A THOUSAND BABIES MURDERED

NZ Truth, Issue 79, 22 December 1906, Page 8

A THOUSAND BABIES MURDERED

On Huge Baby Farm ia Stockholm. Decoy Infants. A. despatch from Stockholm says : Revelations concerning; the National Children's Sanitorium have just been announced after, an investigation by the authorities. It appears that the alleged Sanitorium was simply a baby farm on an. immense scale, and that wholesale murders of babies twere committed. The. authorities are 1 trying to trace Gustav Holmen and 1 I the woman who passed as his wife, j He posed as a minister and she as a trained nurse and specialist m children and their hrinEing; up. They secured numerous . contributions, and especially handsome amounts were subscribed to the building- fund. ' It is calculated, that m the three years the institution had been running over a. thousand babies have been received. Yet only thirteen babies are alive and well. These are the healthiest, fattest* and prettiest of those received, and they were used as decoy .or show babies. They were shown, to mothers and to all visitors and their pictures, were sent out on the literature used.