The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-20
BABIES DONE TO DEATH.
Children Rorn i'm Sin and Kind for
Cain..Leaves from the s1eC0Nd OF
a Private Hospital.

Children Born i'm Sim and -Kia1sa for
.Gain--Leaves from the Aaecord OF
| a Private Hospital.
From the N. Y World
The death of baby, not "a month
old, who had been put out to board in
] the hands of Mrs. Kate .Kilbrde,' of
500 West Nineteenth street, inAa small
way ''baby farmer" has drawn gen
eral attention to the fate which young
children born in vice, or what usually
amounts to the same thing, the lowest
stratum Of society, may meet at any
time through neglect or an intent posi-
lively murderous. r.s.zAp. Legitimate
!. child is born in this city about every
hour, and the fate of little Charley,
whose inquest was held last, Sunday,
may be, and often is, the fate of any
one of them. His story never would
have drawn the least attention but.for an
infornaality in the death certificate, and
after an inquest, which showed that the.
child VAS starved to, death it was found.
that nobody, was. legally tgiblame in the
| matter. Each and all concerned in the.
| child death stand lust where they did.
before, barring little publicity (which
| the flaw in the certificate has caused
There seems to be no manner of doubt.
! that cases more or less like; this, where,
minor bits of form and detail are at
tended TO, are all the time slipping:
through the meshes of the Health Board
without even coroner's inquest to de-
eide in o judicial and authoritative
manner tia. nobody was atlfault after
all.
1t is scarcely worth while In this case
to 60 over the whole story sof the way
by which q young girl of seventeen found
that sin had brought on her path the
dark shadaw Of coming motherhood.
1t is very old story and a very, SD
story.
Kate Kubride, a large-asned Irish
woman, with expansive motherhood as
the prominent characteristic sof .he1.
|sform, and, it is fair to conclude, of her
nature as well, took charge of.the child
for So. so q week. What the porting
was between another and child no one
|
Says Mrs. Kilbride: ''Mrs. Dorian
she sent for M, and she says, Gays she,
Take this baby, Mrs. Kilbride, and L
looks at him.. and lte had sore breast
anG sore, month, and was Altered
for me own snd thus, the littlesb y, as
hisaIaother pays the rint, an stops.an
hesitates like, AID N. .ver put hand to
him, land Mrs. Morr; w or Danran, or
what might be the name of her, she
says, swate-likes 'al,' here's half a
months pay, Mrs. X ilbride, because,
sir, they know sir, the child
would only live tTo We eks, and so. they
gives me that and moth ing more, .asMe
name it's Kate Kilbride this ten year
and the mother she r. Uses hcnself. I'D
and says, @, take him, Mrs. Kiabride !;
take hira, for the love OF heaven, take
him, and thin bein' still wake, and. her
self it was by no means strong. she
just lies back in bed and / takes the
little sickly thing-a,ad | uck to him.
an he didn't live at oil, no.. he couldn't
An goes to the door, and the mother
calls me back and Gays, eoughin7 to
that degree she couldn't sp; ke, Here's
81, Mrs. Kilbride, ana will you buy
him bottle of soothin' sy rup.' says
She His mothers lest 81 # sootked
him in good sooth, as Perha ps it was
her intention it should. One unfortl-
nate complication about the little fe1-
lows fate should perhaps be mention
ed. A prominent Protestant E pascopaa
minister, one Of the few who DO, mds his
visits to the sick and dying by no con-
siderations for his own safety aided
and befriended the poor woma, T. and
buried her child, and thereby b; d his
name dragged into o newspaper &C count
of the matter in q most Aajusti table
fashion.
1t is now something over aweek ago
that Mrs. Kilhride took charge of e. bar-
ley and took him to her home at 500
West Nineteeth street. For $6 q
month she rents basement-roam with
two windows and q little foul ba. TX
room With none. In the back roo. q
she and her children and the hrsban,d
sleep in one steaming pile of noisome,
blankets, filthy sheets, and reeking
mattress, to say the least possible Of the
sleepers. The only substitute fer a
cradle the place has rs broken wheel
ed perambulator, stuffed with fcaeher
pillow, which, to all appearance, has
not been touched during all the month
it has been the only bad, day and NIGHT,
Of the two half-naked infants in Mrs.
Kilbride's care. A bureau, q chair or
two, and lounge-that is all the fer
niture. By all Mrs. Kilbride's accounts
she had very hard time with the poor
little thing. Here was a young child.
not week old, taken from its own
mothers breast, and brought to alien
food which nature had been for 8 months
preparing for . mature child; no won
der it sickened. and its mouth grew
'orc till the foster mother feared for
the safety of other children committed
to her care, and her own health if she
allowed its wan, wasted lips to touch
her BOSOM. ssSure an it didn't act
dacint like, but it just .dhrew its legs
right and cried and squealed an nivver
stopped, the little divvil, day or noight,
but just went crying an sqoealing, an
John Kilbride he puts his bed in the