Show o 0 4 tOt 0 0 0 4 CHICAGO WOMEN WOULD ADOPT DOPE BABY B BY ISON SON BECOMES COURTS COURT'S WARD I I InI I His Cultured Father Fathe Is In Sanitarium for Cure MOTHER A SUICIDE I Dope Baby Springs From Family Cursed for Years BY Y p J Copyright 1923 1 CHICAGO April 14 aby son innocent 1 off offspring spring of ot t two 0 generations o of drug druff addicts the story o of hort Ifo reads like the lurid dream or otan an opium v smoker yesterday hell an in England ragland a 0 foundling in a I state tat t oos and smiles In the arms arm o of Ills charity nurse In blissful cn to the unpromising futuro Ho Howard 10 months old and US r n boy a as ever Int a mothers mother's e es today was a made madeI I the official ward ot of the juvenile 1 court In spite of oC the score or more of ot childless homes clamoring to tike him in the child d cannot be Rh en out for or adoption while hll ather John Robinson hIS h s only forbear remains a 0 I at the Kankakee sanitarium for forthe the CUro cure CUr o of the narcotic habit I I I i I I i I I II II I i I I rno moM FA cuR nn the mother likewise I e a addict dead by her own o handa a fortnight ago aeo with th the fathera ather athera a ward ar o of the tho state and unfit for forI forth I re of his son child can have no guardian thel ono appointed by the court remains remain status quo until the either cither dies or recovers sut- sut suf sufficiently to core care for tor the boy him him- himself him sel self Like a a fresh flower grown crown in a afield ot of waste Ho Howard ard as the the dope bab babi na from rom a family cu ed t hout two to gener by the evil e of drugs Yet ex- ex ex experts who have him de- de declare de declare clare that tills child docs doel not In- In Inherit In Inherit herit e even n a tendency to habit I ard slen en the proper propel environment I he may be e even een en a super blo rI rough his Ius veins ems courses es the I blue blood of ot 1 family which once chimed wealth di distinction and ache Dr William Wilham o of Howard wn at one UmA a prominent phy ph- physician of Buffalo T Twenty enty vear ears earsa a aco o be h removed with Ith his Ms family to and settled In the fa fash fashionable h Prairie district I DOCTOR i 1 iKI KI JU fr hO er e the doctor yielded 1 to the strain of over and the tho magic made prick of or the tho needle to carry him his strenuous strenuous ous task It W waa 9 Brief n over ner er husband a death it Is said which led Mr Wool Woolson on the babs bab's to fall a n to the habit Their Theil oldest on I Hw How Howard lard ard WooLson on in turn t was claimed I I b by the d drue It w was s believed that the baos bao's mother Mra Woolson Hob I Hob inson Inson hid been taking opiates or bout thre cars hen a II ht o sho killed her mother Mrs Woolson and then herself In inthe the squalor of a southside room room- room In huse A note noto found lter the explained that both pre pre- pro pro-ferrod death rather than lion tion separation and the of the curl It 11 also al o that hr herten months old baby Howard al- al al In the care of or the be riven friends committed to an Institution 1 FA Ja to For Atlon j into trady the baby's father John hastened to rom 1 me e Kankakee thero he be was a hal halt way w y through the cure Never Nover again aln he de- de declared de declared would I h touch a drug and 01 to the p peddlers who tried to sell him either morphine heroin 01 Thou h frayed and ana by of John Robin W 1 plainly II gentle n and a f As A he talked to tile tho char char- charIty charity ity workers who had rese d his h baby his mann manner rs were Enill h He Is Iq a o er cr in land and a ch civil II fr It was ha ho who built tilt M railroad yards in tn Chi Chi- c cayo ro Hia Hll father ather him he wn an architect of dl- dl dis distinction a member ot th UI In In- In of ot British Architect I Tc came KOhe m to this country 20 2 year hI Id and then I bean back In four OUI My mother ha a beautiful estat Continued on P Two I ADDICTS ADDICT'S TINY SON BECOMES COURTS COURT'S WARD Continued from Irom Pose Page One In England to which I will take I toward Koward and she sh Mill Ill care caro for or him I Imd md he will grow UI up In tho the environ environment ment to which he ho la is I born nr ni nl GOES GOIS n CK A few tew days later inter the charity In- In Inv In Investigators v disco discolored that Howrd How How- How rd rd Id s father tather vas gas laden with an nn en- en enre enre re en-re re fresh tresh supply of oC needles and nany any envelopes of ot morphine co- co coIne cotine line co-line tine Ine and heroin Wildly protest protest- protest protest-ng ng and end covered with Ith humiliation to was WB- sent back to Kankakee Yesterday the letter sent to the internal grandmother In England od d t the address by the father Has Nas returned unclaimed rhe The fhe In England which was nas to house Baby Howards Howard's ChildhOOd and shrank hrank to the grim walls ot of a charity charily Institution In the meanwhile no les less lees than three hundred hungry hearted women hal had applied for tor privilege to adopt the tho beautiful or baby baby or at least to take him Into their homes until his father might be ho able to care for tor him |