Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — A Mother's Extremity. [ARTICLE]

A Mother's Extremity.

Last evening while on duty at the Illinois Central Railroad depot, Officer Jacobi' bad his attention called to a woman aged about 35 years, who was seated with two children in the ladies’ apartment. On approaching near enough he ascertained that she was offering to dispose of the children to any person who would be willing to take them. A respectable lady, residing on Wabash avenue, was attracted toward the oldest child, a boy aged 3 years, and the woman who had the little ones in charge had turned one over to her, while negotiations for the other, a boy of 2 years, were in progress by another lady, when the policeman deemed it his duty to interfere. He told the women who wanted the children that they could come to Justice Summerfield’s court to-day and there obtain them if thought best by the justice. In the meantime he would keep them at the Armory with the person who had offered to give them away. At tne Armory the woman was very communicative, saying that her name was Mary Starson, and the children were here own. She came from Albany, N. Y., to Aurora 111., two years ago to Jive with a sister, owing to a seperation from her husband. Sh.e had left her sister because she was in very destitute circumstances, and her object in wishing to dispose of the boys was solely because she could not support them. The children are both very bright in appearance. The oldest has brown hair and blue eyes. They are dressed well. Each bears some resemblance to the woman who claims to be their mother, and, as she did not ask for money in return for them, it would appear that they are her own offspring and not a kinnapped pair. The Armory officers treated the boys as .if they were each the genuine Charlie Ross •— lnter- Ocean.