The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15
DIDN'T KNOW BABY WIS THERE.
servant SnOtherS Sleeping Child Hidden
In an Apartment by Another Girl.

servant SmOtherS Sleeping Child Hidden
In an Apartment by Another Girl.
Not in a long time were 70 many deaths
oil small children reported 10 the Coro-
ner's Office as yesterday. Clerk Charles
Burns said he had not seen in twelve years
experience a day like it. In nearly every
ligchce,
One Ease was that of Mary Bender. two
months old, in 3lI East Seventy-sixth street.
The child was one of two in the family Of
Max Bender, a travelling salesman. About
IL o'clock in the morning Mrs. Bender told
Sophia, the servant, to take the baby and
her ~two-ypar-old son Max out for an air
ing. Sophia got tired carrying the child
around. and as the baby had ALLEN asleep
she took il into the house. She was afraid
10 take the baby up to its own home on the
third hoor and went into the flat occupied
by Mr.. Bender's sister. Mr.. Engel. on the
first floor. There was nobody in but the
servant Mary. who was busy in the kitchen.
"Ill just let her sleep here for an hour
and take a walk with Make" Sophia said.
That the child might escape notice she
placed a small shawl over It to make it ap-
pear that the shawl had been tossed care
lessly on the bed
Mary, the Engel servant. finished the
kitchen work and went int tidy up the
other rooms and in doing so piled a lot Of
pillows, cushions and bedclothes on top
Of the bed where the baby lay. She did not
know the child was there.
When Sophia did not return a. soon as
she should Mns. Bender went to the front
window and called. Sophia heard her and
came running. Mrs. Bender noticed that
she did not have the baby and ran down
a. - i'll n n,-, -. lo.L - A.
Engel fiat and ran at her heels into the
bedroom. The girl frantically threw the
stun OF the bed and dug for the infant.
1t lay motionless just az she had left il.
The mother realized what had happened,
and picking. up the body ran into the hall
summoned, but they said the baby was
far beyond their help. Mrs. Bender was
almost insane in her sorrow and the ply
sicians advised that she be watched 40 that
she would not carry out her threats to
take her life.
A case in some respects similar was that
of Louis Emerich, six months old. who was
found smothered under the bedding in his
home at 03i East Sixteenth street. The
child was found dead when his mother went
to give him breakfast.
Charles Beldon, . years old. Of 5l7 West
Thirty-ninth street, while playing in front
Of his home was run down by a heavy
wagon and received injuries that caused his
death in Bellevue a short time afterward.
The driver got away.
Bellevue Hospital reported the death
there Of Nettie LANCER. eight months old.
who was scalded fatally in her home at
o. Attorney street. an older child having
upset q kettle of boiling water on the baby.
There were several cases OF infants dying
suddenly Of natural complaints, the days
record for the little ones concluding with a
report that Lille Prophet, who was only
six days old, had died Of collie in the big
tenement at 20 Clinton street.
The family is too poor to bury the baby, +"
the policeman on post reported. The body
was carried to the Morgue and the child
will be buried in potter's field.