Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
WOMAN PUZZLES OFFICERS
Mother Of Two Children Born At Oounty
Hospital Enigma to Authorities,
NDNAPs ONE CHILD FROM INSTITUTION
ORsprinR seems 60 he as Degenerate
as HIS Remarkable Mother IL
Delinquent and ire
spOnsible.

The juvenile court authorities, the Asso-
ciated Charities and the Humane society
are puzzled over what to do in the case of
Violet Caster, a woman OF about 30, who is
said to be unsound mentally and to have
followed a depraved and miserable life for
a number of years.
Her latest escapade is the kidnapping Of
her 3-year-old son from the county hospi-
tai, where he had been placed by orders
Of Judge Leslie of the county court. The
woman induced County Physician swoboda
to send her to the county hospital under
the plea Of sickness. She spent few days
there and was Informed that she would
have to leave, as she was not Ill. Clad In
the loose wrapper furnished by the lnstitu-
ton, she departed hurriedly, managing TO
take the child with her, the latter bare
headed, bsrefooted and CARRIED with ex-
treme precision and simplicity. ofhcers
looking for the pair Monday failed to To-
cate them.
Romance Amid Pauperism.
The woman achieved fame a year or more
ago by clipping from the county hospital
with a man inmate considerably her elder.
She had been sent there as a county charge
on one of a series of frequent visits and
within the walls of poverty and suffering
developed a romance with the male pauper.
One night the infirm Romeo carried away
his loose-headed and looser moraled Juliet
and left the state BY means OF money pro-
cured from unknown sources the couple
Travelled into Missouri, where il is not
known that the union was so much as
leEalized by the marriage ceremony. Nearly
twelve months later the woman appeared
at the county hospital, when another child
was born and died The first baby and the
one kidnapped, also, first saw life in the
county hospital
Soon after leaving the restrictions of life
at the hospital she went to South Omaha
and took up abode with a decrepit and
venerable man, who maintained a shack
and vestige of self-support. Not long
afterwards an aunt Of the mothers made
application in the county court to gain
possession OF the child.
/ Judge Orders Investigation.
Judge Leslie sent Mrs Towle of the
juvenile court to investigate the aunt, and
| the report blasted any hopes that the
elder woman had in the matter. The boy
was sent to St. James Orphanage, where
he exhibited such signs Of weak-minded-
ness, degeneracy and depravty, that in
| course of time the orphanage people sent
| him back to the court, less he contaminate
] the good orphans. This was only a short
time ago and Judge Leslie committed the
| infant to the county hospital Since then
the mother has tried repeatedly to break
| into the hospital and obtain him.
The woman once had insanity charges
preferred against her, but the insanity
commissioners thought her condition did
not warrant commitment. 1t was the idea
to keep the child at the county hospital
until he was old enough to be sent to the
institute for the feeble minded at Beatrice.
The probation officers declare that the
! liberty enjoyed by Violet is a menace to
society and that she should be incarcerated
and cared for. The boy Is described as
little better than young beast