The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-12
BABY FOUND IN COAL MINE SAD CASE OF NEGLECT DISCOVERED
 BY AGENT PRESTON.

Four Months old Boy Nearly Frozen to
 Death--His Mother Ono of the City's Uu-
 fortunatos- Mother and Child Taken to
 Organized eharities-Case to be Investi- gated.
 A sad case of neglect was reported to
 Agent s. o. Preston of the Organized Charities yesterday, the object being a fourmonths-old boy. As soon as the
 case was reported to him Agent Pres ton immediately investigated the case,
 with the result that the little waif was
 last night comfortably housed at the
 Organized Charities building on Orange
 street
 Tha little victim of a woman's mis- fortune was found by Agent Preston l in a cold, almost barren room in the
 cellar of the house 72 Fair street, fla
 miliarly known to the police and char | ity workers as the Coal Mine" The place called room out of courtesy was
 about six feet square and contained for furniture an old bed, a bureau and two
 chairs. On the bed, covered with very scant clothing, lay the little waif, cry | ing piteously, with a bottle of cold and sour milk alongside him on the bed, but 1 beyond his reach
 Inquiry elicited the fact that the mother had been absent from her mis- erable home nearly the entire day. The mother, it was also learned. was one of | those many unfortunates who have lov- | ed, mot wisely, but too we'll" She is
 Mary Blacker about nineteen years old, who came here from Meriden about six months ago and being in destitute cir 1 cumstances was sent to the alnshouse | just before her baby was born. When 1 she first came to this city she secured employment in a family on Brewery street, but owing to her condition was | unable to keep her place.
 1 Mary was then taken to Springside home, where she remained about three
 months, and then left as she desired to
 secure employment to support herself
 and child. She finally succeeded in sa- | curing a place washing dishes in a res | taurant. and rented the miserable room
 in which she lived. Monday, however. l she lost her place and since that time
 has been searching for employment and was engaged in this search yesterday 1 when Agent Preston visited her misera-
 ble apartments.
 | The baby when found was wet and | cold, and had nearly frozen to death. l His flesh was purple and as Agent Pres- | ton put it. 'his face was like cake of 1 ice" Patrolman R. T. Moore immedi-
 ately called Dr. Klenke and acting u'o-
 on his advice the unfortunate waif was 1 taken to the Organized Charities, where l he was given a warm bath, wrapped up
 in blankets and put to bed The child
 was very emaciated and not larger | than a healthy three-months-old child. l While Agent Preston was at the house ! the mother came in and she also was sent to the Organized Charities. She 1 is apparently very ignorant of a moth- CTS duties. and while the matron at
 the Charities was dressing the child
 she stood about, apparently not know | ing what to do. The case will be thor
 oughly investigated to-day and an eff 1 fort made to compel the child's father 1 to contribute to it's support
 In another part of the same house Agent Preston found John Moran drunk
 with his five children, whose ages range
 from ten months to eleven years, hud
 died around. All were ragged and dir 1 ty, and without fire or food. The moth-
 CT is in the hospital suffering from a 1 fall received several weeks ago. An
 application will be made to the city
 court to-day to have the children com- mitted to the county home,