Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-02-17
MURDERED FOR MONEY.
BABIES KILLED FOR THE LIFE
INSUR ANCE
Ihs Terrible Crl@~ Praetiora Ia Loa-
dsR-HorrIbss r0rsares 90 whirh the
Listis oa~s Are susg@csed -stArtA altos
the FavsriFs NefhOd-

become a business and the basis o.
operations which declare hands me
Dividends The recent imprlsCG-
ment Of Lady Montague for killing
her baby by hanging her by the
arms Is but the punishment 81 sin
gle cOnsDicuoDs instance o. inhnman
cruelty among the thousands that
happen yearly and are never brUaght
20 light The terribleness u the
practice exceeds the atrocities o. the
widest savage in darkest Africa. and
10 cAnuibalisiie native ever tortured
his victim with fewer pangs q con
science than does the English pro
fessionzl murderer wipe from the
earth mis- share o. children whom
deyii-pOssessed Parents sacrifice for
paltry life assurances spanish his-
tory. or the red pages Of the days Of
the inquisitiOns. show no such AT o.
diabolisrn. II is officially known
that at least l.Ug1 children . year
are killed for hire in the worlds
metropolis alone
The slaughter Of The babies on the
Gauges was tWo-fold more human
death by an ailigators Jaws than
the new methods employed By the
English Bill Sykeses some are
hung by straps until they become
limp; others are SCARED ard barred
Gently reported where the child lad
been held against a b.aziag stove
until its body Vas cooked; one was
held in a tank 81 Ice water until
dead; others were tortured by haring
hot oil poured in fresh wounds. sex
eral we're killed 81 alleged accidental
falling from high windows Yet
such desperate means are rarely
used-means likely 20 betray the
murderer Starvation Is the lay0rite
method. 1t leaves no clew. and is
equally e deadly a. arsenic Or lauda-
mum Other fayOrite proced ares are
{ medicines for diseases the child has
not. mans food for sackling infants.
I neglect for the ailing. chilling drafts
7 for the feyerish--killing the victim
+ and earning the reward a. easily As
( they would pluck petal from rose.
( The greatest incentive Tor the
/ slaughter Of the children is the re.
{ ward offered for their death While
I the original in tention o. the system
I o. child life insurance vas 20 enable
+ the needy 70 suitably bury their dead.
I the good end Of it has been entirely
T perverted Ii has now become simply
. plan whereby persons OF no con.
Z science obtain a cash profit by a
comparatively safe method OF murder
"a scheme Of neglect varying in
degrees Of cruelty with the age Of
I the victim. The younger the child.
after il is old enough TO De insured.
the easier the killing and the less the
/ reward. The prize Increases with
the difficulty Of the nefarious game.
and so Il happened that children Of
very mature age are the most IRE 4ueut
victims
In fact the business has grown 50
extensively that Il j. ono Of the
problems now before parliament
There are 1000 men ia England
working from door 70 door. Fostering
Z parents TO insure their children.
These are working for profit. and f0r
each first penny premium they get
twenty pennies pas. IL matters not
TO them that they are selling tickets
in lottery. where the thriftlcss par
ent CANDLES his penny a week
against the company's thirty shill-
ings that the child will die. and the
corOners OF the kingdom swear be.
fore the investigating committees
that one half Of the children who
die mysteriously die with this thirty
shillings on their heads
The cold mathematics TO which the
profit and loss OF this child killing
has been reduced Is one Of the most
awful Of modern facts. The law al
lows a value OF $50 to be placed upon
the life Of child under years.
up to ~ years il Is $50 and over
that $1,000. The traffic l. largely
among the desperately poor people.
those whom.poverty has made desper-
ate and debauch has made brutes
The parent usually insures for pen
ny week premiums The figures
show that the crisis Is usually
reached within SIX months. when the
premiums paid amount to p I'd. Con.
sequently the family has Melted e.
los Sd upon the death OF an infant.
From this must be paid the funeral
expenses. which thrifty London un-
dertakers have reduced TO a mini
mum by burying poor children in iot
lots-fve and often more in the same
man-size coffin.
There is society waging an I'M
equal war against this business-the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
TO Children II has a big hospital
on Harper street. Bloomsbury. with.
in shadow OF the British museum.
and here are Sc scores Of children
rescued from the hands Of their In.
tending slayers. Hardly an hour in
the day passes but that a carriage
rolls up to the door and there i.
lifted out child covered with dirt.
filth and mIldew. found by some
agent in a stench.filled attic. alley
shed or damp cellar. But the Other
day FIVE victims were brought from 9
single glauOht ter. Ieu When the