The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-19

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A very sad story of acute poverty was
! related at an inquest held by the Bethnal
! Green coroner on two babies, Edward
Fennel, aged one minute. and Bert Fen
mel, aged one hour. The father, Alfred
! Fennel, looking weak and i'll, said his
wife gave birth to triplets on Tuesday
These two children died almost at once
and the third had died that morning.
There had been eight children previously,
two being twins, and five were not alive.
/ How are these people-pOorV asked the
coroner. Very poor, indeed: as poor as
church mice, a policeman answered.
! THE father has been out of work for
months" Then how do they manage to
liver the coroner asked again. That is
puzzle" the policeman replied. He Oc-
CaSiOualfy had a days work at the docks,
and they managed as best they could.
There were a lot of children at home. 1
found everything as clean as a new pin.
The mother was serubbiug all the day
Dr. Robert Burgess of the London hos
pital said that death was due to natural
debility from premature birth. II was
unusual to hear of the birth of triplets,
/ even at a great hospital. At the London
hospital they had about three cases
year, but it was rare for them to live. 1t
was usual for the birth of trfplets to BUN
in the family. The jury returned verdicts
of deaths from natural Causes
The ingenuity which has been shown
in the development of new ideas caiCU-
lated to enlist the sympathies and sub
sCTiptiOns of a phiianthrOpiC public has
probably reached its climax IN a novel
use which the authorities of the London
hospital have found for umbrellas and
walking sticks.
A receptacle is placed in the handles
of these which win hold exactly eighty
four half sOYereignS or siXpences. and
the holders draw the attention of their
friends TO little slot which is of suffi-
cient size to receive the coins as dona-
ton to the funds Of tbs hospital.
Already 400 of these umbrellas and
walking sticks have been distributed not
only in London, but in China. Australia
South Africa and other distant parts of
the world When full they are returned
to the hospital, and already 4 goodly
sum has accrued to the Golfers of the
institution, The record collection in one
umbrella so far has been egg los
The arrest of an alleged German spy,
who was found in Leenan Fort, in the
north of Ireland, and afterward liberated
is reported in a telegram from Buncrana
Lock swiftly County Donegal
Yesterday morning the attention Of
the military authorities in Leenan Fort
was drawn to a stranger inside the in
ner batteries, who. 1t is said, vas taking
sketches.
The man was Immediately placed under
arrest and a cOurt-martial was held
Nothing definite, however. could be
proved, and the man was DISCHARGED
He could speak hardly any English. only
German. and did not know. ap0arentiv
where he was going This was the gist
OF the man s story, but the station mas
ter, who observed the man getting off
a midday train at ClOnmany, said that
he seemed 10 be acquainted with the
direction ne took.
Leenan Fort Is the strongest fortified
ton on the North Ireland coast, and no
one is allowed within the building How
the stranger got ia unchallenged is so
far a mystery.