The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-24
TaE ST. PAUL GLOBE. FRIDAY FEBRUARY q 1905
WARRANT DISClOSfS
WIFF'SLONC MISERY
Detective Finds Wife Dying
While Little Tots
Hunger

God bless mamma and God bless
papa"
Detective Kenealy took off his hat
and stood waiting in the dingy hall,
While labored accents fell softly on the
silence, and crossed himself like a
Christian. when a baby voice echoed
lispingly, amen"
Keneaiy held a warrant for William
Carter, dining car conductor on the
Northern Pacific, charged with en-
bezziing $3.50 from the road last Sep
tember. He arrived just as Carriers
pretty baby girl was saying her MORN
ing prayers
The spectacle that met the ewes of
the officer as he entered Carter's home
was one that caused him to draw the
sleeve of his uniform coat hastily
across his eyes and turn away for a
moment
Wife Slowly Dying
On pitiful apology for bed lay
woman, so pale, so emaciated that it
seemed she must be dead, until she
turned her head wearily toward him,
and her great dark eyes shone sadly
from the shadows. Still on her knees
beside the bed a tiny girl turned to
stare wonderingly at the Intruder.
Leaning listiessly against rough table
another girl of fourteen years, greeted
the officer with a gaze of apprehen-
sion. In her face there was despair
that should be foreign to the face of
childhood
Carter" said Kenealy-"where is
he? The detective could not trust
himself to say more. Utterly bare of
even the most meager necessities, that
one room home of William Carter's
wife and children would have been de-
serted by any well bred st. Paul dog
as an unfit habitation. Foul odored
| and filthy. bare of furniture, devoid of
anything that resembled food or cloth
| ing, IL was the charnel house of
woman's hopes-a horror in grewsome
grays that might have belonged to
moujik cabin of the steppes, but
seemed beyond belief in st. Paul.
will went out early" said the sick
woman-'you're after him. she gasp
ed, trying to raise herself on a thin
bony elbow. adding. as she fell back.
| exhausted by the effort-'and God
help me, my baby's dying"
Baby Is Sick
Then for the first time Kenealy no.
! ticed that in the hollow of her arm
nearest the dingy wall, Mrs. Carter
held baby-such a poor, thin, little
chap. The child lay perfectly STILL Its
| breathing was scarcely perceptible. It's
eyes were closed and the lids were
| blue in their sunken sockets Tears
| streamed from the eyes OF the sick
woman and soaked into the dirty pill
| low.
Poor WILL she moaned, ''he means
| all right, but''-and the sigh that fol-
lowed ended in sob.
Kenealy started at the sound
Wait he said, "Tll send help. In ten
| minutes Ensign Mary Balfour had the
facts. In twenty there was food in the
house, and a CHEEKY presence where
! the little English woman hustled about.
Had No Clothing
The invalid and her three children
were positively naked. Clothes had to
| be bought for them before they could
be removed from their awful den. Mrs.
| Carter was taken to the hospital. The
| first thing the house surgeon said
when he saw her was: Where can
| telephone when she dies?" The chill
| dren were taken to the ChildrenS
! home. They have been fed for the first
| time in many days.
Mrs. Carter has a stepfather living
| in Canada. She has no other relative
| in the world and does not know the
| address of even that one. She has
| lived here nine years and has starved
most of the time. Now, dying, she still
insists that ''Will means all right
Carter was arraigned yesterday
| morning. He was well-dressed and
well-fed. He waived examination and
was held to the grand jury.