The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
ABANDONED HER BABE
Miss Stella Vincent Was Caught In
the Act.
SISTER ALSO ARRESTED
POLICE LOOKING FOR THEIR
MALE ACcoMPLICEs.
Girl Was Betrayed At Denver, and
Sought to Give the Child Home
Where It Would Never Know of
Its Mothers Shame - Davies
Clever Work.

An effort on the part of Stella Vim.
cent, q years old, last night to rio
herself of her fatherless child was frus.
trated merely through the simple OBJ.
servations of a member of the fire de.
partment and piece of work executed
by Bicycle Policeman Davies, the quail.
ity of which is not often exceiled. The
mother is detained at police headquar-
tiers and can be prosecuted for aban-
doning an infant. Her sister, Edith
Vincent, is held as an accessory and
two men, whose names the girls give
as George Porter anG James Smith, are
wanted on the same account. The -four
conspired to rid Miss Vincent of hel
| child, the result of misplaced conf
dence, and one Of the men left it on
the doorstep of Mrs. John H. Robins
residence, S4S South West Temple, the
three other parties remaining hard by
in a carriage to drive the executor OF
the plan into safety.
Dawes, however, had heard from
other ears the likelihood of the at
tempt, and was on hand to see it per-
petrated.
The pretext used in leaving the child
was novel, and even had Davies not
been on hand would probably have led
| TO the discovery of the child's parent.
The man who left the child called Mrs.
/ Robins out of bed, telling her he had a
letter from her absent husband. She
arose to receive il and found five
weeks old babe alone and asleep at
her door. The significance is that the
party knew something of the Robins
family, having named Mr.. Robins pres
ent whereabouts.
The penalty hanging over Miss Vim
cents head, should she be prosecuted.
which is not likely, is five years term
IN the penitentiary. Miss Vincent, ac-
cording TO her story, was betrayed by
a lover in Denver a year ago The
police are inclined to believe her She
has father in the southern part of the
county.
How It Was Done.
1t was after 10 O'Clock last night when
two-seated, trap drove up in front of
Mrs. Matthison'S lodging house, 1881
East First South street, a man walking
into the building at about the same
moment, having come along the side
walk from Second East, In a minute
or two he motioned to the driver, who
turned around and drove east again
The man who had been upstairs fol-
lowed in the same direction, and about
twenty minutes later the same perform
ance was repeated. Again there was a
wait. woman. a sister of the babes
mother, finally appearing with the child
in her arms, and getting into the rig. A
couple of minutes later the mother and
the mysterious man walked out of the
building, got in, and the trap drove
away.
1t was here Davies began his fine
piece of work. A group of firemen next
door had witnessed the maneuvers of
the parties and informed the police
man.
Davies didn't hesitate He jumped
on his wheel and rode after the outfit,
overtaking it at Main street, Putting
out his light to escape detection, the
young sleuth followed every movement
to First West between Eighth and
Ninth South and back to Tenth South
on Main street, encircling the Salt Pal
ace, and over again to West Temple
1t drew up near the corner of Ninth
South on this street, the officer laying
in the neighborhood, awaiting develop
ments. One of the men got out of the
buggy as soon as it stopped, with the
baby in his arms. He walked to S4S-
Mrs. Robins house-and rang the door
bell.
Who's there?" called Mrs. Robins.
L have a letter from your husband
in California answered mans voice.
Mrs. Robins called to Mrs. Adams, a
neighbor, but before the lady respond
ed. ventured to open the door. The
little one wrapped in yards of bleached
muslin, was there alone. Davies, mean
While, had watched the man return 10
the buggy. and had seen it drive rapidly
away. After making a circuit of sew
eral blocks the woman got out at the
Metropolitan MOTEL on Third South and
West Temple, the man taking the rig
to Farrington's barn. Davies reported
at headquarters, and Sergeant Bur-
bidge went down to Mrs. Robins in
the patrol wagon and returned with the
infant, which was turned over to the
care of Mrs. Hampton, the city matron.
1t is a great big girl, in excellent
health, five weeks old.
Women Arrested.
Detective Sheets, Sergeant Burbidge
and Davies then meandered down Main
street, as leisurely. as millionaires, and
in an hour returned to police bead |
quarters, confronting the mother with |
her babe. The woman was found with !
her sister at a room in the Metropoll- |
tan, and at sight of the officers were
nearly distracted. They We're taken TO |
police headquarters, where the unfortu
nate mother received her babe. 1t was
a pitiful sight to see the little one nurse |
al It's mothers breast, anu II dIouSSu
the Creates sympathy for both.
Il met a miner in Denver a year
ago." said Miss Vincent to a Herald
He said he loved me and we
were engaged. l fell n victim to his de-
eeit, and oh, God, how have suffered.
[ couldn't bear to see the little one
grow up to realize the truth. and 1 tried
to get some one else to raise it.
couldn't, and had to do this"
Miss Vincent sobbed as though heart
broken all during the time she was
alking to the police. She says she went
o the Metropolitan because she was
to return to Matthison's,
where she roomed. She intended leav
ng town with her sister in a few days.
edith Vincent is the older of the two.
Davies wants the child. He says he
las a neighbor who wants a girl, and
,as Threatened To steal his and he now