The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-02-25
SHE WANTED A CHILD
And So Sh9 Borrowed an Infant for The
Occasion.
A BABY WITH TWO MOTHERS
Mrs. Bedford of Helena Takes Julie
Cisen's Baby fer Her Cwn and
Now Miss Olsen Wants
II Back.


Special Dispatch to tho stanllri.
HELENA, Feb. 2i.-The issuance OF
writ OF habeas corpus by Judge Hunt to-
day brings to light story that reads like
a romance and in some respects rcsenI-
bles that of the late Robert Ray Hamilton
of New York. The writ is issued AT the
instance of Julie Olsen and is directed 10
Mrs. Dora Bedford. II commands the lat
ter TO deliver up the four-months old child
OF Julo Olsen. And thereby hangs
tale.
Mrs. Bedford is the wife OF A. ID. Bed
ford, one of the proprietors OF the North
ern News company. The couple had not
been blessed with any children. though
they were very anxious for one. y mo
time prior TO October last Mrs. r.adford
succeeded in convincing her hr .sba nd ,nat
their hopes were to be realr .I, In order 10
prevent any possible accident. and
To secure prope: medical atten.
ton, she went TO n private
hospital KEEP. by DIR. L. S. Kellogg.
There her husband visited her and one
DAY he fodnd lying by her side fine boy
baby. Overjoycd, he took his wife home
as SO On as il was decided that il was safe
10 10 SO. The precious child, of course,
went along and nothing was too good for
him. Recently, however. Mrs. Bedford
received visit from Miss Julie Olsen,
who demanded that the child be turned
over to her as its lawful mother. Mrs.
Bedford refused TO give it up. Then Miss
Olsen went to the husband and told Ter
story. Shc had been indiscreet, and find
ing that she must pay the penalty by be-
coming mother. had gone to DR.. Kel-
logg's hospital. While awaiting tho birth
OF the expected child, Mrs Bedford came
there too. The child was born. The
mother, neither maid, wife nor widow,
was willing TO get rid of her
babe, only stipulating that it
should be well provided for.
Ihe chiidiess wife was willing to
take Il as her owl. Under the circum-
stances there was no trouble In finding a
wi!i'hg mo'her for the child. That was
the baby which Bedford found lying
a!ongsTLe his wife, and which he had been
carc'.sias as his aud hers. Mrs. Bedford
hai had no child, that was all there
Was 10 it. But by and by the maternal
instinct began 10 asser, itself in Miss o.
| sens bosom. She wanted her child and
went and demanded it. Mrs. Bedford
could no; give it up without letting her
husband know how he had been imposed
Upon. Besides. she had learned 10 love
the little one. So she refused. hence Miss
O!sen's visit 10 the husband. There was
| a scene in the Bedford household, but the
wife refused to give up the child. There
| was another scene in Dr.. Ksllogs's Office
| when the husband called there. The
doctor had charged him very we'll for the
| attention given Mrs. Bedford at the time
of her alleged confinement. The foster
mother took the child and hid herself. So
when the writ OF habeas corpus was
gotten to-day neither Mrs. Bedford nor
the child could be found. There the
matter rests for the present.
1t is said that julio Olsen was a
domestic in Bedford's house for several
months before the child was born and
that Mrs. Bedford's knowledge of the
girls condition led 10 the inception of the
plan to deceive her husband. Bedford is
preparing to apply for divorce from his
! wife. Julie Olsen was deceived by man
under promise of marriage. The man
has quit the country.