Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — DISCOVER BABY FARM [ARTICLE]

DISCOVER BABY FARM

PHILADELPHIA POLICE GET TIP FROM INFANTS BODY. Alleged Tots Can Be Purchased for $5 Each—Woman in Cell for Connection With the Death of Child. Philadelphia, Pa. —investigating the death of an infant that was found scantily clad and drenched by the rain, in an alley here, Coroner Ford made the startling discovery that there eilsts in Philadelphia a baby farm where innocent babes are bartered and sold. „ While the coroner listened aghast he heard from Special Agent Klnkald of the Society to Protect Children From Cruelty, that women have attempted to coerce men into matrimony by getting babies from the farm and foisting them off as their offspring upon the men whom they sought to wed. From the lips of Lillian Hinkle, he learned that she had purchased a baby for five dollars from the baby farm, and that she had plotted with her sweetheart u gain the permission of his parents to their marriage by exhibiting the baby and declaring it to be their child. The woman was held, charged with the death of the child, by Coroner Ford, by* special request of Assistant District Attorney Paitterson, without bail, to await the action of tne grand jury. With the Hinkle woman was held Edwin Rose, who gave the same address as the woman. He was charged with being implicated with the girl and was not admitted to ball. It was brought out in the testimony that Rose and the Hinkle woman had been engaged to marry, but that the union was opposed by the young man’s family. The woman admitted when questioned that she and Rose had schemed together to outwit his parents by buying the baby then declaring to his father and mother that the child was their own. Explaining the infant’s death, she says it sickened suddenly, and she did not know what to do with 1L When she found It dead in the morning, she Bays she walked the streets for hours carrying the body, and finally abandoned it in an alley.