The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-14
WOULD TAKE
BABY BACK
Woman Who Abandoned Her
Babe Is Found.
is SORRY FOR HER DEED
Father and Mother are Both
Under Bond at Arkansas City.

In Thursdays Eagle there was an ac-
count of woman in black deserving her
babe at the depot at Arkansas City. This
woman bought ticket in. this city for a
station below Arkansas City. She left
her child in the seat of the car at Arkan-
sas City and the trainmen took charge of
it. A woman at Eureka agreed to take
care Of the child until a home could be
found for it.
The woman was supposed to be from
Wichita and the article has caused con-
siderable d1.eussion in this city and spec
ulation as to whom the Woman in
black could be.
The woman was arrested at Arkansas
City Thursday and her home is near
that place She was in a Wichita hos
pital nearly two months and as she was
going home she abandoned her child.
Her name was Miss Hanna Shirley and
her father owns an island in the Arkansas
river short distance below Arkansas
City. Investigation after the train pulled
out revealed the fact that she had chang
ed her appearance. They found that she
had gone from the train to the millinery
store of Mrs. L. A. Pogue on East Fifth
avenue. There she bought a white hat
and told the lady clerks that she had
been visiting friends in Wichita and was
then on her way home. She left in the
store the black hat and discarded the
black jacket she wore, appearing then in
a white shirt waist. She left the milli-
merry store and went directly to friend
named Harmon and there told Mrs. Har-
mon for whom she formerly did kitchen
work that she had been in Geuda Springs
and had been working over there for six
weeks. She left about noon to go to her
home, on the lower island in the Ar
kansas river. where her fathers farms
part of the land. The officers found Aunt
Liza Moses. who told them that about
six weeks ago a girl, Hanna Shirley, had
disappeared.
Thursday morning the officers went
down to the island and brought the girl
ia Arkansas City. She was taken into
Judge Kreamers court and bound over
over for a hearing under bond of sos.
She told them that she was the woman
wanted and that after spending the night
at home and thinking over the whole
affair had decided that she would go to
the officers voluntarily, tell her story and
ask their assistance in bringing TO her aid
the father of the child. She said that she
wanted the little one back ans that she
did not know she was committing a crime
in the eyes of the law, by her action.
According to her story she came to
Wichita nearly two months ago and about
three weeks ago gave birth to baby girl.
She then told the officers that the father
of the child was Chester Whyde. a young
farmer, who lives southeast OF the city.
They went out and Immediately arrested
Whyde. bringing him into the city where
he was taken before Judge Dunn and his
bond fixed at $500. which he gave without
trouble.
The young man and girl both claim that
they are deeply in love and are willing to
marry. but owing to some trouble In the
families they have been prevented from
doing so. 1t is not probable that the cases
will ever come to trial but instead the
young people will be married at an early
date the cases will be dismissed.