The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-27
CHILDREN WERE DESERTED
THREE LITTLE ONES ABANDONED
BY INHUMAN PARENTS.
Left Home and His Wife Followed
Soon After-ChiIdren Found Sleeping
on the Doorstep of Their Deserted
Home.

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| Dumb animals invariably evince great
| affection for their young and fight to
protect them. Human beings generally
| do the same, but case came to the no.
| tice of the Howard avenue police yes
terday which showed an exception to
the rule which, as an example of inhu-
manity and depravity, is probably un-
paralleled in the history of New Haven.
1t seems that Albert Norris and wife
have been living recently at 95 Putnam
above loafing and not addicted to work.
Mrs. Norris was the widow of Frank
Reynolds, a man who was taken sud
denly i'll in a saloon and died soon af-
ter, about seven years ago, and whose
death was by many ascribed to foul play
but was afterwards decided by officials
to have been due to heart disease.
The woman has been well known to
the police for some time and they have
for a long time looked upon her as one
sunk far below the level of the ordinari-
ly low strata of society. She had one
child by Reynolds This child Is named
Charles Reynolds, and is nine years Of
age. BY Norris she has had two chill
dren, both girls. The eldest Of these Is
Indiana three years old, and the other
is Rebecca, ten months old baby.
Yesterday morning Norris went out
and sold what little furniture there was
in the house and cleared out. About
$3.50, an hour after the father left, Mrs.
Norris also left the house. Soon after
the man to whom the furniture was
sold called and carted it away.
The boy quieted the children as best
he could and the trio stayed about the
house for some time, he thinking the
parents would return. Finally he took
the younger children and went to the
house of nearby neighbors, remaining a
short time at each place where he called,
but not getting far away from home,
desiring to be there when his mother re-
turned, as he thought of course she
would.
Dinner time came but neither of the
parents had put in an appearance. The
neighbors began to suspect that the
Norrises had abandoned the children,
and taking pity on the little ones gave
them something to eat. During the at
ternoon the children continued to hang
about the place they called home, and
when supper time came kindly neigh
bors again gave them SOME food
Finally at 10 o'clock last night the
children having wandered about all day
became tired out and lay down on the
step of the house where they had been
deserted. The neighbors about that time
having made up their minds that the
parents would not return, notified Pa
trolnan M. Powers of the Howard ave.
nue. precinct that the children had been
abandoned.
Powers took the children to the police
station on Howard avenue and there it
was seen that the baby was ill. Ser
geant Tiernan sent the little one to the
New Haven hospital and the two older
ones to the Associated Charities, where
they were cared for last night. They
will be sent to Springside or to the
County Home to-day. At the hospital
last night it was found that the baby
was dangerously i'll with cholera infan-
tum and slight hopes of its recovery
were entertained.
1t is said that the children have been
In the County Home once already and
they have received hard treatment at the
hands of heir unnatural parents. Neither
Norris nor the woman had been found
by the police at midnight last night.