The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
DUOPPVDBABYNTO WGSHTUB
NEIGHBORS BOY WAS SHOW
ING HER THE STEAM.

Crept Int the AIIlgers' FiAt Through =
window and Found Alice Asleep-she
klltDped FrOm ISIS Arms and was
DrsNned-TbeR Her Neither Came In.
A ten-months-old baby girl was taken
from the bed on which she was sleeping
Yesterday afternoon by a fve-year-Old
boy and dropped into a Tub Of hot water.
The baby was drowned. The little
boy tried 20 explain later that he was
just showing the baby how tbs water ran
when she fell from his arms.
Il happened on the third Goor Of a fiat
at I2s Fast roth street. occupied bv
Edward p. Alliger and his family. Next
door live John Conklin and his family.
The Conklin and Alligers know each
other hut have not been particularly
frisndly Robert Conklin, 5 years old.
ia the only ons that sver visited the ALI
gers.
Mrs Alliger went into the back yard 10
hang out clothes Yesterday afternoon.
Before she left she put Alice. the baby.
10 bed and locked the door ~ that no one
would disturb the child. She even
closed the shutters Of the front windows.
While she was gone Robert Conklin
climbed out on the fire escape that rms
along the front Of the tenement. He
managed 10 open the shutters and jumped
into the parlor.
According 20 his story the boy first
turned on the hot water faucet Of set
tub in the kitchen The cloud Of steam
attracted him He found Alice sleeping
in her bed. took her up and carried her To
the tub 40 that she too might see the
steam Suddenly she slipped from his
arms and fell into the scalding water.
Robert ran from the room.
Meanwhile the water was running ~
rapidly that II filed the tub 10 overflow
ing. Nora Murphy. who lives On the
fioor beneath the Alligerss soon saw
water sseping through the ceiling. So
ran into the yard and told Mrs. Alligcr
Mrs. Alliger hurried upstairs. She turned
~ the faucet and began 10 mop the floor
without looking into the tub. While she
was mopping that she thought Of the baby
Not finding the chSd in bed Mrs. AlliRer
asked Nora Murphy II she knew where
ALICE was. Nora Murphy did not.
The floor was mOpped and Mrs. Alliger
thought she'd let the water drain from
the tub She put her handbm % pull
out the stopper and discovered the baby
Robert COnklin had slipped into the
room. -BRby's IN there. he said. point
ing 20 the tub.
The mother carried the child into the
front room, left her on the table and ran
O.. aNeHua9 -
body notified the police and Detective
FoA came over. There was no need Of a
doctor because the baby was dead some
time before Mrs. Alliger found her.
Robert, Questioned by the detective.
first told a STRAIGHTFORWARD story. Then
he said he didn't turn on the wafer some
uf the neighhors didn't think he was
strong enough 20 do IT, - Fox let him
try Robert turned On the water without
the slightest difficulty The police were
satisfied that the bOy caused the De- hy
death but was irresponsible un account II
his youth
The Alliger family were in distress last
night. Besides the father and mother
there are two children. Margaret. wears
old. and Edward. ). The father. who has
been out % work for several weeks. got
job the other day. but h. saws he is 50
poor that he DOESN'T know how he oan
pay for the baby's funeral. tie remarked
last night that Robert Conklin had come
in through the hre escape once before
The COnkln family refuse 10 believe that
their hoy could have done such a thing.
Walter HOnckel. who h , yeas old.
was psruhed on the edge u his mother
! AngslA's Washtub on the second floor &c
| 800 Fast i7Oth street yesterday lie
slipped and fell feet tirst into tho water
Ne was ~ badly scalded that be- had 10
| ~ taken ca Harlem Hospital