New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-12
SAYS SHE KILLED HER CHILD.
THE MOTHER OF A BABY GIRL a SELF
CONFESSED MURDEREsS.

THE MOTHER OF BABY GIRL a SELF
CONFESSED MURDEREsS.
The mystery of the identity OF the two-year-old
girl whose body found In a hencoop on 'he
premises OF Or. J c. Elliott. at Rockville Centre,
Long Island last Tuesday morning, was solved
Yesterday as the cause which led 10 the niue
ores death The child Annie Petersen the
uIeritfn1ate daughter Of Hilda Petersen. swedish
domesti, servant, employed in this city me
woman confessed to having murdered her chid
Yesterday after she had been put under arrest ana
taken TO Police Headquarters
IIilda Petersen arrested late In the AFTERNOON
on information received by Captain McClusky' OF
tho detective Bureau, that the child had been
Identified bv A. Olsen and William Person OF NO
F27 Barbey-ave. Brooklyn. The FORMER Is mar ieu
"a \ cousin OF the murderess Having Obtained 'Ne
vomar's name and address the detectives VEN u
the house of a Mrs. Alden. at NO 81 East r"''
,hirdst. where the woman was employed ana
took her into custody She at hrst denied that she
nd committed murder. and said that the chi'u
was well and was in 4 home In "hch she lau
placed her in Brooklyn. After some queSuo"'''s
However she finally broke down ana MADE CON
fesson to the Ghet Of me fa,bsr had stopped pay
ing for the babyS support ana sIe NJ 81. ~ ~ a
contribute 50 month tor '"e "'"o 0'e
az a month she received. - 49,, ,-,. 81.
80 faH Friday got excused from Ehere work
yng in my trunk in pocket IN my faRS Snd 1
II along went from my nouse 10 ncbiiGren we're
-nfA =.
sh h; y vas going to take the child to nome IN
NE took the child 10 a home IN broohIyl
-, Snventh-ave and Sterling Pace near Nanusi
Htave got there about O'clock IN me enen , -,
ot.t nes 100 late It showing then %ent 10
a s tbush-ave station of the Long iSaild NAL
r ne and bought a ticket for RocAvillS Oehtis:
[ [Vben I got 10 Jamaica changed cars me naoy
w ,-oEo Then | got on the other car. anu HSIt
wa :, Ill 10 Centre and took Annie OH tnhk
~ - Snowiug a little bit. There we're some hpiIeS
ne"r the station and went up couple o, poCns,
,h,,E and went in there some pace anu 20 =
,h' W. @orbolic acid l don't remember whether
her s,, e IL or not. but she lived only rev
sItT otter | gave II to her; After she dlel
minutes a iothos off and threw them on the ground
,"ok nor shoes. that is all took' n1 I az, ir
80, tooN ~ nv trunk | then went 70 p'dGe III
snVrS j.. ' % frcrd Of mine and slept tnere
"a then / went back 70 New org IN me MOI is
Z 'Soni, know what I Killed my BABY tor' II just
h,nnenei that evening. 49,, .,.r,,os,ed nv
rnrnorse for the deed has been maniL'steG 10y
~ rnurderess Captain McCusky says one "iiil
~ uttle as she made her horrloe Soltte
H.. rrocoyored her composure quickly aht WnS 80,
ia Collected afterward She Is twenty -IouI go
ana ~ - short and slender with comeiy idCe
on anu nn,.i,, ight hair. There appears IN her tA
rossion nothing to indicate her true Cudi w.,
1e Ia CAPTAIN McClusky that her father
Slr ~ ohcr 70 dea tn I'm the woods In sweden ""eh
~ NJ 1IHIdol was three years old . -, 49,.
lrh trunk Of which the woman SPOKE ~ nei ~
,eSion was found in her room IN FAST rlts Iii
y, ond in IL were her dead baby Shoss > WI.
- rroigned in the jefferson Market fohce ~ ~.
W., ,norning and will there be turned oItI " ~,
st ~ ~ Queens County. The murner was Soh-
Sni,ted outside the limits OF the city OF Ne"-forN'