The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-28

A Girl Baby Left Last Night
on the Portico Of one Of
Sedalia's Most Ele-
giant Residences.
Read the Description Of the Kid
and sec Whether 1t 10 Your
Relative.

6olotlv0.
Well, this forenoon n q BAzOO reporter
wac providing around the streets hunting
an item, . ten-year-old boy called him
across the street and said "Did you hear
about the child that was left last night .,
the residence of J. Il. SimoDds, formerly
master mechanic Of the Missouri Pscifc
road, and now holding the same position
ON the Cairo short line, whose family
residence il ON the corner Of Sixth street
and Washington avenue?" NO." replied
the news gatherer.
Go and hunt it uP," said the boy and
yoa'Il find good item.
The reporter called At the above named
residence, and was received by Mr.. ST.
mond., who, in answer to Inquiries BY the
scribe, related the following as To
HOW THE CHILD WAS LEFT.
s.It was about ten o'clock last night; was
in the kitchen with the hired girl, and NV
niece and married daughter we're sewing in
the sitting room; Mr.. Simonds was at 81.
Louis and there were no men folks about
the house; my daughter heard heavy foot
steps, ~ of man walking along the side
walk leading to the porch; she vent To the
door and opening j, looked on, on the
Washington street porch, but saw nothing;
then went to the door and ~ looked ont
IA Y reaching around the corner OF the
house an aru Of person, in which bun
die vas held, which was quickly laid on
the porch and the arm wss Withdrawn
from sight around the corner; hurried out
upon the porch, and. though 1t Wa bright
moonlight, could ace no one 20 any direc-
ton; l don't really know whether II was
msn or . woman who left the bundle, hut
from the heavy fooistep. believe it to
have been a man; We took the bundle in
and found it to contsin pretty girl babv;
We kept it during the night and this morn
ing placed j. in charge OF the sheriff"
Rrpor,er-Whst kind Of clothing was
little nobodys darling wrapped in!
Mrs. Simonds clothing was cheap
and coarse, but comfortable. Among
the rest was gentleman's white
handkerchief, and a well-worn red silk one
with purple border, ladies' veil, half .
yard and dark blue, and q small new shawl
10 which the folds were yet visible, of a
bright red color, light border, formed by
few white threads running through it.
The neighboring ladies who called during
the time the child was here believe it to be
about two weeks old. 1t Vas suggested
that a. the child was found ON Wishing
ton street porch, she should be called
"Adelaide Washington" The reporter
the lady for her courtesy in an
swering his inquiries went to the sherifl's
residence to
TAKE LOOK AT THE KID.
Mrs.. Murray, the sherifi's wife, was not
particularly delighted with this latest ac
ce-sion to her list Of boaiders. She said
che presumed the little ouicast would
be kept there until, by advertising, or
some other method, some one could he
found to adopt it. The reporter was shown
into the room where the young wsif, in its
scsnty toilet, lay. The lady'- shawl and
veil and the gentlemans hsndkerchiess,
spoken Of by Mrs. Simonds, were still wrap
ped round the bud of humsn love or lust.
The various old ladies who have visited
the kid differ a. TO its age, some, who are
held as good authority. claiming that not
more than Two days have dawned on its
eyes, while Others whose regulations IN
such matters are the outgrowth Of yesrs Of
experience MAINTAIN that the child has al
ready lived up two weeks Of this world OF
SIN.
ADELAIDE WASHINGTON
is fair complexioned, has dark blue eyes,
bl sck hair, a round, short face and . stub
by nose, and looks exactly like
LATER PARTICULARS.
There may he some cline TO the above
from the fact that a man and =
woman, representing themselves n being
from North Missouri, came 10 Concor,iia
about ten days since. The woman gave
birth to a child soon after they arrived
Both the man and the woman frequ emily
said in the presence Of witnesses that they
would not keep the child.
They left Concordia on the train for
this city last evening, which train arrives
here about ten o'clock. and tina, was
about the time the time the child was left
ON Simonds porch. The sffair was 40 we'll
known at Concordia that last evening
when the couple with the child board
Ell the train there WA considerable talk
Of following them to see taat they did not
destroy the child's life. II il impossible
to a-certain before the BAzOOs press time
all the facts in the case, but appearances
point unmi-taknbly toward this couple ~
the guilty parties.
LATER.
About i:30 yesterday afternoon, after the
BAzOO had gone TO press, the following
vas received at this Office, IN re-
ply to one sent making some inquiries in
regard to the party who left Concordia
on Monday night on Conductor Marsh's
train, and who had with them child
which they had threatened to get away
with:
Spec ial Dispatch to the Bazoo.
Con CoRDIA, Mo-, Sept. q.
The child We a female, and Vas horn on