The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-14
THEY FOUND THE BABY's BODE
But Leitshue's story OF Its Mysterious HI.
rial Needs lorrob0ratlon.


| But LeIlshue's story OF Its Mysterious HI.
rial Needs torroboration.
| It's a strange story Valentine Leitshue. q
Rivngton street youth. tells about Annie
Wales. Hungarian girl OF 1856 Attorney
street. The birth OF child in Attorney street
is an event OF Importance even II they have q
superatundance Of children there already.
Every woman there knows when o child Is
going to DO born. and. again. II that child is
born and then disappears. the whole street
knows Of it. All the women on the block in
which l65 Is situated are ready to make affi-
davits that there hasn't been o baby born
there for two weeks.
Leitshue says he saw the Wales girl bury
baby in cellar. and his story is backed up in
part by the finding Of the baby's body. Lett
shuc's story in detail is that no was delivering
groceries to man In the rear house at 185
last Tuesday night when he saw o young
woman carrying sQuirming bundle out ofthe
back door OF the front house and saw her 60
into the cellar Of the rear house. In one hand
she had a lighted candle. He watched her
through window in tho cellar. and saw her
lay the bundle down in a corner and then be-
gin to dig He slipped Just then and stumbled
against the window. making q noise; The
But on Wednesday night he happened to
Couio UhVh again az AUOuL Iue ohule LOuIs huu
again he saw the woman appear. this time
With sewing machine drawer under her arm:
ssa hs
corner, and began digging. She made. q holo
toward him. and suddenly she discovered him.
s sszsa sd h Th neS
sell away and ran out into the street.
he was bneariy hone Td when he net POLICE.
Valentine went on home He WASH certain
Thursday evening he went back to the house
third time and dug around ,nna in the cellar IN
70 Tnon Mates
told the police.
s % oc sn s q 6o s nS SS oSt % hs
hole. and woke w tho folks in the roar house
It time and made each enc IN sGlt
LeitsSne ' said at once. "That's the girl" So
charge Of homicide. and held Leitshue as a
Witness The box and baby they sent to the
Mss and DR. sus tat a at op TIN Sa0S
When the young woman was .erratened in
om:cide was changed to that Of buryinc an
infant without permit in other b + t, lesa!
then the girl; who cannot sneak English. Dc.
she had buried the child or that she knew
anything about it. Leitshue stuck to his |
story. and she, was held in default Of $500 |
bail. He was let 60 on the promise that he |
would appear as a witness when wanted.
mic Wales is innocent. She works for q Mrs. |
Morris Spokesman. the wife Of a groceryman. |
who keeps O. store or the first floor OF the front
building. Mrs Schlossman says she knows |
the child is not Annie's. The women are post
tive that the child does not. belong or. the
block. ,Lel'shue is not known in the neighbour
hood. The man he says he was delivering gro
cceries to says Leitshue does not ten the truth.
hue Tho women want to know what the
young man was doing in the back yard. A
SuS reporter questioned Leitslue yesterday:
He stuck to his story in every particular, but
he was n little bit weak on the grocery deIiv-
nrv uuaStiOn.