The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 January 1937 — Page 8

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STRANGER THAN FICTION

A story more strange than could have been conceived in an author’s mind, is the actual case sent in by J. R. O. of South Bend. The names used are of course, fictitious.

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shack opposite. The child’s accent was exactly that of the little pickaninnies with whom she played. At that moment, a large Negro woman came out, evidently having heard the question, took the Jittle girl by the hand and drew her in the house. As she closed the door, she said, “She’s my chile and don* stan’ for no white folks messin’ in my affairs. ” The horrified woman was told by neighbors that the little white girl had always lived with Mammy and that they never butted into her affairs. She hurried back to the of- < fice of Mr. Fellowes, the superintendent, and told him what had happened. Officers were sent to Mammy's shanty and she and the little girl were brought before Mr. Fellowes. Finally after much persuasion, Mammy told her story". She had been in attendance at the birth of the child to a white girl, a Mrs. Helen Markentrow. The baby was believed to have been born dead, and the mother, who evidently had had reasons to keep the birth of her child secret, paid the colored woman to bury the baby and say no more

about it. But before Mammy buried the baby she noticed that the child was still breathing! She nursed it back to health but was unable to locate the parents. So the little girl knew no mother but Mammy and loved her with all the fierceness of a child’s affection. Mr. Fellows reasoned with Mammy explained how she was injuring the child’s future and promised that he would find a couple to adopt the child with the condition that Mammy would be allowed to visit her. After much tearful protestation, Mammy agreed. The newspapers gave wide publicity to the “Markentrow baby’’ whose . parents Mr. Fellowes was vainly trying to find, and many wealthy people offered to adopt the pretty youngster. One of these offers was accepted. Days later, Mr. Fellows was seated at his desk reading over the adoption papers, when a well-dressed and very pretty young woman dashed into his office clutching a fragmenDpf newspaper and shouting, “She’s mine. She’s mine. My baby has come btjck from the grave. You have my baby. Give her back to me. Give her back to me.” It was some time before the woman could tell a connected story. Then she explained that her socially prominent family had been very

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strict about her early associations, but that she had fellen in love and eloped with Charles Markentrow a fas station attendant. Her parents were very angry and told her that Should there be any children of this tnarriage, she would be cut off without a penny. The parents had closed their home soon after their daughter’s marriage and had remained, abroad all these years. When she was told the baby was dead, Helen paid the colored woman to bury the child and had gone home to Charles with the assurance that everything would be taken care of. “But why have you waited so long to claim your child? The story has been in the papers now for over a week,” asked Mr. Fellowes. “It’s really a miracle,” sobbed the woman, “I didn’t see the picture in the paper. My husband and I have just returned from our vacation in the north woods region, and we did not read a paper all the time we were up there. “When we got home and Charles was opening his mail, a newspaper clipping about the baby fell out of one of the envelopes. It was some friend of my husband who noticed that the baby’s name was thought to be Markentrow and sent us the clipping as a joke, asking if we were sure the baby wasn’t ours. He knew nothing about our baby who had died. He just'thought it was a coincidence.” As if it were a scene in a Eugene O’Neill play, the door opened and Mammy and the little girl walked in at this point. Helen instantly rushed toward the little girl sobbing. , “I am your Mother. I am your Mother.” The child screamed, clung to Mammy and burst into tears, crying “You can’t have me. You’re not my mammy. This is my mammy. Mammy, mammy,, don’t let her take me. ” The Negress, fairly bursting with rage, thrust the child behind her, and with her eyes flashing, faced the white girl, “You can’t have this chile. You want her when she was born. She’s mine now and you can’t have her. ”

A social worker was in the negro section of her territory one day when she noticed a beautiful lit--11 e \ white child playing in the street. She went up to the child and asked her whose little girl she was and where she lived. “Ah’m Mammy’s chile, an’ I live in there.” pointing to the old

Helen sank to het knees before the colored woman. “Please, please I didn’t know my baby was alive. They told me it was dead. I was afraid then, but I want her- back. I want her back.” It wps some time before the two women could be quieted and the office cleared of the people who had .rushed in upon hearing screams. Mr. Fellowes told the two women nothing could be done until both stories had been checked and promised to get in touch with them as soon as definite proof were found. Investigation later showed the mother’s story to be true and that she was now in a good position to care for the child, so it was decided tq return the child to her mother. Then came the task of making Mammy realize the situation. Finally she yielded with the understanding that she was tj be allowed to visit the little girl as often as she liked. The problem of reconciling the little girl to her mother was not so easy, since the child unfortunately had been frightened by the woman’s outburst. After daily meetings over a length of time, however, the little girl one day put her arms around her Mother and expressed the desire to be with her always. Today Helen and her husband and the little girl are happy in their own home, and Mammy comes to visit her “chile” whenever she wishes.

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When inmates of the Canadian reformatory at Guelph, Ont., staged a riot which lasted for hours, and ended in escape of a score of the worst offenders, more than $200,000 damage was caused to the

( — mF Jm I m HBHnABi i Bl i '£Si Harry Peterson, 27, was struck by a bus at 65th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City, one of the busiest spots in the metropolis. This dramatic picture shows an ambulance surgeon giving him first aid. It took 25 people to lift the bus off his foot after the accident His . conditions is serious.

interior of the penal institution which was left in a shambles by the irate inmates. Their “demonstration” was caused by protest over quality of food served and the rule barring outside gif AS. t.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937