A FIENDISH FATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1890, Page 3

A FIENDISH FATHER.

H ■ — i :—♦ — : &E. ROASTS THE BODIES OF HIS 1 CHILDREN. §■■<. v ——-' w .:]]']■"; A detective from police headquarter Jraibed at the station of iihe Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad on puly 10th for the evening express from oswego to come in. ; U If On its arrival a fireman—Fred. V. Curtis •8-was taken out of the cab and to the City praol, charged with a most unusual crime. ,jpis accuser is Frank Granish, a,fellow-fire-'gian, with whom the prisoner went over the jjfoad to-day. m Curtis had been; a brakemah on the road ' fpr nine years, but had just been pub on an 'fhgine to stoke, under the instructions of irfanish.■■■:;. .-'■'■''■■:. ' ■.','■:■■;■ ; -v "' . 1 That morning Cur bis came into the cab pith a bundle,,, which he tossed carelessly in the coal in the,tender.. He said nothing igbSut the .contents until the* train passed ■.' I'leasant Bridge, a lakeside resort near Sere, when he picked it up and remarked ihat it contained all that was left of his iFburbb of • July. \ w i Curtis lefb the bundle undisturbed lintil the brain was again in full speed, then he picked ib up and, unwinding paper i • inrapper, opened it in sight of Gfttnish., I It hold the body of a wee baby. Curtis Mid 'to his astonished companion', that ib ■ fras his own, and that he was going to have Iquiet funeral,' and without further to-do ie opened the fire box and deliberately throw the body in on top of the blazi4g $6als. He said he had frequently done the <■ iame thing before. Gfahish was appalled it the coolness of the ;man j but; Grartis only laughed. ■ ■ •■■»■■ r k Wheii the train returned rtoithis city at;, noon, Granish gave information of the crime to the police, who made the arrest. i l ' "■■';. ■ ' ■"■ !"" " "" m . </'i