The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-01-17
WANTED A BOY.
GIRL GAME INSTEAD AND THE
FATHER GOT MAD.

FATHER GOE MAID
Used Violence On His Unwslcomed
Child and is Held For
Trial.
Stephen Heinbold, OF New York,
twenty.eight years old, was up before
the court recently on q charge of as
saLlting the baby girl that cane In
place Of the boy he d.sired SO much.
Mrs. Heipbold, pleasant faced,
mstronly " ung German was In court
with the baby. She said they had
been married three years and have a
comfortable home at 987 S. c1nd ave
nue.. The husband is an upholsterer
and earns from s1S to $50 a week.
The woman said their marriage was
love match and that their home was
a happy one until the birth Of the
second child, FIVE months ago. T 10
frstborn was a girl. The father was
disappointed because the baby was
not a boy. His wife consoled him by
saying the next child might be q boy.
Stephen was a good husband, as
kind and loving as a man could be,
and / saw that he was greatly
troubled ahoilt a 8 n" said Mrs. Helm,
bold. II old hin t lat a learned p
fessor at Berlin said that, you could
have a boy or girl by eating certain
kinds of for d, and I asked him to get
me those things that are mostly what
The professor called csrbons c:ous."
Then began the experiment. which
1t was hoped would bring an heir to
the Heinbold household. Mrs. Helm,
bold had egg nudein at breakfast. AT
luncheon she devoted herself mostly
to 2umrarnickle and charlotte russes
and at dinner she ate schwerbrod un.
til her appetite crsved for q change
of diet.
The parents were hopeful of sue
CESS until early in May they we're dis
turbed by the published opinion Of
Director Smith Of the central Park
menagerie, who said that from his ob-
servation of the animals In the Park
he believed that sex could be prede
termined but that by drocarbons would
predispose to 3 boy. Peanuts were
good for that. Bread and cakes and
such things contained albumen and
predisposed to females.
The Heinbolds saw that they had
been working the theory upside down.
The food Ms Heinbold had been eat
ing was considerably albuminouS and
favorable to another girl. After they
got over their Disappointment she
started on the Smith theory and had
peanuts for dinner, luncheon and
breakfast.
Early in Au gust the fecond child
was born. When the family doc ,or
told the father that it was girl che
news was II c,ived without rel lioing.
According to bhe woman's story, he
became moody, seemed to lose inter
est in bis family snd would not caress
the second cnilG as he had the first
After q while he would scowl every
time his eyes happened to fall on the
baby. The baby was christened Step
hanie, after its father, but he was
never heard to mention the name. He
continued to hand over all his wages
at the end Of the week to his wife, but
he began to treat her coldly and she
understood that the cause OF the
whole trouble was that the baby was
not boy.
She went to the court and com.
planned that her husband had struck
the baby In the face with his fist, and
she was afraid he might do it some
serious IL jlry. The case was turned
over TO Agent O'Connor of the Chill.
dren's society to investigate. O'Con-
nor made an Investigation, arrested
the husband. and he and the woman
told the story to Magistrate Whitman
in court. Mrs. Heinbold said that the
blow from the mans fist made the
baby'snose bleed and blackend its lefy
eye. J.
WAS he drunk?" asked the magis.
trate.
mo, be doesn't drink. His habits
are good in everything else, except
that he can't bear the sight of the
baby" she replied.
That's q very pretty baby. he
ought to be proud of it," remarked
the court as he locked at the unwel
coined infant that the woman held III
her arms.
The blue eyed fat infant smiled
up at his honor.
What do you want me to do with
your husban6?" The magistrate
asked.
Something must be done to change
his mind before he gets worse Its all
because the baby was not boy" she
responded.
Heinbold was asked what he had
to say. He said he did not strike
the child with his fist. He only slap
ped it with the back Of his hand.
The woman said SIZE had money
enough to get along without her hus-
band for time, and perhaps II
be was locked up for a while he
would became reconciled to the girl
hood Of the baby.
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