The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-01
FRANTIC MOTHER
SEEKING INF ANT
May Resort to Habeas Corpus
to Recover Baby Taken by
Juvenile Court.
OFFICERS REFUSE TO TELL
HER WHERE OFFSPRING Is
Parents, Who Quarreled Before
Stork Came. Are RecOnciled,
and Want Baby.

Driven frantic by the repeated rcfusals
of members of the juvenile court organi-
zation to notify her OF the whereabouts
of her infant son, taken from her May
lG OF this year. Mrs. Lucian Rosenbaum
has appealed TO Judge Orlando w.
Powers to get writ OF habeas corpus
assuring The return OF the child,
The unusually pathetic feature of the
story is that up To the present the mother
does not know into whose Keeping the
child has been entrusted. According TO
her story, there is a concerted enorl be-
ing made TO Keep her from finding out
where the little one is being Kept, ana
the circumstances surrounding the az
fair seem to indicate that there is much
oi the kidnapping element In the disap-
pearancc of the baby boy.
Struggling 10 keen back a flow oil tears
and with suppressed sobs almost choking
her utterance. Mrs. Jtosenbaum related,
Thursday afternoon, the story OF how
she had become separated the DAY OF
birth from her infant SON
Quarrel Before Baby's Birth.
My husband is I.ucln Rosenbaum, who
is serving as II bartender at the Log
Cabin bar" said she, AZ the present
we are living at s57 South Main street.
only a short time before NY little boy
was born my husband and Nad a quar-
rel and we parted for time.
when my condition was realized the
persons from whom we were rN'tms ;c to,u
longer IN the place. Then / went to the
private hospital OF Mrs. LizZicN NGeisler
at 236 Third North street whsro my
child was born. the morning OF May 10
That day. while I was get In weak
physical condition. Mrs. :. l.. Young,
malron of the Juvenile court called on
me aud | signed paper rclindulsnlns my
rights 90 the infant. At that time ! was
so sick thai | did not realize what
Was doing. | do not even know lhG
name OF the persons 10 whom the chi'd
was given.
when | had sufficiently recovered
from my illness To get around, l went
10 Mrs. Young and asked her where my
child had been taken. She SAID tnat the
persons that had the baby did not want
Iuc 10 know where the child was. and
imther that il was not her business to
tell me.
For more than a month past [ have
tried To find my baby and have been
unable to do so. ! know positively that
The child las not been formally adopted,
My heart yearns for my baby. and want
IT, Only those who have oeen mothers
can realize my feelings In the matter.
Now, when Mrs. Young came down
to the Gcislcr place there WAS II short.
hcavy-sct, dark -compleNioned man with
her. but do not know his name; Since
got out OF the place ! have exhausted
every known resource 10 get the baby
without going 10 law. Finally, decided
10 place the matter ~ the hands OF
81 j
crs to find my baby for me, II possible
Reconciled; Want Baby.
sEvcn though my husband and ] did
not get along well before the child was
born wc have become reconciled since. |
aud now We want our baby. One DAY. Il
short time ago. man giving his name
as Thomas tclcphoucd my husband and
asked him II he wanted the baoy back.
My husband said that he diI and that
lac was willing TO pay ali the expenses
Incurred In keeping the chilI. At ihs
the man hung up the telephone receiver
and we have never heard from him since.
do not know whether lie was connect |
cd with the juvenile court work or not:
81 was told al the Geisler place that
the woman that sot the bnby was 4 tail. |
slender woman. with dark hair turned
slightly gray. I never saw her myself
II she knew how ] long for my. baby
She would not keep HIN from me.
Mrs. a. l.. Young, matrol OF Inc )u- |
Vpnilc court was seen Wednesday alter |
noon. When asked about the Roscnbauni
ease she said that she remembered hay |
inv been down to the Gcisler place and |
tnat pane, was signed by Mrs. Rosen- |
bum, wlilo she lay sick
Refuses to Tell.
Mrs Young admitted that she knew
where the baby was, bu' refused 10 tell
the names OF the persons VINO have 1t IN !
tEei keeping. When pressed repeated !
ly for an answer she told the reporter |
TO telephone j. J. Thomas ut the Drsns- |
ford apartments. Telephone information |
developed that there is no such person |
living AT the Bransford a Mrs. j, ]. |
Thomas. at the Emery flats. when called
by telephone, said that she knew moth |
Ing whatever about the case Jusr who
this Mr. Thomas is cannot be ascer- |
taned.
Mrs Young, In defense OF the action
OF the juvenile court officers In the mat
ter. said that the baby was not given
away by the Juvenile court, but that Mrs. |
Geser had turned the baby over 10 the
woman who called. She said that the
parents had exhibited a heartless attl,
tude In the matter and apparently did
not want anything 10 do with the baby. |
The case has been placed III the hands |
OF Judge Orlando w. Powers by the
mother OF the baby and II Is probable
that habeas corpus proceedings will be
Instituted SOON
At Silver Lake (Brighton) we intend