Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-15
Her Baby Died.


som Mary Argue had wandered the
streets of this great city Until weak,
despairng and almost unbalanced, she
walked into Bellevue Hospital on Mon
day night.
She begged that her child be taken in
and cared for a glance at its face was
sufficient to show that ii was very i'll
and immediate permission was granted
he mother to leave ii. Greatly re-
lieved, she started to accompany the
puny mite to one of the wards.
She was woman of more than ordi-
nariy good appearance. She seemed
to have refinement and was very re-
spect bly, dressed. Her face was come
~ in spite Of the traces Of distress which
it bore.
When the doctor gently explained 10
her that the rules Of the hospital would
not admit of her being taken in, her
face lost its momentary look of hope
and her eyes filled with tears.
You mean I'll have TO leave my
baby, my little girl ~
YES, but it will be we'll cared for, y
said the doctor kindly.
Very well, said the mother with a
sob as she turned away.
The Child Was already in an attend
ants arms when the young woman
turned with a cry and seizing her baby
strained it to her breast sobbing u
cannot, cannot do it. Gentlemen, |
can't leave my baby here.
Still crying, she passed out the door
into the dark, just as an ambulance
drove up to the entrance to the hospital
and the dead wagon with another load
for the Morgue come through the gate.
There was no use trying to detain
her. There was no law TO compel her TO
leave her child, and it was bound to
die anyway, she thought. only perhaps
a little quicker in her arms, but still in
her arms.
None followed the mother and child,
but as a sergeant of the east Twenty
second street station was sitting at his
desk at one O'Clock Tues lay morning
Mary Argue entered and stood dumbiy
before the railing in front of him.
Her face was wet with tears, and She
was evidently suffering greatly. Com
ing through the gate TO where she was
the sergeant asked her what he could
do for her.
Cant something be done for my
darling baby" she asked. There was
peculiar blush white color in its
checks, and the sergeant needed no
doctor to tell him that the child was al
most at the point of death.
He ordered an ambulance call rung
in, and while they waited he question
ed the woman.
She kept her eyes on the floor as she
answered that she was4lomeless That
was all she said as if that was not
enough. No, she would not tell the
name of the father of her child
"And what is your name ?" asked The
sergeant.
Mary Argue" she answered stead
lily.
1t was the same name she had given
at the hospital, but when the ambulance
surgeon came he took her there with
out remonstrance.
This time she let them take her
child. Her heart seemed broken, and
she only wept silently as she was led
away to the prison ward, there being
no room for her elsewhere.
Her baby died at ten O'Clock Tues
day morning, or just about eight hours
after it was admitted into the hospital.
When they told Mary Argue the
truth she sobbed convulsively, but
when told she could go, she calmed her
self sufficiently to see her child's body,
strain it once TO her breast and then
was gone.
The Warden told me and the hospital
slip sho Ned that Mary Argues child
was fifteen months old, IL little girl, and
had died of a pulmonary trouble.
After the woman left the hospital
the police as matter of form had her
arranged before Justice Voorhis, at the
Yorkville Police Court, on a technical
charge of vagrancy, rs she had declared
! she was homeless. She was discharged.
She still insisted that her name was
Argue, and that the man she claims as
her husband WIS a Freuchman. She
went TO No. l52 west Thirty-seventh
street rs
There it was said last night that
nothing was known of her except that
she was staying with Mrs. Rourke
and would see nobody.-N. ]. Herald.
ROASTED GENERAL EAKLY.-A spe-
cial telegram to the ldcancc from Chat
tanooga, received Tuesday night says
Rev c. G. Jones. pastor of the First
| RapfiSt church created n decided sem
sation last night.
He took occasion to roast Gen. Jubal
A. Early He declared that if there
was anything good either in his course
as a man or as a soldier, history had
failed TO note it, and that he hoped the
dead mans memory would rot with his
bones. The dead officer was given an
unmerciful review.
The congregation was indignant and
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