The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06
RESCUE KIDDIES
ALONE in FLAT
Boy of Three and Girl of
Seven Home But Par
ents Gone.
TELLS OF AWFUL DIRT

A bright-eyed little boy of three and
a winsome little girl of seven, wond-
cred Sunday noon if it were the fairy
godmother herself who stopped at
their house, whisked them up IN her
arms and away in a modern coach and
off to place where they were dipped
in wonderful faith, scrubbed and
scrubbed, and scrubbed again and put
into clean clothes and seated at a de-
licious dinner afterwards.
II was a fairy godmother, the mod
ern kind, known as Mrs. Beulah NC
Neil of the police service bureau and
her coach was a Chevrolet sedan in
stead of transformed pumpkin
drawn by eight white mice.
Poor Little Joe and Margaret.
When the scrubbing of the children
was over there emerged two lovely
little children, and grown-ups who
viewed their comeliness were aston
ished at the winning appearance they
pearance of untold filth, according to
those who undFessed the children,
beggared description.
The reason the children were spirit
ed away from their home through the
intervention of the police was because
they had been left alone in a three
room fiat since even o'clock Satur-
day night until Sunday noon, when
neighbors decided that it was high
time someone looked after the young
sters, and sent in police call.
Mother Goes Off For Night.
According to the story related by
Mrs. Mcneil with indignation, it was
customary for the parents to give
their children only the most cursary
attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Lowe, 403 1-2
North Sheridan road are the parents
of the, two little tots, and according
to the police they will be arrested on
their return on a charge of neglect
of the children.
Mrs. Lowe left the three-room fiat
which constitutes the home at p. m.
Saturday evening, informing q neigh
Dor across the hall that she would be
gone until eleven, and asking them in
the meantime to keep an eye on the
two children.
According to the neighbors neither
the mother nor the father return
ed all night. The fire in the heater in
the fiat went out and in the morning
the man-neighbor went in and made a
fire for the little tots. Then observing
that there was kerosene and a kero-
sene fire in the room adjoining, he
let the fire go out, fearful that the
small children left alone might set
themselves and the house on fire.
Meanwhile the mother did not come
home. Neither did the father. 1t wore
on until ten o'clock in the morning.
The neighbors had children of their
own and illness in the family and
could not take the children next door
in. Finally alarmed because the chill
dren were there without care, un-
happy, cold and uncared for, the police
were summoned.
An Appalling Scene There.
Mrs. Mcneil answering the call to
the home, was appalled, by the sight
that confronted her. The rooms were
miserably dirty, unswept and uncared
for in every way. The two little chill
dren were SO dirty that baby wood
chucks in hole would have marvelled
at them.
eve had to peel the clothes off of
them when we got the pair to the de-
tention home," she said. "You could
not tell what color the hair was when
we began to wash them, and the
scrubbing brush was welded upon
them you may be sure from top to
toe. 1t was surprising to find after
the thorough bath that the little boy
had lovely light blond hair. No one
would have suspected it to look at him
earlier. All the mother had left them
to eat was little bit of milk and
some dry bread. They were two sweet
children when they came out rosy
and fresh from the bath and were
given an outfit of clean clothes. Both
were bright acknowledgment, and pair
that any father and mother might be
proud to own"
Mrs. Bob Lowe turned up at the po-
lice department at midnight Sunday
looking for her two children. Her ex-
cuse for having been absent from them
was her statement that she had been
out looking for her husband. The
youngsters were turned over to the
mother this morning and she was Civ
en- warning that if another complaint
was received about their care or be-
ing left alone an effort would be made
to give them another home.