The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-09
Woman's strategy-A Baby's Adven-
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The st Louis Democrat relates the fol
lowing romantic baby story as having oc
Cured recently in that city
4 young girl living in the southern part
OF the city took service In 3 family on Sixth
street, She loved not wisely. but too
well, and a short time ago discovered that
she was about to become mother befeFe
the wedding ring was upon her finger. he
desired above all things to concea4her shame
from her parents, but had no idea Of hiding
her disgrace by committing the horrible
crime ofiRfantcide. in der distress che ap-i
piled t. a lady Of her acquaintance, and the
ready wit Of woman devised scheme by
which the life of the child and the honor OF
tie mother could bo.h be preserved The
lady acquainted two or three OF her friends
with her plan, and then entered heartily into
the project
The lady knew married couple whose
union had not been blessed with offspring,
and who desired, above all earthly things, to
be blessed with child The wife wished TO
adopt an orphan, but the husband had
strong repugnance to taking t. his heart the
child OF another The philanthropie lady
saw the ehildless wife, and told her the story
OF the unfortunate girl, and suggested that
the child about to be born was placed at her
husband door, he might be induced to take
1t IN and adopt it as his own. The wife was
delighted with the plan aud when the child
was born, two of the ladies dressed it neatly,
and at late hour carried it to the house OF
the chiidless couple, on Tenth street, aud
lett 1t in front Of the back door, on the steps.
They laid 1t down on the floor and knocked
at the door
The husband and wife heard the rap, but
paid no attention to it. The ladies then
Knocked upon the window, and waited to see
what would follow. The husband thought
some thief was getting into his house, and
having been soldier in the Fourth Missouri
cavalry, seized his sabre and cautiously
opened the door. No one was there In
looking around to discover the supposed
burglar he stumbled upon the child, which
was sweetly slseping, unconscious ofall that
was Transporting around it. The husband
called his wife; the baby was taken into the
| house, and it was such fne-looking, quiet,
rosy checked boy that the heart Of the sol
der soltened, and he agreed that his wife
should keep it and adopt it as her own, and
that he would fool himself into the belief
that he was its father. The baby had thus
| found a good home, and it crowed Justify in
the laps of its adopted parents
The day after the baby's adventure an in
FAINT was found strangled, not far distant
( from the residence of the mother, and Her
man, the coroner's deputy, was sent to find
out all he could concerning the inGantcide
He learned that the Young girl on Sixth
street had given birth to a child, and he
| called to see her, and asked what she had
! done with it. She told him where the child
was, and he went to see it. When he told
the soldiers wife that he had come to see
the child she, fearing that he wanted to take
it from her, Indignantly refused to let him
see it. and told him if be didn't get out Of
the house Immediately he would himself DO
made the subject of a coroner inquest, for
she would break every bone in hs body.
Herman was satisfied he was on the wrong
track, and left the lady in peaceful posses
sion of the baby.