The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29
Woman and Husband Leave Boarding Place Sudden ly After Being Cues
 toned. Believed to Have Done a General Brokerage Bus mess in Homeless
 Babies.
Investigator Morrissey Fol lows Clues and Makes Discoveries - Story of Boston Young Woman Who Was Brought to Bridgeport by Advertise ment.

MT. and Mrs. Charles Baker left their lodgings at 25S Gilbert street suddenly, Saturday afternoon, after the woman had been subjected to some disagree able questions by a representative of the Evening Farmer. Mrs. Baker is the woman who has figured under sev- eral aliases in obtaining board for in- fants brought from different parts of Massachusetts and whom Mrs. William Russell of 696 Main street. accuses of neglecting to pay board for an infant taken away last Friday night.
 Saturday afternoon MT. and Mrs. Russell left the house, 258 Gilbert street. where they had been rooming for which they had paid for the room had expired they neglected to notify Mrs. Mills, their landlady, that they would not return. They took the keys to employ locksmith to get into the rooms. They took with them two suit cases and left a quantity of worthless material behind.
 the Board of Charities has been fol- lowing clues since the case was re- ported to him Friday. He has traced the last of the four infants left with Mrs. Russell to a family in the East End where Mrs. Baker took the baby Friday night, after nine o'clock Sew eral weeks ago Mrs Baker left an in fant with a family living on Hewitt street. Mrs. Baker was known to the family as Mrs. Smith. The baby is still there. She was anxious to find other families who would take infants to board and asserted that she could supply as many as she could find fami- lies to take them. In every case it was said that Mrs. Baker obtained the infants through advertisements in the Boston newspapers.
 To a Farmer representative Satur- day afternoon. Mrs. Baker denied that she had ever received or placed other infants besides the one found at Mrs Russell's. She denied positively that she had ever taken an infant to the family on Hewitt street. It is believed Baker has done a land office business here. She evidently became alarmed when her operations were discovered to be extensive.
 Three months ago a Warren street physician was called to attend a young woman by Mrs. Baker. The cOnd tion Of the woman necessitated her remov- al to the Bridgeport hospital. While there she gave birth to still born child. She recovered and was dis charged from the hospital. Later she called on the physician and paid him $15 for his services. At the hospital the woman told of the circumstances connected with fer arrival in this city.
  a Boston paper and came to this city for her accouchment. She sad she paid Mrs. Baker $60 which was to cov- CT all the expenses of her confinement including board and medical attend ance. Mrs. Baker did not pay the physicians and the victim afterwards sent the money to this city and squared her account. The young wom- an would gladly give her testimony against Mrs. Baker were it not for the publicity which she hoped to avoid and for which purpose she came to this city.
 A young woman now engaged as a housemaid in this city obtained her position through Mrs. Baker, to whom she gave $10 to get her a job.
 The authorities believe that Mrs Baker did a general brokerage busi- ness in infants. She is believed to have made an easy living through this