The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-27
she WANTED GIRL
Woman Whe Left Two Infants
at Depot Explains.
Says She Never Has Seen Baby
Mine' But
STORY is THE SAME.
Husband Was Particular About
the Sex of Child.
Woman Took Boy to Kansas City
for Exchange.

Kansas City, Feb. 27.-She says she
never has seen Baby Nine" but
Mrs. Alive Henderson, who was ar
rested Saturday night upon entering
the Union depot with a third baby, af-
ter having already left two babies pre-
Viously in the depot and failing to re-
turn for them, told a reporter last
night in the matron's room at police
headquarters that the whole trouble
was that she wanted a girl baby.
Since her arrest, Mrs. Henderson has
given several explanations of the three
babies mystery.
But now I'm going to tell you the
real truth" Mrs Henderson said last
night. THE fact is, 1 had to have a
girl baby, and that old baby was a
boy baby
ITO what particular infant do you
refer?' the renorter asked her.
Husband Wanted a Girl.
Why, the first one-the one I left
in the depot Friday night. 1t was that
horrid baby that caused all the trou-
BILE You see, it's this way: When
julie, that's my own son. came three
years ago, I found out that my hus-
band was very much disappointed he
wasn't a girl. Ever since then he's
said every now and then he wished
we had a girl baby. 1t was awful, be-
cause he was travelling detective on
the Santa Fe-and his trips away from
our home in Phoenix, Ariz., kept get
ting longer and longer. I was certain
all the time that if we just had a
dear little girl baby he would come
home oftener. Sometimes he would be
away two months at time
Sisters Was a Boy, Too.
so you thought you would take a
girl baby back and let him think it
was yours. did you2"
I'm telling this story" she said,
"but it's the real truth. But if you ask
me questions, I'll have to ib; SO be
careful. My husband was away and
didn't expect him back until March 5
/ got a letter from my sister last Mon
day. saying she was in Amarillo, Tex,
and that she had a baby there she
didn't want, and if L wanted it 1 could
have it.
Did 1 tell my husband about it Z?
Now, look QUIT The real truth is that
I jumped on the train and went
straight to Amarillo. / found that my
sister had made all the arrangements
for me to take the baby, so she could
not get out of it-and the plaguey
thing was a boyi
Photographed for a Girl.
$50 1 stayed with her a day, tele-
graphed to Kansas City and found 1
could get girl baby, and came after
it. I brought my sisters baby and my
own boy, julie, that / think a lot of.
even if he is a boy. Just ) soon as I
got here realized that cOuldn't take
care of all those children. I had one
baby too many. So 1 asked a woman
there to hold the little baby, and then
left with julie.
Saturday, when I wanted to go out
and fix up the adoption papers for
Thelma-that's what | call my darling
little girl baby-at a sanitarium in
Mount Washington, I didn't want to
take julie with me. Leaving the other
baby at the depot had worked so WELL
just took julie there. I left him with
a maid, intending to come back at 6
o'clock, but it took longer to get girl
than I thought it would and I didn't
get to the depot until o'clock. Then
the policeman arrested me. That's the
real truth, now, and 1 haven't done
anything very wrong, have I? But L
wish I had any one of those three ba-
bies here now! And If my husband
ever hears about tiny, it will be sim
ply terrible!''
Baby Mine,'' by the way, is play,
recently at the Shubert theater, in
which a wife adopts a baby to deceive
her husband and by a series of miSad-
ventures finally has three infants to
account for.
Mrs. Henderson is being held at po-
lice headquarters for investigation The
babies were taken to the general hos
pital and julie to the Institutional
church