Mr. Moss}-You had never dyed your hair before? Never in New York?
Witness—Never.
Have you ever had any children?—One.
When was the child born?—In October, 1921, ten months after I was married.
Is that baby still alive?—No, he died in January, 1922, from smallpox.
I should like to ask you if that did not cause you a great deal of anxiety 7—Naturally it did.
After witness had explained, in answer to Mr. Moss, that she had been quarantined after the baby's death, she was asked how long she was ill from the shock. Well, it was not the shock. I looked at it from a practical standpoint," she replied, adding after further questioning that she remembered the words of the doctor: Perhaps the baby would have been marked or deformed for life. "How could it have broken me up when I looked at it in this way," she ejaculated.
Mr. Moss—You are avery peculiar mother.
Witness—I beg your pardon.
Mr. Schuhl asked that this question should be struck out of the record of the case.
In the course of further cross-examination, Mrs. Ren mentioned that her father's illness had much affected her.
Mr. Moss—That was a greater shock that the death of your bab; This was objected to, but witn: was told to answer. She' replied that the shock of her father being on a death-bed was as great as her baby.dying. She had just as much love for her father as for her child. 7 Mr. Moss—What are some of the greater shocks you have described?—I do not care to discuss them.
One great shock was when you used that shampoo. That was as Mrs. Ren's hair in the manner! great a shock as when your baby died 1—It was one of the—shocks, but not one of the great ones. (Laughter.)
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