Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-06-17 | Page 2 | Baby is Gone; All is Black

A Y IS ALL IS Pitiful Wail of Mother Who Was TaKing Her iler Little One to Old Country as a Peace Offering i C CHICAGO June 17 In In a little littIe white coffin in an an undertakers undertaker's rooms in North Clark street there lies lief the s sole sale le hope of peace between a stern father in faraway Portugal al and a young wife wite who violated the command of her ber father to follow her husband to the New World Vord The coffin holds the remains of Baby Rodrigues es six months old daughter of Mary and Manuel Rodrigues W When hen the infant died in a car of 01 the Chicago Northwestern immigrant train from the West just outside of Chicago Mrs errand of peace came to an ab end The young youn mother now occupies a acell acell acell cell at the Chicago go avenue police sta sta- tion Her husband the chief cause of the proposed trip across the continent and to Portugal is lying near death I in a hospital at San Francisco f When Baby Rodrigues first saw the light of day in a hotel in San Francisco Francisco Fraucisco Fran Frau cisco its father was so weak as s to be unable to supply food for his his- family Mrs Rodrigues had written repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly repeat repeat- edly for assistance to her father who is reputed to be a wealthy m merchant in southern Portugal but the letters letters' were returned unopened So some weeks ago she decided she would carry her baby to her father as a peace offering After many any days of hard work the thee money e to pay the passage to Europe elar was secured c Before Mrs R Rodrigues st started on n her hex journey her husband was Vas taken to a charity bed in in a hospital Then som some ailment nt peculiar to to babies seized the tha child and it 4 d as t the e tr train in entered C Chicago ica o. o I I dont don't know now what Ill I'll do dothe the th w woman man said in despair gone and everything is black I suppose Ill I'll fone II g go back to California The mother will be detained in Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago until after the inquest over over- her baby which was set for tod today y