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Title: Street Arabs and gutter snipes. The pathetic and humorous side of young vagabond life in the great cities, with records of work for their reclamation
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Needham, Geo. C. (George Carter), 1840-1902
Subjects: Child welfare Poor
Publisher: Boston : D. L. Guernsey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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her was under theinfluence of drink at the time, while the coroner remarkedthat the life of the child had been sacrificed to the mothersfolly. A married woman who drowned herself was found in thewater with her youngest child, a girl under three years ofage, tied to her waist. A soldier who had been discharged from his regimentwas charged with the murder of his daughter, an infant amonth old. The cowardly ruffian came home, and afterbeating first his wife, and then the womans father, seizedhis infant daughter, swung her round his head, and dashedher against a hen-house, soon after which the child died. Harrowing would be the stories we might tell about step-mothers— jealous, ignorant, cat-like women, to whom theoffspring of former wives were helpless victims on whomall kinds of cruelty might be practised. An inquest washeld on the body of a boy eleven years of age, whoseemaciated condition, even as he lay in his coffin, was noticedby the coroner and the jury. One of the jurymen and a
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THE HOMELESS. UNNATURAL PARENTS. 87 female witness very succinctly stated the facts of the case. The former said: u All my children, and others as well, know that the boy never had sufficient food, and if any one gave him anything to eat he was flogged for taking it. The other witness, who had known the child for nine years, added : ^ When his mother was alive he was well treated, but since his father had married affain he was quite neglected. He was half starved. I have seen bruises and other marks of ill-usage upon him. Of course the coroner lectured the vixen on her cruel and inhuman conduct, but unhappily could award no more fitting punishment. This of a laboring man: u Theprisoner, his wife, and the deceasedchild were left in the room about eiohtoclock, and on the brother of the pris-oner going into the room at half-pastnine oclock the prisoner was foundlying upon the floor asleep, and the child was also on the floor, quite dead, but still warm. Amedical examination disclosed the

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