Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-09-10 | Page 8 | Poor Widow Tries to Give Away Her Babe

' POOR WIDOW TRIES TO GIVE AWAY HER BABE A Stranger Here, She Was Hungry and Penniless. Penni-less. Whllo fttlctnptlnc to clvo away her two-montha-old dauchter. Mary Site, a dostltulo widow, wns arrested by Patrolman Sperry yesterday yes-terday and taken to tin ofllco of Chief I-ynch that nor Mory might bo learned. Tho woman Is n forelcuor, aponklnc llttlo Enu'lsh. and wn unablo to mako tho ofllcera undortund what her natlvo country woj, so no Interpreter was secured. Story Is Pathetic. Her story, as drawn otit In broken oxres-.ilonn oxres-.ilonn by patient uffort on tho pnrt of tho of-flcsrs, of-flcsrs, showod that hor husband had died Jn New Tork about thrco months ngo; that ehn had cot us far aa Bait Ijiko on her way to California, where frlendn reside, that nho had worked In rovoral cheap roomlnu-houson hero for a boro pittance-, but wao unablo "to con-tlnuo con-tlnuo her employment und enro for hor Infunt, and that nho desired to placo the child whero It would be cared for. eo that sho might regain employment. Temporary Aid Given. The mother wn shabby, worried, frightened and looked huncry. After tho ofucors Woro satisfied that sho had no crlmlnnl Intent, they "chipped In," raising" a llttlo fund for hr Im-medlnto Im-medlnto needs, and tho babe was taken to tho St. Ann's Kearns orphnnaco. whero It will bo cared for until arranffpmenta can bo made for adoption, or tho mother's circumstances will cnublo her to care for tho child