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Show i Wife Must Explain Where She Got Babes LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 30 Mrs. Helen Llbby, 11 years old. wife of a traveling salesman, was placed In Jail here Wednesday where she is being held pending Investigation by stale welfare officers Into the ! manlier in which she procured two babies, boili less than three months old. who she is alleged to have represented to her husband as being their I children The two babies, who Mrs. Llbby said she obtained from a man named "Peterson" In Chicago last week were returned to that city by officials Two other children, whom the woman claims as her own were placed in in orphanage here to await disposition bv the court Mr.- Llbbv was arrested through the efforts ol Illinois authorities. When questioned she said she procured the children because of her love of babies She said her husband was absent from home at his work much of the time and that for this fact, she expected no trouble in perpetrating the Imposition Her husband Is scheduled to arrive home April 1. |