Show ABANDONE i HER BABE Miss Stella Vincent Was Caught In the Act I SISTER ALSO ARRESTED IPOLC I POLICE LOOKING POE THEIR HALE ACCOMPLICES + Girl Was Betrayed At Denver and Sought to Give the Child a Home Where It Would Never Know of Its Mothers She Davies Clever Work t A effort on the part of Stella Vincent Vin-cent 21 years old last night to rid herself of herfatherless child was frustrated frus-trated merely through the simple observations ob-servations of a member of the fire department de-partment and a piece of work executed by Bicycle Policeman Davies the quality qual-ity of which is not often excelled The mother is detained at police headquarters headquar-ters and can be prosecuted for abandoning aban-doning an infant Her sister Edith Vincent Is held as an accessory and two men whose names the girls give a George Porter and James Smith are wanted on the same account The four conspired to rid Miss Vincent of her child the result of misplaced confidence dance and one of the men left it on the doorstep of Mrs John H Robins residence S4S South West Temple the three other parties remaining hard by in a carriage to drive the executor of the plan Into safety Davies however had heard from other ears the likelihood of the at tempt and was on hand to see i perpetrated per-petrated S The pretext used In leaving the child was novel and even had Davies not been on band would probably have led to the discovery of the childs parent I The man who left the child called Mrs Robins out of bed telling her he had a letter from her absent husband She arose to receive It and found a five weeks old babe alone and asleep at her door The significance is that the party knew something of the Robins family having named Mr Robins present pres-ent whereabouts The penalty hanging over Miss Vin cents head should she be prosecuted which is not likely is a five years term in the penitentiary Miss Vincent according ac-cording to her story was betrayed by a lover in Denver a year ago The police are inclined to believe her She has a father in the southern part of the county How It Was Done It was after 10 nVlfwlr Inct nirVif ivhor > a twoseated trap oc drove up in front of Mrs Matthisons lodging house 138 ½ East First South street a man walking Into the building at about the same moment having come along the sidewalk side-walk from Second East In a minute or two he motioned to the driver who turned around and drove east again The man who had been upstairs followed fol-lowed in the same direction and about twenty minutes later the minutes thesae performance ance was repeated Again there was await a-wait a woman a sister of the babes mother finally appearing with the child in her arms and getting into the rig A couple of minutes later the mother and the mysterious man walked out of the away building got in and the trap drove SIt S-It was here Davie began his fine piece of work A group of firemen next door had witnessed the maneuvers of man the parties and informed the I police Davies didnt hesitate He jumped on his wheel and rode after the outfit overtaking it at Main street Putting out his light to escape detection the young sleuth followed every movement of the rig ahead of him I went down to First West between Eighth and Ninth South and back to Tenth South I on Main street encircling the Sal Palace I Pal-ace and over again to West Temple I drew up near the corner of Ninth South on this street the officer laying l in the neighborhood awaiting developments develop-ments One of the men got out of the buggy as soon as i stopped with the baby in his arms He walked to 848 Mrs Robins house and rang the doorbell door-bell Whos there called Mrs Robins I have a letter from your husband in California answered a mans voice Mrs Robins called to Mrs Adams a neighbor but before the lady responded respond-ed ventured to open the door The little one trapped in yards of bleached muslin was there alone Davies meanwhile mean-while had watched the man return to the buggy and had seen it drive rapidly away After making a circuit of several sev-eral blocks the woman got out at the Metropolitan hotel on Third South and West Temple the man taking the rig to Farringtons barn Davies reported at headquarters and Sergeant Bur bidge went down to Mrs Robins in the patrol wagon and returned with the infant which was turned over to the care of Mrs Hampton the city matron I is a great big girl in excellent health five weeks old Women Arrested Detective Sheets Sergeant Burbidge and Davies then meandered down Main street as leisurely as millionaires and in an hour returned to police headquarters head-quarters confronting the mother with her babe The woman was found with I her sister at a room in the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan and at sight of the officers were nearly distracted They were taken to the unfortu police headquarters where nate mother received her babe I was a pitiful sight to see the little one nurse at its mothers breast and it aroused the greateiV sympathy for both I met a miner in Denver a year ago said Miss Vincent to a Herald reporter He said he loved me and we were engaged I fell a victim to his deceit de-ceit and oh God how I have suffered I couldnt bear to see the little one grow up to realize the truth and I tried to get some one else l to raise it 1 < 3is couian ana L Jiau to uo ima cUant Miss Vincent sobbed as though heartbroken heart-broken all during the time she was talking to the police She says she went to the Metropolitan because she was ashamed to return to Matthisons where she roomed She intended leav rome ing town with her sister in a few days Edith Vincent is the older of the two Davies wants the child He says he has a neighbbr who wants a girl and has threatened to steal his and he now sees a way out of the predicament |