The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-02
MIND RESTORED
BY BABY'S COO
Insane Mother found Offspring
By Chance.
ESCAPED FROM ASYLUM
SOUGHT REFUGE IN A FARM
HOUSE WHERE CHILD WAS
BEING CARED
FOR.

Waterbury, Conn. April 1.-THE
birth of baby daughter year ago
left Mrs Josephine TruansM of this
place insane and she was sent to ths
asylum at Mlddletown almost befora
she had seen her child.
Today, the regaining possession OF
the little one has restored her reason
TO nurse it, to cuddle Il and tc
smother it with motherly kisses has
done what the noted alienists of the
state were unable to do for the de
ranged mother,
No sooner was the baby born than
it was deemed wise to remove the
mother to Middletown The baby wal
given into the care of friends, who
pitied the woman, and hoped some
day she would be able to reclaim it.
Twelve months passed at the asy.
lum, the unfortunate mother knowing
vaguely that she had been torn from
her baby. All the tina, she cried fo {
1t and the nervous stress of her an,
guish undil what good the doctors
accom-, shed for her cure
They could not quiet her They
tried to persuade her that she was
not mother, and to visitors, she
was the woman who had the illusion
that she had baby daughter.
Last Sunday afternoon there was
an alarm at the asylum buildings
The woman, who grieved for a
/ fancied baby, was gone, the guard
told the superintendent. They search,
ed high and low for her They could
not find her and the neighborhood
was secured in the belief that she
had escaped.
Tuesday night, soaked by the rain
shivering from the cold. her cloth
/ Ing torn. her shoes worn from hel
feot, staggering from hunger, sh,
called at the door of farmhouse i(
miles away, She asked for food.
Her appearance excited pity and
she was taken In. As she was eat
ing, in front Of warm fire, the COO
Of baby came to her
She sprang to her feet, again the
/ mad woman crying for her baby she
ran by the astonished housewife, into
the bedroom. A little youngster was
sprawling on the bed gurglng baby
| fashion.
The young woman seized it in hei
arms and smothered the little on
with kisses Then she fell to weep
ing The frightened housewife called
| her husband. They tried to take tho
child away from the forlorn woman.
Bnt she would not permit il.
ITS mine. it's mine" she cried
and would not let them touch IT,
Then they recognized her. She wal
Mrs, Josephine Truanski They werd
the friends who had taken the moth
erless child to keep The baby was
in fact, the child Of the woman.
The fret thought was to give the
alarm.
But the mother, overcome with joy,
was 50 pltiable sight that they fop
| bore it.
That night she slept with the re-
stored little one tucked to her BREAST
Next day she told them of her high.
/ II was miracle from heaven, sha
said, that had drawn her steps to the
| place.
| She was so rational In her speech
and her actions that they decided not
/ TO disturb her for the time. at least
She regained her strength fast
| The magic of the presence and the
possession of her child restored he'
reason.
Her two terrible days Of insane
flight across the cold, wet fields were
as nothing to her when she consider
ed her reward
Doctors made an examination OF
the woman and declared that there
was no need for her return TO the
asylum.