Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 1 | Youngsters Kept Prisoners in Room for Many Months

Yopgsters Kept Prisoners in Room for Many Months PUEBLO, Colo., May 22. Five children were kept in one bed in one room for eighteen months by their mother, Mrs. Margaret Louise Cummiugs, 30 years old, who was arrested yesterday by Humane Officer Offi-cer Allen. Today tho mother was taken to a hospital for observation as to her sanity. The plight of the children was discovered when Allen investigated complaints of neighbors, who believed be-lieved there was something wrong in Mrs. Cummings's home. The children chil-dren ranging in ago from twenty months to six years, were so weak from their long confinement that only the eldest could walk at all.