| Show INFANT KILLED BY A CAT animal smothers baby and attacks childs child s mother when D ered on body new york mrs james saunders of scholes street williamsburg awoke to find a large black cat asleep on the breast of her nine weeks old son augustus beside her she pushed the animal out of the bed and then chased it the cat re dented the attack and sprang at her then birs rs saunders avoided the animal and then oba tined a broom with which she drove it into the rear yard returning to i her bedroom mrs saunders p eked up her baby its hands and face were cold and as the realization that liar her child was bly dead came to her she cried hys ten teri cally mr saunders and several neighbors ran to the side of the moth er in answer and attempted to con sole her it was thought that bly there was some spark of life left and a call was sent for pr driscoll of st catherines hospital when he arrived he said the child had been dead about four hours the circum stances were explained to him but he could not give his opinion as to the cause of death and referred the case for an investigation by the coroners physician it Is believed that the weight of the cat sat s at on the child childs s breast prevented it from breathing and caused the child to be slowly smothered to death the animal was merely seeking a warm place to sleep there Is a belief that cats draw the breath from infants but little credence lb au given to this |
