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Show BABIES' HANDS ARE BADLY BURNED IN-i PUNISHMENT Woman Said to Hare Put Foundling' Fingers Into ' Boiling Water. VEW TOr.K, Tier. JT. TMinii-hment oni th ItnMjnation of a Jnte ' " wa mMtd nut n two 4-yer-nM children chil-dren by flcr mother In tueena, according to the- police. The huh fee, i with the fiph of their Utile hands i tt"H(pj off from scaldin-T, are In PL . Mary a hospital. The foeter mother, Mrh. Julia Maff of No. 1.5 Rector ! atreet. ('nion course, mas arrested on ( A charce nf felonlnti aaaautt. 'I 1 i rharged that, foe wnie trifling 4 rtlaohertlcnra.- Mr-v- Ilaff plunged in h;ticN of (he little onen'tntn n. caldron "f t'nilitiir h h ter. Owrcortif with r-mr, r-mr, (he nolloe aatd, flie railed them np nnd reported the serious Injury to 1 ihr bflMen. j SHRIEKED IN PAIN. , The rhlldren were Mhriekt-ng when the ambulance arrived. Their little ! handt end wriwta were ,i maa of bit- ; ter. Vlfn the orderly In the Hop pi tal naked little ttarham Haves. 4, Hn1 her foster brother, SHuiyb-r I'avle. the vimo as. miiHi had happened, the for- ' rner lisped: "Our new mother, ehe burned m." A pnon a the ambulant- arrived ; fb bopitfii and (he fnrtw bec-Hme ' r-nnwn. .11 r-. I T.i TT was arrested. ! lnv-Mication, the p.illre nnUi, proved the children, .who itre foundling iidnpird bv Mr. Ilaff from an inatftti- ; lion at No. West Thirty-ftfth Mreet. New York, bad done ome trl- j f'in rbildirit tvrnng The woman Is rrrtAped b th police lo have jiluiiKeil j the hand and wrists of the babies j into a pot of boiling water. Their ccrM ms. at t rut trd neighbors, who J rushed In. The pollre an Id neighbors of the ; wnmi'n plated that she had been af- J f'il bv religious mania. j Th woman's husband. Edward Haff. i in biiHinr.-a In New York, wrji absent j w'iifii the MrnMing took place When ! he :irrived home and was' lotd by Ilia j ..i;ir -old f-on that his wife had been I i r ret ted h ruxhrd t thr polite at a- J firm. j BEGS FOR A BfBLE. ' The w.inHn subbed on her husband Fhnildr and bcvKd for a Hlbi, aay- Ing: I rad the bttU one the Rible. bnt i thev wouldn't brhave, nnd then I stuck ' their d.ii'd In tbf watr. t didn't know M w;a hd. I thought it wan on'y I varm. They wouldn't pay any atten- j fton to my reading from the hible. I didn't know what to do." I The hufband. In talking with the police po-lice fter he bad eeen hi wife, aald he j believed the whole affair wan an accl- dnt, and that hi wife had merely I MriM to. frighten the little ones. He j .kid : Why. we love those; two little onen iuM a much as we love our own little ' btiy. Th neighbors will tell any one that they have often acen my wif fondllujf the two of them on the front J porch and In the windows. No one I rouid make me believe that ahe de-.fji liberately ecaldefi their hand. It la ! II .-ome awful mistake.' ! II lr. Pavfd Hallln of 8t. Mary's hospl- II t;il. who attentled the children, to;d the j II polit e they were in a nerlous condition, II |