Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-15
LEFT HER BABY ON
 DOOR STEP
Phoenix Woman is Arrested for Abandoning Her
 Child

Phoenix, Feb. 14.-Mrs. Hattie
 Buckley was arrested last evening by
 Deputy Sheriff Cunningham at the
 home of her parents, Mir and Mrs.
 Eldridge, on West Jefferson street. between Fourth and Fifth avenues.
 The charge against her is child aband-
 onment. She confessed that she was
 the mother of the infant at the Crit
 tenton home, now known by the name of Gilbert Roberts. She also made a complete confession of all the import ant circumstances in the case, and
 named the father of the babe, which
 was born in Mesa City on the goth of January.
 It was a pitiful scene at the FL
 dridge home last night when the wo-
 man was arrested, for even her mother did not know of her daughters guilt. She suspected something all day yesterday after hearing the name of the woman under suspicion, it be- ing the same as that of her daughter. However, the young woman had borne up braVely and made no intimation even to her mother, of complicity in his affair, until her confession last night to the officer. And even that was only secured after an hours close questioning, for when first accused by the officer she denied the charge. She fold various stories to shield herself and the officer asked her if it were not true that she had recently become
 mother, fact that Mrs Eldridge l then learned for the first time. Mrs. ,lT had given the babe to it's father in Tempe. The officer asked her a num-
 Der of questions and the discrepancy
 in the answers finally became so ap- parent that Mrs. Buckley confessed to
 the wohle story.
 She said that she had brought the
 baby, then Il days old, on the even ing of January 31, to Phoenix. and left it herself on the Gilbert House porch.
 From there she went to the old Gib-
 son stable on West Washington street, on the way to her mothers home, but was too weak to proceed farther, and from there telephoned for 8 hack which took her home. the distance being only a block or two. At home she tried and quite success fully. to conceal her trouble. Mir
 Eldridge is employed as gardener aU the insane asylum and unless ne heard of it last night he is probably
 still uninformed of his daughters trouble
 Mrs. Buckley says the father of her baby is John E. Rodman of Prescott, himself married man. Rodman is in the employ of the s. F., P. & P Railway Company, and last summer was working in or near Phoenix in charge of a section hand crew. He was afterward advanced to the posi- tiol of assistant to the roadmaster. Deputy Sheriff Cunningham left on tbe Diaback to Phoenix, having tele-
 phoned the sheriff's office in Prescott, to place him under arrest.
 The arrest Of Mrs. Buckley was made last night for the reason that it was suspected that she was becoming alarmed at the publicity being given to the case and the nearness with which she was being identified, which would prompt her to take a night train out of the city. She has been under the eye of the officers for sev- eral days, but there was wanting all
 the time some slight links in the chain of absolute circumstantial evidence.
 Yesterday morning Judge J. H. Lang
 ston, who is president of the Critten- ton Home board, after learning the
 later details of the Mesa end of the
 story, resolved on an investigation for himself and drove over early, spend iny the entire day there. He learned that Mrs. Buckley when she went to
 Mesa stopped first at a hotel, then
 found a home with a family named
 Chamblin. They did not have proper
 accommodations and she moved else -hnrn and thn hahr 11raS hnrn