The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-02-11
WIFE'S MOTHER IN FLNERY
HEARS OF ONE CHILD'S DEATH

NEW YORK, Feb with a
flippant patting Of her Dutch bangs
aud a polishing touch OF her gold
plated earrings Mrs Jeanette Hoet-
finer had only a smile for the police
In Yorkville court yesterday afternoon
band. George Frederick Haenn'r
that one Of the four children they
cast into the streets had contracted
bronchial pneumonia and was in
grave In Potters field
Thereafter she sat In stolld indit-
ference before Magistrate Freschl
and seemed not the least Interested
when she and her husband were
plnced under arrest on charge or
abandonment and held each In Nb,oOo
bail for the grand jury nt the re-
oucsf Of District Attorney Perkins.
Their arrest was preliminary to an
investigation hy which the district at
torney will seek to prove that the
death Of the child was the direct re-
suit OF his casting OF by the parents.
who left him 10 sit all night In a
heavy rain with only the hood OF a
baby carriage ,o shield him from the
downpour
This ls the most heutreuding
case | ever have listened TO- said
Magistrate Frcs,m. 1T is horrible
TO contemplate An animal would not
have done what they appear to have
done There seems to have been no
reason, other than utterly selfish
ones. that impc'lod such loaihsome
action"
The magistrate denunclolUn OF
the couple was prompted hy the dis
covery that instead OF being out NJ
work and pcunll,ss Rt the time he
abandoned the child who subse-
uuently died Uooftner then was cm-
ployed at his trade as painter and
Az earning 81 a day.
Indifcrtnt mt to rntc Of Children.
To this information subsequently
was added Hacftncr's admission TINT
not poverty. hut his desire TO give
his tired wife chance" prompted
him to thrust his children into the
street Stlll later II was discovered
thnt for her conferences with the
agents of the Society for the Proven.
tlon Of Cruelty 90 children and m,
police regarding the two children the
couple abandoned Mrs, Hacffncr had
dressed herself In the worst clothes
she owned she left a modIsh blu,
serge and black satin, fur trimmed
gown In the furnished room at 40
329 LenoN avenue She and her hus
baud moved there on the day thcl
got rid Of the last Two OF their chill
dren
The gown was found In the room
| by newspaper reporter, who dis
! covered as we'll that Haeffner an,
/ his wife rentcdsthe place under lhD
name Of Collins and lived there for
week under that name, while thD
newspapers were printing stories o
the abandoned children who had beer
found at department store,
Equal Indifference regarding tn,
fate Of her children was exhibited b,
/ the mother IN the rooms Of the so
/ ciety, where the two waits are bcinI
cared for, Just before Ehe Learned
that the third OF her children. Earle
| lS months old was dead
Bringing up four children involve
a great deal " care and worry sh
said, "and I'm no, equal to the task
was wasting away | wouldn't min
caring for the two eldest children
They aren't so much bother nov
and they know both their father an
me But the younger two have No
learned TO know us vet They woul
not miss us.
Then, too, children must have q
education, you know. and In our cir
cumstances We could not give ther
any better than a public school cdu
cation. A man cannot be SUGGEST,
on that sort of learning. We couldn
give the four boys a better educr
tion. Four children are too many
Learns OF Mrs. Hnefners Finery
More than by the death OF IN
b child, Haeffner and his wife SCENE
b TO have been Impressed by what the
. declared was the untairness OF Erne
: X. Coulter superintendent Of the ~
? ciety, when he permitted the crlmln
charge to be placed against q