The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
GAVE AWAY UNBORN BABY.
Mother Gets II Back After a Year From
Woman who Loved IL.

Mrs: Cecilia Kipp, who lives at So First
street went 10 the Yorkville police court
yesterday and asked the Courts assistance
in getting possession Of her baby boy. The
boy was just q year old and another woman
was holding it for a board bill, she said.
The Magistrate turned the case over to
Agent O'ConnoT Of the Gerry Society for
investigation. The mother, who is only 10
years old, said that ten days after the birth
of her child she had given it to Mrs. Fannie
Voilman to keep for her. She had since
demanded the return of her child but Mrs.
Nollman, who lives at 2O3 East Thirty-third
street, refused to surrender il;
OConnor got a m for the other
to court with her. The two women met
there, and the mother reached out her arms
for the baby and asked for it.
Il am not going to give up little Ralph as
long as | can hold on to him." the other
woman said.
-0!Gonner suggested that the mother be
allowed to hold her child for a time. The
Court would finally decide which woman
was to nave custody of it. The woman
.thereuPon. handed the baby to the mother
as the two sat on a bench in the rear of the
court.
The little one didn't like leaving its foster
mother for a strange woman and began to
cry. The young mother rocked the baby
in her arms and cooed TO it but the ~youngster
would not hush. 1t held out its arms to
its foster mother and yelled so stoutly that
the mother handed it back. -
-- When the case was called for eXamina-
ton Mrs. Nollman said that the complainant
had given her the baby before il was born.
Il was a patient in Bellevue Hospital a
little more than a year age and met this
girl there in ward q" the woman said to
Magistrate Pool. Her baby was to be born
soon and she was not situated so that she
could take care of it and she gave it to me.
L have been married eight years and my
husband and | have been very anxious for
children, 80 | was glad to adopt this one,
The mother is a Hebrew. but | had the baby
baptized and christened Ralph. | am an
Episcopalian."
IL don't care if it has been baptized. |
became a Catholic when | got married, =
interrupted the mother,
You must give up the child. The mother
has the right to demand it" the Magistrate
said to the defendant.
Il love the baby and the baby loves me
and has got used to me. Why separate us
now?" responded the woman, as she danced
the blue eyed youngster up and down before
his Honor.
-"I'want the baby, Judge; it is mine" put
in the mother.
The other woman said she thought she
had a right TO hold the little one until its
mother had paid for its board, which she
calculated should be about 500.
Il haven't got 500. But my husband
and | will save up and give you as much as
we. can spare each week until we. pay you
off" said the mother.
Mrs. Vollman was not willing To sur
render the infant until the Magistrate gave
her a ~peremptory order to do so. Then she
kissed it and handed it over TO its mother.
The baby again started crying when
taken by its mother and extended its arms
to the other woman. O'Connor took the
two women and baby into an anteroom
and the court proceedings went on quietly.