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Show mpaagaBmi nun Bapsti INFANT ABANDONED ON PRIEST'S DOORSTEP (By International Nevs Service.) SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April 17. When Father Hickey's housekeeper struck her head out the door the other night to see where all the racket came from she saw a. little bundle on the doorstep from which emanated the lusty wailing of an infant girl about six weeks old. The noise ceased when the housekeeper took the . . child in her arms. As she cuddled jH it she saw a note pinned to its tiny dress reading: "Dear Father: Give the baby tc some good Catholic family." The" not) was signed "A Careless Girl Thai, Did Wrong." The baby was taken tc the foundling ward of St. John's Hos oo : r IH |