This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRODDA Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACE/132 Message Board Post: The Alexandria Post, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota Friday, September 4, 1891, page 2, col. 6. MURDERED A CHILD. That is the Charge Brought Against a Mysterious Couple in Brown County. Starvation Alleged to Be the Method by Which the Child Was Put Out of the Way. NEW ULM, Minn., Special Telegram, Sept. 1.—There was brought to this city to-day an old man and a young woman, delegated to remain in jail here until January under a charge of murder. They come from Golden Gate, in this county, and if the charge against them is true it reveals a story of cruelty and heartlessness that has never been equaled in these parts before. The old man claims to be a doctor, a graduate of a college in the old country. He possesses more than the average amount of shrewdness. The companion of his crime is one who claims to be his niece or cousin, but there are many who think she is his daughter. She is less than thirty years old, and has been living with him since he settled in Golden Gate. In April she became the mother of twins. Steps were taken then to indict the pair for living together unlawfully, but were futile. This caused them to endeavor to get rid of the children, and, as none of the neighbors would take them, it seems they made up their minds to get rid of the children by an inhuman system of starvation. Note was taken of this by neighbor, but in spite of the efforts of kind friends the children were now allowed to obtain food, and one of them died. A coroner’s inquest followed and then the arrests. The charge was for murder, and sufficient evidence was found to bind them over to the district court. The young woman sticks to the story given by the old man, but so plain was it that the child was starved that no trouble was met with in confining them for several months under the worst charge known to the law. When brought to this city to-day the young woman was greatly afraid, and it is thought that she would confess all when she is kept apart from the doctor, whose name is August Brodda. She is accompanied by the remaining child, who is also almost starved to death. The old doctor takes it all without concern. He depends much on his own shrewdness and laughs at the lawyers who are conducting the prosecution. The testimony is so sensational and at the same time reveals such unusual cruelty that it has worked up any amount of feeling among the people in the vicinity of Golden Gate. Had not the count attorney taken action it is more than probable that the doctor would have been the central figure in a lynching bee. Transcribed from microfilm copy of newspaper at Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN. Can anyone identify the unfortunate child and its mother?