San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-08
TALE OF TWO BABIES.
ST Lonis Globe Democrat

(St. Louis Globe DemOcrat.)
Agnes Clifton, q beautiful brunette
of % years, called OF the Four Courts
Thursday morning and said she wan
ted police assistance in locating her
child, a girl six months old. Miss
Clifton now resides in the vicinity of
Twentieth and Market street. Over
a year ago it is said, she was led
astray by young merchant named
Robert Sterner and six months ago
she became a mother, Miss Clifton
had been an inmate of the House of
Good Shepherd some time previous
and she had great admiration for
the Sisters who conduct that irstitu-
ton.
Fife months ago she decided that she
would send her child to the House of
the Good Shepherd to be baptized 1t
Is said that 5he Mother Superior of
the institution promised to return the
child to the mother the next day
when she called. At that time how
ever, Miss Clifton was taken sick
and was confined to her bed for six
weeks. In The meantime the Mother
Superior, think ing the child had been
abandoned, kept it for some time,
and about the middle of last March
sent it to st. AIMS Asylum nnder the
name of Agnes Kelly. On April II
last, this child died of bronchitis, but
the mother was never surprised of Its
death. She claims however, that she
frequently called upon the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd in quest of her
child and each time was told that the
baby had been adopted by a respect
able and wealthy family. The foster
parents were much attached TO it and
were treating it with all the luxury
their veal tn commanded. She claims
that the Sisters refused to give her
the name or address OF the family that
had adopted the child, althoug she
requested to be allowed just to see ..it
OCCASIONALLY.
The mother in fit of disperati on
and anx ETY. for he, chilli, WHOM sh c
had not seen for more than six weeks
engaged the services OF lawyer. He
| called upon the Sisters and made a
demand for the child, or Information
as to it's whereabouts. This was
about q month ago. 1t is said that
| when the Sisters realized that there
was likely TO be legal trouble ovel
the lost infant they the attorney tina,
the baby had been sent to st. Ann't
Asylum about the middle OF las
March. This tact was communicated
to Miss Clifton and she accompanied
by her legal advisor, went to the asy
| lum. She was told that Good Shep.
| herd sisters sent the child there
| Miss Clifton claimed child named
| LOratta Raphael as her own, and the
st. AIMS people relingulshed theil
| claim thereto. The mother carried
off her child joyfully, and it was plac
| ed in the care of a nurse residing il
| the neigh borhOod of Fourteenth anC
Benton street.
| Several days ago two lady friends
of Miss Clifton called at the House OF
the Good Shepered, and in the course
Of the conversation remarked tina,
Miss Clifton had found her child
! The Sisters received this information
with surprise, and remarked tina,
Miss Clifton could not have her.child
as The Daby was dead. They Iemar-
ked that she had baby bearing the
name of Loretto Raphael whereupon
the mother Superior replied that q
| mistake had been made some place
For the past two weeks Miss Cliff
ton has bean lavishing money on the
| child, and when she learned severa
days ago that it was not her baby
| she was thunderstruck, as she had
| learned to love the little one. Inves
tigation was begun, and it developed
that the baby Miss Clifton had taken
from st. AIMS Asylum had beer
| born In the House of the Good Shep
herd, and its mother was now look
4 ing tor the child. Miss Clifton wa.
advised to 60 to the Health Depart
| ment and look over the burial certifi
Gates, and on April IL she found thai
her child had died of bronchities a.
st. AIMS Asylum. Miss Clifton nov
has the other babe in her care, an(
is anxious to keep it, providing it,
| mother does not appear to claim the