Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — CARELESS MOTHER LEFT BABY ALONE [ARTICLE]

CARELESS MOTHER LEFT BABY ALONE

Went to Top of Indianapolis Mona* meat and Baby Climbed Up to Window had Fell 110 Feet. About the most careless act of a mother that has come to our attention recently was that of Mrs. Hampton Polsgrove, of Indianapolis. Tuesday she visited the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument and while she went to the top in the elevator she left her 3-year-ld son playing in the room on the main floor. She remained for some time at the top and the baby started up the steps to find its mother. It had Climbed up about 110 feet and then walked out of the open window on one of the landings. It fell to the cement steps below and was almost instantly killed. The mother was entertaining some friends from Louisville and Frankfort, Ky., and says that she left the baby in the care of an old soldier in the monument. The coroner is making a thorough investigation.