The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-28
DROWNED HER CHILD
THE INFANT FOUND IN THE RIVER
THROWN IN BY MARY
DUPUIS,
WHO MAKES A CONFESSION.
WAS ARRESTED IN SALTWATER
AT THE HOME OF HER
PARENTS.
ACT WAS NOT PREMEDITATED.
She Says She Doesn't Know What
Possessed Her to Do It-Vfctim
of Deception.
CT WAS NOT PREMEDITATED.


cell at the central police station last
night on a charge of infanticide. The
young woman was arrested by Detec-
tives Campbell and Mckinley, yester-
day afternoon, at the home of her
parents in Saltwater, and made full
confession of her crime to the officers.
Last Saturday the young mother
took her infant from the house where
she had been stopping wrapped it in
shawl, and walking over to West st.
Paul threw the bundle containing the
child into the river. Three hours after
ward the dead body of the infant was
found by two women living in the vi
cinity of Kentucky street and the river.
Deputy Coroner Ball was notified, and
after making an autopsy announced
that the post-mortem revealed that the
child's death was not caused by drown
ing, and the death certificate gave the
cause of death as probably infiamma-
ton of the stomach" There were all
kinds of theories advanced at the time
the body was found, the most likely
one being that the child had died d
natural death and the parents or per-
sons having it in charge being too poor
to pay for it's burial had consigned it
to the river to save expense. The re-
suit of the autopsy, as announced by
DR.. Ball, strengthened this theory, al
though the DucaS street police found
a witness who stated that about l
o'clock Saturday afternoon he had no
ticed young woman crossing the Rob
ert street bridge. From the manner in
which she carried a bundle wrapped i'll
a gray shawl the witness, c. La
Bounta, said he was almost willing to
swear that an infant was wrapped up
in the bundle. La Bounta visited the
morgue and identified. the shawl as
the same in appearance as he had no
ticed the woman carrying, and further
informed the police that he would be
able to recognize the woman if he saw
her. From other information given the
police Chief of Detectives Schweitzer
decided that the child had been muir
dered, and Detectives Campbell and
Mckinley were put to work on the
case. Aside from the information Civ
en- by La Bounta, the shawl in which
the infant was wrapped when found
was identified by Mrs. Winston, who
keeps a boarding house and restaurant
at 43 East Sixth street, as one belong
ing to her. Mrs. Winston informed the
police that she had given the shawl
to a Mrs. Meyers, who had left for
White Bear, Saturday morning last,
with an infant female child. This was
all that the detectives needed, and all
that was necessary was to locate the
young woman, which was done yes
terday.
Mary Dupuis, the young woman who
is charged with having murdered her
child, is a slight built person of not
pfeposseSsing appearance and looks
much older than she admits being. She
was rather neatly dressed and while
endeavOring to appear at ease was
visibly nervous when seen at the cen
trail station last evening by a reporter
for the G l o b e. She admitted that she
had thrown her child in the river, but
said she did not know what possessed
her to do it. She had not intended to
Kill the child when she started from
the house of Mrs. Winston, but intend
ed taking the baby to a family at
White Bear, who had agreed to keep
it for her. The child was born, she
said, Aug. IL, ten days before it was
thrown in the river. AS to her move
ments after leaving the house Satur-
day morning last, she was not very
clear, except that she walked over the
Robert street bridge, turned down one
Of the streets leading east and after
walking some distance threw the bun.
die containing the child in the river.
and then, returning, took the train for
saltwater, going directly to the home
Of her. parents, where she stayed until
she was arrested. She had told no one
What she had done and said her par
entS knew nothing of her condition or
her Kidding herself of her child. Her
father, she said. had been sick for
several years and she and Two brothers
VINO were employed on the drive at
saltwater, had to support the family.
she said she came to ST Paul about
three years ago from Saltwater and
since arriving here had been en-
ployed as domestic at several board
ing houses. The father of her child.
she said, had become acquainted with
her at one of the boarding houses
where she was employed and had
promised to marry her. The ceremony
was put off on one pretext or another
and finally when she went to him in
May last and threatened to have him
arrested, If he did not have the cere-
mony performed, he suddenly left the
city. After the child was born Father
Thomas, a priest, who knew her and
her family in Saltwater, had called
to see her and offered to have the in
FAINT taken to an institution where it
would have good care. She refused.
en- away, intending to keep it and as
soon as she was able to work place 1t
in some family to board.
Mrs. Winston, seen last evening
said the woman who gave her name
as Mrs. Meyers secured room and
board at her house some time in Nav