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Show APPALLING CHILD INSURANCE 1 Recent investigation dicloses j the fact that in New York City 'and Philadelphia there are fourteen four-teen companies that insure the j lives of babies. Three mothers ! in these two cities have been ar-I ar-I rested and charged with having I poisoned their children in or-I or-I der to obtain the life insurance money. In Maine and Missouri two other mothers committed suicide when arrested and charg-led charg-led with a similar crime. Because Be-cause of the extraordinary in-crease in-crease in sudden deaths among the infat population of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, the Coroner of that city has been compelled to call upon the City Council to furnish a force of detectives to investigate I the epidemic of deaths. Tho ' policies on the dead iufants ranged rang-ed in value from S10 to $40 and ithas been shown that toothers ! by the score in New York and Philadelphia have been guilty of the wholesale murder of bab'es whose lives were insured for small sums. Children not more than six weeks old were accepted as risks,the premiums being only a few cents a week. Appalling and - unnatural as the fact may seem, there can be no doubt tuat sucn muruers are often committed. Only one state, Colorado, has a law against child insurance. The other stales J"OUid immediately pass such in orde tha the temptation I to destr jy iifir.ti thuy be ); niDved. |