The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-15

Edith Mccormack, wife of Martin
 Mccormack, of 621 Broad street, is at
 the Bridgeport Hospital a very sick
 of her baby born at the hospital, this
 morning, is in Jail for committing one
 of the most cruel assaults upon a
 wife that the authorities have known
 of in a long time.
 The Charities department first heard
 of Mccormack, yesterday. Supt. Brennan detailed Investigator Norris
 sey to look into the case. as it was
 reported that Mccormack not only
 had neglected his wife and children, but had abused them most shameful
 ly. Morrissey found that Wednesday night Mccormack came home drunk and beat his wife She was too feeble
 to offer resistance. That his thirst for drink might be satiated he took from had left. The oldest child is a boy of 3 years. He saw what his father did and he told his mother. Enraged, the father seized an axe and deYnoiish-
 ed the toys that Santa Claus had brought for the little ones at Xmas tiule.
 Mrs. Ernestine Morelis, who lives in lllc SdIuC AOuSS tOOA t1lC dOQSCO WAAO and children to her home. McCor- mack to show his appreciation of the neighborly intervention, struck his wife's samaritan a blow in the face.
 Investigator Morrissey, finding that conditions required prompt measures. arranged through Supt. Brennan, for the removal of Mrs. Mccormack to the remain for { the present. The two children aged 3 and years, the latter girl, were taken to Lake view Home. MT. Morrissey found that Mrs. Mccormack was an indus trious woman and had her home neat der which she was compelled to live. The two little tots were neat and and clean. The officials of the char ities department remarked as they prepared them for Lakeview Home, that they had never seen such a pret- ty pair of children.
 Accustomed as the officials are to daily contact with cases of privation the circumstances of this case arous- ed their keenest sympathy. The little ones while being made ready for their ride to the city's home for the desti- tute and needy made the walls of the building echo with their merry laugh ter alternating as children only can, with fretful queries about their mann ma The older of the tots, an excep- tionally bright child, asked the atten- dants if they would let him crow like the big red rooster that chased the chickens in his back yard. When Clerk Nevins told him to go ahead and crow, he gave an exhibition so much like the real performance, that the attaches thought they were at the local poultry show, which was being held a few blocks away.
 On the way to &the instit tuition, the l boy showed the tenderest oconsidera- | tion for his wee sister When she | had devoured all of the cookies given | her,, he generously shared his portion. |
 Mccormack was arrested, last night, | as he was about to ship to sea on a schooner engaged in the lumber trade. He was taken at the, Naugatuck dock, where he was preparing to desert the, sick wife and helpless children, for whose present plight he is responsible. He is 37. Those who know him say 1e is capable of better things. Drink s blamed for the trouble. His wife s prepossessing, and is given an excel ent character by all who know her. She is six years the junior of the man o whom she entrusted her welfare.
 Mccormack in court to-day, was &C., used by Mrs. Morelis of brutality to- ward his wife and children, in addi- ion to assaulting the witness because ;he offered the use of her home to the lbused ones. Mccormack entered a against him. He said he did not know hat his wife was in the hospital, and le tried to convince the court that he vas much misunderstood man. He vas fined $10 and sent to jail for 30 lays He entered an appeal, but was aken to jail in default of a bond.
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