New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-23
KILLED THE HELPLESS BABY.
STATEN ISLAND WOMAN MURDERS
HER DAUGHTERS CHILD
THE POLICE THINK SHE WAS CRAZY AT THE
TIME-AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE WHEN

THE POLICE THINK SHE WAS CRAZY AT THE
TIME--AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE WHEN
THE BODY IS FOUND.
The police Of West New-Brghton. S. l., yesterday
discovered one OF the worst cases OF depraviy ever
found on the island Mrs. Amanda Haughwout.
wife OF Robert Haughwout. painter. living al No.
Is Elizabethst.. West New Brighton, is charged
with numbering her unmarried daughters child.
The New Brighton Board of Health yesterday
, Informed that young woman living in Elizabeth
ST. was dying. and that she had been without med
zeal attendance Health Officer Theodore Waser Wis
tied the home OF Robert Haughwout and found Min
ME, about twenty-one years old, in serious condi-
ton. She Is the daughter of Robert Haughwout.
The young woman was mere skeleton and terribly
emaclated for the want of food and medical
Health Officer Waser soon discovered that the
young woman had recently given birth TO child
She told the doctor that her child was dead and
buried 1t was born on july 2. and she
tended during her Illness by her mother. When
asked who the father she declined to tell.
Walser sent for Police Sergeant Joseph Cobb and
Coroner George F. Schaefer. Coroner Schaefer
asked Mrs. Haughwout, the mother Of the sick
girl where the child buried. Mrs Haughwout
acted strangely when questioned and became much
excited and took the Coroner into a small kitchen
on the dining-room and pointing 10 the floor in
the southeast corner of the ROOM exclaimed in a
shriI voice:
THE baby is buried here. ! know II is. because
l buried II myself"
Coroner Schaefer then asked her whether the
baby was alive when born She answered, yes"
He then asked how long 1t lived after being born.
Mrs. Haughwout looked at him for a moment and
then answered coldly, Until killed it,"
How did you kill it," queried the Coroner
Il first gave II whiskey. then a powder OF cop
peras, and then to make sure that it would die. 1.
choked It,"
Schaefer secured a spade and at once set to
work digging at the spot indicated by Mrs
Haughwout. She got down her knees and began
scratching up the earth with her hands.
Inc Dody OF a female child found in a paper
box. The woman was arrested and locked up. AS
band reached home. He said he had ntma tlon
OF the trouble, and would not believe the truth at
and almost went wild with grief. and
gience upon his daughters betrayer He said that
Minnie should make known to him who the man
was or he would Kill her; An affecting scene took
arms about her husband and In pitiful way looked
into his eyes and said:
Bob you don't think am crazy. do YOU" He
simply told her to accompany the ofiicer. She was
then taken to the police station.
DR.. Townsend examined the young woman and
at ordered her to be removed TO the hospital.
young sister, Sarah, nearly went crazy She was
placed in the care of the socety's matron.
Minnie Haughwout until a short time ago was
employed in the Staten Island dyeng establishment
at West New Brighton. When asked why her mother
killed her infant. she said that 1t crying. and
she did not want her father to know OF the trouble;
nna re nuner 20 sn; iu d % tipS usu Th os
authorities say she cannot recover.
The police think Mrs. Haughwou is insane, and
was crazy at the time she committed the deed; To-
point commission to inquire into Mrs. Haugh-
wouts sanity.