The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
CHILD NHUMANLY ABUSED.
GERRY AGENT MOORE THINKS HE
WAS KIDNAPPED.
The woman who IL Accused Denies Abusing
Him. hut Htia Condition Refutcs her ben'a'
Her ~Neighbora, discriminating Testimony.

The woman who IL Accused Denies Abusing
Him. hut Itis Condition Refutcs Her Den'ai
Her NeiEhbors, discriminating Testimony.
Covered with cuts and bruises, 4year-old
George Miller was brought TO Iorkvine Police
Court yesterday and was there turned over 10
the care OF the Gerry society. Although the
boy himself and the woman both deny 1t. 1t is
almost certain that the wounds are the result
of Ions. continued abuse by Mrs. Antoinette
Voss, wbO adopted the child a year ago, and
with whom ho has since lived at 1853 East Fifty
second street. There are no less than nineteen
distinct evidences OF brutality on tho boys
body and face, including a broken nose and n
tumor on the head which probably covers a
partial fracture Of tho skull. His shoulders
and neck arc n mass of bruises, so thickly in
tcrspcrsed that it was almost impossible to tell
where one ended and another began. All these.
as well as tho broken nose and the various
other injuries, Mrs. Voss chCerfully declared
the boy had received trying to ride n bicycle
in their fiat. DR.. W. Travis Glib, medical cX.
aminor for tho Gerry society, declared this to
be ridiculous.
The boy appeared in court MS a side issue to
another case. Mrs. Emma ommers who lives
in the same house as Mrs. Noss. got II sum-
mons against the latter because, she said, Mrs.
Voss had threatened to burn her up with
'iio WV '"N oHN' ehOSS
from Mrs. Voss's declaration that her husband,
William Noss, who is a brewer, visited Mrs.
Sommers's room and that Mrs. Sommcrs car
ried a ~spirit'of hospitality too far in that she
danced the couchcc.couchoe for her guest.
Beng alarmed at the prospects of vitriol Mrs.
Sommers thought it hes. to get her into cou.t
as II warning. When she went To get the sum.
mons Mrs. SOmmers said:
This woman has a little boy, not her own,
up there, and she beats him so bad that he keeps
MS awake at night Yelling and CRYING
Whats thar" said Magistrate kudlich.
"c arsyy, 1Hi pr' | Ss 1,he T, witq' tSs w !" pr1NS .E lRa1r.
body in the house knowsabout it,
I'm issue the summons and vel, look into
this matter about the bow" said the Magis.
trate, and calling Agont Moore he directed
him to go with Mrs. Sommers There was
terday "t the boy and IN Mrs. voss We're sePs' brought S%s ITO to
court, together with several of the tenants in
his desk and saw II little fair.haired fellow,
dressed, in a velvet suit, with a face, pinched
and white, where it was not discolored by
That is the most pitifnl spectacle of hui
After a brief examination the charge of
threat against Mrs. Sommers was dismissed
and a complaint of assault ON the boy was made
out. Mrs. Sommers said:
II have. been awakened by the boy crying
out at all hours of the night and have heard the
around so hard"
Another witness was the j~anitress, Mrs.
Michacls. who corroboratcd the testimony OF
I've heard Mrs. voss yell at the boy to sing
German songs" she testified. and when he
forgot the words she'd knock him down and
drag him around the floor. 1t was awful TO
hear him cry, out and beg her not to beat him
any more; that ne was doing the best he could.
It got, to be SO bad it was a shame to the
Other tenants in the, tenement testified to
hearing cries in the boys voice, and the sound
of blows from the Noss rooms. But the most
forcible testimony was that of the boys APP.
pearancc, 1t far outweighed his spoken. testi::
Mrs, voss beat him he Shook his head and said
No in a lifclcss, l~istless tone.
Was 1t this man. theni' asked the Magis-
trete pointing 10 Mr.. Voss.
Again the boy shook his head and YEARLY
said that it was not. Agent Moore said
This is n most remarkable case, your Honor.
The boy seems somewhat stupid. probably from
woman do not i'll treat him. and he doesn't
seem afraid of them. AS for the story that he
got his injuries falling Of q bicycle, you can see
Mrs. Soss. who is IS. years old, when ques-
TONED said that she had never beaten the
he was the iiiegitimats son Of q = si iiiI named
Lena Miller. who, when she went abroad a year
SSE |H s, gave " her the boy il hI pre ference to putting
ated her testimony. She has told other stories
to the people in the house as TO how George
inclined to believe that It IS s. a essae of Eidnap .
ping. He will look up the records of lost chill.
dren for tho last year and endeayor TO identify
the charge of assault. Her counsel, Max
Steinert. said after the case was disposed Of:
me n , am firmly rgaSyoe eoRytnce sbs that bas my Sr Silent is mot not
certain things in connection with her family
life until she has got into that condition Of mind
where cruelty, is a mania with, her. No sane
person could have beaten O child as that boy
has been beaten
Mrs. Voss was bailed ont and went away de.
enemy, Mrs. Sommers.