressed once q month for the sake
of the visitors. We can understand bow Mrs. Frost
and Mr.. Maloney, can avoid seeing their condition,
but not otherwise. But there is one thing that
Mrs Frost ard Mr.. Maloney cannot look after, and
that s the inevitable death Of all children so be-
grimmed, befouled and bedsrkeDed. Aud the other
Goveruors-what are they aboutl IL this q sys-
ter Of murder or is it an incident How long
las it been carried on To what extent does it
GOT How many babies are dragged aud murdered
by how many Mary Cullougbs' Is this demo-
cratic care Of the poor the poorest Of tho poor.
orphan infsnts
If our psuper system cannot show other resulA
than these, we had better stop il altogether Bot
ter take the infants down to tho dock and drown
them at once. But here is womsn who, it seems,
gets SO q week from the Aims House, besids the
necessary clothing, and what not, for the bfsats.
works out four days in the week ostensibIy, fos
the purpose Of stealing $500 Of one family and ho~
ouch from others We cannot tell and lets the chill
dren starve to death, druggng them on their Wa,
| down.
And now, shall we have a reform, or ony
spasm Of hOrrorf