New York, May 8—Another death of a baby was added today to the list of infants who, it is alleged, have died at the “baby farm” conducted by Mrs. Helen Augusta Geisen-Volk in East Eighty-Sixth street.
The baby, an unidentified 10-day-old boy, had been hurriedly removed from the infantorium after charges had been made that babies were being starved there. The baby died this morning in Metropolitan hospital.
The baby’s death occurred while Assistant District Attorney Charles White was investigating a report that a dozen deaths from starvation occurred in Mrs. Gelsen-Volk’s infantorium in one month.
The woman is being held at $35,000 bail. She was to be questioned today in court, the district attorney said.
The examination of Mrs. Gelsen-Volk was put off until tomorrow.
She refused to make any statement.
The complaint of a nurse, who at one time was employed at the infantorium, led to the investigation by the district attorney of the activities of the baby farm, it was learned today.
When a six-month-old child, Luba Meroff, was in grave condition from malnutrition, it was said, the nurse informed the mother, Mrs. Irene Meroff of 3517 Penns Grove Street, Philadelphia. Mrs. Meroff, the wife of a Russian actor, withdrew the infant from the institution. She then prevailed on the nurse to call the condition of her child and of other babies in the home to the attention of the authorities.
From the front page of the Durham Sun, Friday afternoon, May 8, 1925
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