The sun., 1905-09-05
GOT RID OF CHILD BY MURDER
DINSER AND WOMAN HE LIVED
WITH HELD FOR CRIME.

Body Of Two-Year.Old Girl Found in Door.
way Blocks From Their Home-Msther
Says Her Param our Beat the Baby
to Death-Ho Admits striking Her.
Gustave Dinser, . plumber, killed tho
two-year-old daughter Of his common
law wife, Agnes Renaude, carly yesterday
morning, probably by dashing its head
against Q wall. Tho couple tried to cover
up the crime by hiding the body in the dark
hall Of tenement house at t84 Eleventh
Avenue. Later in the day they were caught
In their fat. at 4Sl West Forty-fifth street,
and arrested, charged with the murder.
Three little daughters Of Dtnser saw the
murder.
Dinser was left wldower q year ago.
He had the three children on his hands.
He was neglecting them, when the Gerry
socisty arrested him, took charge Of the
children and refused to give them back
until he got some woman to take care Of
them. A few months ago he tied UP with
the Rsnaude woman, who had ono child.
Gertrude by name whose father, she says,
Is one Thomas Hyland.
The couple settled down in the fat on
the top floor Of 4s1 West Forty fifth street.
They quarreled q good deal; the neighbors
gathered that he objected to the child OF
the Renaude woman. She 10 a small and
rather pretty French woman; he rather
clean cut and on first sight prepossessing
young man.
1t was only . week ago that tho neigh
bors heard the couple having 1t out In the
street. He was reproaching her with the
birth OF the baby Gertrude and threatening
to throw them both 'out Of the window
Saturday night he came homo with
little liquor in him. They went at Il.
quarreling on the stairs, In the hall and on
the street. Alittle before midnight he went
out and had q drink or two. II was just
after his return that q force rally was
heard on the fire escape. He was bowling:
sI'll throw the bastard into the street,
She was heard to answer:
'Please don'tl I'll send her away In the
morning. It was just after that that
tho neighbors haard pandemonium from
tho Dinser fat-a woman screaming.
children CRYING at the top Of their lungs!
md over it all the crying Of baby In
great distress. Such rows are not un-
common In this tenement, but the whole
house knew Of the unwanted baby In tho
Dinser fiat, and Mn. Mcdonald, who lives
on the same door. went down to the janitrsss
Mrs. Tivailer. and told her that some
thing ought to be DONE The two women
climbed to the top floor and Knocked at
the door. Dinser opened 1t.
you've got troubles OF your own:
haven't yMl?' he asked. sMind your
own businees!' Tho door slammed In
their faces and they went back to their
rooms shaking their heads. IS ~
The crying OF tho baby ross again-and
stopped. With It stopped every sound
In tho Dinser fiat. The top floor became
as quiet az the grave. The people OF the
tenement turned over In bed and thanked
God that the row was over for one night.
James Corigan is the janitor at %s4
Eleventh avenue, q cheap, fve story tone
ment, with q dark hallway. Tho front
door of this house s never locked, and
usually swings ajar all night. At O'Clock
yesterday morning be got up and started
to 60 down cellar. Tho cellar door 70
in an angle of the hall. just whore It u
darkest. He stumbled on bundle. which
was wrapped in . newspaper. Corrigan
stopped to pick it up; 1t was very heavy. He
unwrapped the newspapers and saw the
head Of a child He made no stop to 80
II it was alive, but started to call police
man. On the way out he met Mn. John
IAwless. They went to the cellar stairs
together, picked up the bundle and carried
1t to the light. They had the body Of .
baby girl, the blue eyes staring, the haxen
hair tumbled, the face crrel!y bruised.
The body was cold and sti6.
Policeman May was rushed IN. The
tenement people tumbled out from every
hall and surrounded the body. No one
had ever seen her. A call was sent to the
West Thirty-seventh street station; and
every plain clothes man in the precinct
hurried over.
It was the body OF c two-year-old baby
girl. She was dressed In cheap but clean
clothes; fully dressed, even to the little
shoes. There was terrible bruise on the
loft side of tho head; the autopsy showed
that her skull was fractured Just under
that place. There were several cuts and
bruises on her face. One on the ohm
looked like stab wound or the jab Of .
nail. The little body was bruised and
there were bad discolor ations on both
knees. The detectives noted . strange
at once. Although she must
have bled great deal. there was no blood
on her clot hes. Plainly. she had been
washed and dressed after she died.
OF all the neighbors who crowded In;
not one had seen such a child. But the
police wanted to make sure, 90 they carried
the body to q peramhulator 10 the bach
yard and laid 1t out In state,
All comers, and especially tho children,
were invited TO como and take look. All
the morning q stream Of children Of the
fled through the police lines
into the back yard and out again. They
peeped ftghtfully into the perambulator
as they passed; some Of the little girls put
their hands to their faces and cried. but
no ono could identify the dead baby.
Al the morning wore on some OF The
women got tallow candles and hxed them
at the head Of the perambulator. 20 - to
give her decent laying out. "A big crowd
collected on the street outside. for II was
a holiday. and talked Of whst thsy would
do to the murderer II they caught him.
When at p. M. no one had identified, her