Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-20
A DEAD BABY.
Its Mother Boards Ii Ont to save
Her Reputation.

Its Mother Boards Ii Ont to save
Her Reputation.
Word came to the Health Officer, DIR.
MacGowan, yesterday afternoon that
some people were trying to have child
inferred in the Catholic Cemetery with
out burial permit. DIR. Choate drove
out to the Cemetery to investigate the
matter and found two women waiting at
the Office with the body of a three
months old male child in cheap coffin,
which they wished to have buried. 1t
had been i'll, they said, for some time,
and had died at O'Clock Thursday morn
ing. They had been waiting all day for
permission to have it inferred.
When asked to give full account of
the child, its parentage and the cause for
its death, the women became more reti-
cent, and their questioner began to sus-
pect that there was something queer
about the case. The younger of the two
women finally said that the child had
died at Mrs. Duran's, No. II Also road,
and that no physician had been in attend
ance. AS to the name of the p rent she
WOulU say uoJnlug.
Inquiry was then made at the house on
Also road, and it was learned that the
| child had been placed in the charge of
Mrs. Duran some two mouths previous
| by Mrs. Flores, who lives at the corner
of Bellevue and Upper Main. The
mother was San Diego woman, whose
name was not revealed. About the 18th
of February an old woman, whose name
no one ever learned, got off the train at
the Santa Fe depot, carrying basket, in
which was a newly-born infant. She
asked an old Mexican, who goes by the
| name OF Carrillos, whether he could find
some woman in Los Angeles who would
be willing to nurse the child and under
take its care, if she were we'll paid for it.
He brought her to an acquaintance of
his-an old Mexican woman who sells
tomalee, and whose adobe DWELL
| ing is back Of the Plaza
church. The tomale woman said
| that she could not take care OF the child
herself, but that she would take it over
| to Mrs. Flores, who, she was sure, would
| look out for the waif. Then the old
woman disappeared, leaving the basket
and fifteen dollars in cash in the hands
of Corillos. The mother, she said, was q
1 ttOCpCSubOAO HAatA1Oo WOlAdn Ill Odu blSSO,
whose husband was away, and to whom
the child had been born in consequence
OF her failure to keep her marriage VOWS.
Thirty dollars a month was named by
the old woman as the price which the
erring wife was willing to pay to have the
child properly cared for.
| The tomale seller and old Carillos
took the child to Mrs. Flores, and she
agreed to take care of it until a perma-
nent abiding place could be found. The
daughter of Mrs. Duran, who was the
younger of the two women at the ceme-
terry yesterday with the body, was finally
induced to undertake the care of the
infant. No more money, however, was
sent by the woman at San Diego, al
though Mrs. Duran wrote a number of
times, asking that the promise be kept.
The child was apparently about twen-
ty-four hours old when it was brought to
Mrs. Flores. After it had been in the
care of Mrs. Dursn's daughter about a
month it sickened, and grew worse from
day to day. The neighbors all knew of
it's illness and their testimony shows
that the child was not neglected. No
doctor was consulted and hence the
death will have to be investigated by the
Coroner.
| A post mortem was held last evening
and it clearly appeared that the death
was due to natural causes.