The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-16
FOUND BABE ON STEPS.
LITTLE WHITE GIRL DESERTED
 BY PARENTS.
Is Probably Month Old and Was Almost frozen When Discovered Young Negro Woman Takes
 Charge of Infant.

nameless girl baby, probably less than one month old, poorly clad, but with leading to a hut occupied by Betsy Ev- erett. an aged negro woman in the rear yard of 4S Lee Street about o'clock yesterday evening. The finding of the baby caused great excitement among the negroes in the neighborhood and the fact was immediately reported to police head quarters
 By permission of Police Chief Gerald the baby was given to Hattie Hndgins. young negro woman who lives with her mother, Jane Hu.igins, at 73s South Ripley Street. Hattie Hudgins is a do- mestic in Madison Avenue boarding house She said she proposed to rear the child. although she admitted that she had not secured the consent of her moth CT to take the baby girl to her home.
 The one-story cottage at 403 Lee Street. corner Of Tallapoosa Street, runs back about 70 feet on Tallapoosa Street. It without fence, facing Tallapoosa Street. several negro huts are in this yard and 1t is here that Betsy Everett lives. She IS type of the ante-bellum negress and fare of the wee-bit of white humanity which was left on her doorstep probably by an unhappy mother.
 great crowd of negro women gath the finding of the baby girl.
 T was a-settin here in my house. said Betsy Everett, when suddenly hears baby cryin'. I thinks it was a woman settin' on de porch rockin a baby md fer Ill while I didn't pay no atten- lion. Den de baby jes' begin fer to cry right out an I steps out on de porch an says: Woman, what yer settin dare lettin dat baby cry lack datT Bless de goodness. I looks around and foh God in Heaven I sholy thinks my eyes done de- ceive me Dare was dis DO lil white baby a-layin dare widout ernuf clothes to kivver cat.'
 Sadie Duncan, a white woman, lives just south or and adjacent to the yard occu- pled by- the negroes and Betsy Everett. said she rushed next door and reported the nnding of the baby to Sadie Duncan The Tho .elepnoned to police headquarters. me negro woman in her excitement had leit the baby lying on the doorstep. ex- plalning that she was afraid to .'tetch if untWell she told de white folks" Learn Sa sag d,e shn, nn the Infant was scantily clothed panied Betsy Everett to her hut. The Daoy, its little veins almost frozen bv the exposure and its healthy little cheeks r,,a Duar,ig III. rom contact with the raw Feb y tuary Wlnds. was tenderly picked up from tne doorsill and borne into the hut
 Then 1t was discovered that the cb,Id was mite or white girl. with black infan, a,, oiaek aa eyes and pretty features. The tempered and 1t was sometime before cha could be subdued The little one Tas wrapped in rags which had at one fine neen ,1' part or woman's oversight. Its piuHp nttle Dody was covered with a dirty baby wrapper but no fianncIs pro' tected her from the cold The woman dinered as to the age of the cbi,d hn. s1e n,e IS wn undoubtedly less than ore month oid' when she had been thoroughi,, warmed she went to sleeu,
 Betsy Everett said a negro vrornan h.. neIghhor had. told her that about tiftaeI, mn iilinu.es De1ore the baby was found on men ,ne uootsil onts @ sne had seen strange wo- man enter the yard, go as far as tba nut and retire hurriedly. She decIarad mat thls woman was a negro ana that Street VI commerce Soon after the discovery of ,ha ,o,. Hattie Hudgins, a young negro wor,any visited the negro hut. She begged that me baby be given to her and said that sne s would raise the little one and provide TOT her. Betsy Everett who assur,.S rue protectorate over the baby. said tha. a Hattie Hudgins could have the infant is II was agreeable to Police Chief Gera,d
 hattles likely young gal" said inc 9iu T wonman. mn. an she'll take keer of 1t, ma m ore oman an l aint got no bus. mess wld III baby lack dat Tber casting sympathetic glance at the siaan' ing baby: De woman whut done Se serted dat po, Ill baby sho ort ter he shot US Sholy shame: a shame ,' 0e
 With the founding csrefulin, na,ne ifetsY Everett and Hattie Hudsins utert to police headquarters where fhn,, went went closely a,s y, questioned by Police chtef Gers re Tears tea n1d md an1 ln1dglns woman is about 20 her mother. Jane Hudgins. at 7Ss somth w,th Riplev Street. She told Chief Gera1S 2,sH tuLt she d did @ not have permission of her T moth. e ,,ia Yn ,n ear Sa5e t Ior the baby but that they tie one toi the llt-
 By direction of the Police Chief b,snk- cts clothing, bottle, a nipple ana other