Show t i r i oJ I r- r rt i t i n A flow to z I 4 A 01 rI r b 1 r m If y Mi j of Infant and 1 Recorded Footprints Officially r 1 Prints of Mother to to Decide Future x r 4 t. t i Finger d F r J M J. J if R. R t 0 y Maternal Claimants i iL Between Rival Disputes i-i i ft d Children Ch i ld i i j Strayed S 1 fen ren v 1 f f or Lost L os os t Stolen S to en or traye v m J n P t r s 1 L' L i r 1 i f. f 10 f 1 j f. f I. I 1 jr h 14 I N a JJ t t r. r I I J rR I i 1 4 t fr E y OJ t I 1 1 t u f. f m r Vr f fi 74 m I to o v i h hIj i J U. U i I t. t G t C- C CC C Ij Jr J 1 I I. I a h No N 0 Two Tw 0 Baby Bab Jr It I Footprints 1 It TO O s y t I i oJ 4 t C Ir I e pr Io by br c C Are Alike and andews t f e bolo S1 Serried I I. I 1 i the th e Police olice P c. c 1 i I. I I t J Tak Print P. P of f Foot root Have H Tatting Taking mg a 0 Baby's Er Experts erts a ve t J of th the No Difficulty at th the e Finger Print Bureau e V Magistrates Magistrates' 1 DIa rates Court Curt of New v York T City to Avoid in Tabulating tf of Solomon from the Celebrated a and d Distin Distin- The Judgment J 1 Any An y Possibility of Mistaken Identity in in Later Years n. n b Bonifacio Veronese in m the Painting by Y tl i r f. Academy cade y a at Venice p I I I This rh IS Footprint F 00 t prInt Wf- Wf i j i i I u. u s But Bt tI bb f t it and df 1 finger er prints r of nf j t J B BI Sheldon Shel he 1 lon P PV f r t B I John S on y yv v vIN 9 i j v ryn 1 1 7 r identification tio a very remarkable m case of or dual IN JN which afew a few weeks ago attracted countrywide country country- countrywide 1 Arthur ATtl r named wide attention 1 a baby boy oy Y t l P Wentz was mysteriously m 0 kidnapped kl d nappe d. d in ml New York 3 city eity ity J f The Thel child d was not found although diligently diligent diligent- nt- nt i l ly y searched for but another baby of similar s ap appearance aP- aP pJ p- p J p rance size and age as the thc missing Wentz in- in inS m- m S i fant was turned over to t the thc police by a man into t. t j. j whose who e arms thc the foundling had been thrust by a j passing stranger v J p 4 Then a situation developed rivalling rl the biblical l t cal p problem which has ilas been handed down to us i in i n P Pt picture and text as the Judgment of Solo Solo- t mon mOIL Two frantic women mothers of or lost in infants in in- 11 appeared in court each claiming most emphatically em em- emphatically that the New York foundling was her own wn child her very own flesh and blood One of them was Mrs hs Elsa Wentz She recognized tho the baby as her infant son Eon Arthur The other othe mother m ther an Italian Mrs Lena L na Li Lisa Lisa a ay by y name t recognized r the baby as ns her infant son August i- i c r f Where I Maternal Instinct Failed railed Z s Maternal instinct instinct- ct has bas been credited with one oneat 1 great at and infallible virtue enabling the thc mother f i to recognize her own o offspring Yet here were f two mothers each recognizing the same identical baby as her ber own One of them of course must V r have bave ie been mistaken and they knew it it And yet each mother was sure that it was the other claimant claimant claimant claim claim- ant to the thc foundling who was making the mistake It was eventually proved ved that the thc b bel pr baby by belonged to Mrs Irs Lisa y Going back to biblical days we find finds find's a striking p parallel in the case casc of the thc two mothers mothers' who went before King I ing Solomon and asked him bim to decide which Abich of them was the thc mother of ot a baby of winch which both women claimed to b be e the thc mother 1 r To quote from the t th h e Scripture as found ou d in the First Fast Book of Kings third chapter and md verses And the King said Bring me a sword And they brought a sword before the King And the King said Divide the thc living livin g child in two and rive ve half to the one and half naif to the thc other r King Solomon was wise He suspected that one ene of the two women would make a scene sc nc when Y ene Ih heard how liow he proposed to divide the thc child And hd the thc Kingl was King was right One of the women did f t make a scene acene She protested vehemently against against r a I tie the carrying out of any such judgment Rather Rather c l said aid she would she agree to surrender the child lid S intact to the thc other woman than to have bave it slain Then the King answered anS and md said Give her h er erthe f rl the living child and in no wise slay it She She is 3 t n the mother thereof 0 F the Baby 1 I 1 PA 7 4 I Since the days daY of King Solomon in fact since the thc very recent case sc of Mrs Wentz and Mrs x Lisa a new checking new checking system for babies babics and their j mothers mothe has been introduced in various maternity I t iJ r hospi hosp hospitals ls is and nurseries in several large American Am rican cities Through its operation it is believed that r r J. J in n cases eases where t the thc e identity id of lost stolen or strayed infants infants' or even ups grownups needs to bet be bo t 1 t positively cs established a recorded re footprint t or o linger print Will set ct all doubts at nt rest i The process a as s adopted d I at t the Lying Lying-in In Hos Hos- p r r 1 v d I. I 1 r t u 1 i 1 J. J f ir V Va V Y v t i Y fi 1 I li M L a I c rl t ri i I. I t O-t i Uk Jt I i f. f tr t. t V It i- i if 1 JH 1 d k J A 1 S1 f i. i if i. i t i i t I i Ii k I t i f r t J f t il i it f 1 r t l 0 o 4 jj I 0 f F. F J f. f jd i I fr 4 10 ft t r- r p. p y II- II it rr j Jt t t H. H lr I I i i iZ if 7 I j l i r 1 I. I Q 1 fJ i t. t t f y or l i I It fit ti t La d Aj j ra 1 1 d I VJ a Jt A l e y ff J tW 0 11 D d 96 l lr rL c rr 1 r e er ec r r 4 l Z Il 1 y f 65 O. lter 1 d The Fhe Footprint of a Born New Baby and the f J Finger Print of the Mother l Are AreNow Now Being Made lade Together on One Sheet s of f Paper in in Maternity l Hospitals and Filed WY for Future Identification Purposes pital pi al New York York and amI elsewhere is remarkably simple mple s As soon after birth as possible an indelible indelible in in- print of thc the baby's right foot is made on a acard acard acard card on which space is left for an impression of the finger prints of the mother Below the thc two Prints a record is made on the card of the name date of the baby's birth and its weight at birth birth c c as shown In the thc accompanying n i photo photo- graph aph Tags That Were Tere Lost Now suppose that there ther should be a 3 slight mix up of babies in a a maternity h hospital durin during n the washing and dressing hour Such a 3 thing has been een known to happen Even the old-fashioned old system of of- tagging every baby for purposes of identification has failed lamentably at times Tags fags are arc apt to become untied and lost Jost or reattached reattached reattached re re- attached to th the wrong baby Most Mos young youn- youn babies look Jook remarkably alike to nurses even oven if not to their mothers There is a 3 case on record of two mothers who left a 3 New N w York city hospital about a year ago each ch with a baby born there One of the mothers was vas entertaining certain in doubts as to whether the baby which had been given to her and which the nurses assured her h r was her own child was actually hers or the tho other womans She Sho be believed believed believed be- be there had bad been la a up mix-up and that each woman was mothering the thc wrong rong baby Meeting the thc other mother in the thc street with the other child she pounced on that little one one and declared it ft was her own The matter was taken into int int court and the thc modern Solomon who sat 1 h i- i judgment ju that day upheld the thc first mo mothers mother's con CorT contention con con- and ordered that the two vo infants infanta be ex ex- ex- ex ch changed ge L. L I ii 1 1 A 11 f l Z c t n f 7 i p 4 I 1 1 3 1 r i J i Y l. l J i. i 1 L 9 r r i. i l r d 1 r r rr r LTV tN r rr r t f dl dlA A J J 4 J t 1 r. r y f S r A f 0 0 4 C Contrast This t l tt- tt Tiny Baby Footprint Footprint Foot Foot- 1 1 J print with the theOne theOne 7 One Shown on the Right Above J 1 1 A. A and Note How I f They Differ f. f I This Footprint i c P. P 1 I Indicates n d. d r f j v. v a High Arch Arch I Ii f f l. l J t 1 ill Ao i n D r ro i ti r l. l 1 jJ f J t i f fI t i i s' s v i h 1 t J Itt 0 T Ir J L t J. J r f f I i tf I j I t out u now 1 IJ baby y footprints oo pr n s an ing 6 P the mother will quickly settle the question of f who's who in case of or any future mix H Dr Charles 0 o. Tittle professor of finger fingerprinting fingerprinting fingerprinting printing in New York University is head of a group of scientists who insist that every childs child's footprint should he be recorded in the hospital where it it is born or ot in the Bureau of Vital Statistics together with the childs child's birth certificate and the tho finger prints of the mother Why Footprints Are Made lade MadeA Madej A j N It may m y mr be asked why a 3 print of the baby's foot is taken instead of finger prints as in the case case of or the mother The answer to that is very verJ simple It is almost impossible to take a 3 print prin of n a baby's hand Police experts who make mike a business of printing finger-printing criminals have tried it and failed Hospital nurses and doctors failed r yaw J t l s Ja rJ l jJ 4 s r l 1 J f r z 1 r f 4 r j t r 13 X t x Jf 1 4 4 y r y r r A 1 9 nT s A J W r r f 9 Photo by fi Central Ot N fW r f r fLoto Service Police Inspector Faurot of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Police Department ent Explaining to a Mother the Distinguishing Dist Marks of Her Baby's Footprint Fo too But it was found that excellent prints can be oe made ronde of f a baby's baby s foot and the papillary pap ridges there arc are quite as practical for identification identification pur purposes pur- pur poses as as finger prints In many cases said th the thc superintendent of ot otone one large ln ge hospital where the thc birth record is 09 high women have come to us worried sick about stories that hospital attendants sometimes interchange interchange inter inter- change chang babies Though we wc have three means of identification p iti Lion Lion-a a w wristlet tag that it is ia as much a tt 1 I i l J f c C t t i J indicates s 0 I t a Low Arch duty for the nurse to keep intact and cle clearly writt written Britten n as it is for her to wash the thc infants infant's face a square of cloth with the baby's name date of birth and weight fastened to the little shirt or orthe orthe the band our own files and in some cases a name card eard on the baby's cubicle still cubicle still one can cannot be absolutely sure that through an act of t thoughtlessness thought thought- ought ss or dr r carelessness one baby may not nat at some time be confused with another Such things have happened and every ti time there was an nn occurrence of this sort it drove the doubting mothers almost frantic One of the instances instances in- in stances that decided deci ed us to try the new plan or of making simultaneous footprints o of the baby t and finger prints of the mother involved the plight of ofa a soldiers soldier's wife who came to the thc hospital ve very unwillingly because she had heard rumors abc abo about t children n. n going to the wrong mothers J A Mothers Mother's Hallucination I After her ner baby babylas was las born this young worn woman positively refused to believe believe- that he belonged to her We JVe brought her all an the proofs we coi could muster but she persisted in her hallucination hallucinate She became hysterical l with grief and fright pleading with us to Ito give her own baby back to her and to take this other supposed changeling away Finally I brought her our files which showed that only two babies had been born in tl th the hospital that day da She asked to see sec the thc oth other baby bab Something seemed to tell her ber she d de- de I 1 Iother Glared dared that we e had bad made a 3 mistake and that tl the theother ui other baby was hers She said she would nizo nize it instinctively at a glance So we brought thc the other baby to her ber 1 It If was the child of a colored woman won woman m. m The sho shock may have been terrible It certainly sounds brutal but it had the thc desired effect The so sol diers dier's wire wife was convinced that wi we had bad not mad niad madany any an mistake But But just think how difficult i it might have been to convince her in case other othe white babies had bad been born in the thc hospital hospi aJ 01 on J that same me day I Value of Footprints 5 I 1 We think mothers arc are entitled to the consideration c and s should not be subjected d to any needless apprehension So we have na introduced the thc footprint and ami finger print method and have no fear tear of further apprehension no matter how badly bad mixed in the dressIng dress dress- ly 11 the babies babics might get up Ing jug room The Thc value of this his system can be readily understood Future identification tion is as as- And in ca case a child is kidnapped and reco re re re- co covered in later years its identity can be proven No o two footprints are aTe alike and besides every footprint has a certain individuality which never r changes hanges If a childs child's footprint foo nf is taken at birt birth birl 4 and nd filed away and compared ten years later with witha 1 a new footprint of the same child it if is said s id that tbt would be to identify them as having baring able c 1 been een made by the same foot although many of 1 the first fint aa And years cars elapsed between the taking king o the be second impressions lons y S 'S S 8 kt r i C l. l J |