Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-28 | Page 2 | Hospital Threatened with Suit for $100,000 in Baby Mixup Error

Hos Hospital it l Threat Thiat Totaled ned With Suit ii f n F For il 1 O o in ri Baby Mi p Error CHICAGO July 28 AP Al' Al The baby tangle which ha has be been n jounced d fr from m the 1 Laps hips ps of obstetrics department Of t fingerprint experts bone bon blood and baby specialists a maternal ma ma- mas mass mass' meeting and even the U law lay cradled toda today in the b bassinet bas bs- s sinet of ot the church still it did not rest I The Tho infant in th the of I the tho Charle Charles was baptized bap bap- George Georgo Edward Bamberger Banberger at atthe atthe atthe the Church of or Our Ou Lad Lady of t Solace yesterday esterday j 2 The William who are arc Presbyterians and who ho the the b baby by baptized a Bamberger is really their own own offspring S' S today sought the advice ot of a a. clergyman of or their own own faith with a afew view few lo to having the tho child in their possession li ed without application lo 1 of ja names name WANTS WANTS' BABY IN COURT Tho The Watkins attorney Barr Barratt tt tt OHara O'Hara was as getting ready leady to ask aska a writ of ot habeas habeas- corpus to to com compel J the to produce their baby In c court urt and show cause why they should not surrender It Jt In sucH suc an nn action It w was vs s explained the matter would bo be placed before the court which h would make final decision as asto to whom the th infant be belonged bee be- longed The Tile attorney alto alo was Instructed to bring suit for tor dama damages damares s 's against the Englewood hospital where the Bamberger and babies were born June 30 Bamberger Bam Bam- berger on th the other othen hand has announced an- an n that everything Is settled d that he Is Is- satisfied he i hoW now has hns his own Infant and that rio no legal action of ot any kind is Js contemplated contemplated- Mr h and IrE Watkins atkins expressed no concern ov over r the tho fact tact that the b baby b they b believe lJ va to b be tn their lr own own was christened a II Bamberger r. r PLAN REB When we we wet get t. t the baby trade arranged ar- ar ranged well we'll have him Into our faith they said o ot l leading hoe hoar punts and sev several ral prominent baby specialists were asked yest yesterday r ay if it itIn in their opinion a R. mother would recognize her n new born borny babe a The Th I replies with one exception ere y-ere r In Inthe Inthe inthe the affirmative that a m mother ther could uld recognize h her r baby l by after fter having Iee teen seen 1 It once or twice Dr C. C D D. D Paddock and Dr H. H H. H Gibson obstetricians and Dr Di S 6 S. L. L Ha Hadden of ot Oak Park hospital all aU agreed she he could But Dut Miss Mias J. J F. F Christie superintendent o of at Chicago lying lying-in hospital said sIte she he WoUld mother mothe would not care caroto to say lay a B. know h her r child on Se oh or or oz p third encounter Un ter Dr Paddock said the mother at once tees sees features resembling lIng hex hei family's s or her Mr husbands husband's ds Thus tho the child to her ha haa Its fathers father's rs r's eyes Its ita maternal gr grandmothers grandmother's nos nose or it its its- cars may set Bet on the tho head at th the angle angl of ot Uncle Bobs Dobs lo To Fo Its Its' father other relatives and outsiders it mo may look like just another ball baby TRIED OUT iN F- F FN N You cant can't f ool a n mother after elO ho lIto has seen her baby a Do few times Dr Hadden said In fun tun I have bave made test tests test to see ace I havo have 8 asked ked mothers to select their children from among several eral brought in from the nursery nursery and they did so 80 correctly Miss Amelia Ia head nur nurse e at the Presbyterian hospital sided tIded with the doctors and C. C C. C superintendent of of St. St Lukes Luke's hospital declared that If Jt a mother did not know kno her own offspring I fter the first introduction ho would think th there re was something wrong with her eyesight DOCTOR GETS PUZZLER And then thel this th s proposition was wasi i tit put t to Dr Gibson t Granted that thu a a n nize a a. child chUd on n second cond encounter as the one given her bel at first But sup sup- were given the the- baby In tho the tho beginning would her mothers mother instinct detect the er error cr- cr rot tI rO Hmm har f baraIy h And there Sa isone one of ot tho tIm knots in inthe tho the tangled Watkins er- er case cate