Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
NOT FOND OF GIRLS.
A Rochester Grandmother Accused of
Cruelty and Neglect, and
GIVEN A CHANCE TO REFUTE 1T.
Sad Story Told by the Daughter-in-Law
of Mrs. Margaret Hesh.
MANY WOES OF A DESERTED WOMAN

What appears to be a pee uliar case of
cruelty to sick children has been developed
near Rochester. Warrants for two persons
have been issued and one OF them served.
The story was told by Mrs. Mary Lippert to
Agent O'Brien, of the Humane Society, who
has taken action in the matter. Mrs. Lip
pert is the wife of Michael Lippert. She
saws that be deserted her in Ohio several
months ago, and that she believes he is now
somewhere in or near this city. He left her
with four children, which she brought to
this city. She made her home in Allie
gheny, where she struggled to make her liy-
ing. Three of the children she placed in
st. Paul's Orphan Asylum, on Tannehill
street, Pittsburg. The fourth, baby, she
kept with her. The oldest and the third
child are boys, 8 and years old. The Sec
ond hid is girl of Z years.
Soon after the children were placed in the
asylum the measles broke out among the
little ones there, ard Mrs. Lippert's eldest
boy was attacked. He became very i'll. and
his mother was sent for. She went to the
asylum and attended to her bov for several
days. The people Of the asylum advised
her to remove her two other children before
they were affected.
WOES OF MOTHER.
She therefore took her little boy and girl
away, and on June 3 placed them with her
husbands mother, an old lady named Mar
garet Hesh, living with her second husband
on a farm near Rochester. After a few DAYS
of living there with her little ones, she was
called back to Pittsburg by word that her
little boy at the asylum was worse. She re-
g. I, I'D
side. He was expected to die when she came,
but her tender watchfulness brought him
through, and he is now recovering rapidly.
Upon her then going back to Rochester she
was rendered almost distracted by finding
her little boy and girl lying low with black
measles. She tried to get doctor for them,
but she says that Mrs. Hesh refused to allow
doctor to enter her house. The grand
mother said that the little girl ought to die;
that girls were nuisance anyway.
The mother got DIR. Hillman, of Roches-
ter, and a priest at that place to visit the
farmhouse, but Mrs. Hesh would not admit
them. The old lady was so angered that she
then drove Mrs. Lippert out of the house
with her sick girl. She was willing to keep
and care for the boy. DR.. Bower, of Roch-
ester, who knew of the case, drove out to
Mrs. Hesh's house. On the highway he
met Mrs. Lippert carrying her sick child in
her arms. She was on her way to the house
OF Mrs. Porter, a neighbor. The doctor took
her into his buggy aud drove her to Porter's,
where she was taken in and kept over night.
OBJECTS OF CHARITY.
The next day DR.. Hillman hsd the mother
and her child removed to the st. James
Hotel, in Rochester. There they are being
kept by the charity of kind-hearted people,
and DR.. Hillman is treating the little girl
at his own expense.
Mrs. Lippert is pretty little woman, and
her troubles excite general sympathy from
those who hear her story. The little girl is
still very ill.
The case was laid before Agent O'Brien,
and on Thursday he visited Rochester and
interviewed all the parties interested. He
became satisfied that Mrs. Lippert's story
was true. and he made information before
Burgess Taylor, of Rochester, charging Mrs.
Margaret Hesh and another person with
cruelty and neglect. The warrants were
given to Chief of Police Lazarus, and he
has served the one against Mrs. Hesh. Her
husband has given bail fer her appearance
when wanted. The officer has not yet been
able to find the other person accused, but he
may be arrested tomorrow.