Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-12
TWO FUUNDLINGS.
ruG uSNAruKAL murnrns ARRESTS
"'anisht mtssiontc Lauoastor-Iot, rne,r
Nn'pring on tue uoor stops Prompt
Discovery aud A,r,st

SAMUEL j. Good, hostier, was PASSING alnn,,
East Oraugo street, on his way home, hS
discovered bundle lying on the front
door steps OF A. J. Steinman, esq corner
Of East Orange and Shippen strcets.
aud another on the stop OF Samuel Moore,
jr., tobacco doalor, who lives next door
east Of Mr StoinmAu's. GA approaching
closer, aud examining the buudlcs, Good
was greeted with baby orics, each OF tho
bundles containing baby. Calling TO
Jch. +. SheuCk, who was near by, that
gentleman wont To Good 3 assistance,
assured himself that the bundles contained
living babies, that don't belong TO the
families gu whose premises they were
found, and accompanied by Good, he
carried the little ones to the police station
and presented them to Chief Deichler.
Luckily DR.. II. + Wcsthaencr called AT
tho station house, aud hudlug that the
babies we're hungry, seut for milk, aud
nursing bottle, from which tho youngsters
fed ravenOusly.
In search OF the Mothers.
Chief Dcichlcr, suSpsotiug that the
foundliugs had been deposited on the
doorstcps by non.residents, detailed Onlcer
Burns to visit the railroad aud make in
quiries. The officer learned frum Night
Watchman Hutfnagle and Baggage Mas.
Ter Steinteser that two young women
dressed in black, aud each having
a baby In her arms. had arrived ON the
HAS y. IN, train from the cast. Further
inquiries showed that two young women
answering the same descriptions, but with.
out babies, had bought railroad tlCksts--
the one for Jubustnwn, Pa, aud the oihor
for Syracuse, \. \. Not long afterwards
OGceT Burns saw strange woman in the
depot, aud suspecting that she was Que of
the women accostCd her, aud asked her
where she was going. Sac said she was
goiog to her homo in PittsburR He asked
her II she had ticket, and shs said
she had. He wanted to see il. She de-.
INJURED, but tiually produced the ticket 10
Johnstown, which she had bought. The
ottcer told her he wanted hor. She asked
what for aud he answered, " for abandon
ing your baby She denied that she had
q baby, but the officer took her t. the
ticket office, got the ticket agent TO refund
her money Tor the ticket she had bought,
and then escorted her 20 the station house
She vas shown the babes aud takiugup Que
OF them, l,jtIs by, three weeks old, she
began TO CRY. After little while she
Acknowledged that she was the mother of
the child, that i would be three weeks old
on Saturday, that sue belonged TO Pitts
burg and that her name was Mary Doyle.
she then Hent into the back room aud
nuTsed her babe. She Is a good looking,
Intelligent woman apparently % years
old, well dressed, aud frotn her appearance
has been we'll raised.
Miss DoyiO's StoTy.
To the police aud others who questioned
her she said the father OF her child is
Frank Taylor, clerk in JOhnstown, Pa,
formerly of Pittsburg, Pa, whore she got
acquainted with him. she went to Phila
delphia to be confined, and mot tho other
woman. Bridget Powers, at tho Maternity
hospital where she WAS confined Novsm
ber %, and Bridget was confined next day.
She remained there until yesterday, when
being unable 20 get place for the child,
she and Bridget resolved TO leave their
babes at the first town AZ which the cars
stepped west Of Philadelphia, believing
that some kidd people would take care of
them, and that II not. the authorities would
do so She said she would have good
home for herself at er,.sistcr's, near Pitts.
burg, but that her : sJar would not take
her child. She bought ticket for JOhus
town, because she wanted 10 Bee her lover.
Frank Taylor, whom she described as "a
handsome man, aud she know ho would
seud her on TO Pittsburg.
lns Other MOtheC Arrestsd.
Meantime, measures were taken for the
arrest OF the other woman. IL was not
doubted that " was he who had bought
the ticket for Syracuse, y. Y, and had
left on the one O'Clock a. III. train. As
only one ticket for Syracuse had been sold,
and its lumber was known, a telegram was
sent by Chief DeiChler to the Philadelphia
authorities to arrest the holder Of 10 on
her arrival In Philadelphia, and later an
answer was returned that the arrest had
been made. Chio( DechIer loft Lancaster
for Philadelphia, 10 return with his pris-
oner this afternoon at 40.
BEiugeI Powers Narrative
The train came in on time aud there was
great crowd st the depot to SEQ the
chiefs PRISONER, whom ho ~ once escorted
to the station house, followed by amob Of
a hundred or more. She is a rather good
looking young woman, 81 years old, with
regular features, black hair aud eyes. To
an lETELLIGENCER reporter she said she
had nothing TO conceal that her name was
Bridget Powers that her parents resided at
little town named Fabius about 90 miles
from Syracuse, N Y; that they were poor,
houest people, and that when they dis
covered her condition they disowned
her she has several brothers and sisters,
some older and some younger than herself.
She was engaged to be married for three
years past to a man named Thomas Walsh
who betrayed her. After asoeTtaining her
condition she insisted on his marrying her,
but he refused to either marry OF
give her any money to provide for her
pressing wants. She went 10 Poughkeep-
sic, where she fell in with Mrs. Kreig,
president of tho Young Women's Christian
association, by whose advice and through
whose aid she was sent to the Midnight
mission In Philadelphia, which was under
charge Of one of Mrs. Kreig's friends.
From tho mission she was sent to the Ma.
ternty hospital, where her babe was
prematurely born on the 23i Of November.
She remained at the hospital two weeks
when she was told by DR.. Bear, who was
in charge, that she must leave. She went
to every home in Philadelphia that she
could hear Of, and tried to get place for
her child, but none of them would receive
it. In despair she then resolved, in con-
junction with Mary Doyle, who was
similarly situated, To leave her ohild on a
doorstep, hoping that some kind person
would give 1t that protection which she
could not. At first she thought she would
leave it in Philadelphia, but IL was at last
determined TO leave IL here.
During the recital of her sad story Miss
Powers wept bitterly she said she loved
her baby, and II almost broke her heart to
abandon II che MAS willing to work her
hands off to provide for it, if she
could get anything TO do, She said she