The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-01
OECgEE WILL BE
GIVEN THIS WEEK
By Minneapolis Court for
Possession of Baby
From St. Louis

Minneapolis. june lin the United
States court of appeals, perhaps this
week aud sure at this tenn. there win
be anotheg decision in the case of the
now famed Incubator baby"
The court records show the baby
was born during the St Louis worlds
fair, but the birth record Of Neoga-
Cumberland unity, Illinois, show Il
IS a native cf that Egyptian part Of the
Sucker state
The decision will determine anally
whether the baby shall belong to it's
real mother or to the woman who
adopted t. Four courts already have
attempted TO decide this question An
Illinois circuit court decided the child
belonged TO It's real n ther The Hi
nois supreme court reversed this de-
cision and gave the baby to It's foster
parent 8 district court in Kansas
decided the little one belonged to its
adopted mother The Kansas supre-
me court gave it back TO it's real moth
er. AT present. under the aegis of
the Kansas upper court the real
mother and child are living at SedSh.
Kan
The incubator baby now grown to a
pretty girl OF four Years. was born IN
a ST. Louis hospital Fob Is. 1901.
While the mother, Mrs Charlotte
Thompson Bleakley, lay i'll the hos
pital matrou stole the baby and sold
it to the babN incubator company of
the worlds fair A dead baby born in
the h spital il Is alleged, to Edith
Stanley, an actress. was substituted.
Mrs Blealsley was told her baby died
The hahy in the incubator thrivad,
nj Mrs 3ameB c. Barclay, a wealthy
woman of Buffalo decided to adopt g..
Mrs Bleakey signed a deed waiving
an claims to the mediator baby. She
was convinced q was not her child.
But MS. Bleakley became suspicious
finally She went to the ST. Louis
hospital where the matron admitted
the Incubator baby was the child born
to Mrs, Bleakley.
When she learned the real mother
had come 20 claim her offspring. Mrs.
Barclay. II Is said. fed with the infant
from ST Louis. She was halted at
Rock Island by a warrant charging her
With Kidnapping The Rock Island
court restored the baby TO Mrs Bleak
lev who took Il TO Lawrence, Kan.
After appealing the case In the Hi
nos court Mrs. Barclay went TO Law
renee aud began action to regain pos
session Of the child. Judge Smart OF
the district court there decided the
adoption was legal and gave the real
mother six hours in which to surren.
der the baby.
While a deputy sheriff waited in the
Bleakley home Mrs. Bleakley slipped
ont a back way with the child lie her
arms AMI caught an express train. BY
means OF a bogus arrest by a bogus
officer. it is alleged she had herself
conducted safely past pursuit through
Kansas and Missouri into Illinois
where the circuit court had recogniz
ed the validity OF her claim For sew
eeal months she and her child lived
happily n Rock island until the suprel
me court returned thg child to Mrs
Barclay. ''lH
Meanwhile AN appeal had been TAX
en- In Kansas and the supreme couri
Of chat state had upheld the claims ol
tho real nather Mrs Bleakley ned
in disguise back 20 Kansas, where she
now lives.
Mrs Barcley has spent $4,000 IL
her fight for the baby. She calls th,
child Doroihv Edith hareley MS yea
mother who Is pesr has spcnt S5.00l
in defendine her claim She know.