The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-28
GIRL BABY DESERTED
AND LEFT IN CAB
New Nurse Is Made Victim of
Plot by Alleged Parents, Who
Did Not Return.

NEW YORK, Aug 27.-They were will
ing TO pay unusually high wages. but
they told the manager OF the employment
agency In No. 4S1 Sixth ayeune that the
maid for their one-monlh- old baby must
he kind and gentle and must have had
wide experience in caring for infants.
The couple. who looked refined and pros
porous, had driven UP in a cab and the
manager told them he had just the girl
they wanted in Mary Smith. a negTess,
OF No. III West Thirteenth street. Mary
was right there TO begin work at once,
and after the woman questioned her she
was engaged.
The nurse girl felt that at last she had
obtained the~position Of her life. With
wages away above anything she had ever
received before. and home in which love
seemed to abide, she fd.t that her lot was
happy one indeed. She was taken 10
the cab and her little charge turned over
10 her. The baby was a girl, and it
crooned softly against the breast OF the
maid AS she took it In her arms and
leaned comfortably against the cushioned
back OF the cab
The husband OF the woman, who had
told the employment agent that he was
", H. Anderson Of Arverne. l., l., after
the maid was engaged. said that he had
pressing business which, made necessary
his going down town al once, and he
told his wife to do her shopping and meet
him afterward. The woman got into the
cab with the maid and child and the cab
man was ordered TO drive to a depart
mcnt store In West Twenty-third street.
Cabman Was Surely Left.
At the store the woman got out. say
Ing that she would he gone about ten
minutes and then wanted 10 he driven
TO another store. The cabman waited pa
riently for his fare and wnen she did
not return at the end OF an hour he be-
came uneasy. He waited a second hour
and then decided that something was
wrong, Telling the maid 10 wait In the
cab, he went into the store to look for
the woman who had hired him. He
searched in every department Of the
store, but was unable 10 obtain trace OF
her.
The cabman went outside and found the
maid and baby still In the vehicle, with
the baby crying lustilly. Many passers-
by had stopped TO console the little one,
who refused to be Quieted by the caresses
OF the strangers,
Realizing that the child had been de-
serted the cabman drove 10 the West
Thrtieth street station. where the po-
lice took charge of the infant. They
found that the woman had left behind
suit case in which there was COM
plete outfit Of infants wear. The dresses
were OF silk and everything else was OF
the costliest material. A silver box con-
tained powder and a puff. and there also
we're brushes. a general alarm was
sent out for the couple.
The cabman told the police the couple
were of evident refinement and seemed
to have plenty OF money. He described
the man as being about 80 years old,
5 feet 10 inches in height. 175 pounds.
light hair and complexion and wearing a
blue serge suit and Panama hat The
woman, he said, was about the same
age. with dark hair and complexion and
wearing a white waist. dark shirt and
blue sailor hat.
When the maid realized that the hap
py home OF her dreams had vanished she
wept The cabman swore when he re-
allied that he would not be paid.