Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-04
The Bulkley Baby Farm.

Coroner's Investigation COntfnued-The Autopsy by Dr. Bel1osa-Mrs. Bulkley's Statement.
 The investigation in regard to the death of the young child at Mrs. Bulkley's Baby Farm' was continued on Saturday afternoon before Coroner Bollman.
 James Phalen, of 19 Putnam street, testi- fled that one evening after last Christmas on returning home he found a woman who wanted board until her husband should come, and whom she expected in few days. He 1 finally consented to allow her to board and she remained there for seven weeks. A man, whom she claimed to be her husband-she | called him Edward Thompson and said she l was his wife, Mrs. Annie Thompson-came several times and took tea. He was an Amer | ican, over six feet high, was slim, dark con- plexioned and apparently thirty-eight years old. She was about twenty-five, although | she said she was twenty-two. She was a | stout woman, fair haired fair complexion, and about five feet two inches in height per- haps. She was apparently Irish, although I she said she was Scotch. She was dressed well and had jewelry. The witness would recognize both parties She claimed to be- I
 about people there, said she lived in Hart
 ford but knew little about that city. Then suspicion was entertained. The man claimed to be a contracting carpenter, doing big jobs in various cities. She taken sick and re- moved to the hospital, where she had boy
 baby When she left the hospital she took the child with her and boarded again at Phalen's. After the child was born 'tMr. | Thompson" did not appear again. She paid
 the bills. The witness came to the conclu- sion that she lived in this city.
 MT. Thomas Bulkley, keeper of the farm
 where the baby died, at 27 West street, (she
 and her husband built the house fifty years
 ago), testified that she now took in babies by
 the month instead of the week. She said she
 was 65 years of years of age and that before
 she removed to West street she lived in Put
 nam street seven years. "When I was mar
 ried I took children to board. Thomas
 Bulkley was my second husband" l" The baby
 was brought there one rainy day by the
 mother in a hack February 21, and left to
 be boarded. It had a cold and coughed
 The woman, Mrs. Thompson, sent
 only $9 for the whole period, although
 often dunned. Mrs Bulkley wrote to -..her
 at the Hartford postofice When the S9
 were sent, the address to certain number in
 St. John street, Hartford, was transmitted
 Accidentally, it is thought). Not receiving
 more pay she threatened to send it to the
 almshouse, but retained it. It grew sick ! pulled It's ha1r out, had good appetite, and
 finally dwindled away and died. She notified
 the mother when it grew sick, and wrote
 again last Friday that if she wished to see it
 alive she must come right away. No one ! came.
 As to food she took three pints of milk a
 day for three little babies, giving them pint
 each with cornstarch and oatmeal
 | Dr. Bellosa testified that there was mark
 on the child as if it had been left in one po- , sition for long time The organs were
 healthy except the spleen, which was en- , larged and eongested. Only tablespoonful of cornstarch was found in the intestinal
 canal. The stomach and intestines had no | signs of disease; there was not 8 particle of
 inflammation in either. There was nothing in the stomach, but the intestines were full i of gas. There was no trace of fat under the , muscles, not bit of fat in the whole body. The brain slightly congested. His opin- , ion was that it didn't get enough to eat. Mrs. , Bulkley does not know how to feed children . two or three weeks old. There was no trace
 of it having been given pint of milk the
 day before it's death. Death was by aras , mus, caused by nal nutrition. If this child had been given proper food it's organs would
 have permitted it to live. It was probably brought to Mrs. Bulkley in bad condition. Dr. F. O. White corroborated him. He didn't think there any doubt that the | child died from mal-nutrition.
 e The jury adjourned to Tuesday next al