Show ir PAvVNE TAE BABY i Husband Gave Little One as Security I ii OWED A SMALL BOARD SiLl Husband Disappaared Aftor BeGot Be-Got 1ho Money ii BoqrdingEouse Keeper Held Child as Hansom Until Two Policemen t Liberated It I e j St Louis Dec 211lr5 Mary I Davidson spent the happiest Christmas I I of her life She recovered her baby I 111 Gladys who was placed In pawn by her I I husband as security for their board bill i ti Baby Gladys was held as security for a S3 board bill at 1120 North Eighteenth street until a big Police Captain hear t i ing the frantic mothers story solilo I j qulzed that he guessed babies wouldnt I I go as security in his district So he sent I I two officers and they liberated the IJ child and helped the mother find a new i 1 home at 921 1 North Fourteenth street Mourning the loss of her husband I r who pawned the child and never returned re-turned Mrs Davidson when adversity cAme was forced to give up her corn fortable little home on Arlington avenue i I I X nue and provide for herself and two 11 children as best she could Two weeks ago she went to the home of Mrs Belle Killingcr an elderly wo I street to i i r man on North Eighteenth board She was to pay 2 a week For i i the first week she paid but then she If had to buy warm clothes for Johnnie J and when Mrs Killinger demanded S 3 I Wednesday afternoon for the second 1 J weeks board she could not pay it i The troubled woman pleaded for time r I She said she would earn the money as I soon as she could and pay every cent F she owed Then she went out into the I rt streets to search for work Brokenhearted 1 Broken-hearted but not without hope she returned i 1 re-turned to the house later In the afternoon H 1 after-noon She hurried to her room Baby 1 Gladys was gone A mothers fears I swept over her She wandered through for the baby 1 the house looking in vain She heard the cry of s babe from aback 1 a-back room At the doorway she says I Mrs Killinger stood In her path 7 Driven hysterical by the continued I cries of the baby Mrs Davidson tried J to force her way through the door but 3 9l t the older woman held firm When the I frenzied mother seemed about to be successful Mrs KIIMngcrs son and 1 F daughter came Mrs Davidson says J lwl i and ejected her i Not knowing where to run for help C the young mother ran tnto the street K and on for several blocks until she met iHfH two policemen The officers tried to iiulet the unhappy woman and went I with her to the Carr street station 1 where Capt Johnson ordered the two C r policemen to go with Mrs Davidson to I f the Killinger house and secure the Imprisoned Im-prisoned baby Give this woman the protection she needs was Capt John sons parting orders |