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Show PAGE FOUR -, - s - ' 1 r .Srrf-- .". . n u IX e : S i. THE EVENING HERALD, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1928. r j m j rw u m n m i ii fi Utf Uyif-BI- r i m, .? -- T . &. fl ii . m "i m UW US - W B v v. .a. 3: f : and tile ?i f w AtlierYCMd As Her Own, : m ii Mrs.BlaWelt : - BM B a.j ..a j ia Whai-Happenedien ,t n t ,r j- . , - , of Mrs. Alice bourn, ' 4 ' . ' ' ..:..-..- .j.- - - . ' v j ' , i X t " . ....... ' ... M ' '""V ; - pate the Birth CertifleaU - Blauvelt, the young1 New v. Hons' Jersty -wife Who "Bought" Utile Three. Year-Ol- Caa f Mrt. AHe Ca Who Deeel4 II u l mi tor Pflurtrra Year b Adopting Eleven Children, th tna Cam In the Remarkable South, of Atlanta, 4 i I - L.:.. , V n;'- , - r -- - j- rT" - 1 . r s . f TripleU - r ------ , , ,s 3 ' , '- v"Sr j'r- - 5 J- - "f" ' - -vj-.:. - 4- V v- : -K , d Gertrude Mnrohv From Her Parents and Told the Child Was. Ills OwalaTOrde? to I 7EENMiA Lillian Blaivolt, fr Her-Husba- .X . 1 ft 1. - f .M- .'f . hold Ilia Lorei VV housewife, of Bcrgenfield, Tf. J., answered a novspapt?. lverU6mcnt offering a baby girl for adoption the other day, she visited the furnished room home of a young Brooklyn couple, John and Gertrude. Murphy, SheTouniJ them m "ties pe rate cif cumtances, Murj'hy, ' checker in a midille-age- d rent was unpaid and theywerehav-- " Ing difficulty in getting food. , Gettrurlc Frances Muiphjr, two and a half 'years oldrwa thttir only child and they loved her But, they they felt thatthey explained, L catefbe Y 4itiu Blauvelt, on the other hand, had a comfortable home in the eoumfy and was willing to firive the baby everything that her parents could, not. She said that her own little girl, just Gertrude's age, was dead. "I'll tell you- - nej'e s uomeching to pay vour rent with," she told the Murpliys as she twenty-dolla- r bill on the table, nlftod And when she went away soon afterward, she took small Gertude alonjr. ' "Now," she told herself, '"I'll tell my husband that ahe's the baby born to me in Allen town, Pennsylvania.' And when he sees her I'll be sans of holding his Jove, even if I am eleven years TOUrdTrV-tak- e' ' i vr) - '' U I 'V'.' V mm & . . . J '" , . trSl J ' : -- r.. ' " ; 'At v':v: ( via. ? k -- older be than" - ISt"" Wesley Blauvelt was delighted with the youngster he thought was bis own. They got on very happily for nearly a week. And thieo demanded Murphy telephoned Mrs.' Blauvelt and her baby back. In a despairing effort to prevent her husbaSid from learning of the deceit she had .practised upon him, Mi's Blauvelt returned thet child and then gave out that she had been kidnaped. And when more than fifty detectives and patrolmen had hunted for the baby two days a,ud finally discovered the truth, bath the Blauvelts and the Murphys were arrested and jailed, and officialsannounced that they would begin an mvestigain oabies! . tion into the astonishing-ttafX- iC Thpre t an onen market in New York to day," declared Superintendent Piasara of the Children's Society.. "There are hundreds of cies like ihia, but they seldom come to light I consider it aa senous almost a murder in tho first degree to jeopardize the life of an innocent child." lie then said that he would attempt to Intro--- duce into thft State Legislature a bill to maka or to ..jidnin fnr anv nuiii in trsinsf er a hiibv. advertise for the adoption ot a minor child until""" complete investigation is made of the case by rcputablo aociety. Superintendent Piasara's state-ment recalls the alarm and hor- it, Mrs, foisting ipon him eleven children, among them two" sets of twins and one set of triplets, and making him believe they were his own. Investiga tion showed that she" obtained many ol the children iram a maternity home wiuch was conauctea xor we benefit of unmarried mothers."""" ine baDiea corn at ie nome were' nven out w women ueariy nu vi i v f v:v:v:: :V':;:v - V 'V 1, . . MrsL..Ja5u.. JM urphy and Her, Daughter Gertrude, Whom She Advertised fot Adoption in the Newspapers and Whc Was Immediately Taken in by Mrs. Blauvelt as Her Own Child in Order to Deceive, Her Husband. ror of Atlanta officials a few years agro when the famous baby hoax of Mm. Alice South came to light throng: !i an accident. ; Mrs.- - Souchr I'm not ashamed of it nor afraid of any thing that is going to happen now. I'v crougni up m x cnimren to De good coyi 'and eirls and they'll be decent, God- fearing men and women.- I didn't tell you ithe tuth because - I knew yon wouldn't let me have them. ' South was so enraged, however, that be packed his bag and left home. But witUn a half hour he was back again.- It appeared that he had grown, to love the children so much' that he couidn t leave tliem. - So Mrs. South promised to iet the "triplets go back tathe home and agreed not to present mm wiux any more Daoies ana tne family settled down to live happily. When Wesley. Blauvelt heard about his wife's deception he showed none of the anger that beset South. In fact he grinned.1"- "Oh." he said, "this won't make any differ ence. She's a good housekeeper, and that's what ' woman fifty- three-- , years old, had deceived her husband for fourteen years by - T. '.'' V x .i jt linn" -- teftf Mrs. Alice South Who Deceived Her Husband for Fourteen Years and Two of the Eleven r Foandlinf - Babie Ske Adopted From a Home in Atlanta, Ga, During That Time. v until she gave them a home. First she adopted a boy, Jesse, ' counts." ' So it turned out that Mrs. Blauvelt was in nodanger of losing her husband's love even though she never had borne him the baby that they had talked about constantly. " Her story was that the child had eorhe to her m AHentown. just before she had moved' to New Jersey to join her husband. She bad left it in a home there, she declared, because, as she said, her work would prevent her giving It the proper care. The matter ran along for more than two years and then BUuvelt insisted upon seeing his ' daughter. It was at this tune that his wife hap pened to See the newspaper, advertisement by which the Murphys offered their little girl for who was fifteen years old .,. before he knew that she- - .was not his real mother. "- I II -- I U 1 . I f't L' L. . - w- V- .' i, V. T- " " ' ' ' ,i 1. . ' ''"". " - , ' "IT-- ! ' ft " , - ' 3 f - - - " Left:-J.-t- he G. Mnr- - - - ' - , Ir.licalthe BccoH' cilia tion , With Wesley Blauvelt, and i Mrs, . Blau- - velt Who - -- Adopted Gertroda ; IX " A I M s i It ;y , - - - f " , , , Murphy. . , ' . . tMTcSifih' Tfrif hlrth"Tec8rdr'iih5covCTed'tterr:: to , the superintendent of - GerWe have didn't babies t5 Mrs. eepto Smith money enough of born account . rno had been institution, were afraid of losing theitrude," Mrs. Murphy said late on. VWe only N and conferred with ber husband, Fy E. A. South. husbands' love because of childlessness. intended to wait until we could get enough money years old, and information went ith the babies as to, He was grocer's clerk, sixty-on- e r ? . .- ,(,, to get our baby back." employed on a small salary.' their parentaee. and no knowledge as to the On the day when Mrs. Blauvelt returned little But when his At first he was incredulous. --ultimate disposal of the children was vouchsafed Gertrude she waited until her husband had gone ha was fori- the mothers. Accordingly, ail 01 the women-w- ho wife readily admjttedjjer7TrT?deception "" - -- --to a movmir picture show. She then, traveled '! oua. adopted the children were successful in mak from Harlem, where she had jeft her husbandLto . "Yon have played hell with me,"' he roared,lng their husbands believe that they were being a downtown corner and turned over the child to "You've lied to me for fourteen years and I've presented- with little sons and daughters, up to the Murphys, after which she went back and told. been slaving my head off for somebody else's the time- that Mrs. South's love for children Blauvelt that the baby had been kidnaped, brats. I won't stand for it any longer 1" caused her to overreach herself and take the . The alarm was riven, and detectives and police . . and ' at his was Mrsl anger, South, rom t surprised the home." triplets " : immediately began a -- search.They had no v Subsequent investigation proved that hundreds . she stated her side of the case mildly: trouble in checking up discrepancies in Mrs. of foundlings were adopted in this manner every "Why,' what is there to do with them honey? story and as a result she broke down .Just love them and take care of them as we have , Blauvelt's month. Furthermore, it was shown that the in and told the truth. The Murphys were arrested been doing. I adopted them because you wouldn t stitution was quite legal under ueprgia lawsi : of Impairing the morals and endana let me have any more Children after our own . on a charge Curiously enough the sympathy of all- - Atlanta Blauvelts gering the health of the baby, and the Later three girls were grown up and married. ; I don't "went out to Mrs South when her story became both were charged with disorderly conduct. and I don't like theatres and I don't known.' A gaunt, stooped little woman with 1 ' , weTe released. t like to go out All I do like is children. Chil- harsh features and hands gnarled and rough, her But out of the affair has grown a series cf I ' dren are 'the greatest thing tn the world. passion for motherhood was such that she lored is an there into that the charge wanted to give them the best raising I could, the . investigations all children. The babies she adopted were nametraffic in babies all over America. home. in astonishing the babies little maternity less" until she gave them a name and homeless helpless poor whom, - according , - v the ' At that time her other foster children were - Virginia, twelve;' Elmour and Loftia, ten and five; Ruth and Jewel, twins, two. and the Another set of twins wete sickly, and died soon after aha had taken r them from the nome. It was shortly after the triplets were - bom" to Mrs. South that officials after - -- Deceived Haaband .: - - like-movi- . . . . ... |