The sun., 1892-03-06
A MYSTERY OF TWO BABIES.
Two Boys Left Them Laughing and Kick
Ing In y Front Ynrd.

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Ing In Front Yard.
They were bright boys. one about {, years old
and the other 10. One wore faded green over
coat and the other faded black coat. They
| looked rs though they might be hungry. butthey
laughed as il they hadn't II care. Each of them
had q baby. and the babies laughed and kick ed
and made the work Of carrying them all the
harder. 1t was nearly q o'clock Friday night
when these two bright boys with tho kicking
babies turned into Willoughby avenue,
Brooklyn. from Nostrand avenue. That's
a very nice part OF Brooklyn. Private
houses line both avenues. and the
occupants arc nearly all well-to-6o. How
these boys came to be in Nostrand avenue no.
body has been found who knows but they were
seen by dozen persons turning into Will
loughby avenue. They trudged .u!ong until
they came to the first gate in tho avenue. They
sat their babies upon that and held thcm there
while they whispered to each other. Then they
fairly doubled UP a-laughing. and they came
very near letting the litt" ones fail.
%ss' aa sfSSa 81 eGHfren. ana p,ayies ,0o%
and looked at them By and ysth By they S!lh",iH sh@u
dered the babies I again and walked on to the
nsS sa Then h a m and LAUGHED
when the. brooklyn housewives. having i'm.
isheh their work. sit at their front windows
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two boys, were, watched. not only by the chill
dren, but by older folks. and everybody Won
deIed what could possess them.
They wondered more when tho little boys
slipped inside the gate Of the third house they
came to. and laid thetwo, babies on the, ground
Mp the street as fast rs their legs could carry
them and shouting "whoop-cc" at every other
turned the, corner and Disappeared iu,t as
mystGtri1uSfly nnnh 6 as they CANE and nobohy hs
Hrnn ~ hn had
beer been playing aerGss cross the rs street ran over and
women came out and said poor little things"
6sm ana pfked them up nnd baby talk to
turn was in strange language.
=, Miss Lulu Woiington ran around and told
the police at the Vernon avenue station and
to tho stories about the two boys. We took the
two babies back with him to the station house,
that one was ~ years old and til. m other =.
He was quite certain that tho two boys; bad
SoeS WoS thS 9sbss ss X nun nd tint
notice to nll the station houses in the cityto
send inGuirinG mothers up t" SEQ him. But
children missing. and wheh tho relief
squad Dnsd %as sent Sc put at night tIo mcn
ten three men were sent out in" IN cizons II
clothes to hunt for the, two boys. The babies
played on the floor in the detectives room
thom to sleep. IIe hadn't hcen able to under.
stand anything they said but he guessed they
were Swedish babies. because they had very
light hair and light blue eyes and fat cheeks.
He sent for swedish woman in the morning.
but she couldn't talk to tho children either.
Neither could sho understand anything they
said. or even guess OF what nationality they
were. little later they were sent out to Flat
bush to the county farm.
The police then made up their minds that
the boys were wicked little tools OF some heart
less mother, Four detectives spent all day
looking for them. but not trace Of them was
found. 1t H. all mystery. tho police say. and
they haven't o. thing to work on savo the do.
scrptions OF the two boys and those dcsrrp-
tIons would fit half OF the poor little boys in
Brooklyn.