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DBought and Sold in Place of Dogs in Des Moines.SOIf8*aSOME WERE BURNED ALIVEFormer Nurse Makes Sensational Aft; davit at the Trial For M One Baby Too HI to Sell, Wassoned.tl Affi' urdei%JiI a « IDen Moines, la,, June 5—It is a Rtrs, web which ban been woven to about the lives of Mrs. Fred West, proprietress oi a baby farm, and MM Anna Beat tit?, her head nurse, who areon trial In the Folk county court for tiie murder of Baby Jim There is no such baby and never has been, is th£ defense. But if the prosecution presses'the point too hard the attorneys for the accused women intend to produce a hoy and claim It is the one reported killed. The Iowa, Humane Society through Its state s retary, Mrs. Elisabeth Baird, caused the prosecution.Babies have been hurried at the West baby farm before they were dead thrown into the furnace to on IHeir helpless cries’*—is a charge*V'.:• i :j Mt» Flora Cobb*. tic « liief wii-ness for the prosecution nnCformert! 1 I'* tjje hotue. M I - ^ U evnrllPhi-:, ivIt- sllie dcehifcs she saw Misti r- Je gfy ' ten do te-. of Iaii e»rnini t*) *‘Bah.v Jim/' under the dir . tlou ofWest^ J Irs West risked me to give theIpvii o-um U 1'.• b.i by r:s i • i • u-rht uio ti ■ p 'it; 11 boUlt-,* si.-1 s lid I ivfu.! 1 and Mrs. West Odd no* not to | 1 :IHh—that It wh- the way theyri nvs ilid when H - huh ’ s gave a?' trouble they put tin in out of mis cry as fast hh possible.” 1T' ii i hero has been traffic in babb *i niUed The infants were boughtat'I cd l. and vhon this was impossible ,:r. ■ -.i awny. Inmates of disorderly Uwc «, it !» .viid, bought the babies, v lilt *hem n- one would ;i poodle, t lt;+» • « ft UpJ;, ^ Li L b.c ie i v r * wnm -»- f H v\ i-tie n hut they were will* h - to pay good prices. Mrs. Baird Balms nl o to have discovered that flu- In by farm proprietors w-re run nlng their own graveyards without la* gal formality. |Baby Jim is alleged to have been c lop ted b\ a family who wanted a babj to get a fortune, but he became aifll led with an eye disease and was exchanged for another. Then he disappeared. Miss Golde declares that Mrs, West ordered him put out of his misery with laudanum. Mrs, West de nfes this and says she will produce Baby Jim
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Smithfield Herald
Smithfield, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jun 07, 1907
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