The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-05
GIRL, ts, KILLS BABY
TO SPITE OLD NURSE
Child Says She Hoped Woman
Who ''Was Picking on Her"
Would Be Blamed.
POISON PUT IN TEAPOT
After Infant Got Deadly Mix
ture Little Maid Tried to
Stay Servant.
POISON PUT IN TEAPOT

She didn't look like a murderess, the
tall, thin child with the bright blue eyes
and strassly fiaxen hair. as she. sat
yesterday in the office Of District Attor-
ney Lewis OF KINGS County. Yet by her
own confession she was. Frances Su-
linsiki. only thirteen years DID, is not
yet out OF grade seven in the public
school. yet she killed three-year-old Sol
oman Kramer of $50 Sheffield avenue,
Brooklyn, last Thursday.
Frances made her confession early
yesterday to Detective Frank Dough-
erty and was remanded by Justice Cor
nelius F. Collins of the Childrens Court
in care OF the Children's Society OF
Brooklyn. Justice Collins instructed
Dougherty to bring the matter to the
attention of the District Attorney. to
whose office he girl was brought late In
the afternoon. Albert Conway, Assist
ant District Attorney, took the girls
story. He made a stenographic report
Of 1t which he will submit to-day to the
District Attorney. In the meantime he
would say little, save that Frances re-
peated her first story that she poisoned
little "Solly" because his old nurse,
BRANDED Nussbaum, was unkind to her
and trying to get her out of her place,
and that she thought IL she killed. the
child BRANDED would be thought guilty
and she would be revenged.
The child seems to have marked in
telligence." the Assistant District At
torney said. When asked IL she knew
what poison was she answered. oh. yes,
1t is used to kill people She confessed
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and to other offenses which do not
care to talk OF now. cannot say what
course will be taken with her the Dis
trict Attorney will take the matter up
In the morning. She could, of course,
be tried for murder. being more than
twelve years old"
Frances went a week ago last Wednes-
day to work for the Kramers, who live
In an old farmhouse and raise chickens
to exc out the income Samuel Kramer,
the father. earns as q neckwear presser.
She had been staying with a cousin
since she ran away from home. which
she did when her father punished her for
stealing 500 from him. Her father.
John Sulinski, a Park Department EN-.
ployee. said in court that his daughter
had only lately developed the trait OF
theft, that she had always been II
good girl. fond of her three brothers
and very good to Peter. the baby"
At the Kramers she worked first for
small weekly wage. but then she went
to Mrs. Kramer and told her she would
rather be one o. the family and just
work for her board and go to school
Mrs. Kramer agreed and Frances seemec
happy. But the old nurse. according to
the girls story, picked on" her, called
her names and wouldn't allow her &c
care for little Solly as she wanted to.
rhe idea of killing him with lysol came
to her. she confessed when Mrs. Kramei
told her that this disinfectant was dan.
gerous and that she must be careful
about the supply in the house.
II crept upstairs Thursday and put
some in little Sollys mouth, hoping the
family would think the old nurse did it. -
she said. Then the baby began to froth
at the mouth and have convulslons and ]
heard Mrs. Kramer coming and went
| away. put some lysol in the teapot
| too, hoping the old nurse would drink 1t
and die"
Mrs. Kramer. finding little Solomon
writing in commissions, hastily sum-
| moned a doctor. and the baby was
rushed to the hospital. but died Friday.
Medical Examiner Edward Martin, who
performed the autopsy, said death was
due to corrosive poison in the stomach
The Kramers have four other children
Frances declared that she loved little
! Solly, and knew she had done wrong in
poisoning him."