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Show THE CHILD IS DEAD. Mystery Surrounds the Departure of a Six-Months-Old Hoy. Newport, L. I., Aug. 0-To save the reputation of one cf her friends, Mrs. T. J. Smith, a music teacher of Boston, and the wife of a prominent Newport business man, brought a six-nionths-old hoy here two weeks ago. An advertisement advertise-ment carefully worded.and in the name of a certain man, was put in the papers for board for tho child. It was answered and the babe was placed with a respectable woman. The boy was very ill when put iu 1,er chnrfc'e atul died a few days ago. It was buried hastily, and the name of tho father and mother was not given to the coroner. An investigation has been begun, sonic persons believing the child was murdered. mur-dered. At the hearing today Mrs. Smith said the child was born iu New York and had been put in the Children's Chil-dren's Home at Mount Vernon. She was positive that the babe was very ill when taken from the home, but Dr. Curley, who was asked by wire, staled that the boy was iu good health when taken from there. Mrs. Smith is a fine, handsome woman. wo-man. She was examined privately, but at length. The child was named in the death" certificate as "George Amery Brown," but today iu her evidence Mrs. Smith declared that there was no justification for the name "Ainery, and that she had never stated that it was so named. Dr.' McKay and Mrs Anderson, tho woman who nad charge of the child, swear to the contrary. The coroner asked if a young woman from Vassar college who was with her last, summer was the mother. Mrs. Smith declared emphatically emphati-cally that she was not. Being asked ho the parents were, she replied : '"I wiil not tell vou if I remain forever. The mother 'was a christian woman, and belongs to one of the uio?t noted ol Boston and New York families. But her name or that of the father I will never divulge. The child died a natural natur-al death. I realize that 1 made a mistake mis-take in not giving a lietitious name for Hie mother and father." The general opinion is that one of Boston's fashionable girls was betrayed, and that she was a pupil of Mrs. Smith, who was asked to aid in earing for the child and place it in some institution. |