The sun., 1905-09-24
YOUNG MOTHER IS LOCKED UP.
SuPERFLUOUS BABY ALSO LANDS
LAD NOT IT'S FATHERIN CELL.

Tnry Gave II TO Lyins.ln Hospital Clerk
10 Take to Wet Nurse and Are Charged
with Abandonme ent--He Couldn't Find
Nurse and He's Held. Too, by Police.
Stella Karr, who 1t is alleged is the
mother OF the two-weeks-old girl baby
that caused so much trouble for Edward
looinson on Friday when he was trying
to take IL to a wet nurse for her. was ar
rested yesterday afternoon by Detectives
Kuhn snd Kinney OF the East Twenty
second street station. They made charge
usallst her OF abandoning a child one
month old Isdor Broad OF 312 East
yishth street was also arrested yesterday
morning by the same detectives on tho
same charge. Both were locked up, the
man In the East Twenty-second street
station ho sc, and the woman In the East
Thirty-fifth street one. where there Is
u,atron. They will bs taken to the YORK.
vile police court to-day.
stella Kari. who says she is an actress,
comes Of a good family in Philadelphia.
she Is 10 years old. Her father ser.n nolas Eam.
ianJ in that city. She came to this city
some time ago to take singing lessons and
was supported by her parents. receiving
check from Philadelphia every Thursday.
Hsr landladies during, her stay here ssy
The police say they have evidence that
on September IL she left her. boarding
place at Of Lexington avenue for the lying IN
hospital at Eighteenth street and second
avenue. She came out, they say, on fri-
Broad, who Is q youth OF II, was not the
father Of the infant.
He often visited the girl at her lodgings.
HIS father knew Miss Karr. Her father,
brother and brother-in-law had been to
seemed TO think the world Of her. the people
with whom she boarded say. Broad visited
her onos during her stay at the hospital,
Edward Robinson, who tried to take the
child to wet nurse Ia clerk in the hospital.
He was arraigned in the Yorkville court
yesterday morning before Magistrate Baker;
He said that Friday morning Broad had
gone to him and requested him to take the
child to wet nurse, as the mother did not
wish to be burdened with 1t.
street and Second avenue" he went on;
Broad stepped out OF his cab and handed
mo the baby. Take it to Mrs. Miller, the
wet nurse. She lives at 42l East Eleventh
street. We have made all the arrangements.
A. A., you have f ae viii taps Se yo Sa cab re
and one weeks board for the baby. and you
can have the rest for your trouble. II you
want me for anything call me at 1888 Spring
Il drove down to see Mrs. Miller, but she
call up Broad on the phone. but it vas after
9 and could not get him. So drove to
several police stations. but they wouldn't
do anything for me there. At Bellevue
they wouldn't take the child either. Then
sss shd Hd ns Houd have ' ss TO
the police stations II ] had wanted to aban-
don herr"
Detectives Kuhn and Kenney located
1855 Spring" at Washington place. The
clothiers. They said that Broad had been
in their employ, but had recently been dis
missed. However, it was at this store that
Broad was arrested.
Robinson was held in 81 900 bail for e1-
s.s .t nsh, a A. bis xas
The polioe Of the East Thirty-fifth street
station say that Stella Knrr tells the follow
ing story: About a year ago she came
who has business about the Bowery theaters.
Es promised to get her position in
theatrical company, and did get her, posi-
that he IL the father Of the child. After a
went to work in dry goods store at Third |
avsnue and Twenty-sixth street. There.
she says, she met Broad, who was a clerk |
there and took purely friendly interest
In her. While she was in the hospital |
he left the old place and went to work in a
cloak house at Washington place.
A middle aged man called al Police Head |
quarters last night and asked Detective
Sullivan in charge Of the information bureau
to find out for him II a young woman, the
mother of the child mentioned in yester-
days morning newspapers, had been locked
up. He was directed to the East Thirty
fifth street station, where the girl is held
because there Is no matron in the Fast
Twenty second street station, where she
was originally taken.
Detective Sergeant Sullivan says the
man said that he had received long dis
tance telephone message in Philadelphia
that his daughter had been locked up in
the matter. He would not say who his
informant on the telephone was. The
police at the Thirty-ffth street station
would not lot him see the girl. He would
not tell his name or business to the reporters |
or others further than that he lived at l041 |
Plainheld street, Philadelphia.
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