The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-24
REPUD1ArEs CONFESSION.

New York. Feb. 24.-After being rremanded to jail without bail. on the charge of murder. in connection with 4laa death of eight infants in the Brooklyn Nursery and Infants Hos pitaI, wfnifred Ankerg. repudiated her confession. She openly asserted that 3t had been forced from her by the hulldozing tactics Of Detective James McKirby and that there was not one word of truth in it.
 When arraigned in court, the girl had nothing to gay. The detectives in charge of the case introduced type written pages of what purported to be a full and complete confession that she had killed the babies.
 After being remanded to the GUS tody of the coroner, the Ankers Wo- man was taken back to jail There she broke her silence and said that there was absolutely noGtruth in the s1sseDnfession'' She said that she sign ed 1t after 1t was prepared and she had been ordered to do so by the de- tectives but that she had not fully realized the nature of. the document. According to the woman, the detec- lives subjected her to a brutal and exhaustive third degree of question dnE, finally threatening that they would take her baby away from her it again. Then she said mother love conGuered and she was willing to do anything she was told to do.
 She said that Detective McKirby told her that if she did not confess she poisoned the babies she would be comp pelIed to pay $1,0OO damages to the hospital; She further decIared q only tell the truth and admit she poisoned the babies," she would get into no trouble but would be well taken care of and placed in a Sanl- tariun where she would get plenty of wholesome food and be permitted to have her baby with her to take care of.
 District Attorney Cropsey ordered the woman's latest story carefully in vestigated.
 New York, Feb. 24-A formal charge of murder was lodged, today, , against Winifred Ankers, an attend ant at the Brooklyn Nursery and In fants' Hospital, who confessed that she murdered eight babies by placing cxalic acid in their food. She was await the action of the coroner: Meanwhile, the district attorney will ave aIienists examine her as 1t Is considered certain that she is insane. Eeday, that they did not believe the " ,man was insane.
 Not until the threat was made to take her own children from her did the woman confess Then she ad- mftted she had placed the poison in the babies bottle.
 fsBut I never intended to kill the little dears," she walled ''The nurses mad been terribly mean to me and had abused me and I just wanted to make the babies sick so that the nurses would get into trouble. They weren't treating the children right anyh
 But, while the police are satisfied the Ankers woman poisoned the chill aPen, they have ordered a thorough investigation, on the ground that she could not have done so had the prop sr care been taken by those on duty at the hospital.
 The admission by some of the nurses that other children escaped death merely because they happened to notice that their nursing bottles were full while they were entitled only to three ounces has led to the belief that the charts were violated In some instances. The authorities are also puzzled to understand how 1t was that the Ankers woman could have been able to continue puttins poison in the bottles after the first case of sickness was discovered.
 She says that she poisoned all of the bottles on Saturday night but this part of her story is not believed. The fact that only two of the children were taken i1l on Sunday and that the others did not get sick until later in the week proves. the police say, that the woman went aEain and again to poison the food of the helpless in fants They have demanded from the Hospital authorities an explanation of why after it was certain a poisoner
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