Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 98, 28 February 1912 — Page 8

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TUB RICIX2IOia PAIUUIU2X AND flUN TELEOIlAJtl. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1912.

TI!inOOE6nEEnOM1ERICA(l,U;i-CHRISTIAl

Woman Driven to desperation by Detectives Who Compelled Her to Sign an Alleged "Confession," of Whose Nature She Was Ignorant.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Troth is it ranger than Action. This Is one of th old saws that la ' quotable because it la true and Isn't Irritating. People take ' a certain pleasure In 1 believing that their lives possess a romance that cannot be matched by tbe wildest Imsgtalng. of a novelist or X-oet ! ' And they will, on occasion, give credence to tbe most preposterous tales, ,tnat could not. s paradoxically, be Indented by an accomjdished nctionlst. "Tbe TMrd Degree," a pUy tbat bad considerable vogue a season or two ' ago, was Hhougbt , to be exaggerated Sot ttaeatrtoal effect, but, according to tbe following clipped from a paper of reoent date,', the story of tbe drama "had nothing on" that Jn "real life:" v. With both tier confeMion and an empbatle repudiation of It in their hands, the Brooklyn police held WlnfleOd Ankers In a police station tonight, charged with causing the deaths of eight baWen by poison at tbe Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' .Hospital this week.

The admission she made last night of

having placed oxalic acid in the, babies' milk in order -to nvike trouble for the nurses, who had snubbed her, were fuJse, she declared, and had been wrung from ber unfairly with threats to take her baby from ber. "I didnY poison the babies; I loved them too .much," she said. "I signed that confession, without reading It. only after the detectives had played on my love for my own child until I was nearly crazed." Kver lnt re Tueaday, she said, she bad been hounded by detectives. Iast lht, after eight hours of grilling: at their hands, she said she grew frantic uid cried out. "I did It," 'then she said

Viey wrote out a 'confession" and had ber sign it. "My God! I didn't do it!" she exclaimed over and over again today. "Why did you say so. then?" "I don't know. I thought I wo old fnve the doctors and the hospital a lot ot trouble from tbe police." It is very much to 'be doubted if any woman would be so inhumun a mon-

slet as to deliberately poison eight babies. The very best in any woman is aroused by children. It Is a well known fact that reformation has of ten been effected, to a certain degree, in some hardened femir.lne sinner through the medium of a child. By permitting her to retain the guardianship of her own child, in instance, or to take on thait of some child kaown to her. It Is notoriously true that wornon of uncertain morals will bring up a daughter most rigorously. Cases of women murdering their children are more or less common, but the murder is invariably found to have been committed in a moment of despairing Insanity because of the hopeless prospect before them and of her Inability to see anything for them but future misery, poverty, privation and unhanplness. Many persons doubted the accumulated murders laid at the door of the famous Mrs. Qunncss.of Indiana fame. But as these were murders of mature persons and attributed to well established and logical reasons their perpetration seems altogether possible and probable. With the Brooklyn women, however, this particular crime seems incredible, and her explanation of being bullied and tortured into signing a "confession" of whose nature she was ignore nt, or but vaguely comprehended, Is entirely believable. Although the people of careful, calculating minds, who cautiously examine Into the minutest details of any ' proposition" In which they are Asked to become Involved and only sign their names to papers after fasting and prayer, to say notbtng or legal consultat ion,, boot at the Idea of people carelessly affixing their signature to moineLtous bits of paper, it Is the truth thst there is a large and constantly undepleted class of the latter. The writer remembers to have once signed some document, of whose contents she was entirely unacquainted, to rid herself of an importunate book hgent. Me stayed on and on and on. It was at a moment when the former wan supposed to be looklng-after the culinary department or the household. - Tragedies of burnt steak and scorched potatoes floated before her vision. "And the advantages are so apparent" says the devious agent. "Oh obvious most obvious " you murmur rising, "but I really don't want the book." "In that case." said the agent. "I am sure you will not object to recommending our publication your name was given to me as one of the leading "

Yes, yes but " And you incur no obligation what

ever In signing this paper a mere rec

ommendation it will do us a lot of fcood in this territory where you are

so well" "Tbankyou thankyoul" he vociferstes "I will report your kindness to tbe bouse tbey will take pleasure in --er good-day." Several weeks after, to your amazement, the expressman dumps an enormous package at your door upon wbich you have to pay $1.17 charges. "Whatever in the world," says madarae curiously pulling at the strings.-

You open it out rolls the book.

Why I never ordered that thing!"

you exclaim. "If you didn't what's it doing here?" asks madame. "Search me!" you reply. 'Well, there's some reason for It," says madame. "Mark my words you've done something to make 'em think you bought the book." "There you go with your, everlasting explanations," you say savagely. "You cau always explain everything. I didn't buy the book I tell you and told the nuin I didn't want it. I only got rid of him by recommending it!" "Signed something didn't you reccmroendation or something like tbat?" grinned madame. "Well what if I did," I said. "Simpleton!" cries madame. You write the bouse and say you don't want the book, didn't order it aud won't take it over from the Express company. They reply sending you a copy of your sworn statement. Its something the way, perhaps, with the Brooklyn woman. After being tormented to the verge of insanity by a parcel of brutal detectives, she signed something to get rid of them not understanding its exact nature. This is just as likely to be true as :iat she murdered eight babies in cold Mood.

The charge was made that she poi-

I fconed tbe children in the Nursery and

Infants' hospital because of snubs re

ceived from other nurses.

If this is true, and it probably may

be that Is, the snubbing part it is

No Dust-No Cinders on the Sunset Route to California

The roadbed is oiled oil-

burning engines are used and

you can enjoy the observation platform from morning till night without being blinded by dust and dirt The menus in the dining cars on the Sunset Route are famed for variety fruit, game, fish, meat and vegetables such as can only be found in the South.

only another instance of the pettinesses of Institutional life. - . - Everywhere you f nd It. In institutions governed by the state and in those under private control. The amazing amount of social bickering in these places is inconceivable to the casual observer on the outside. Most of these institutions are a little world apart. Their lives are regulated by its routine and tbey are dependent upon its personnel for social intercourse. Where there are men and women employees, the bickerings run to sex

considerations jealousies between

the women over tbe men and, to a less extent perhaps, of the men over the

women.

Where there are women alone, the

torments Invented by individuals and cot ries are those only possible of conception by the feminine mind.

The refinements of cruelty women

w)l! practice on each other are lncon-. ceivable to the masculine entity. J

A. thousand insulting, humiliating,

Irritating, maddening trifles that, sep-j

arately, are scarce worthy of notice, but in their accumulation are unendurable. And nowhere are they "handed out" with greater dexterity and fiendish acumen' than in Institutional life. .

This poor woman was doubtless the

object! of .this sort of feminine brutal

ity and if her mind became unhinged, it would be merely the logical result of such treatment.

"The Third Degree

a free government.

Nor any part in civilized legal procedure. No nation calling itself Christian should tolerate it And those who practice it should be subjected to its horrors. The baiting of the individual should not be included in the repertoire of the l-olice department.

FORMER PATROLMAN GREATLY IMPROVED Will White, former patrol and ambulance driver, who has been confined to his home for over eight months following an attack of paralysis, will never drive again, according to advices

of physicians. He has regained much of his strength and on several occasions has been able to walk about unassisted, but another stroke would probably prove fatal.

In Germany alcohol is now prepared from chicory root, which grows in various parts of that country.

TO CONSTRUE WILL Aa executor -of the will of the, late William L. Stephens, George L. Klein has filed complaint to construe the will in the Wayne circuit court against Alice Bissell. et si. Stephens died in January of this year.

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