The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-31
BABY LEFT IN A HOTEL
WITH 4 TEN-DOLLAR BILL am a
SOILED NOIE or ElCTSE
Child's Abandoned to Save an Old famiiy's
Honor and to Preserve the Parents tse-
fulness to society. the Note says Police
After the Parents clue From Syack.

th1lNs Abandoned 10 save an VIA . tmily :
Honor and to Preserve the Parents tse-
fulness to society. the Note "a Police
After the Parents Clue From Nyack.
\ two.weeks-old baby was left at Smith Il
McNsll's Hotel. in Washington street. on
Thursday night by a man ana a woman who
went to the hotel early - the afternoon.
They left attached 10 the chlds clothing a
ten-lollar bill and a n1'' IN which they rcaiei
tina il had been abandoned to save the honor
OF an old family and 10 preserve TO society the
usefulness Of the parents. The note did not
explain Just how the people were TO be useful
to society without thu baby.
The man. who was short. thick-set and had a
sandy moustache. wrote on the hotel register:
Charles Chamberlain and wife. Newburg.
The woman who ACCOMPANIED HIM was
apparently about - years Old. She was
an unattractiye looking person, the hotei
PEOPLE say, and was rather shabby dressed.
The handwriting on the register ana That on
the note which was found with the baby was
that OF "A rather unschoolei person. Inc TWO
porsons did not attract much attention in the
hotel. The woman rang for a teIboy AFTER
they had been in their room a few minutes.
and when the elevator man answered sent MN
for a glass OF water. Their departure from the
hotel was not noticed.
Early yesterday morning the elevator man
heard a baby crying IN the room the couple
had occupied. He was not the same elevator
man who had been there in the afternoon ana
, he did not know anything about the baby. He
listened TO the crying Vi the baby until 1t a.
most drove him wild. Then he went down to
the Office and told them that something ought
TO be done about it. The clerk went back to
A $500 .-,,l "a. IN a mil AnAnpI rIa door.
| On the middle Of the big bed wa, the baby. II
was kicking and yelling for all it knew and 1t
would not stop when it was picked ny. The
elevator man and the clerk put 1t back
on the bed again in a hurry and considered
The situation. They observed that the
he'd had not been slept in. Then they caught
sight o, the ten.Iollar bill pinned to the oaby's
Ain Looking closer al that they found with it
a motto The PAPER N which the note was writ
fan had been creased In several d~Itterent ways.
Paregorlc had been spilled on II ringer MARKS
were all over i! There We're at ,rast tntee sets
that he 4 II IN place. written p IA the same nance
writing a. the name on the hotel register was
this;
Thl, act /, done to save the good name and honor
of an old ana respected family, t. save innocent pr
sons from disgrace and shame. also 10 preserve the
iirply rep-ntanl, and who earnestly desire 70 lead
better liVrS from the present. Please see mat me
child Is giypna good home, II VIII be watched 50
,rrily by It's parents who viii see - 4 that monty IS
supplied from time To time 10 help pay Tor is support
Il is better not 10 ny 10 trace The parent, ~ 'heir d.
c1yery would do no one any good and would bring
disaster upon innocent persons
There was no signature. The baby went on
CRYING. The elevator man and the clerk went
downstairs. called II So.l"enan. and told him
that a taby had been abandoned IN the hote!
and that they wished he would find ont to
whom II belonged. The policeman. whose
name was Ott. went VI 10 the haby's room and
looked things over. He opened Il bundle which
was y!ng beside the ted AMI found IN IT a .ot Of
fairly .oJl baby's understanding OF the ready
made sort. He tound. too, a bolt g OF Iaregoric
which had been generously drawn upon. The
WRAPPER about the clothing was a piece u
raprr that bore the name o'a Nyack merchant.
| he poi lceman thought II was August kr"l.
ing There IL no such mcrchantln Nyack aud
II i qnite possible that the policeman real the
name wrong. The wrapper was .o-t a. Bellevue
| Hospital later.
The baby was taken to the Church street
police station and from there 10 III" lost babies
quarter, at Bellevue. II l. a gIrl baby IL was
said IS thu doctors there thit - much pare.
eric hal been poured into he little thing and
she was 40 exhausted by CRYING that she might
not i've.
Central Office detectives went out yesterday
and made an effort TO Ind out who the two
| persons were who Ia left IN" baby az the
hotel. They had little to 60 uron EXCEPT III"
! list Of girl, who have been r~rlOrt"I TO the
police lately as missing. The detectives
showed u number Of pnotokraI h. 10 the e,e-
yator man ami tho clerk. bur the men sail that
the m who carried the baby looked like
none OF them.