The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12
CONFESSED
TO MURDER
Mary Mark. and Mother
StrangIe a Baby
AND BURY IT IN SAND
Fearful Crime Committed TO
Hide a Crime.
QUICK WORK OF POLICE
Exciting Scene Witnessed al
Police Station.
QUICK WORK OF POLICE

Mary Mark. an inhuman mother. de-
dberateIy murdered her little 2-weeks-old
baby yesterday afternoon in the south
part OF this city.
The child was strangled 70 death with
q handkerchief tied tight around its lit
tie throat. and was wrapped in an old
blanket and buried in the SAND on the
bank Of the Arkansas river at the foot
of Lincoln street
The crime was committed between
end o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
was done to hide the illegitimate birth
Of the bay from the girls father. Mary
Mark IS German girl about 19-years-
old. an has worked at various places
in Wichita Cor several years past. She
IS a daughter Of Nick Mark, who lives
at the Germany colony Of St. Marks. west
Of Wichita
Yesterday afternoon a lady from the
Rescue home come in and reported that
the girl, Mary Mark. had been at the
home for about month. and that while
there she had given birth to a child. and
that the baby was now about 2-weeks-
old; that on Yesterday about noon. the
girls mother had gone 10 the home and
u.
and had told the matron that she would
take her daughter and the child TO ST
Marks. About an hour after this some
Of the people from the home were up
town and saw the Mark girl and her
mother on the street, and the girl did not
nave her baby with her The ladies from
the Rescue home suspected that some
thing was wrong and they notified the
chief Of police
officer George Dennis was sent out
20 find the girl and her mother, and
located them on West Douglas avenue.
Mrs. Marks was carrying a sucking,
babe in her arms and also had with her
three smau children, ali under 10 years
Of age The women were taken to head
quarters and were met in the corridor
5y Chief Burt, who questioned the girl
about the child. The girl said that she
had given the baby away First she
said she had given it 70 her mother. and
then she changed her story and said that
She had given it 70 a sister from St
Francis hospital that she had met on
the street. The girls mother spoke very
broken English. and did not seem to
think that It was any affair Of the police.
anyway, and wanted to so, and it was
.ort her to the chief s private office. She
became very. obsterperous while in there.
and made two or three attempts to hurry
cut. She slipped out TO the door once.
and tried to make a getaway past Jim
ME Curns VINO was standing at the
door. Carnes grabbed her by the arm
and the lady slid him down the hall at a
rapid rate She was handicapped with
-srrf-k
started g pretty good fight. In her en-
deavors to get away from the minlons Of
the law she alarmed her baby. and 1t
began to cry and then the other children
began to sni6le and broke out in loud
whoops. There never was such a scene +
In headquarters before-four small chill
dren screaming and crying at the top Of
their lungs. a frightened girl who real
lied that her crime was about to be
found out. and an old German woman
pacing the floor and calling on her daugh-
ter and children to come on and so out.
A message was telephoned to st. Francis /
hospital and the sisters there stated that
they had not taken a child from any one. !
This fact together with Che suspicious +
actions Of the elder German woman, was /
sufficient evidence for Investigation, and /
the girl was told that she must tell what
she had done with the baby She stin /
stuck to the story that she had given I
1t away The elder woman stated that (
her husband was I'm town and was
somewhere around John Kinsteaders. and .
she was allowed 10 take the children /
and go out and and him. in about thirty +
minutes the girls father. Nick Marks. 7.
came 10 the station. Tie was very much +
agitated and aid not know that his I.
daughter had had child He supposed /
and had been told, that the girl was sick. 4
but was dumfounded when told that she +
had given birth 10 a baby over two weeks /
ago. lie was at FIRST crazy mad and T
almost beside himself but calmed down +
and questioned his daughter closely, and +
she finally admitted that she had made 1