The sun., 1910-06-05
SOAETHING A DOCTOR MISSED
lHIDDEN STRANDS OF ILOTH
STRiNGLFD PLAYING CHILD
NAV Deriin Dsed IN an NmbulAn-r COra-
ner's Nan Nho Found What hiile'i iliH'
Thinss He Nas Chaked while "PlA,-
Ilarse" Nuh srprrd Llttle Giri.

linfNF WIN NaFtN ANNT "W'
4 light haired little Jewish gIrl sat On
q trunk IN on" 4 the trn~msnt fats ia
the shadow q the Williamsburg Bridge
Yesterday afternoon and tried to explain
ihat she didn't have anything to do S'th
alrangling her two-year-old playmate.
she waa CRYING too hard 70 be- under
uiood most oi the timn and ihe best she
uoold do was u sob occasionally. u
ain't nOthin' 20 blame
Max Berlin. the Vo-ysar-old vas
found Ia conyulslons on he landing just
heloW thu second hoor az $40 pslanosy
street. who're his family lives That wEs
DE way Or Carr sized q up When be-
tame from Gouverneur Hospital. and be-
cause no one vas In the Bsrlin fat the
surgeon thought Il best n take the boy
away AZ the ambulance was going
.ncroes Grand street On the way 20 the hos
nital Max died some timo later DT
LehAne. physician for Coroner Hslleu-
sfein. rolled down Ma1s shirt collar and
found three strands of marrow muslin
wound around his neck and pressing deep
INTO the plump hash. There .Was a knot
IL the cloth strip and Il was twisted IN
q way that made Dr. Lshans think the
boy couldn't have dons Il himsclf
s. Immediately the police started looking
Or the children Who had besn playing
With MAJ. In the DelaRcey street aat
nfisdA Berlin. the mother oi the dead
boy. was rocking an infAht and moaning
aCrAps Of Yiddish about the death q her
boy. Her husbands sister Ystta stood
eth dry eyes and cienched fingers de-
daring that this was no accident and
nat ths child's playmate should be found.
Ffom the aock ot little children that
poured into the rooms the police Were
nble % get something IN English and
fhey vent % find Mollie Greenhurg a
Hirl Of :. In her home ~ - Sheriff street
Mollis is undsrsizsd and is easily
ffightansd. Whsn they TOOK her into
ne Berlins' fat and the aunt shook q
long niger in her face and broke out
With . vollsy % accusation Mollie vent
9bWn on a hap on a trunk The room
Was full Of women and children explain
iAE and asking questions Two thick
necked policemen sat down beside the
8ttls girl and tried 70 get her story ietta
Berlin fired vituperation at tho nsighbors
mnd lifted her arms IN the air az shs talked
No mother Of the boy whose body Law az
he hospital covered her had and rocked
b . corner
Prom the ones Nho lived near and from
MZn1t. aNa H. - - -
Mdioining room. the police we're able
70 Eet some idsa Of shat had happened
Mollis had played With Max since her
family and tie Berlins lived on the sam.
soor Of a ten ement IN Pitt street few
months ago. When each had moved
away she had a way Of coming Tor the
boy and taxing him out n play M the
sidewak and In tho spaces under the
bridge.
YESTERDAY she came for him soon after
hreakfasi Moss Berlin. the father Is
hahoF on strike Ne LETT home -arly
The mother took her younger baby amt
went out Dot long aitervard Her
sister er-tn-hW saN N0lle and Nlay ~
do&hstairs together Mauricv, and sarah
Eialer, whose door is On the -scond foor
too. sa~ the two children near the stoap
1he Eislsr boy and yiri remember that
The other two children started togetEer
Upstairs aud a ltt." whlle later. about
u O'Clock they saw N0ilis alone a. tho
foot OF the stalrWay
AZ be went up 10 he ogn tat Maurice
stumbled over MaN On the landing The
little bov was gasping and there w1s foam
about his lips. Maurice ran t1 ge' f.s
older sister Annie Airad that sHa
would hurt the suffering boy by touching
him. the young woman left him there and
ran % the houses 0f tEy or three phv-
sicians 10 the neighborhood None o'
the door of a drug store on fhs c1ruer
and Announced that the hahy vas d,fr-
4 CLARK phoned 70 the hospital
Dr.. Carr found the child propped up
against a oanistsr on the irst step above
the landing. As the boy was shlyeuuE
the surgeon wrapped MaK's coat loosely
about hia shoulders and neck q wasur
tight enough 90 interfere WIth 'ho ngv's
breathing bui it hid as neck
The death q the hoy SON dterward
Or. Carr attributed 10 -rrHnEIiation.
but he thought q was a curious cas- and
me C--oners offce was notified When
Dr Lehane found the strip Of muslin
that had esoapsd Or Carr and a policeman
who came from the Delaney stree s'a.
iion Lehans concluded that the ch..i-au
had been playing horse and that he
sfripa % cotton were The reins thrown over
MaKs head How they came 90 1a drawn
taut he could not say 10 the Railways
q the tenement similar hits ~ cloth Wera
found. Apparently a ragEnAna bundle
had spilled them our A. u was humped
down the stairs
Mollis said that after she took Max
upstairs ahe had gone away leaving him
in the fat Whatever happened after
hat she didn't know Ystta Berlin
drowned OUT her voice with the assertion
that Mollie had been sen, away from the
public school On Sheriff street because
abe had struck q little gr This WASH
20. the neighbOrs -aid. ard mas' = them
were eager 20 tell thar there vas nothing
Vicious 10 the childs nature They 10
ieyed her when she said thar she nadn
tied the ribbon of cloth around NaHs
neck
The Berlin women mt mattel 'ra,
trouble bstv sen the GresnherIs and
iasnselvss had causei the families 70
separate some time ago Still 'Lsy ler
'he Children plsy together once not
lOng ago, they tol1 'he police. Molhe hal
led riecs Of string TOO tightly around
Mar arm and they hal 90 her STRIKE
hin
Capt. Handy n the D~lancav stree.
station and his men declared that arsr.
4 Molhe caused MaNs drath wh.rh we
very uncertain % was ACCIDENTAL vttha.
a doubt They could find nothing what
ever 70 hear out he dea That any Older
peraon Wa guilty pisrr clothes -a'
took Mollie hy the hand Ied hpr back .Y
Sheriff stree and returned .rr o. her
family
Las evening he H0v- b0dv vas taken
rack ~ Vhe hAt