The New York herald., 1879-02-01
TIE SIXTEENTH STREET MYSTERY.

PROBABLE cLEw TO THE UNNATURAL MOTHER
WHO ABANDONED HER BABE ON THURSDAY
NIGHT-rwo ARRESTS MADE BY CAPTAIN
cLINcHY
1t is not often that the public is shocked at the
recital of such unnatural crime as the aban-
donment by its mother of newly born infant on .
public street in mid winter. Yet such was the
story told in brief in the columns of the
HERALD yesterday morning. In this case not alone
the heartess parent has than brutay reversed
tine order OF nature, but. to the discredit of hu-
manity. there were found in this community three
other wretches-a female and two males-in the un-
natural conspiracy to leave tender child few
moments after its birth on door stoop to perish
with exposure and hunger.
THE POLICE WORK.
The police of the Eighteenth precinct in which
the monstrous outrage was perpetrated left no
effort untred to discover the guilty parties aud Cap
tain Clinchy and two Of his detectives devoted their
entire time to this end during Thursday night
and throughout yesterday. Sergeant Mccullough.
of the Eighteenth precinct told HERALD
reporter in the afternoon that additional
particulars 10 those already published had
been obtained relative to the carriage which drove
up to the sidewalk in front Of No. 125 East Sixteenth
street and bore away the prostrated mother of the
infant. From the Sergeants statement it would ap-
pear that about half-past eight O'Clock Thursday
evening two men and two women were seen walk
ing from the direction of Fourth avenue. on Six-
teenth street. and toward Irving place. When the
party had arrived in front of No. 125 one Of the
women was observed to falter as though seized with
sudden and severe illness. Her companions helped
her up the four FIVE steps to the stoop Of the
house indicated and, there leaving her in charge
of the other female the two hurried away and
shortly afterward returned with coach into which
they lifted the sick woman One of the men then
driven toward Fourth avenue the other man and
woman walking walking away in an opposite direction.
lives next door, found the infant the stoop and.
having taken it into her house. despatched her Lit e
boy found Officer Schroff. who repaired to No. l23
East Sixteenth street. having received the infant
from the hands of Mrs. Mills he took it to Bellevue
Hospital
Information reached Captain Clnchey yesterday
that there had been some suspicious movements the
previous night at No. 321 Third avenue. A coach
had been seen standing at the door of the house
and young woman had been carried from
the conveyance to one of the upper floors
of the building. On this now clew the Captain set
to work and learned that Mary Num- twenty two
laundress in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, was
the person who had been taken from
with friend at the above number. She was callel
upon by the Captain. who questioned her as to her
speak, but when told that she suspected of beng
the mother Of the abandoned child it is said that
she broke down and admitted her shame.
She was then made prisoner but she very
sick she was taken to the Emergency Hospital
in East Twenty-sixth street. Later in
the night William Fullerton arrested at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel and taken to the
East Twenty second street station house. where he
was locked up Q charge of completely in abandon
ing the babe. At the station house it
was stated that the authorities OF opin-
ion that he is the father OF the babe.
Fullerton was until short time ago. employed in
the laundry at the hotel where. it is said he became
intimate with the girl. He told the sergeant before
whom he was arraigned that he was married man.
but declined to state where his wife resided
wAIF
On Thursday night the little waif was sent by War;
den ORourke. of Bellevue Hospital. to the Emer.
gency Hospital connected with that institution at
No. 223 East Twenty sixth street. that it might
ceive proper sustenance The reporter called at the
latter place yesterday and shown the infant by
the polite matron of the hospital. Notwithstanding
the perilous circumstances which surrounded it's
birth and its shocking abandonment. the poor little
creature looked quite hardy and evidently
lungs of than ordinarily robust character for
one 80 young. In addition to her regular features
the infants head crowned with luxurious growth
of dark brown hair. such babies do not usually
present Less than month six weeks after BIRTH