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Show uu j BABY FALLS INTO THE ' GUTTER A striking csbc of neglect of parental par-ental responsibilities was unearthed when Stephen R. Willis and James Trapett were arrested today for disturbing dis-turbing tlvo peace The two men who are from Fraco, Ida., and claim to be bollermakerB in the local Southern Pacific shops, were arrested after complaints from citizens in the lower part of town had been sent into tho police station. According to witnesses, Willis and Trappett wero making the rounds on lower Twenty-fifth street, wheeling a year-old child in a go-carL While the father. Willis, and his friend wero drinking ana' quarreling, tho child in the go-cart was either left outside in tho cold or brought into tho saloons to be fondled by the men who hang around such places Finally Fin-ally the father and friend became so drunk that the child was barely thought of. In ono of their missteps, the baby fell from the cart Into tho gutter, where the icy water soon soaked the clothe schilling the little one until a passerby picked tho babv from the dirty water and, inquiring as to the little one's home, took the child lo Kb mother. The father was so drunk by this time that ho did not know whether he had a baby. When he and his friend wero arrested, Willis was wheeling the ompty cart, believing be-lieving it still held his neglected offspring. |