The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-01-17
GIRL CAME 1N.rEaD AND TIE
FATRER GOT MAD.
Used Violence On His Ulwelcomed

Used Violence On His Unwelcomed
Child and is Held For
Trial.
Stephen Heinbold, ct New York,
twenty. eight years old, was W before
the court recently on a charge Of as.
sa,.lting the baby girl that eau in
place Of the bay he desired so much.
Mrs. Heirbold, pleasan5 facs3,
n..ronly young German was in court
assn the baby. She said they had
oeen married three years and have q
,eomfortable home at 9S7 S. c md ave
nue.. The husband is an upholsterer
and earns from SIS to $50 a week.
The woman said their marriage was
love match and that their home was
happy one until the birth cf the
second Child, fys montbs ago. TIE
drstborn was girl. Tae father was
dissa pointed because the baby was
not a boy. His wife consoled him by
saying the next child might be boy.
Stephen was good husband, as
kind and loYing as a nan could be,
and l saw that he was greatly
troubled about son, 'said Mrs. Helm.
bold. II told him t5at .. learned pso
fessor at Berlin sai6 5nat you coul1
havea boy or girl by eating certain
kinds of fotd, and 1 asked him to get
me those things that are mostly what
:he professor called cIrbon' GUS"
Then began the experiment. which
it was hoped would bring an heir to
the Hs.nbcid household. Mrs. Helm
bold had egg n1dein at breakfast. A
luncheon she devoted hsrself mostly
to punpernickle and charlotte russes
ard at dirner she ate schwerbrod IN.
til her appstite c:aved for a change
Of diet.
The parents were hopeful OF sue
cess until early in May they were dis.
sturbed by the published opinion OF
Director Smith OF the central Park
mena2er.e, who said that from his CD
serVation Of the animals in the Park
be believed that SIX could be prede
lermined but that hy drocarbons would
p1edispose to e boy. Peanuts were
good for that. Bread and cakes and
such things contained albumen and
predisposed to females. -
TIE Hsinbolds saw that they had
been working the theory upside down.
The fooG MIS- Beinbold had tean eat
Ing was considerably albuninous and
favorable to another girl. After they
got over their dissa pointment she
started on the Smith theory and had
peanuts for dinner. Luncheon AID
breakfast.
Early in August the second child
was born. Wnsn tie family doctor
s5old the father that it was girl the
news was rec ;iyed without rel )icing.
| According 10 lue Woman's story, ne
became moody, seemed to lcse inter
est in his family and would not caress
the second child as be had the first
After while he would scoWl every
tiue bis eyes happened to fall On the
toaby. The baby was christened Step
hanie, after its father, but he vas
never heard to mention the name. Ia
continued to hand over all bis wages
at the end Of the week TO his wife, but
he began to treat her coidly and she
understood that the cause OF the
whole trouble was that the baby was
not q boy.
She vent to the court an6 COM
plsined that her husband had struck
the baby in the face with his fist, and
she was afraid he might do 1t some
serious jlry. Tae case was turned
over to Agent O'Connor OF the Chill.
dren's society to Investigate. OCon-
nor made an Investigation, arrested
the husband, and he and the woman
tod the story to Magistrate Whitman
in couit. Mrs. Heinbold said that the
blow from the mans fist made the
raoy ysnose bleed and blackend its LETT
aye.
WAS be drunk?n asked the magis.
trate.
No, he doesn't drink. His habits
are Sood in everything else, except
| that ;ie cant bear the sight OF tne
baby" she replied: -
"That's.a very pretty baby. Ha
ought to be proud OF it," remarked
the court as he looked at the unWel'
coined infant that the woman held il
her arms.
The blue eyed fat infant smiled
Up at his honor.
WHAT dc you want ne to do with
your husban6?" The magistrate
asked.
"Sonething must be done to change
his mind before he gets worse. It's al
because the baby Was not a boy." she
responded. =
Heinbold was asked what be had
to say. He said be did not strike
the c::ild With bis fist. BE only slap
ped 1t with the back OF his hand.
The ~oman said she had money
enough to geSalong without her hus-
eand for time, and perhaps il
ae was locked Up iorySa while be
would became 1ecoaclied to the girl
hood Ct the baby.
!. ErI,i1 Hold hio in S200 hail fnr