I recently rewatched the episode where Van Alden beats his back with the leather strap at the end. Prior to this, he is at his desk reviewing Margaret Schroeder's immigration file and photograph. In the paperwork, I caught that Margaret and her husband came to the U.S. in 1909 and it listed her condition arriving as pregnant. I thought this odd because her "cheel-drin" are no where near 10 years of age. Then, as Van Alden is flipping through more paper work, it lists Margaret as a patient in a medical facility who was suffering from vaginal bleeding, etc...an obvious miscarriage from another beating she suffered at the hands of her husband. The beating we saw in the first episode - 1920 - was not the first child Hans Schroeder killed.