Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Mother Dead, Babies Hungry. [ARTICLE]

Mother Dead, Babies Hungry.

In four rooms of a small cottage at 650 North Springfield avenue, Chicago, a policeman Friday night found six children, hungry and cold. One was suffering from pneumonia and lack of nourishment and about the little one’s bedside were gathered the others. In the adjoining room lay the body of the children’s mother, Mrs. John Conrad, who had died in the afternoon. Three months ago Conrad, who is a painter, left his family, and went to lowa in search of work. He went at first to Sioux City, and nothing has been heard from him since. Mrs. Conrad did her best to feed the babes and was helped by the neighbors. Then came her sickness and sudden death.