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Show TWO MOTHERS KOR ONE CHILD. The Real and Foster Parents of a Three-Year-old Girl at Law. Joliet, 111., Mav 2. The youngest child ever confined in the county jail hero is little Nellio Rudd, who was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rudd, of this city, when she was three months old. She is now a pretty little girl of three years, and has had a strange experience. ex-perience. The child was consigned to the care of Sheriff Huston peudjng the trial for its possession between the mother, Kate NeWou. and the foster fos-ter parents. Before the child was born the mothi r was consigned to the county poor house, where she gsvu birth to the child, and three mouths later signed it over to Mr. Van Arsdale, superintendent superintend-ent of a Chicago foundlings' home. Without taking her there, he signed the child over to Mr. and Mrs. Rudd, who have raised it thus far and have become as much attached to it as if it were their owu. The mother worked two years at the poor, house for the superintendent. superin-tendent. The father of the child is said to be a minister's sou, who recently died and, it is said, left $1500 to the mother with which to raise the child. The mother recently took op her abode in a family near the Rudd home and paid frequent visits to her child. Finally Fi-nally she was forbidden o come, although al-though she had, it appears, furnished Nellie with clothing. About two weeks ago, with the aid of an accomplice, accom-plice, slie abducted the child and took it to Chicago. The foster parents, with officers, followed her and after an exciting chase to Moki na, thence to L'tica and back to the poor house, the child was recaptured. The real and foster mother appeared in court today in order to have tho right .to the child settled legally. Both were represented by counsel." The child lay asleep in the foster mother's arms when the court ordered it into the possossion of the sheriff pending the trial. When a deputy sheriff took the child iu his arms to carry it to the jail resldeuce both women burst into tears The foster parents failed to get an order of court when they adopted the child, relying ou the papers signed by both the 'real mother and Superintendent Van Arsdale. |