Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — A Race for a Baby. [ARTICLE]

A Race for a Baby.

Lafayette Courier. At Earl Park, Benton county, last Saturday morqing, a woman stepped from C., L, St. L. &C. east bound train a moment to question the agent, and the train pulled out suddenly without her, carrying Oft' her baby. Her frenzy mpved the ticket agent to telegraph to Lafayette and have the baby returned, and Np. 1, the 2:14 p. m., Chicago fast mail train, dropped the baby oft’there. The mother in the meantime growing impatient, had started to Fowler on the engine of the gravel train, hoping to intercept her child there, but the train was sidetracked to allow No. Ito pass, which it did, carrying the infant with iL.A kind-heartefi citizen of Earl Park lugged the baby back to Fowler, and found that the now frantic mother had gone to Earl Park on a freight train. The man then telephoned the woman to sit still for half an hour, which she "did and got back her infant