Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1924 — Page 8

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THE STOLEN BABi

BEGIN HERE TODAY A novelist, seeking nocturnal adventure. offers to give a girl a lift in a taxi They go from Paddington Recreation Ground to a poor part of London. The girl informs him that her sister is siek in a hospital and that she is on her way to fetch her sister’s baby from her sister's home. The seeker of adventure takes the girl and the baby to Elgin Avenue and, as the girl alights, he notices a coat-of-arms worked on the baby's coat. Slow at following the girl he loses tra'k of her. He returns to the place where the girl went for the baby and inds it a rea> entrance to a nursing h'lme. He tells the mason that a oaby has been kidniapcd. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY O j, 1 1 DNAPED!” repeated the black |C silk colossus in a tone of hor___J ror. “Unthinkable!” “But I’m afraid it's happened.” “Unthinkable You are evidently unaware of our system. None of our night nurses may for one moment leave the lady mother and her infant. Every infant is registered. At birth the infant is attributed a reference i trd with counterfoill. No person nay remove the infant without proofing the counterfoil.” I jumped up, furious. "I can assure ' on that my lit le friend Rhoda didn’t with lo hand in the counterfoil. I tell'you. she's got one of your babies. , gig “SHE WAS ARRESTED AT FIVE j MINUTES PAST 1.” She wasn’t the sort of girl to be entitled to a baby with a coronet on Its clothes.” “Ah! Oh! A coronet!” "Yes. Haven’t you got a lady of t :le in the home?” The night matron raised her eye-! brows. “We have. I think, three pa- j tients who are not of title." “Well, anyhow, there was a coro- j net.” “Now you mention it.” sai l the matron. “this is an interesting Do you happen to remember i . coronet?” "Well, yes. There was more than • coronet: there was a coat of arms. Os. course. I didn’t see it properly in the hurry, but on one side there were three castles.” The night matron jumped up. quivering like an extensive jelly. Her usually purple countenance assumed dirty brown tint, which was her way of growing pale. “Three castles!” -he murmured, and tottered out of her chair toward the book case, from mm Beware of Imitations! i H Genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin ’ have been proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twentythree years. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic aeidester of Salicylicacid.—Advertisement. i ■ " The MW of- - fat psopta te 1 that constant dieting b hard, continual extreiae b tiro- ■ some. might be harmful to fores the ■ ft weight down. That waa the old- ■ ■ fashioned idea. Today in Mar- ■ a mola Prescription Tablets all ■ ■ tbeea difficulties are overcome. _ _ Just a pleasant, harmlese Httle J ■ tablet after each meal and at _ bwitime causes fat to vanish. ■ | This modern method U absolutely harmless, entails no diet- ■ in m or exerdse and has the ® ® added advantage of cheapness. ■ ■ A eaae of Marmola Preeerip- ■ ■ tion Tablets la sold by drug- ■ |s girts the world ■ ■ over at one dollar, _ ■l or if yon prefer ■ EL Icon direct Dy * c.“ WVSfe'Jl 4612 Wood wijri £ ,** T&WtW Arrant, Deiriot, TANARUS” V *|pi# ■ Mich. Now that ( ■ yon know this Is* ss you have r.o ex- \ '|> { ease far being \ I w too fat, but can V ■ reduce \ JL _ and easily with- / J M I#

whteh she drew DebretK Her sau-sage-like fingers trembled; she found the page she wanted, and reeled back against a cupboard of which the doors creaked. “It’s impossible . . . “The duchess . . . oh. nonsense.” She grew calmer. “Look here, don’t you remember the rest? Wasn’t there also in the upper corner three - lions?” “Well, now you mention it. there was something like three crouching cats.” The night matron sat down with a crash. Then, in a whisper, she said; “Her grace thr duchess of Farnshire his lordship John Asdrubal Peter Mark Redvers Merwin born a week ago . . . stolen. Oh, what are we going to do?” For a moment she buried her face in her hands. Then, suddenly, she looked up. and I saw that Mrs. Gold's Nursing Home was properly organized, for the night of matron brightly remarked: “After ail, I'm only indirectly responsible. The night sister has charge of her grace’s floor. T will ring for her.” We waited for some minutes, during which T kept silence, and the night matron read “The Morning Post." which had just arrived, so as to convey that she was not going to stay on my level. The night sister was a tall, gaunt, Scotch looking worn an, in hospital garb. She closed the door behind her, stood in front of the desk, expressing no surprise at having been sent for. "Oh, by the way. Sister,” said the night matron. “I suppose you have nothing to report?” “No.” “This gentleman comes to me with a singular tale. I suppose you would like to hear it.” The sister's features did not move. Then, in less words than I had myself used, and with greater dignity, the matron recited the story which T have already told. She ended by; “That is this gentleman's story, sister. Evidently it is perfectly ridiculous.’’ "Not at all," sffid the Sister. “How do you mean? I thought you said that you had nothing to report.” “I did not propose to report anything for the moment." Excitement invaded me. Something had happened, then. “How do you mean?” said the matron, acidly. “You know quite well you are supposed to report anything that happens. "Yes. In due course.” "Now look here. Sister." said the matron, standing up. “no complaint has ever been made against you, and I do not want to make one now, but there are limits to what you may keep to yourself There are limits to the initiative which you are allowed to show. This gentleman suggests that the Duchess of Famshire's baby has been kidnaped. You know something about it. You will please report it. and forthwith.” Evidently the matron had a strong character, for the Scotch woman was forced to talk:

“About twenty-five minutes to one. last night.” she began in an even monotone. "I was engaged on my last round upon the first floor. In so doing I entered the bathroom. The blind having been pulled up, I was able to notice, across the well, that a light was burning In the dressing room attached to the duchess’ room. This bein£ against orders, or unusual. I was about to proceed to that room, when T observed on the blind the shadow so two persons.” “Who is in charge of her grace?” asked the matron. “Nurse Marden. She is singlehanded. I therefore proceeded to that room and found Nurse Marden engaged In clothing a baby for the street. A young person was in the room.” “There!” I shouted. “T told you so.” “Go on," said the matron, “please.” “T asked for an explanation.” said the Sister. “The young person first attempted to run out of the room, but ...” a grim smile for the first time covered the Scottish features. “I soon stopped that. She thereupon burst into tears, and 1 resumed possession of his lordship. As for the other baby . . .” “The other baby!” shrieked the matron. ‘‘How do you mean? Do you mean to say there was another baby?” “Naturally," said the Sister. “It “was proposed to exchange the babies." “By Jove!” I cried. “Now I see. Ijook here. T told you I saw the girl meet somebody. That person gave her the baby.” The matron looked at me with lesser contempt. “Possibly you are right. Please go on. Sister. What did you do?" ”1 considered the * situation. It is never well to act in a hurry. So I locked them Into the room while T went out Into the to think. •However, I retained possession of his lordship. He was fortunately asleep. Then, deciding upon my course, I went Into the room and obtained from* the young person a complete confleslon. Her sister Is very undesirable, and had proposed to send her own child to a baby farm to be done away with, as Is Usual. It seems, however, that she did not have the heart to go on with this. So she entered Into a plot with the young person and with Nurse Marden. since they are three sisters. The intention was to substitute the other baby for his lordship, and to send his lordship to the baby farm.” I felt a lump in my throat as she recited this story. It was tragic to think of the poor young mother, unable to keep her child, and resorting to a desperate expedient to give It a chance In life. The Sister went on pitilessly. After a while the matron stopped her. “Very well. Sister, I see. But tell me what happened at last.” “I brought his loudshlp back into the room, took his clothes off. put him back in his cot, and caused the young person to dress Up the baby she had brought in his lordship's clothes. Then she took him away.” “WhatSr” shouted the matfon. "You gave her his lordship’s . . You made them dress up that baby In bis lordship’s clothes? But . . . but why?” The Sister again smiled her grim

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her a chance to appear in the witfiess box as the heroine of a sensational case.” “I don't understand,” said the matron. “Don't you see,” said the Sister, “that with my evidence, and with the fact that the young person carried away the baby in his lordship’s clothes, the case is complete. I asked the young person where she lived. Os course, she lied, but being excited, her imagination was not working very well; she said Hampstead. As I happen to know that Nurse Marden’s parents live near Elgin Ave., I was certain that the young person would return there with the baby. I therefore telephoned the police, who were waiting for the young person when she reached her doorstep. She was arrested at five minutes past one.” After Rhoda had been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, a chivalrous man of some fortune made her a proposal. She is now married and well established. His lordship grew up to dissipate, with the assistance of wine and women, the remainder of the Farnshire estates. The Duchess benefited by eight hundred and forty-four columns of publicity. On the whole. I have done no harm. Another story of midnight ad veil ture by \V. L George, “Tlie Slipper of Red Brocade,” will start in our next issue. After Philly Stars A deal between the New York Giants and Philadelphia involving Pitcher Jimmy Ring and Catcher Henline is u possibility

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Airs. Mary Ross, Logansport, mother of eight children who was found guilty of assault and fined one dollar without costs will not have to pay the fine from the family funds. Following the verdict a member of the jury handed her a dollar bill. v Canteloupe growers of Jackson County were to meet tonight to launch a movement for a cooperative marketing association. Uncle Joe Sparks of Lyons, Ind., went to visit relatives in Virginia, He returned as far as Seymour with twenty-one cents and then lost his railroad ticket. He slept the last night of his visit in the police station until relatives came to his aid. Edward Benbow, Muncie, former Indiana Union Tract!an brakemail.

‘Duffs’ Out Continued illness of Walter Allman, creater of the "Doings of the Duffs,” necessitates sus pension of his comic strip. Allman jumped back into harness too soon after a recent illness, and, as a result, has not fully regained his health. Pending complete recovejp\ “The. Duffs” will not appear on this pgtge.

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has sued the company for $5,000 damages as the resujt of a broken leg. He declares he had been forced to work from 6:30 a. m. until 10 p. m. and was in such a dazed condition he was unable to dodge a motorcycle by which he was struck while throwing a switch. Charles S. Hook, who died at Union City, made a bequest in his will of $20,000 to the Presbyterian Church at that place. Plans have been finally adopted for anew United Brethren Church at Decatur. Work is to start in April, j The structure will cost $38,000. Marion will build two new fire sta- j tlons of the bungalow type. Each will j bo two stories high, and will contain , living rooms, kitchen, bedrooms, lock sis ..iu modern conveniences. Dan Brenner of Elwood lay down to take a nap. While he was sleep lng a thief tpok his trousers from a

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