The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-02
EXPOSURE
KILLS BABE
lost Children Found inAIfaIfa
Field.
NEAR BURTON CAR WORKS
Child Was Lying on the
Ground.
OLDER GIRL MAY DIE
Carried Bundle of Clothes
Through the Night

Daisy and EHe Irwin, the two colored
girls who wandered away from their
home as iold fn yesterday S Eaele, were
found il ia alfalfa aeld on u. j. crew
sons farm hale mile north of the Bur
ron car works yesterday inoramg l-ttie
after Z q clock. ghe older girl was seen
standing Sin the feld. seemingly as if
she was trying to get her bearings. she
stood there possibly half an hour after
beiag first SEEM when she picked Mp a
lt73e hlndle ard a4lTLed i 90 an orchard
and laid il down Beside an apple tree
1T~. Crewson saw this and went out into
the orchard. Ee sid not know ~ tAls
tirne what the Hltle bunolr vas, ouJ
when he reached there and saw child
he asked the girl what was The matter
with her, and she said she was asleep.
Mr. Crewson said that could hot De. as
the child eyes were open, so he picked
the child no and carried her 10 the house,
telling the older girl 70 follow him
he placed the child near the stove, but
il only gulped few times and then was
still The little life had expired, the re-
suit Of exposure The face Of the child
was cut in many places. and its clothes
We're nearly torn of. and il was az first
thought that she had been murdered IN
a At OF insanity by the older sister.
A number Of neighbors came in and
they tried to talk to the older glrl, but
she could not answer them She was TOO
nearly dead from exposure. She was
dressed very lightly and had only the
lightest Of wraps. She shook with cold
as she stood near the stove in Mr. Crew
sons home until the coroner came and
took the little child back to its home and
the father brought the feeble minded
sister with him.
The LITTLE 8-year-old was not murder
ed She simply died from exposure,
said Coroner McCollister YESTERDAY
Those scratches were caused by being
dragged through the wire fences and the
hedges by the older one II must have
been awful for that little child 70 be
dragged around through fields and fen
ces. No one knows or ever VIII the eN-
tent of their wanderings, but it amounts
10 several miles. as they were more than
four miles away from their home when
found and it IS not likely that they went
in a straight line The little one must
have been tired long before they ever
reached that place They must have wan
dered all night The older one got lost
and simply kept going, hoping to md
someone who knew her or that she would
find her home ia a short time. Think ot
st. Those two children wandering from
8 o'clock i'm the afternoon until o'clock
the next morning, but thinly clad too.
Tt was almost enough 70 XIII anyone, let
alone q baby.
s.The older one must have carried The
baby a good part OF the time for that child
could not have stood il To have walked
all that distance over the ground they
travelled on, as they must have gone
through the fields and kept away from
the roads or someone must have seen
them at least. though as yet I can md
no one who has even caught glimpse
Of either since they left the house yes
terday afternoon
When the children We're first seen the
little one was lying on the ground. as the
older one picked her up and carried her
TO the orchard. The ground bears the
appearance of her having laid there at
least an hour, as the short alfalfa stems
were pressed down. The little girls carp
had been lost somewhere on the journey
and when this is found it may throw
some light on the path they took ia their
wanderinEs. Her shoes we've rot very
good when she started, ard these had
been torn in several places. Nearly
twenty scratches were on her face and it
was hardly possible to ten the color OF
her face because of the blood Her little
hands face. feet. arms and legs were
covered with blood from the numerous
scratches and the sleeves and lower part
of tho skirt were simply a mass of
threads.
ar. Crewson refused 10 allow the
father 10 take the dead chld To his home
until the coroner had viewed the place
and the body
The older sin is very sick. and at
late hour il was reported that she could
not live. She was suffering from eN-
posure and never has been in the best
OF health SO shat it would rot take much
to break her down.
The older girl was sent 10 q neiehhor's
with @ bundle az clothes. Tt was hut
short distsnce. and her parents thoueht
il perfectly safe TO send her and rs the
little child wanted 10 so alouE the par
ents DID not feel any alarm until late in
Tho aftcrfnocn whom they learned that