The weekly clarion., 1879-01-08
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B Justice VI arry Decides 40 Give
GEze Lille One AZ Neither.
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\ blue eyed, golden-haired, din pied
faced baby was teuderly placed on jus
tice Murray's desk yesterday morning
where it cooed and laughed and threw
its little arms toward the Justice.
Three women OF rough aud diasoluta
appearance, accompanied by number
OF coarse looking men, stepped up to the
/ witness It nd.
Mrs Josephine L)ve.t, of Roosevelt
street, on whose fingers sparkied cheap
/ diamonds, and who was dressed in the
most approved fashion of the Fourth
Ward, claimed the babe by adoption.
Fanny Wright, wretched, dissoIute
woman, said she was the child's mother
She bad no home, and the man who
claimed TO be her husbl and depended up
on her for money for his own support
Mrs. Lovett said Three months ago
this woman, who claims to be tie mother
Of tae child, was sent to prison 1 then
took the babe home, and cared for it.
| returned it to the woman when she was
discharged from prison. She is dis
8olute person. She brought the child 10
me last month. Judge, 1t would have
woman brought it 10 me the little thing
was covered with bruises fresh and bleed
ing. The poor thing was starved almost
TO ,leath, andlav breathing so we lkly that
| made sure it.wuuld die. The woman,
who was drunk at the time, told me that
her husband wanted the child out Of the
way, and had beaten il, and dashed il
against the wall As the child did not
die, be and anol her man had AIKEN it with
them the night previous attending to
throw it into the river. She had follow
ed them aud saved the child, and now
wanted me to adopti it,
Mrs LDvett said she had sent for a
doctor and had the child treated, and had
purchased clothes for il. Your Honor
she said, Il may he a BAT woman, but |
have money, and | would bring up his
child as tenderly rs any mother, ii | was
allowed.
Fanny Wright. who was assisted by
twn representatives OF tie ''Tombs bar, -
demanded the child. She could not re-
member when the child was born, but
said DR.. Parker had attended her at the
time, and that it was born in Forsyth
street
"Do you swear that that is your
chiid?' Justice Murry inquired.
Il do
..And why did you abandon it?2
because | had n home, and Mrs
Lovett wanted it.
FYou are the mother Of this child?'
Yes"
That's lie!' said shrill and pierre
ing voice in the background, and as us
tice Murray. startled by the voice,
,pruug from his sat, h demauded that
the speaker should step forward
Mrs. Ellen Upton, the proprietress of
a sailors dance house at 2 Roosevelt
street, made her way 10 the bar.
"Weil, Mrs Upton Justice Murry
said, tell me what you know"
"Ju ige, on my oath that woman, Fan
ny Wright, Is not the mother of tn I
child. rhe real mother was arrested
last summer for robbery and sentenced
to five years imprisonment. Your |
honor, on my oath this is true, and the |
poor little thing since then has been half |
murdered thousand times by that
wretch OF Il man and thi, woman
Counsel for Mrs. Wright, insisting |!
that there was no proof that she WIS not /
Tn mOInef, urin3ulSb LndL Tue cnllu De /
surrendered to her.
Mrs Lovett entreated the Justice to |
allow her to have the child She had |
lots of money, she said, and would give
bonds that the child should be properly !
brought up.
Although you seem to retain some
sense of womanhood," the Justice said, /
Il would rather see this poor little thing /
dead than give it up to you. As to you, /
Fanny Wright, you are too degraded a
woman, and you have too cruelty abused |
that child for me not TO protect it. You /
have not satisfactorily proved to me that /
you are its rightful mother. 1t Is re
that you should not even know |
the date of It's birth. Mr. Linden, make /
out a commitment for it to the care of /
the Commissioners of Charities and Cor /!
rection."
The lawyers again objected, but Jus
tice Murray refused to surrender the |
child.
"This is awful, added the Justice, as
Roundsman Fawcett took the laughing, |
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