The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-01-27

ulu NOT tnlnK ne COulu JeuCn tne Cnllu
better with love and he laughed.
When ! saw those bruises the first
time | asked Henry Stehr Il he had
done It and he said he had. lie said
he didn't look where the strokes fell.
! once told Mrs. Stehr that ir her hus.
band mistreated the boy or struck
him too much that | would see that
the child was taken away from her.
She told me that her husband treat
ed the boy very WELL | am sure they
both mistreated him
"They did not love him and are
both to blame. II was so pitiful to
see the little boy try to wash him.
self This they forced him to do. He
had to wash and dress himself such
a tiny little one. He is not yet 4
years old. He will be next July.
Not Much Kindness in This.
"One day while ] was there the lit.
tie boy was ordered to wash himself
There was little candy pail which
he used to use tor a wash basin. The
water was so cold that his skin be.
came blue. | took a towel from a nail
and started to dry him when Hr
Stehr jerked the towel from my hand
and told me Kaurt must learn TO wash
himself. | jerked the towel back and
finished my work.
"fhey never did look after him
right. He was always hungry and
once when he was at my home with
his parents | gave him piece of
bread and he ate it and asked for
more. | gave him more and then his
father reprimanded him for eating too
much.
81 am sure the boy has suffered
much from those frozen feet, and that
the parents knew they were frozen
On Christmas eve we had a Christ.
mas tree at our house. The children
were playing around it. They danced
around and sang about it, but little
Kaurt was standing on one side cry.
ing. | was in the kitchen and could
not stand it when Stehr forced the
boy to dance and sing when his foot
hurt him so. | came out and asked
What was wrong with the foot and
Stehr told me that The shoe was hur'.
ing him. | then tried - get him to
take the shoe off because that would
ease the pain, but he quickly said
NO, we will go home now
Slept in Ice Cold Kitchen.
THAT is all actually know about
/ the freezing of the feet Stehr told
, me that the boy always slept in the
kitchen by himself. He said he did
not want such a pest in his house
One night the snow was a number
o. feet deep in that kitchen Stehr told
me. There is no stove in there anC
when | asked him if he did not think
the child would freeze, he said there
were plenty of covers. After the
room and when the doctors came re
minded Stehr about the boy sleepins
in the kitchen and he said he did no
/ think it would be so bad.
| The Stehr'S toilet is out in the
back yard, and one night in that aw
fully cold weather near New Year!
| (the temperature was q below zero
a man passing there told me he hear,
the child crying, Papa, papa II,
was in that cold toilet and all thu
doors of the house were shut tight
: | know for fact that this 3-year.olt
was forced to go to the toilet Otter
and was left there for hours at {
time"
Little Kaurt went into spasms Sat
urday night and all hope of his recov
cry was given up. Then the jaws Sc
as from lockjaw, the effect of the gan
creme that had infected his entire ays
TEN, and shortly after noon Sunda,
he died.
Stehr Absolutely Indifferent.
Henry Stehr, who referred to IN
boy in his own home as, a pest,
never saw the little fellow after bring
ing him, at the command of the cour
~ authorities, to the KlentZ home 70
the operation. He merely brought il
the bruised boy with his rotted feet
deposited him and went away. AT
solute Indifference to the child's fate
marked his demeanor.
The mother of the child told
News man Saturday that she hadn'
gone to see Kaurt because she didn'
know where to find the place, a
though neighbors before that time ha
offered to take her. She didn't go t
see him until Saturday night and the
only stayed a short time. She ha
little to say.
Perhaps This Explains Something.
Perhaps this is why Stehr Gale
that fair-haired little tot pest. Mrs
Stehr was asked by a News man
Stehr was the child's father.
'No," she said.
where is his father?" was asked.
81 never told anybody in German
and I'm not going to tell anybody her
who his father is" she answered.
Mrs. Bankraht the aunt, believe
that little Kaurt was afraid of bot
Stehr and the mother. when | toll
him he could go back to his mothe
and father, he shrank back and sait
No" Mrs. Bankraht declared to
News man.
Mother Says He Was Beaten.
Mrs. Stehr admitted at the Klent
home that she had seen bruises on tn
little fellows body. Il don't kno
how they came there" she said.
think my husband whipped him viii