Year: 1875

A Human Monster in Georgia. =.
II 81 -... 4 r-r..-9- 4.


The scene of this heart-mOving case,
saws the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution, is
at the farthest end of Whitehall Street,
in little one-story, three-room house,
occupied heretofore by a negro family
which moved to Atlanta early in the
spring. During the summer, the wife
and mother died, leaving two small
children to the care of the father. The
children are a boy and girl; the boy
being. two or three years of age, and the
I girl between six and seven years old.
The boy is unable either to walk or talk,
and both are very iu-grown from want
of care and attention. The father (whose
name is not known in the neighborhood.
that we could ascertain), has wantonly
neglected these children ever since their
mother died. He has been in the habit
of visiting the house very seldom, and
always at late hour in the night. At
these visits he very rarely brought food
and gave to the children, and for some
weeks they have almost entirely been
fed by surrounding neighborS. They
would cry and beg for something to eat
with more than the usual persistency of
children, vet no one seems to have re-
cOgnized their true condition until they
were very nearly beyond saving. Their
abandonment occurred on Friday even
ing last. On that day the father came
home and stayed several hours. He
gathered up some of his personal effects
. I,,-l, ,aI o,,1 fnl1 tho Obi
that he was going away, but would not
stay from them very long. He then
took them into the house, made them a
sort of pallet upon the floor and told
them not to cry or, move out of the
house. The designing and inhuman
brute then left the house and locked the
children in, having, doubtless, no other
purpose in his mind than that
of starving them to death. This move
ment was not seen or known of by
any. of the persons living near, some of
whom supposed he had gone away and
taken the children with him. This be-
lief was speedily dispelled when the
cries of the children were heard issuing
from the house. These outcries from
them were heard at intervals during the
DAYS and nights of Saturday and Sun
DAY, when the neighboring lady, not
seeing any thing of the father about nor
the door open for several days, deter
mined to see into the matter. On Mon
day noon she did so, by going into the
yard and looking into one of the rooms
through the glass of the window. A
startling spectacle met her gaze as she
peered in through the window. There
upon the rags lay the almost uncon-
scious baby-child, worn and wasted and
looking as if death had already chilled
it. 1t was sleeping the deep sleep of
exhaustion from crying and starvation.
The girl was sitting down in the middle
of the floor, crying family, but looked
up when the window was darks1ed by
the lady's form, and the face thus
shown, the finder teStifies, looked wild
and frightful from the pangs of starva-
ton and the desperation naturally ac-
companying this consuming death! The
lady Immediately called assistance from
among the neighbors, and the door was
forced open for the purpose of reseuing
and relieving the starving children.
The first words uttered by the girl when
she espied the lady at the window were
| for - Bread! Glib me some bread!n and
! this she repeated whenever any one
came near, until she was taken ont of
the house. Mrs, Cook gave the children
some bread and milk to eat, which they
devoured ravenOusly, and from which
they had to be restrained. They were
found to be in terrible plight-flthy,
weak, emaciated and literally starving to
death! Thewonder is that the frail crea-
lures survived as long as they did. The
! Youngest child was very nearly dead
when taken up, and its life is not yet
assured. 1t may not long survive the
wasting, consuming process which it
has undergone. The girl was in hard
| " better condition, and was found to
| he almost too weak to control her
movements or to speak with any posi-
tive degree. of intelligibility. She said
they had been left by their father with
out any thingto eatbeyond a few mouth
/ fuls, but that he had promised to come
back soon with something good to eat.
He had not returned, however. The
girl, being found bloody, was asked the
cause, when she held up her right hand,
showing it was raw and sore, she hav-
ING chewed her fingers for the purpose
of moistening her lips and tongue, and
satisfying a little of the gnawingS of her
stomach. She had also permitted the
baby to suck the blood from her hand :


The case was taken in charge by the
ladies, among them Mrs. Cook; Mrs.
Denis and Miss Susie ScrOggin, who did
all in their power to alleviate the suffer
ers. They have now been placed with
colOred family in the neigh
borhood, who will take care of them as
far as possible.


The police were informed of the mat
ter yesterday, and up to midnight had
been keeping a live lookout for the in
human brute of father of these chill
dren, but without avail We are unable
to describe him, but he will doubtless
be caught and punished for his crime,
which is little less than an attempt to
murder. Indeed, the girl says that her
father starved her mother to death dur
inr the summer in this same way, and
that he told her (the GRID not to be
afraid of being starved in the same
manner as her mother, when ne left or
Friday.


This is a horrible case of depravity


and we hope the perpetratOr may reaI
1.-THE penalty of his brutal deed.


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