Show I 1 N U P U n b A 10 I 1 r gh 6 A by CASE WILL da n F FOUR COURTS HAVE PASSED uka ON THE QUESTION As to whether the real or foster mother shall have possession of the child I 1 chicago may 22 fate of the famous incubator baby of the st louis worlds F fair air will be decided in a few days by the united states court of appeals at minneapolis the decision will determine determine finally whether th the baby shall belong to io its real mother or to the woman who adopted it fou Four courts already abely ifal nave e I 1 attempted to decide this qu question eklon an I 1 illinois circuit couett decided the child belofi belonged ged to its real moth mother er the illinois supreme court reversed this decision Jec ision and gave the baby to its foster parents A district court in I 1 kansas decided the little one belong I 1 led ej to its adopted mother the kansas 1 supreme court gave it back to its I 1 real mother at present under the I 1 aegis of the kansas upper court the I 1 real mother and child are living together at sedan kan the incubator baby now grown to a pretty girl of 4 years was born in a st louis hospital february 15 1904 while the mother sirs airs charlotte thompson Blea bleakley hley lay ill the hospital matron stole the baby and sold it to the baby incubator company of the he worlds fair A dead baby born in the hospital it is alleged to edith stanley an actress was substituted mrs bleakley was told her baby had bad died the baby in the incubator thrived and mrs james G barclay a a wealthy woman of buffalo decided to adopt it mrs bleakley signed a deed waiving all all claims to tiro tile incubator baby she was convinced it was not her child but mrs bleakley became suspicious finally she went to the st louis hospital where the matron admitted the incubator baby was the child born to mrs bleakley BIC akley when she learned the real mother had come to claim her offspring mrs barclay fled it is said with the infant from st louis she was halted at rock island by a warrant charging her with the rock island court restored the baby to mrs bleakley who took it to lawrence kan after appealing the case in an illinois court mrs airs barclay went to lawrence and began action to regain possession of the child judge smart of the district court there decided the adoption was wag legal and gave the real mother six hours in which to surrender the baby while a deputy sheriff waited in the bleakley home mrs bleakley slipped out a back door with the child in her 1 arms and caught an 1 express train by means of a bogus arrest by a bogus officer it is alleged she had herself conducted safely past pact I 1 pursuit through kansas and missouri into II illinois where the circuit court had recognized the validity of her claim for several months she and her child lived happily at rock island until the 1 supreme co court urt returned the child to mrs barclay meanwhile Alean while an appeal had been taken in kansas and the supreme court of that state stale had upheld the claims of the real mother mrs bleakley fled in disguise back to kansas where ob ebe now lives mrs airs barclay has spent in her fight for the baby she calls tho the child dorothy E eith edith barclay its real mother who Is poor has spent in defending her claim she knows knon the child as ag marian roberts bleakley several famous kansas lawyers have handled bandied mrs BIeak Bleak leya leys case free of charge about has been contributed to help her by public subscription |