Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-21
KILLED MANY INFANTS
Daughters Testify Against Their
Own Mother. 10
BURNED BABIES IN A STOVE
Awful Record in a New York Crimi.
nal Case.
SHE CAST OFF HER OWN chill,
Then Attempted to Induce Her to Be.
come an Inmate Of House
Of Ill Repute.
BURNED BABIES IN A STOVE
SHE CAST OFF HER OWN CHILL,

NEW YORK, November 2I-The spec.
tacie OF two women denouncng as a muir.
deress the woman who brought them into
the world but whom they refused to call
mother" was witnessed in the ONCE of the
district attorney today. The women are
Mrs. Marie Schoch, recently a resident OF
Massachusetts, and Mrs. wiihelmina Ihrig
OF this city. The mother whom they ac-
cused Is Mrs. Wilhelmina Eckhardt. who
was arrested by representatives of the
county Medical Society yesterday on a
charge of having performed a criminal op-
eration. Inc arrest was made upon in
Iormauon furnished the society by the
daughters. and the two younger women APP
peared voluntarily at the district attorneys
once today to amplfy the testimony thew
already had given against their mother
botn MIS- Schoch and Mrs. Ihrig asserted
.nat they did not wish to be known as the
oausnters or Mrs. Eckhardt, who they said
Is not worthy to bear the name mother
both declared that they had seen Mrs Eek
hardt XIII hour-old infants and dispose OF
tne bodies by burning them In her kitchen
stove. Iney said also that they had seen
mrs Eckhardt perform criminal operations
upon women in her East 02d street home
ana Mrs. ihrig declared that her mother
had Quarreled with her because she refused
to assist In burning the bodies of babies.
Keeper Of a Brothel.
"afS. cchocn toid the district attorney that
when she was three days old her mother
wrapped her In a bundle of rags and cast
her into the street. She was rescued by
her grandmother, who reared ner and with
whom she remained until she became q
woman.
When she came to this country she said
she founo her mother conducting a house
OF Ill reoute and she declared that her
mother sought to have her become an In
mate of the place. She refused.
The first she knew of her mothers prea.
ent occupation. she said, was wnen Mrs
Eckhardt's little adopted son made a dis
covery In the house which led to the ex-
posure and Mrs, Eckhardt's arrest. When
She learned of the discovery made by the
little boy Mrs. Schoch said she went to her
mother about IT and she declared Mrs Eck-
hardt proposed that they go into partner
ship.
This she did after consulting with repre-
sentatives of the county medical society
and with view Of causing Mrs. Eek
hardts arrest -,s-, -.
Saw Murder Done. -
1t was while occupying this position in
her mothers house, she said that she pro-
cured the evidence which resulted in Mrs.
Eckhardts arrest. She declared that she
saw her mother perform an operation ON
Anna Jackson. otherwise Sally Brown a
colored woman, to whom child was born
in the house. and that her mother told
her how easy it was to kill child and to
dispose of 1t by burning the body in the
stove. She declared that her mother actu-
ally did kill the baby by twisting its neck
and that afterward she burned IT, -
Mrs. Ihrig came here four months ago
from Regensburg, Germany. She testified
that she lived with her mother after COM
ing here and that in August last she saw
her mother burn the bodies of infants.
She says that she quarreled with her moth
er because the latter wanted burn the
bodies in the stove She told the district
attorney also the name and address of an
other woman who she said. had seen Mrs.
Eckhardt bur. the bodies of infants