, 1877-12-30

! ktHtaHHHt1 enquirer L@c. -.
! 1t has been long time since the police an
nails Of this city could show up more cruel case
OF heartlessless-a more wretchcd instance OF
human dcpravity-than was to be found ut Bre.
men Street Station-House last evening. Un the
slate was registered simply the name Mrs.
Adelinde Wirra,'' and opposite the name was
J written "cruelty." The slate also showed that
the arrest was instlgatcl hy the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals.
Mrs Wirra is a young woman who has been in
this country but few months more than a
year. In Germany, four years aeo, she gave
birth to an ilicgitimatc child, little boy, who
is the object OF her cruelty, and for whose inhu-
man treatment she is now prisoner. When lie
was about years old she came to America,
bringing him along, and soon after married
Eugene Wlrra, tool-nlaker, who works in
Corineton. ky. The fruit Of this marriage
is little girl now about Is months old During
the brief period of her married lille her husband
has been compelled to move six times, being
forced from ueighbcrhood to neighborlood to
aroid the indignation OF outraged communities
which could not and would not brook the cruel
~ which the inbulnan mother hcapcd upon her
boy baby. When arrested they lived at No, ;El1
Walnut street.
The tales told by her nctchboys about the
treatment she gave her i)cei!ini2'c child
ire ived heirtFe'f;os at IN: Eg' Wos so ts.t str
OF the, slild,s SutTc-ings. Ac,:ne other it,
71ff e eera II + ireo,,c,I ,,',i, s:a,cd thr
safbase m @ staeG ba1rei ad erusf IN the t ct . the
away from tic cat. Ae TIT scrans Of raw meat
streets. where they lived at at}lth at}lth aud Bremen ;,
OF Mrs. Wirra's nci2hbors testifiesr t;mc, onss
seen her strap the child toa chair and beat It with
poker until Its little flesh was bruised almost to
apulp. At No. l6 Clay street lady tcstincs shat
she had seen the cruel mother put the tinv,
weakly, sic1z1y boy upon the porch and compel |
him to walk up and down the floor for nearly or |
quite halliday at a time, and that if he but |
him with rod mud beat him. Thus, with his !
hands tied behind him, would this little martyr
Of mothers deyilish nature drag his weary |
feet over the floor until the endurance
and be sunk through exhaustion in his
tracks, only to be beaten because he could not
walk any more. Tho child was kindly cared for
by lady at Brcn1cu-Strcet Sta1ion, whose name
we could not learn. He is bright child, but
treatment OF his unnatural parent. His body |
Is not larger than TINT of a 2-ycar-old child,
but what there is OF it is covered with scars
and discolorcd bruises. One sight OF the lit
q heart OF stone with pity. lie showed the
reporter his hurts. and told how his mother had
produced them: When our reporter saw him
he t:, W was famisbingly devonring food with the
avidity Of 4 halt-starved person.
The mother from her cell made no denial of /
having punished her child. but attempted to ex-
ruse herself. She SAYS that after his birth the
boy was left with very low people, who reared
him IN alth and ptggishness, so that now he was
most nnclran IN his habits, and would not learn
TO become careful. She says she has had i
much trouble in trying to keep the child clean.
without success, and that the trial naturally
ncenscd her and destroyed mothcrly feelings
'or him. Besides, she SAYS she has perfect | ,
light, under the practices of society," to beat her
own child whenever she plcascs, without the
Interference OF any one. This idea seems to be
perfectly imbued into her mind. and she
magines that she and not her boy is the
yronaed person. The: S. P. &. A. have taken ,
harge Of the affair, \ intend to push matters .
o the extent of the }aw !