The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
DESERTED HER BABE
LEFT BY CRUEL MOTHER IN THE
HANDS OF A NEGRO WOMAN.
ONLY A FEW DAYS OLD,
ABANDONED by THOSE WHO
BROUGHT 1T INTO THE WORLD.

Unknown White Woman, Presumed
to BE the Mother of the Child, Left
II with Mamie Banks, Proprietor
of the "kIOndike," n Negro Board
ing HOuse-MOther Wanted to Rent
Room, but Was Refused-Left the
and Has Not Been Seen or Heard
of since.
A white baby girl, a few days old,
was left by its mother Saturday, with
Mamie Banks, proprietor of "The Klon-
dixie" a shady negro boarding house,
at Price and York streets. The mother
said she would return for her child in
the course of few minutes, but up to
a late hour last night had not been
seen since she left the house.
The Klondike" bears an i'll repu-
tation. Indeed, an inspection of the
premises seems to leave but little doubt
that this is the case, and that about
everything bad that can be said about
ii is true.
The woman approached the proprie-
tor of the house shortly after / o'clock
and asked If she could secure a room
for a few days. She was yelled and
had the child in her arms. The Banks
woman described her as being appar-
emily rs years old and of respectable
dress and bearing. There were traces
of illness and signs of suffering not
physical in her face.
IA -
ed a trunk full of good clothes, and
only wanted the room for a very few
days-until she could receive a letter
and some money which she expected
from New York.
The proprietor of the house told her
she could not stay there, because the
police have issued orders that there
must be no more white women in negro
boarding houses of this character.
The woman wanted to know if she
could leave the child for a few min
utes, until she could find a place in
the neighborhood where she could get
a room. The Banks woman offered her
some advice on this subject, which. to
her credit, she did not find acceptable,
and declined.
The mother of the child told the
Banks woman that she had been work.
ing at some of the laundries in Sa-
vannah, and that she had lost her
position or been forced to give ii up
on account of ill-health.
She finally got consent to leave the
child in the house while she looked for
a furnished room. She left, promising
to return in a few minutes and has not
been seen or heard of since.
The Banks woman reported the mat
ter at the police barracks and Supt.
Reilly detailed Detective Murphy to
make an investigation of the case.
The detective could learn nothing more
than had been CLEANED from the story
of the Banks woman, as the child S
mother had left no trace behind her
and there was no clue to her identity
or whereabouts. She seemed to have
disappeared suddenly and completely
She did not show up yesterday, al
though the Banks woman looked for
her impatiently all day and night. II
may, of course, be that the woman be-
came i'll after she had found a room
and that she has not been able to re-
turn for the child. II is likely that she
is not in position openly to avow her
maternity, and this fact may account
conceding the correctness of the n.y.
pothesis that she became suddenly i'll
for her failure to send some one to re-
claim her child. The police believe
however, that the whole plan was a
shrewd trick to get rid of the infant
and that the woman never intended to
come back after she left the house.
The child is now in the possession
of a white woman living in that neigh
borhood, who has agreed to take care
of it until some plan of providing fol
it's permanent wants be arranged