The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-05
Baby-Farming.
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three doors from the little chap
ons Severe, on the Strada Santa
ell Of FL in Naples, the evidence of 4
tia.p,yrrible crime, or rather series of
Most ',i. crimes, were brought to light
tsrnIa,s I,rewd and daring Gngelrlmo
By i.,an. Lieutenant at Police. The
CCIg no charged with tile preparation
p t,Sese crimes is woman named Rose
Of .n, npop whose movements the keen.
r "s Of the gendarmery had been for
eye months fixed. An advertisement
ln ,,;ns her name and address appeared
S.' hrief intervals in the. Neopolitan
;a"Sornals, and the pnrport of the pnbli-
!va,ion was that persons wishing to re-
raonisb their claim upon infants would
s s" home for them by calling upon
n u"d nayinc certain sum of money to
a.. Rose Porro, SO Strada Santa Ca
,,rina near the church of San Severe,
SS.lrs. Tie police give special at.
an s ion to ambiguous advertisements.
and consequently Mrs, Porro incurred
.,a,r suspicion. Lieutenant Guyeiiel-
',o Cordrban instructed two officers to
s;se their particular attention to the
Easements OF Mrs. Porro and all rhings
Occurring in the vicinity of her resi-
dsnce. To this somewhat vague task
the two policemen were assigned on
,Ie 2d inst, aud the result Of their
,igilauce up to the 10th was that an
EXTRAORDINARILY NUMBER. OF BABIES
had been brought into Mrs. Porro's
apartments. and that respectable ear
RACES containing fashionably dressed
women occasionally pulled up in front
ofher nnpretentious quarters. The OBJ
;aet of i!ordeban's suspicion became
more clear, bat he still ordered the po.
lcrmen tn stndy the movements of
porro and her visitors. On the Goth INST.
the Uolicemen were again called upon
IN report, aud they again announced
Tint nj intervals infants were carried
into Mrs. Forro's residence, and that
they had not seen the children carried
mt again in any instance hut One.-
Lieutenant Cordel,an then resolved to
take p.ssession of Mrs. Pnrro's house
on the following Monday, the 23d inst.
Furnished with an order of a rest Civ
en- 90 The ground of grave suspicious
being entertained against the prisoner,
Cordeban, accompanied hy two police
men. entered Mrs. PorrO's house iu the
furenn,n, and upon meeting La Signora
Ler.pf. lie politely furnished her with
the document which placed her 10 the
power of the police. A strong, brave,
beautiful and cunning wnn,ar, she at
first assumed an air of Innocence aud
Ronderment which might have dis
armed less sophisticated detective -
But Cordeban was unrelenting, and as
snrpd her that it was not on his ac
eouut, hut through the Projects order
that she should be arrested. In her
company was u ydnnger but quite as
DESPERATE looking woman. Mrs. Porro
was placed in a carriage and driven t"
the Protects chambers on The Chiaja,
while the tWO officers were left in
charge Of her honsr, with IN order to
let no one pass out or in until the
Lieutenant returned. The Lieutenant,
with other officers, came back ut noon
and began close search through eve
~ part Of the house. On bursting in
door on the nppermost story, pitiful
sight presented ltself. Six infants were
sprawliBg on the door, crying from cold
and hunger. The room was nnfur-
nished and so chilly that the poor little
creatures, prompted by nature, hud-
died together. Among them was one
aif and emaciated itS.Ey nE..
w.. ' LITTLE CORPSE, 2n'."'
which the officers believed to he only
sleeping, until they touched and stirred
it Having searched the upper portion
Of the honse they proposed to visit the
cellar and dig up the tiles of the lower
aosr, after having provided for the
starving little ones. In the cellar they
discovered Eve children's cnrpses. and
beneath the tiles of the ground floor,
aud in the very apartment where Mrs.
Porro was arrested, three other bodies
Of dead Infants were fonnd. The wo-
man who was in Mrs. Porro's company
at tue time of the latter's arrest, seem
ed violently aud grew hystrrical as the
iaal developments were being made.
She was arrested and conveyed also to
the Projects chambers. The hnuse
was taken in possession by the police,