The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-04-06
LITTLE VICTIMS.
A Philadelphia HI b Society Woman
Held in a sensational Case.
BABIES SOLD AT ANY PRICE

Held in a sensational Case.
BABIES SOLD AT ANY PRICE.
And When Purchaser Could not
be Found the Little Innocent
Children Were Starved
to Death.
With DIR" David Mozier declaring
he would send all the people with
whom be was concerned to the gallows
unless they stopped knocking" him
and shocking revelation of the
methods Of baby farmers in Philadel-
phia, Coroner Dugan's INJURY into
the workings of the illegal practice
closed Friday.
1t was shown that babies could be
bought at the farm for $50 each: that
they were sent the rounds Of the farms
to find purchasers; that they were
sold to farms for $40 or less or sent to
them by the syndicate from its hos
pitals. y
It was shown that babies not for
tunate enough to find purchaser
were starved to death or allowed to
die through neglect--in one specific
case put to sleep in the kennel with
the dogs and their bodies thrown into
sewers or abandoned in churches and
alleys.
These institutions are hotbed Of
crime" said the Coroner, and have
undertaken this inquiry to show how
easy it is for any one to secure child
for purposes Of deception. l have
evidence which indicates that chill
den who have fallen into the hands OF
these people have been handed around
and then palmed off on unsuspecting
victims. No records of the little ones
are kept. No one knows where they
go. frequently they die from neglect
and their bodies are cast aside. "
Coroner Dugan hopes to bring home
the many cases of dead and live in
fants found abandoned to the doors Of
baby farms.
Hundreds of these cases have puz
zled the authorities for the last five
years. Specifically, be expects to Prov
that the baby whose body was recently
found in the church at Forty-eight
and Lancaster avenue had gone the
rounds of baby farms. ClewS to many
other startling developments, are
pouring in on the Coroner by mail
and from other sources.
DR.. Moiser Friday sWore before the
Coroner that he had seen Mrs. Eliza
beth Ashmead burn the bodies OF
babies in the cellar of her house, 25e
South TWe!Jh street. He was Friday
himself held to await the action OF
the Grand jury to answer for the
death of an infant. MoSier was ar
raigned with George Clark, the father
Of the baby, and both men were re,
committed to r,Son after the hearing
Clark, it is charged, deposited th'
body Of the child in a sewer. where il
was recovered by the authorities.
The morbid crowd in the Coroner's
court room Frilay was d 'sarpoi ted /
the evidence. The testimony Of a
little woman, pale and so weak that
she could hardly stand, was sufficient.
however, to warrant holding MoS!el
and Clark.
The only testimony that brought
the audience in the court room lean
ing toward in listening attitude was
given in a whisper by Nellie B"yd.
With her hands covering her eyes,
she said: 1 was alone with George
Clark when the baby was born.
I was so sick that 1 don't remember
why George placed the baby on the
table. 1t lived for an hour and
half. Then George wrapped it up
and took it away
"Speak louder" requested the Cor
oner.
81 can't. am still so weak" the
woman replied in whisper.
At the conclusion Of the evidence
the Coroner's jury held Dr.. Mosier re.
spcnsible for the baby's death, and
George Clark as an accessory.
Dr.. Mosier went out into the CORR,
dor, laughing and joking with Detec.
tive Mckinney, but Clark, a shrivelleo
little middle-aged man, was pale With
fright when led to the cellroom.
Detective Mckinney was the first
witness called to the stand. He sai6
he had heard that Nellie Boyd was at
No. 264e North Fourth street dying
from the effects of illegal practice.
He said that DR.. Joseph H. King.
Of No. 221O North Tenth street.
had so informed him. He stated that
be got George Clark in the room and
asked where the child had been taken,
and Clark finally broke down and con.
fessed that be had thrown it into
sewer. Mckinney went with Clark
to Marshall street and Lehigh avenue
and lowered Clark into the sewer.
Clark, after diving in the mud, iShed
out the BODY.
DR.. King was then called to the
stand. He said that he was gradual
ed from Edinburgh University in Scot
land, and had practiced medicine for
thirty years. From a diary he read
his evidence. It was:
February 29-Nellie Boyd, former
nurse who was in my employ, came to
me. I told her that would not take
the case, as it was almost sure to re-
suit in her death.
February 20, ? p. m.-Nellie Boyd
returned this afternoon and said that
she had been operated upon. She said
that DR.. Mosier had taken the case
and had asked for S25, but finally ac-
cepted $40, as she was a poor woman.
March 4.-Mr. Boyd (who after
ward proved to be George Clark came
to me and said that his wife Nellie
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