The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-12
Took Turns Kicking and Slap
ping Their 3-Year-Old.
Finally Father Lifted 1t Up and
Threw to Walk.
SPECTATORS RAN TO RESCUE
Child Is Saved From Drunken
Mother and Father.
Last Attempt to Smother Baby
With Her Clothes.

When the little child ran first to it's
father then to its mother for protec-
ton, John and Mary Skay, two drunk
en- Indians from the reservation, north
of town, tried for fifteen minutes to-
day to kill their 3-year-old daughter.
It is thru no tenderness of heart on
the part of father OF mother that the
child is alive.
The Indians came to Topeka last
night and no one knows what the little
child passed thru during the night.
But early this morning the parents
and the child were seen near the
Shawnee mill on lower Kansas avenue.
The parents were taking turns slap
ping and kicking her. An Indian ar
rested later on another charge said
today that he stopped the parents once
when they were beating the child.
The man and woman continued to
| drink and wandered on down Kansas
they walked. 1t was directly in from.
| of the Davis Mercantile company that
the parents attempted to rid them
selves of the tagging child.
| Eye witnesses say the father struck
at the child savagely and that it ran
to its mother for protection. The
mother struck it and pushed it away.
Screaming at the top of it's voice the
child ran from both parents. The
father staggered after it, caught it,
lifted it at arms length and threw il
on the concrete sidewalk. The baby
crawled to its feet and again ran to
| its mother. She bumped its head
against the curbing. She tried to
smother it with her clothes.
Stamped on 1t.
| Then the mother stretched the child
out on the sidewalk and tried in hei
n drill
Failing in that she held it while the
| father stamped" it.
/ During all the time the parents were
mistreating the baby it was scream
ing and appealing first to the mother
and then to the father for protection
Bystanders discussed taking a hand
and eventually did The child was
taken away from the parents and g
call was put in for the patrol wagon
The drunken father and mother were
placed in Jail. The child was exam
ined for broken pones but none was
found. 1t is badly bruised and there
is cut under the chin where it was
kicked either by the father or mother
The little child clung to the off
GERS when they rescued it and wher
it reached the station and Harvey
Parsons, chief, spoke a few kini
words to it, the baby cudd1ed dowr
beside him and refused to move. He
remained with it waiting for the ma
tron to return until he was called tt
district court as a witness The baby
cried while he was gone, in spite ot
the candy, gum and pennies lavishet
upon it by officers.
Fears All Indians.
An Indian, not even an acquaintance
CT the little child, was brought in in
toxicated and the baby shrunk bacl
behind the chief. Not a word has i
said since it was brought to the sta
tfon. 1t has uttered no complaint al
tho it must be suffering from it!
many bruises. It's body was almos
stripped of clothing and the rags wer,
pinned up by officers.
Mrs. Skay, the mother, is said b,
other Indians, to be a sister of Scot
Gabby, the Indian who was tried tive
or three years ago for crushing hi
own baby's head upon the sidewalk
on lower Kansas avenue.
The Indians, the father and mother
will be tried as soon as they sober III
sufficiently