Evening star., 1901-08-27
CHILD'S VOICE SAVED II
ATTEMPTED ABANDONMENT OF IN
FAINT FRUSTRATED.
Two Women Leave 1t by Electric
sert 1t, When 1t Cried.

An attempt to abandon a three-weekS-
old baby on the roadside near Montrose,
Montgomery county, Md, was frustrated
yesterday afternoon by the timely cries Oh
the infant itself When car No. 1901 of
the Washington and Rockville line, in
charge of Conductor Edward Ingalls,, with
Henry Voight as motorman, left George
town at $50 pm yesterday two women,
one elderly and the other young, the lat
ter carrying infant, were among the
passengers. When the District line was
passed and Conductor Ingalls, began col
lecting cash fares and ascertaining the
destination of each passenger the women
paid their fares to Bethesda Park, where
they said they Were going. lngails TOOK
no further notice of them until they asked
him, when the car was approaching Mon
trose how far they would have to go be-
fore reaching Bethesda Park. He inform
ed them that they were already five miles
beyond that point. and said he was sorry
they had not told him they were unac-
quainted with the route at first.
The elder woman asked how long it would
be before a car would return to take them
back, and was told twenty minutes. The
couple alighted with the baby and the car
proceeded to Rockville. Upon it's return
trip Ingalls, looked for the two women at
the point where they had alighted, but they
were gone. He saw them, however, about
300 yards further down the track toward
Washington, waiting for the car, and as
the latter slowed up he noticed that they
did not have the baby with them.
A PIaintive Wall.
Both women got aboard and the car was
about to start when the wall of an infant
was heard coming from some bushes near
the roadside. Passengers looked in the di-
rection and Conductor ingalls, held the car.
At last the elder woman said:
That's the baby. Well have to take 1t
and try to raise it, anyuOw.'
The young woman then got off and picked
up the child from under a cedar bush and
again boarded the car. When Mr.. ingalls,
went to collect her fare she exclaimed that
she had lost her pocket book when she went
to get the baby and wanted to go back and
secure it, ingalls,, however, said he be-
!ieved she wanted to lose the baby again
and kept the women on his car until it
reached Georgetown, where he notified the
police. The young woman who gave her
name as Miss Virginia Smith and her home
as Alexandria, with the baby was sent to
the house of detention The elder woman
gave Conductor ingalls, her name as Mrs
Rebecca Thompson, and said she was also
from Alexandria
After finishing his days work Conductor
ingalls, determined to ascertain if Miss
smith really did lose her pocket book as
sne stated and went out to the spot where
the baby had been left. He found the
pocket book under the cedar bush at the
very place the chllds cry came from. It
contained S2015 and some papers.
The Washington Founding HOSPITAL has
its summer home at Bethesda Park, and it
Is believed the women were going there
for the purpose of having the child ad-
mltted, and decided upon abandoning it
after being taken beyond their destination.
The point where the baby was left was
one where it would have been soon discov-
cred. as it was in plain view of both the
electric road and the Rockville turnpike,
and there are several houses in the vi
cinity.
The mother and the child We're by mu-
tual agreement and without legal action
committed this afternoon to the care of
relatives in Alexandria,