The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-06-28
THE STARVATION OF BABES.
BREhKTSG UP ONE BhBY-FhRHING
DEN IN NEW FORK CITY.
We, Another Of the Benea Aeon, Uses Of the So

Yet Another Of the Benenccn Uses Of the so-
cie,y for the Prevention Of Cruelty 10
Chiidren-six Lives Probably saved.
The Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Children broke up baby farm, at house In
the rear Of 324 East Twenty-nfth street, yester-
day, on the CON plant Of Mrs. E1izabet Clifford,
of 1913 West Twenty third street. In the small.
unclean apartment occupied bv q Mrs. MeClos-
key, when the officers visited IL, on Monday,
we're three women and sir starving infants.
One child lay In cradle, Easping. Another
lay on two chairs, his face, neck, and arms
covered black with nies, and too weak,
from want OF nourishment, to brush the posts
away. Another babe lay. feebly whimperine, on
the floor by the stove. On an unclean lounge
was a fourth, bait for nics and two Of the
womeh beid the other two children In their
arms. One half-empted nursing bottle con-
tanned ell the food that the mistress had left for
the babes, for Mrs. McCloskey was not at home.
The three women In the room were servants
out Of employment, VINO were making the room
their home while they awaited situations else
Ofhcer 9erner, OF the society. and Oficer
Gold wate. Of the Twenty-second street station,
found one infant 40 near the point Of death that
they felt eonstraned % move II. cradle and all,
into the open court in front OF the house Its
shrunken legs were hardly larger than a mans
ing was painfully slow. The fresh air revived II.
Onicer Corner pocketcd the nursing bottle 70
use rs evidence. nn0 tnen brOuent WINE, MIX
and eggs, and IN ade the furnished little once a
drink that gave them new life. He appointed
neighbOr 70 care for the children over night, and
then he set himself about the arrest OF Mrs.
McCloskev. He found her, yesterday, IN a Second
avenue car.
When the oficer returned to the house in
Twenty nth street, only two babes remained
there. The Others had been taken away. Mrs.
McCloskey held one In her arms at the time OF
her arrest. II was large but miserable baby,
aud suffered from an ailment That deprived " 81
the power either to sit or stand. A woman in
Houston street, the mother OF one 81 the chill
dren. took her babe home, and mother from
Thirty-dflh street carried hers to the founding
asylum. The woman who had been left to take
care uf the babes thouehfullv took the dying
infant out Of doors Yesterday morning. and
kept II In its cradle until evening. he one
other child that remained WAS left indoors. aud
there It lay all day, greatly strenRtheDed by
good food, but II was little better than skele-
ton. eix weeks ago, Mrs Clifford says, II was
robust rosy babe.
Before Justice Kilbretn Mrs. McCloskey said
that she was uniformly kind to the babies, but
that many that she received were very young,
and " could not be kept from falling"
Jane Wilson. a boarder with Mrs MeCloakev,
said that the woman frequently left the babes
unattended, and tbat sue took Mrs Hussel's
child by the heels and raped lite head against
the floor, saying. Damn the bastard it's paid
for, any way" ana leaving On It's tiny head "a
bump like a walnut.
Eiisabetn Clifford and Catherine Nauch cor
roborated this testimony 10 part
Justice kilbre.b held Mrs. McCloskey IN e1,0o
to await trial.