The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-04
Infant Wrapped in Bundle
on Board Train; Mother
in Hammond?
CARED FOR At NILES
Niece Of Woman Who Discovered
Baby Boy Awaits a Claimant
Who Is It?

young woman who took the 7:15
Michigan train at Park Row yesterday
morning and got off at Hammond left
a bundle on the train
This is not an uncommon occurrence
and attracts very little attention with
trainmen who usually turn in a dozen
overlooked articles and packages at
the claim Office at either end of the
run.
But this bundle contained a three
weeks old baby.
The woman who got aboard the train
at Park Row carrying the bundle took
the first seat on the forward end of the
day coach and sat facing the blank
wall in front of her. The car was not
crowded and the space about her was
all her own. Her position was such as
to enable her to avoid the scrutiny of
her fellow passengers
As remembered afterwards when the
contents of her mysterious package
We're discovered she wore a dark
brown skirt. black jacket and a dark
hat of the mushroom" shape.
She held the bundle on her lap until
the conductor went through the train
just passing Ssxty-third street. Then
she laid. it beside her on the seat and
took her ticket out of a small handbag.
She handed it to the conductor with a
trembling hand without raising her
eyes. It read to Niles. Mich The
conductor took it and punched it and,
| leaning over the bundle, fastened a
yellow slip in the cleat on the wall be-
side the seat. Then he passed on.
Passengers Unsuspecting.
II the woman paid any attention to
the parcel beside her-if she bestowed
upon 1t a comforting, Rffectionate pat
nobody noticed, It was ,notIead. .hakxeuer
--arld this may be an afterthought-1
sgsssH.~sf1e seefasd restsess ana uneasy
while the train was standing at Ken
sington.
The train made a five-minute stop at
Hammond. The other passengers
whose destination this was piled off
| hurriedly. The woman with the bundle
did not move until the train was about
to resume it's journey. Then slipped
| quietly out of the front door and
stepped off the platform.
/ AS usual several persons got on at
Hammond bound for Gary, but most
of them were men and they took the
smoker. If the contents of the bundle
uttered a sound it was lost in the noise
of the train The seat remained un-
occupied save by the bundle itself
After passing Michigan City the brake
man discovered the forgotten parcel
Not Hers, but Then
Us that yours?" he asked woman
who had taken the seat in the rear
What is it?' she asked with femi-
nine curiosity.
Il don't know"
He picked it up and handed 1t over
the back of the seat.
! No sooner had she taken the bundle
in her hands than it gave vent to a
smothered whimper.
Why she exclaimed, Its cat
or a baby
Resisting the impulse TO faint she
hurriedly unwrappeo the bundle ant
revealed the purpling face of an infant
The founding gasped convulsively and
filing its lungs burst into lusty cry
A hurried search of the train was
made for forgetful mother or nurse
but none was found Then 1T was re-
called that the woman who had car
ried the bundle aboard the train got of
at Hammond.
Baby Now at Niles.
The next chapter of the story is TOLD
in a dispatch from Niles, Mich. tC
Chicago which reads:
"A baby about three weeks old /:
here awaiting a claimant. 1t was .lef
on the Michigan Central arriving here
early this afternoon. There is moth
ing on its clothing by which to identi
fy it. 1t is being cared for by Mrs
George Nicholson whose aunt was or
the train when it was found. TIL,
, trainmen say woman got off th'
, train at Hammond, Ind, leaving th'
r baby in a seat"