Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 55 | Baby Stealer's Plea is "Love"

BABY STEALERS STEALER'S PLEA IS LOVE Pearl Ferguson Declares Declare She Had Affection of Mother for Child s NEW V YORK May I 1 25 I love th that child as a mother whimpered Iea Pearl Ferguson on the sentimental baby steals stealer when brou brought ht from Crom Bridgeport Conn Con at rl r n Acting Captain McKenna and Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu tenant of or the Fourth branch put ht r through h a long interrogation interrogation inter inter- rogation rog-allon as to her adventures with tho the Jacobus baby which she on onra May ra 3 I In particular ular they sou sought ht to discover whether she had confederates or an any I ulterior motive for spiriting off arC the child from its parents Mr and Mrs Max lax Jacobus of No West Yest One OneHundred OneHundred OneHundred Hundred and third Twenty Twenty street streeL But every word uttered b by the prisoner seemed to confirm the thc impression given Iven h by her previous pre history that she Is animated by a fondness for tor young children That the feeling is ii reciprocated h by bythe bythe the little ones to whom she he takes a afancy afancy fancy anc was proved when Mrs Jacobus visited the Fourth branch with her older child Selma Selma who Is 5 years old ran straight to the prisoner clambered up upon upon upon on her lap and began to play pIny with her Mrs Jacobus Jacobu overjoyed at having havin- re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered her bab baby the night before directed di directed directed di- di some reproaches at her former friend but the they were not c very sever That baby haby is three pounds heavier than she was when I t took ok k her said the prisoner and I sp t 42 on a perambulator for her and 40 10 for Cor new clothes She Sho told the police pollee she had taken the baby straight downtown to the Grand Central terminal on May 3 after aCter leaving leaving leav lea ing lug Selma at the door of the Jacobus home She caught the thc 2 2 15 15 train for Bridgeport and went along Main lain street In search bearch of a furnished room At No whore where she was arrested she entered a provision market kept h by George and Thomas De- De dousis The latter laller offered her a a. room and hoard with 4 a week If she sho would work upstairs as housekeeper She ncI ac nc- ac- ac I Her first care was to buy a quantity of malted milk for the thc bay In fact tact I she he fed It so zealously that it got bot indigestion in indigestion in- in digestion and had to spend three days In St. St Vincent hospital Bridgeport She paying 1 5 a da day for its care The doctors docton said she had given It too much sugar u ar Later she dieted the child with great discretion