Unrecognized Dane Is Given Suspended Sentence Convicted of having deserted his four-month old dead infant son, Valdemar Dorf, an unrecognized Danish accountant, was given a suspended sentence of three months' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court. The police last week charged him with negligence causing death but the judge found no evidence of negligence on his part, Three witnesses testified, including the accused's separated wife and a Russian nurse who explained to the judge that Dorf had been very fond of the infant, Investigations made by the police revealed that the child died in the morning of May 27. The accused told the police that he fed the infant during the night. He was awakened early in the morning by the crying voice of the child and after feeding it with milk he went to sleep. Upon waking up at 7 o'clock he found the child dead, The child had been under the care of a Russian nurse, who, however, did not work in the evening, The' body of the child put in a suitcase was taken to a vacant lot near Keswick Road. Since the child was neither named nor baptized he had not taken it to a funeral parlour, the court was told.
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