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Show CHILDREN ARE STARVED Chicago Woman Arrested on Very Grave Charge. STARVES BABY TO DEATH Doctor Called to Attend the Infant, Which Has Since Died, Refused to Issue Death Certificate, Declaring Child Died of Lack of Nourishment Assertion Made by n Young Girl in tho Houso That Eight Other Children Havo Died In the House Within l"nst Tew Months. Chicago Auk 5 The police hive nr-rested nr-rested Mrs Ned Campbell of f.15 Or.ind nvenue on n charge of allowing nn In-fnnt In-fnnt to die from Insufficient nourishment nourish-ment It Is nlleged that within tho last three vars eight other Infants havo been burled from tho vvnman'i house Yoteidai Dr Wellfeld was cnlleel tn the Campbell house to alien 1 Ihe In-rnnt. In-rnnt. w tilth hns slnro died Ho found It In sue.li a eondlllon Hint ho refused t Issue n death eeitllltate declaring that tho child died of stnrvutlon. i:ioiit othhks HAvn Dinn. The assertion that eight .''illdreii have died in the house Is made by Viola. Campbell fourteen sours nf nge. Mrs Campbell sasi that she Js the mothei nf the girl, who claims that Mrs Campbell slid on other occasions that she was not n relative of heri A letter wns received at the Campbell house three weeks ugo. Ihe girl sas, vvhelh wns written hi John Iteade, it printer of Cincinnati. In this letter lleide told the girl that ho was her father and thnt she had been kidnapped finm hei home ln Cincinnati ten ears ngo LiTTi.r: oni:s Din quickly Concerning thei children who. according accord-ing to the girl, have died In the house, Viola Campbell saH that they were received from a woninn living on Welts street In this city, hhe suss that they weie obtained by Mrs. Campbell hi-eause hi-eause her husbind had threatened to leave her becnllso they were without ehlldren. None of the children lived long Mr Campbell nlleges that the child that died l'rlday wns the daurhtes nf her dead sister nnd while denvlng iint there have been eight deaths In tho house admitted to the police thnt three children had died In her houso within the last few months roi.icn auk iNvnsTiaATiNo. There Is no nvldenco ngnlnst Mrs Campbell, save that of the girl Viola Campbell, but I'ollco Inspector Wheeler, Wheel-er, who has the case In charge, eie-clare-e that he believes her storv nnd pays that the bodies of the children that have died will be exhumed ln order to determine their number The girl declares that they were nil burled In ono lot In Calvary cemetery. |