Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — Traffic Policeman Falls for Brand New Dodge [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Traffic Policeman Falls for Brand New Dodge

CHICAGO.— A neatly dressed, wcarylooklng woman stepped up to Officer George Murphy at Fifth avenue and Lake street the other day. She carried a small bundle clasped in her arms. Murphy had just blown his traffic whistle and was turning to warn a recalcitrant teamster when he felt something shoved into his arms. Ho instinctively clutched IL Then, turning, he saw the woman. "It’s a, baby," said the woman. "Yes,” she continued, speaking rapidly. "I was standing on the corner waiting for a Lake street car a few minutes ago when a woman dressed entirely in black stepped up to me and—” “Well, go on,” suggested Murphy, letting traffic maintain its own regular tlons. “She asked me to hold this bundle a moment while she stepped into a hallway to arrange her drees. I waited several minutes, but she never came back. Will you take the—the baby?” “What is your name?” asked Murphy. “Mrs. Nellie Williams,” she replied,

giving a street address in Joliet Then while Murphy curiously uncovered the bundle and peered nervously at the now walling infant the woman disappeared. The policeman took the infant to the station. A telegram was sent to Joliet “No such woman or street in Joliet** wired back the police of that city. The baby wae .taken to St. Vincent’s orphan asylum. The following note was found pinned to its dress: “To Whom It May Concern: This baby was born April 17, 1913. May he fall into good hands. I am a lonely woman with no means to care for him. "A LONELY MOTHER.” "And tq. think that I fell for it" sighed Officer Murphy as he untangled the blockade of teams.