The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-27
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RAU'S BABY'S NEW MOTHER.
MRS HETDsMsN SAYS ONLY HJGH LAW
Gan 1AkE 1T IROM HER.
The suspicious Bundie that Caught the Ex.
pcrienc~d Eye OF Mr.. Nartin-Hn says he
Himself Put the Bnby In the street FOR Fun

Mrs. Catharlne Hcidsman. of l1s Hopkins
street.. Brooklyn. eyed n visitor who called on
her yesterday very cautiously. and backed
slowly 10 the middle Of her little parlor after
bidding him enter. She thought ho might be a
lawyer come to persuade her to give up Mrs.
Raus little baby. which sho has taken posses
sion OF for adoption. when the visitor told her.
however TINT he was a reporter for The SUN
her face frightened.
Don't you want TO see II p she asked. and
Immediately she led the way to the darkest corr
ner Of an adjoining room. where n bundle.
made up principally OF large red shawl. lay
on table She carefully turned back one edge
Of the shawl and then lifted up n piece OF soft
flannel. This brought into view. down in the
depths Of other folds Of soft flannel. tiny face.
very red and with very fat cheeks. The eyes
began TO blink in the subdued light. but the
baby didn't cry. 1t was born last sunday.
Isn't 1t beautiful ?" she said
The visitor said IL was beautiful. and asked
her what she was going TO call it,
I'm going TO call II Katie: wouldn't you"
The visitor said he thought he would. and
then Mrs. Heidsman told him that once before
she took n baby from the hospital. but after she
had had II for a week its mother claimed II and
took II away. But they won't got this baby
from me. not unless they go TO high law for H."
she added. setting her features very firm. MIR.
Ran came here and offered US $50 for It. but my
husband said he could not have 1t, not II hs
paid $50 for 1t and then 80 more"
Mrs. Heidsman is young, with bright. intel.
lRent face and a determined manner Her
husband. TO whom she was married two years
ago. 10 % years OF age. and by trade a glass
worker. He told the reporter that a thousand
dollars would not take the baby from him II he
" II the baby had died" Mrs. Heidsman con-
tinued. they wouldn't have come for II. They
lost on Monday, night they say. but Il was not
having il in the newspa pers iii thet thew boesn ~
look for Il; Rau caue here and told US at first
that Mrs. Malone hs mothcr.in-law. had los, II.
| he told Ms the story that was printed in The
Sun this morning. how she. the child's grand
mother. vas proud q it. and had taken Il awav
| thing was born to show 10 her friends. and that
having taken too much beer In drinking the
fall asleep on a stoop. and lrnye it there while
she wandered home without II. That is the
story he told rs first Now he has another story.
always wanted baby. and told a neighbor II
mine. who Is Inidwiie. e. let me know the first
heard Of this one. don't think kau ought 70
hgye baby to leave on. In the street, do you|
| baby. II was reported Yesterday that he found
| II on his stoop. tie asked the reporter to be
particular 10 contradict that. He lives ut 1856
Elery street. and rises every morning at 4T
o'clock IN order TO- he early at hts shop He is
who keeps restaurant at isl Throop avenue.
This takes him in a direction opposite from
| his steps down .Fll"ry street past his own
| house. On Tuesday morning at about o'clock
200 RIIery street on his way 10 To- Haucks. Il was -
yet pretty dark. and he got the idea that IL was
child's stool with cushion. and TINT il had
been left ont over Light by mistake. When he
came back from Hanck's IL was a little lighter.
and he saw that the object was q bundle. When
boy baby in from, Of 81 Ryngton @ street. % IN tSis
city, but Il was dead. In the same summer.
while passing in front Of lsG Forsyth stree, one
| night he found a three months old girl-bnby at
the entrance. 1t sat np with its head thrust out
year year " or two Al stsr%ari The he Whit won have ~ found
| third abandoned bahy only that he happened to
be walking % s,h at the time with police officer:
of Mr.. Martin made him regnrd the bundle with
snspiciop and seeing friend across the street
there was. something wrong about the bundle.
The friend came across the street.
| " 60 and see what II II" said Martin. I'm
ina,hurry; but susp-% there's baby in IT,"
:, Well Il heres z BABY in H. wouldn't touch
hands over his ears. he went down Ellery street
Mr.; Mgrtins previous experience had made
his hands under its folds. The first thing he
grasped wns cold but fat lit:c leg. Then ne
and when he pulled the shawl down from iis
face he discovered that its features were pinch
II was beautiful baby lie says his Impulse
| was 10 carry II home for adoption but he could
not do SO because he already had seven; So he
| took II 10 the restaurant Of bis friend, Fred
| Hanck. and asked him TO carry II 10 the Flush
ms avenue police station. he himself being very
the charge. and Mrs. Hauck warmed and fed
the. little waif
was y beautiful baby. and he felt like adopting
Il himself. but Thought. under, tho circum-
ssnr ,6. wGG ,Ss not SS 5s6 Hs Eoy in 3 BE-
| lowing morning. II was while the hild was in
his possession that Mrs lioidsman heard OF It.
lie said he had no right to to 4" & hnr b but nSI on
mE'ns to the H,Se, HGiice station the I'm,
| To have temporary charge Of 1t. Aiterward
| she and her husband went 10 the office OF the
Commissioner OF Charities. where they were
| told by the clerk TO keep possession for the
present. This is the way ihe matter now stands.
No papers Of adoption hgye been signed, and
| meets. The father has taken no legal steps to
procure his child; although he called a second
| The friend exhibited paper and declared that
II was legal demand made by lawyer for tho
child, Mrs fridsman told him firmly that she
Mrs Rau is very sick Rnu called yesterday on
Charity Commissi9n"r \, Ieiser and told HIM
credited to him In this latter story he does not
charge Mr.. Malone win losing the child,
when my child was born. ! am not drinking
| man. bnt on Monday night took several drinks
in q saloon on the occasion, The boys began TO
bother Inc 10y saying that tho child was not
mine. This made mo mad aud went home.
told the women found there what the boys
had said.
90 II yon, don't want tho baby one OF the
| women said. take II away,
With that took the child wrapped II up in
| shawl and took IL ont ~ the house In order
t2 irlghen tho women !. iust for fun. left 1t out
side on stoop near the house intending to 60
right ont again ami bring it in. But when /
! went ont found that II WIS gone
Tho neighonrs think II very strange that
any one finding child on. stoop should
| take II mp and rnrry from the corner
Of Bnshwick avenue and Powers street over
twenty blocks 70 zoo Elery street whore
other, stooop person finding an aban;
doned child on stoop. il Is argued. would
take Il home with him. take It TO a police sta
ton call the attention ~ neighbors 10 it, or pass
carry it a long distance IN winding direc-
| tion and then lay Il down. The stoop on
a wooden building the lower part ~
which Is used rs u place OF worship by
Il German Evangelical Lutheran cqngre
CATION II Is beloved that the person who loft
II there enormously supposed that the pastor
| Of the congregation occupied the upper part Of
| the building. and Imagined that he would take
! christian care OF the child. Mrs. Bagley who
| lives the house. SAYS thut nj IL O'Clock on