Infant Murder in New York
Child Murder in New York.—HORRIBLE REVELATIONS.—The New York Board of Health has knowledge of more than thirty houses in that city wherein the sole business is the procuring of abortions. Four deaths of infants having been reported in one house, in a single day, Registrar Harris ordered an investigation, and the inspector found the mansion full of young and middle-aged women from all parts of the country, all either far advanced in pregnancy or suffering from operations which had but recently been performed. Here are the rules of the house, as posted in every lodging room: - Ladies entering this institution for confinement are not allowed below the parlor stairs.
- No visitors, male or female, allowed in the rooms.
- Each occupant is expected to keep her room in order, excepting when disabled by sickness; such notice to be sent to the Madame.
4. All persons leaving children at this institution can have no further claim upon them, and must never trouble the Madame for said children as to their whereabouts. The board of Health is seeking power to break up such establishments, which it does not now possess. It is said that the abortionists, being unable to obtain burial permits for the infants which they slaughter, now burn the remains in furnaces. —A society for carrying on systematically the business of stealing and secreting, and selling stolen goods, has just been unearthed and broken up at Norwalk, Conn. It was regularly organized, with President, Secretary and Treasurer, and was composed mainly of clerks in all branches of trade. A strict account was kept of the stealings of each member, and the value accredited to him on the society book. Profit enough had been, already secured to enable two families connected with it to visit the Paris Exposition. —Newbern (N. C.) imports twelve hundred barrels of Scotch snuff annually from a single firm in New York. It supplies all the North Carolina “dippers.” —The morality of running street cars on Sunday is being discussed by Baltimore clergymen in their pulpits.