The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-05

has had only Irregular empiaymsnt- HalE
erased By his inability to get place he
has for the past I'VE days been drinking
TO such an extent that yesterday hes was
on the verge Of collapse.
He quarrelled with his VITA when he
left the house yesterday morning, End In
his anger struc her.
On the face 81 Mrs. SITTER sit IKE q
shadow the signs Of care that ecsne with
hopeless poyerty. She Is silent to the
point OF sullenness. bat OF late she has
worn the look Of desperation.
Mortified. angered beyond reason aud
crushed By her husband's blow. the
woman determined TO end her misery in
death. She has two children. one boy
Of and the other . girl OF and q half
years old, upon whom her love Is LAVISH
ed. With the determination to die. came
the resolve that she would at the same
time kill the children.
Turning on the gas in the little bed
room the mother sent the boy into the
kitchen and closing the windows and
doors tightly. lay upon the bed with the
baby beside her waiting for unconscious
ness and death.
How long they lay therAis not known.
but the child succumbed before the
mother had felt any effects Of the gas
When she saw the struggles Of the child
to breathe. heard Its lone drawn signs
and watched its life slowly slipping away
the love OF the mother overcame her.
The thing she was doing became too
horrible. to contemplate. and with q cry
ran to the door. Ringing It open she
shouted for help and staggering to Mrs.
Willard, wife of the janitor, laid the
baby in her arms.
Save her. save EIma," she cr1edi "she
Is dying. turned on the gas. but OIL 1
didn't mean to hurt her."
Quickly the chffd was taken to q near
by drug store. She was unconscious and
close to death. An ambulance was called
while physician worked over her.
In the meantime the father returned to
the tenement. When he learned of the
attempted crime his drunken brain gave
way and he became lunatie, calling ven
genace down upon his wife. NeiglIbots
had run for the police, and Patrolrian
Fay Of the East Eighty-eighth street STA
ton. held the man and kept him quiet.
When the ambulance from Bellevue
came the father was taken to the hos
pital with his daughter. He lay On tie
floor under guard of a policeman while
the surgeon carried in his arms the baby.
now restored to consciousness, hut weak
and sick
At Bellevue Sitter was placed In a strait
jacket.
Policeman Fay arrested Mrs. Sitter and
took her to the Harlem police court.
There Magistrate Hogan heard her story.
'I didn't know what was doing" she
cried.
do you go to church?' the magistrate
asked. The woman answered that she
did and that her religion was Roman
"I think" said the magistrate, "thst a
priest, better than q court, can care for
! case like this"
In the Company Of the policeman the
woman went to Father Murphy, OF the
L4OAy GeOo0AJp 4A OAAO A1oA"
ired and Nineteenth street. between
FIRST avenue and Avenue A. and the
PRIEST talked with her. When she left him
t was to go to the hospital to seek the |
,hild whose life she had nearly taken.
Little Elma was by this time out Of
LANCER She reached out her little arms |
eagerly as Mrs. Sitter entered the ward. |
Ind smiled contentedly as she nestled on
he mothers breast They departed to-
5ether, but Charles Sitter vii lremaln
here until an investigation can be made
. to his sanity.
at is my fault" said Mrs. Sitter yes
erday afternoon. 'It was my temper.
lie was always good to me, even when
70 was drinking. I am very sorry
She was ON the streets. pushing the
ably carriage, in which was the child
hat so narrowly escaped death. She
topped 70 smooth the little girls hair.
nd Elma laughed as her mothers hand
ested quietly upon her head.