Show MOTHER SETS HER BABY BOY ADRIFT CANT KEEP HIM deserted by her husband she puts suicide note in chaps hat new york tork alone and unaware of the sensation ho he was to cause two year old jackle jackie karsten was found playing in a hallway at no 1469 1409 first avenue six blocks from his homo home the police who discovered jackle jackie regarded him for a time as it a messenger of death for on his curly head under a blue stockinet cap was found a hastily written note with many misspelled words in which the boys mother threatened to end it all jackle jackie himself bereft of his three sisters taken from him by the law because his parents could not feed the hungry mouths they had brought into the world probably felt himself a lonely little boy who suddenly found new dew friends in a delicatessen storekeeper a restaurant proprietor and kind men in blue coats tramps streets for hours ills his mother mrs clara kersten thirty four after tramping the streets for hours 63 tiding ing to make up her mind to end it all was arrested by detectives in her home no east eighty third street on the charge of abandonment police say she admitted losing her nerve victor kvetkoff Kvet koft had finished sweeping the sidewalk in front of his delicatessen store no 1469 first avenue when he discovered jackle jackie his face drank milk greedily pressed against the glass in the entry looking out on the early morning traffic kvetkoff carried jackle jackie into the neighboring bakeshop and restaurant of theodore greenwald Ore enwald where jackle jackie drank milk greedily it was then greenwald removed jackles jackies cap and found the note to whom it may concern the note read this Is jackle jackie karsten I 1 have no money to buy milk for jackle jackie and to pay for gas and rent I 1 am tired of the life I 1 am living my husband makes W 40 a week but gives me no money so BO I 1 am going to end it all what lie he wants me to do a greenwald re enwald notified pollee police of the east sixty seventh street station and jackle jackie was taken to the childrens society one hundred and fifth street and fifth aenus husband left her from mrs lena krumm janitress pollee police learned that mrs mra karstens husband a garage mechanic had left her several weeks ago shortly before their five months old baby garl had been bent to the new york foundling hospital two other girls helen el eleven edeli and clara elgut have been adopted by a family in an upstate up state city six hours after jackle jackie was found mrs karsten returned footsore to her home ome to find detective clarke waiting for her police are searching for her husband its a d d shame said detective clarke as he took mrs karsten to her cell in the thirtieth street station but what can we do |