Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-09-21 | Page 1 | Mother is Dead; Baby Starving

MOTHER IS DEAD; BABY STARVING Fourteen Months Infant Found WeaK From Starvation Star-vation Beside Corpse of Mother. i NEW YORK. Sept. 21. Weak and emaciated emaci-ated from starvation, Johnny Boyle, an infant in-fant 14 months old, was found yesterday beside be-side the corpse of his foster mother, Mrs. Catherine Byram, a widow. In the kitchen of her small apartments' in Brooklyn. The baby had evidently spent hours of intense suffer-ing. suffer-ing. who having eaten all the food in the room that he could reach by his utmost endeavors, en-deavors, he had been forced by gnawinga of hunger to chew the sawdust contents of a toy horse. The floor was strewn with broken dishes and with kitchen utensils, and panes in tha kitchen windows, within striking distance of his arms, were in splinters, all from his struggles strug-gles for food. The little one was taken to a hospital. It is believed he can be nursed back to health. Mrs. Byram probably dropped dead from heart disease. She had not been seen for four days.