The Washington times., 1919-10-12
POISONED BABIES
WIN OVER DEATH
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The mother became frightened. She
told how she acted.
II stayed up with them every
night-every night-but they. didn't
get well and they didn't die. I was
mad-mad with fright"
Then the terror Of her deed gFipped
her. She ran to a neiEhbor, Mrs.
Grace Baldwin, and confessed all.
on Monday the children were
rushed to the Provident Hospital at
Detroit.
The attending physician, DR.. H.
". Yates, made an examination and
shook his head.
Death Is slowly coming to them
both, he said. There Is no hope"
The father begged, pleaded. The
physician could give him no hope.
Then came the message from DR..
Carter. In the middle Of the night
Mr. Luikhart determined to take
that one chance in a million Those
were the odds.
start Early for Chicago.
Before other little patients in the
childrens wards were awake. while
heavy skies still held the day in
darkness, the girls were awakened
With their father and a nurse their
ambulance began the trip to the sta
tion.
Slippery streets and traEic held
them up from time. to time, and II
was only because weather conditions
held up the train that they were en-
abled to catch IL fifteen minutes be-
hind schedule. The train started half
an hour late.
The shocking story OF the mothers
insane crime against her children had
swept Detroit, and so, when the two
little girls were carried through the
station, a crowd that knew all about
them ana this last hope against death
gathered to see them of.
1t was not a morbid crowd Many
a prayer followed the train as It
pulled out.
On the train, reporters surrounded
the father when the children had
been made comfortable in the COM
partment assigned to them.
whole Train Sends Gifts.
Il was a strange trip to Chicago.
The train had hardly gained way
before il seemed that every body
aboard knew the children were there,
and knew their pitiful story.
Mothers unconsciously hugged their
children closer as they heard OF the
presence on the train Of Shirley and
Edna. And the children themselves
must have known, for gifts began to
come to the compartment
From the children came dolls. More
than twenty Of them we're piled in
the compartment by the time the
train reached ChicagO-all sorts and
varieties Of them-rag dolls, kewpies
and aristOCratic china dolls.
ha ina
why they did il, sent handkerChiefs.
Books were also given.
Candy was sent to the compartment
by the dozens OF pounds. It seemed
that everybody in the train must have
sent a box. IL piled up in a pathetic
heap-pathetic because. the children
couldn't eat any Of il.
Shirley was still during the trip.
except for an occasional Mother"
that came from her pallid lips. Edna
sat up and chatted with her father
and the reporters.
At Battle Creek the engines were to
be changed. They had wired ahead
to Martin DOnahUe. who was to re-
lieve the engineer, that the train was
an hour and ten minutes late, and
that he would have to speed UP his
part Of the trip. They explained why. |
Donahue backed the engine he had
into the roundhOUse and got another |
one-the fastest one there.
Crowd GFeets Train.
The train arrived at 3:O5 p. m, an |
hour and FIVE minutes late, despite |
unusual and heroic efforts to save 1
time.
There was a crowd waiting at the /
Michigan Central station. News Of /
he journey preceded the train.
DR.. Carter was there with two
imbulances and two nurses. Porters 4
from the train carried two little |
5tretchers out. Shirley was uncon-
5ciOus. Edna was clipper and show
I'd great interest in things.
the right OF way along