The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-05-23
.ABy'SHUG PLEADS
|FagMoTAER TRIED,
f0RpO|SON|NG nine
Winifred Ankers Answers ''Not
/ Guilty. Holding Alleged
4 -ssC Cause of Crime.

z yhou8n< the case 10 oooketed Tne
iPeoSle Of the state OF New York vs.
vinaNuod Anssrs." II seemed to specta-
1Ds so-dAy that beautiful boy baby
bas on trial Tor its life before Justice
lcuddsr In the Supreme Court In Brook
n. tNtHr
Z BY the verdict Of the twelve men Sc
Dcesd,to Wy the case tails nameless child
3rboln 1nto the world never to know his
Vwn father-may have his mother, q ship
- sirl of the streets. sent to the
Electric chair for killing nine other
pa6ees Just like him. The mother-iov
bat u said to have inspired her to the
rhine was manifest as the faced,
olmost expr essionless little blonde faced
. Jury and pleaded not guilty. As she
eose to enter her plea she held Johnny
JUL. lightly to her breast. Mutron
Amdls Carney held out her arms to
hke the babbling child. The thirteen
honths' old baby shrank away and
0nng more tightly. Miss Ankers stepped
way from the matron and held the
aby more closely to her breast.
HEciTAL OF HER CRIME FIRST
n ~ MOVES GIRL.
N Assistant District Attorney voss
epcntd for the state. As he read the
verbose indictment, charging the young
bother. with maliciously placing oxallc
ociu In the milk to be fed to the tiny
cards Of the Brooklyn Nursery and
Gfants' Hospital. at No. 4N Herkimcr
Erect. the girl bowed her head and bi,
0ard on her thin, colorless ltxs. Tears
- A.
evitchsd nervously. 1t seemed. for the
0rst time since her arrest on Feb. "a,
-rhv appreciated the gravity OF her po-
otioh.
Not 90 Johnny Bull" He gurgled
nd chuckled and tried to Chamber
across the counsel table to the Jurors
Who bad sworn they could send a guilty
mother to the electric chair.
MT. voss declared the state had elect.
q 20 try tho girl on the charge OF
eausing the death OF Richard Gamer.
ali. - three months-old ward Of the
1pursery. who was poisoned Feb. II and
Who died Feb. 20. the nth Of the in.
SAnts 70 die.
1 A. Mr.. voss proceeded to outline the
6Gate's charges. Johnny Bull turned
bis entention to the score OF women
Seatsd In the rear Of the court room
&ost Of them were associated with the
1ursery, and they showed no sympa.
Thy for the mother whose alleged crime
they sbhorrsd. Some OF them smiled
= voss told Of the fiendish Grim,
which sent nine babes into the un
known. Johnny Bulr' thought the
6miies were intended for him. ana
mapped his fat hands and chuoklet
1ouldly.
( voss declared that the State woult
nov that Winifred Ankers. waif Of th'
streets, had been an inmate Of the Way
Oids Home until July. 1911. when. to go
q home for her babe, she became male
- ali work In the Brooklyn Nurser,
end Infants' Hospital. A few days be-
Gprs the fret Of the children became
~. Miss Ankers. he said, appealed L
Miss Louise Howard. the superintend
9nt. dpr oxa1ic acid, TO be used in clean
- bsass. 1t was this poison that
naced surreptitiously in milk. mad,
veive Of the babies Ill and caused tn,
bath of nine.
CONFESSION GAVE MOTHER
q LOVE As MOTIVE.
Mr.. Voss said the girl had signed
eDnfession when arrested, admitttn,
che, poisoned the babies to make tn,
hospital nurses work hard becaus,
hey gave more attention to thei
q Wards than TO her and her baby. II
this confession the girl had said sh,
"a not intend to kill the babies. II,
SGo1sthe girl had repudiated the con
fession. declaring 1t had been force,
fyDm her by a police threat to tax,
her baby from her
DR.. Percy L. Denyce OF No 6sl Han
cook street pathologist. testified tina
Ae performed an autopsy on the bod,
bf the Gamersah child. Explaining a
qreat detail. he said death was caused
by an irritant poison.
On cross-exaniination by Attorne,
Edward J.-O'Reiily. Dr. Denyce said h,
bad found traces of aspera ton pneu
0onia. super1nduced by the poison.
DR. George A. Ferguson of No. so
otuyvesant avenue, Brooklyn. a noted
Psychologist and chemist, swore that q.
grains OF oxaltc acid was found In tn,
baby's vtscsra.
Miss Louise Talbot Howard. super
Sntendent or the hospital OF the Brook
1yn Nursery and Infants Hospital. chtel
witness for the prosecution testified
Miss Ankers came to the hospita
- bAnper In July. 1911. bringing hei
tAfant. She asked for a home and W.
Aade her n scrubwoman The weak M