Norwalk, Conn, Wednesday Evening, July 1, 1896.
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Coroner Doten Investigates a
Bevolting Case of Baby
Farming.
The “ Farm ” Bight ”\re in Norwalk,
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For some time past the GAZETTE has
been in possession of a knowledge that
Coroner Doten was investigating a case
of alleged baby farming in Norwalk,
but at the request of the officers and
others, has withheld from publishing
the facts until now.
The case is a revolting one and was
brought to light during an examination
of the coroner as to the cause of the
death of Marietta, the 5-months old
child of Jennie Smith an unmarried
colored girl living in this city. The
parties concerned are all colored people_
The child, Marietta Smith, was put
into the hands of Ann Anderson, ,9‘ col-
ored woman, who has a reputation for
taking care of the unwelcome offspring
of any who may happen to have the
cash and are willing to part with it in
exchange for a few months’ board for
the infant. ‘
The testimony produced before Cor-
oner Doten exposed a terrible state of
. affairs in the household of the woman
who was supposed to care for the chil-
dren. Jennie Smith, the mother of
the dead baby paid $9 per month for
the care of her infant. Two months of
the treatment proved fatal to the child.
Mrs. McKeever, a kind-hearted col-
ored woman who lived near by noticed
the condition of the child. She found
on several of her visits to the Anderson
household that the baby’s bottle con-
tained nothing but sour milk. She
took the child home with her from
sheer pity. She found her little back
covered with sores produced by filth
and lack of change in posture. Her
._ clothinghad not been changed and her
condition showed that there had been a
sad lack of food. When Mrs. McKee-
ver found the ‘sufiering infant she was
covered with flies and in the most filthy
condition imaginable. The kind-heart-
ed colored woman was too late in her
ministrations, for death relieved the
sufferings of the child within 24 hours
after the change.
Medical Examiner Burke was noti-
fied after the death‘ and the result
of his investigation is the disclosure of
the state of affairs as described. He
found two white children, who were
said to have been sent from Brooklyn.
No one knowns who are the parents of
these poor children, and nothing could
be more pitiable than their condition.
The neighbors who were not over scru-
pulous in matters of morality were
moved to pity by the sufferings of the
children, and while they testified re-
luctantly before the coroner, their tes-
timony disclosed the existing state of
affairs.
Coroner Doten found after hearing
the testimony, that the child, Marietta
Smith, died of neglect and starvation.
He also found that Ann Anderson was
guilty of criminal neglect and recom-
mended that the two children remain-
ing in her charge be rvvn :vel to some
other place. Medical Examiner Burke
. made a post mortem to-day with an
idea of obtaining additional evidence
against the Anderson woman.
Prosecuting Attorney Gregory was
this morning in receipt of a copy of the
finding of Coroner Doten, and will
proceed against the woman on a crimi-
nal charge.
The two children who are still alive
were older and better able to care for
themselves, but if the testimony of the
neighbors is worthy of credence it was
only a matter of time when they would
have succumbed to the inhuman treat-
ment that is a part of the policy of such
institutions.
'The body of the child was exhumed
and taken to J. D. Jennings’ morgue,
where Medical Examiner Burke and
Dr. John T. Kennedy performed an
autopsy at noon to-day and the Ex-
aminer reports that death was primarily
caused by inanition and caseons degen-
eration of the right lung which prob-
ably followed bronchial pneumonia.
All other organs were found to be
healthy. The Examiner found nothing
that would have prevented the child’s
recovery from the lung trouble had it
received pnftiper car‘e’a‘nd nourishment.
he?" Cases Continued.
The casj 1.,of the'fState vs. Mrs. Esther
Mason, M siRafae‘lle Areno, and Adol-
phus Byxbeg whoigwere arrested in the
raid on an fillggedpdisorderly house on
Main street, Satgrdgy night, and which
were set down fer'ta hearing in the
Town Court, this morning, were con-
tinued until next ,Tuesday morning at
10 o’clock. ”i"
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OYSTER GROUNDS TAKEN.
Shell Fish Commission Has Condemned
1,643 Acres for Taxes.
The Shell Fish Commission has just
completed its work of condemning the
- oyster ground reverting to the state
through the failure of the owners to pay
taxes. In nearly every one of the in-
stances the ground has been allowed to
become state property again because it
was considered unfit for the cultivation
of oysters ~.
The total amount of ground condemn-
ed by, the commission this year is 1,642
acres divided among the different own-
ers as fellows: Daniel McNeil], New
Haven,’40; F. W. Shepard and R. G.
~ Averill, Branford, 50 each; William T.
Brooks, South NOl‘Wnlk 33; Theodore
Clark, 42, Alexander Lulz, 16, Peter H.
Walsh, 4. all Greenwich; John Daley
87, and C. H. Waterman, 200, Westport;
Henry R-._Fitch 20, Delos L. Franklin
500, William Godfrey 46, Thomas
Wright 103, all Norwalk; Nelson Fris-
bie, New Haven. 100; George F. Galatt
Fairfield, 103: P. B. Huested, Stam-
ford, 10; John McGraii, Port Chester,
12; Lincoln Morse, Fairfield,:57; D. L.
Peck estate, Clinton, 50; Stannard S:
Moore, Westbrook, 117.
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Nearing the Shadow Land.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author
of the immortal Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and America’s leading woman of letters,
is critically ill at her Home with her
two daughters in Hartford. Up to last
Friday, she was out almost every day
walking with her nurse through the
neighboring grounds of Mark Twain
and Charles Dudley Warner and along
the street in the vicinity.‘ She walked
with vigor, but her sunken face gave
no sign of intelligence, even when old
friends greeted her. Occasionally, as
when last Thursday she repeated one
of her own poems, there have been mo-
ments when it seemed that her intellect
was still unclouded, and that it was
only her power of speech that was afi'ect-
ed. She was able to guide a pen under
the direction of another person, and
not long since completed the task of
putting her autograph in 250 volumes of
her works soon to be brought out.
It is not thought she can live many
days.
The cause of Mrs. Stowe’s illness is
congestion of the brain. with partial
paralysis.
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Met a Tragic Death.
Rev. Edward Payson Baker, brother-
in-law of Rev. Thomas K. Noble, met
with a tragic death last week in the
Santa Cruz Mountains in California.
He was riding his bicycle and just as
he was coming to a bridge over one of
the deep ravines in the Mountains, he
lost control of his wheel and was thrown
into the chasm, and when found life
was extinct. It is thought that death
was instantaneous. The many friends
which Mrs. Baker made during her ex~
tended visit with her brother last year,
here in Norwalk,will deeply sympathize
with her in this heavy afiiiction.
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Stockholders “ Connecticut Catholic.”
The “ Connecticut Catholic ” Pub-
lishing company has been organized in‘
Hartford with a capital of $10,000, 60
per cent. paid in cash. The subscribers
are Biship Tierney, William O’Neil and
Thomas F. Kane of Hartford, thirty .
shares each and John E. Cox of Bridge-
port, ten shares.
The Daly Company Sails.
Daly’s company sailed for. England
to-day. Four of the company went by
the Cunarder Britannic and the rest, in-
cluding Miss Ada Rehan,‘ by the St.
Paul, to open the London season at
'Daly’s Comedy Theatre. At the last
moment, Mr. George Clarke was gladly
released from going.
"Operatta. ‘.
The Operettaof “Little Red Riding
Hood” given by the Junior Endeavor
Society of the First Congregational
Church will be repeated next Tuesday
evening, J 1'in 7, in, the chapel, on which
occasion 'MrsL'Newkirk, Miss Sherwood
and Miss-Littlejo’hn will also assist.
_' Licensefloney.
Yesterday the county, commissioners
made the division 9,! the June license
money, as follows: "Bridgeport, $27,.
.145; .. _ Danbury, ; 8668,75; -. Stamford,
$622.35; Norwalk, 8180.551", Stratford,
The'fiscal year. closed yester-
day; ’ " ‘ ' '-
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‘Pensions. ',‘-- .
Original, Royal 1. Leverage'nridgég.
port; Wilbur Freeman, Branford. Qr-‘
iginal widow’s. eto., special act, Juliuf'
ette Betta (daughter), Norwalk; Mary
A. Johnson. Middletown..; " -. .
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An advertisement in the Gaznrra
{will my you.
Mrs. Benedict.
,; man street at-gaiandiEast 31st street at
£230 p.__m. on both days....,”. '. ‘-
STULE A WATCH. '
Captured by Chief Vollmer and
Sent to Jail by Judge
Hubhell.
A Light Fingered Compositor.
Yesterday afternoon a printer drifted
into this office and asked for work. He
said that he had walked eighteen miles
and was as hungry as a pack of wolves.
He was given a quarter with which to
purchase a sandwich and going out,
said he would return as soon as he had
appeased that gnawing feeling in his
stomach.
After a short absence, he returned
and was set at work. He seemed to be
industrious and it was deeded to retain
him in the office for a few days. At
quitting time he asked to be directed to
a boarding-house and was sent to Mrs.
Weyerhauser’s on River street.
He stated that he belonged in Wash-
ihgton, was a friend of “Tip” Boy, the
noted hotel proprietor of that city, and
had been employed in the Government
Printing Office. He expressed himself
as being pleased with the appearance
of Norwalk and thought, so he said,
that if he could secure a steady situation
he would locate here and send for his
Wife and children who were in Wash-
ington.
He went to the boarding-house, ate
supper, and then took a stroll about
the street until about ten o’clock. when
he returned to the house and was given
a room with a son of the landlady.
This morning he ate breakfast and
about five minutes after started, as he
asserted, to go to work. But he evi-
dently lied, as he started down the
street in an opposite direction from this
office. '
Soon after he left the house the lad
with ' whom he had roomed missed his
silver watch and chain, and immediately
credited his room-mate with having
stolen it and started to South Norwalk
in pursuit, having learned that the man
had gone in that direction. .
Weyerhuaser on reaching South Nor-
walk notified Chief Vollmer and gave
him a description of the man. The
Chief jumped on a street car and rode
towards this city keeping a sharp look-
out for the party, and finally espied
him leisurely walking down the avenue,
and placing him under arrest held him
until the arrival of Chief Bradley who
had been notified of Vollmer’s clever
capture.
The watch and chain were found in
the man’s possession and he made no
attempt to deny having stolen it.
Mrs. Weyerhauser had notified Offi-
cer Kenney but too late for him to
apprehend the fellow.
This morning, in the Town Court, the
man gave his name as William Adel],
and pleaded guilty to theft. He said
that he was under the influence of in-
toxicants when he took the watch and
chain and five minutes after the 'theft
regretted it.
' Judge 'Hubbell sentenced him to
ninety days ‘in jail together with the
costs of prosecution. And he will not
locate in Norwalk for the present.
President CleVeland at Greenwich.
The President-left Washington on
route to Gray Gables.Monday night,
reaching Jerseleity early yessterday
morning,where Commodore E. C. Bene-
dict was in waiting. for him with his
yacht Oneida.
Greenwich and the President enj'Oyed
a fine view of the special races of the
Indian Harbor‘Yach’t club from the
yacht’s deck. ‘He passed the. night at
the residence Of Mr. Benedict and this.
morning, set sail in the Oneida for.
Gray Gables, accompanied by Mr. and
. Burglary. '
some time last night the carriage
shop of Burr'Glover on Brook street,
was burglarized. . The burglars gained
an entrance by bursting open the back
door of the shop. They then pried
open a tool chest in which Mr. Glover
had kept a watch but had disposed of
some days since. They departed tak-
ing with them a dozen eggs which were
lying on a wagon seat. The eggs Mr.
Glover says are about three months of
age, a. fact which the theives are no
doubt etc this aware. '
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7 " Steamboat to New York.
' The Steamboat company has secured
' "the Isabel to make a ,tripito; and -‘from
'Neonrk on Friday, July 3'and .Monf
any"; July 6, in order-to bring passen-
gers .toNorwalk, to spend the Fourth,-
also: to - take _ them home on Monday.
The boat will'leave S.o_nth.'Norwal_lt at
7:80 o’clock‘a. ’m. and New York, Beek-’
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Th‘é‘iparty steamed for ‘ ‘
LESS SALARY.
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The Norwalk Post Office Reduced $l00 on
Account of Decreased Receipts.
The postofiice department yesterday
made public the change in the classifi-
cation and salaries of' the presidential
postofiices for the fiscal year beginning
to-day.
The following shows the changes in
classification in Connecticut apostoffices
as well as the offices in which salaries
of postmasters have been decreased as
a result of falling off in receipts: East
Hartford advanced from fourth to third
class and Montowese relegated from .
third to fourth class. Colchester $1,600,
decrease $1,400; Litchfield $1,700, de-
crease 81,600; Norwalk 82,400, decrease
$2,300; Lakeville $1,300, decrease $1,200;
Moodus $2,700, decrease $2,500'
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l73l—An Anniversary Note—I896
One hundred and sixty-five years
ago to-day, six Norwalk descended
Boutons, three Norwalk Benedicts, and
two Norwalk Seymours, with twenty-
eight other sons of Norwalk and Stam-
ford, met and organized the first ecclesi~
astical parish—Congregational—in that
part of Norwalk then known as Canaan,
and now as New Canaan.
John Bouton who sprang from the
cottage lot the southeast corner of
which is to-day marked by the Consoli-
dated road’s Osborn avenue bridge
abutment, was the moderator of the
meeting and the.well known ancestor,
John Betts of Norwalk, was chosen
clerk. Among the thirty-nine people ~
whom the chairman that July day
called to order, were such strong men
as Ebenezer Carter who had owned
where Mrs. Jonathan Camp now in great
peace resides, and Zerubbable Hoyt
brought up in the then and now delight-
ful meadow in which stands at present
the fine East avenue Earle home, and
Captain Thomas Seymour of East Nor-
walk, who would have been justly proud
could he have foreknown his A. D. 1896
descendants, and Thomas Rusco, the
etc '57 of whose family teems with in-
staéicticn, a'gIchn Fitch from whom
was to emanate an offspring, claiming,
with truth, several kings of France and
also the Emporer Charlemagne for
progenitors. These old worthies ex-
hibited excellent taste in finally agree-
ing upon a site for their maiden edifice
—not a great many feet removed from
the present structure—at the lower end
of Haynes’ Ridge; a site of rare histori-
cal, geneological and picturesque inter-
est, and one, the ancient and modern
description of which, would easily fill
a no mean sized volume.
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A Prize for Sawter.
George W. Sawter of Stamford, has
been appointed consul at Glanshau,
Germany. where he has been U. S.
commercial agent. The consulship
pays better.
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Nominated A. 1.VWilcoxson.
A meeting of Co. D, C. N. G. was
held last evening at the armory, called
for the purpose of electing captain and
other officers. The election resulted
in the choice of First lieutenant A. J.
Wilcoxson of Co. F for captain, he re-
ceiving 27 votes of the 28 votes polled.
Sergt. Richard O’Gorman was elected
First Lieutenant and Q. M. Sergt. J.
H. Lincoln, scribe. The newly elected
captain will at once set to work to [re-
cruit up the company and raise it to the
standard of any company in the regi-
ment.
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Make a Good Move.
’"EvEnING GAZETTE checker board af-
ords a chance for business men to ad-
vertise.’ It will be found on the fourth
page. The checker board is a unique
way of advertising and attracts much
attention. .Make a wise move and oc-
cupy one of the squares.
WESTPORT.
.,_‘ The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet at 3 o’clock this after-
nOOn in Temperance hall. ' '
Epworth League held a ‘ business '
meeting and sociable withMiss Carrie - -_
Snifi‘en last evening.
,The funeral of the late William "
Rhodes McCready will be private-in: :j. , ._
compliance with the expressedwishf or. _ ‘. : ..
the deceased.
' To-morrow evening there will be“ an; .
installation of. new officersof the: Sons" 2‘2.
of Temperance: George-Fairchild,'Wfi. ' —. . .-. ; .:- j .
'P.;'9§Bociate W."1?.,‘Williain‘l‘,‘S_n-i—fi‘eii;1“.~ ‘ '3 ' ' *
F~ S-l’Frederick-M. N swellgtreasufrefif 1 3
Miss Marnyraves; B. 8;, .Mr.&P_uray;‘; 1
assistantBfifig,‘ Miss carrieJS‘nifi'emf ';- _
chaplain,;‘Rev. MrIVfik’e‘m'an; condhc-‘f. .~ '
tor,_ers,’ C.‘ reg; associate; conductor,
Edward Sanford; .I.S£,'Jose‘phFannihg;_ .2, I H .
0'. S, Mrs. IAM, Manning": .Ajtftfer:lthe~
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UURHUNDHD noun PM
A Magnificent Piano for the Most Popular
School-Lodge, Society, Club or Fire Com-
pany in Fairlield County.
Which is our most popular school, lodge, society, club or
fire company?
Which one has the most admirers and friends?
Doubtless these questions are beyond the. power of any
absolute answer, but THE EVENING GAZETTE offers an
exceptional opportunity to make the test. THE GAZETTE pro-
poses to poll the votes of the people. And the voting is to
have zest in it. It is made worth while to vote. There is a
magnificent prize at stake.
THE GAZETTE will give A $400 UPRIGHT PIANO to the
school, lodge, society, club or fire crmipany which gets the
most votes.
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HERE IT, IS!
It is an instrument of the very finest character, It is
beautiful in its workmanship, an ornament worthy‘of. any
home, and in all its musical qualities it is unsurpassed. In
every sense it is a perfect and beautiful instrument—eequal‘to
the best that can be anywhere bought for $400 IN GOLD. .
The following are the rules which govern theiv'oti‘ngle
1—THE GAZETTE will print each day a blank coupon, eachccupon being
good for one vote for the school, lodge, society, .club or. fire com-
pany the owner of the coupon may select—the blank lines'in the
coupon to be filled out with the name and address. ‘Thercoupon
to-day is at the end of this article. ‘ - ‘
2—The contest will close on July 2, and the Winner annOunc’ed ,on'July 3.
3—Any school, lodge, society, club or fire company in'Fairfield County is
eligible. ' - ‘ - j
4—A full record of the voting will be published up to date every evening
in THE GAZETTE, but votes received after. 10 a. M. will not be re-
corded until a day later. - 1 ‘ '- '
5—Coupons must be filled out in a plain handwriting, for otherwise blund-;: .l.
Blank coupons, of:
ers can not be avoided and votes will be lost.
course, can not be counted.
THE PIANO. OFF El] 13 THE 86
It is a piano made upon honor and sold upon merit. A
party'buying one does not get merely a handsome case, He
gets a thorough musical instrument; The tone of the instru
ment is full, rich, resonant and well sustained, the seals is
magnificent. ‘ j ‘ "
FolloWing is the voting coupon, a copy .of which will ap-
pear in THE GAZETTE daily.
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