The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-10
COUPLE GAVE BABY
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few weeks old. They agreed put said
they had no money and would send
some when they got home.
No Money Received.
"She took the baby and they went
away. At the end of the week she had
received no money. She wrote to Oh
son and also to the postmaster at Far
go, but could not get into communica-
ton with Olson.
while she was wondering what to
do, knowing that it would be next to
impossible for her to keep the baby
phone call from Mrs. Frank Jensen,
1926 Second avenue south Mrs. Jen-
sen had seen MabeIs advertisement
and said she wanted to adopt a baby.
Later she came out, looked the baby
over and took it away with her, a
ing she would adopt it.
AT the end of a week Mrs. Jensen
called on the telephone again and said
she was going to bring the baby back.
My sister told her she would not &C
cept it.; thai MIS-. Jensen had agreed
to adopt 1t and would be held to her
bargain. The neXt day Mrs. Jensen
called at the house. She said the baby
was not healthy, that she had expect
ed to get a. healthy baby and had been
upOIS SIiO SokS1AON ~ oAC
the matter up with the Humane socie-
ty. Then my sister agreed to take 1t
back"
investigation Feared.
Were you afraid Of an investiga-
ton the Humane society might.
make??" Krusik was asked.
"well, l guess So" he answered.
"well, anyway, that baby was back
on our hands and we were in no bet
~ condition IN n q To for n than Union
Mrs. Jensen took 1t away"
when I got home from work that
night Mabel told me we were SO poor
we would have to get rid of the baby.
The next day we again talked 1t over,
and our talk was in the presence of
the boy Donald. That was where we
made our mistake.
Placed on Doorstep.
well, we decided to get rid of it.
We could do nothing else. We could
not Feed it without being paid n we
were unable to hear from it's parents.
SO on Tuesday night we wrapped the
baby In a shawl and walked over to
the Lake of the Isles boulevard. We
wandered about looking for a door
step. It was near .Twenty-seventh
street hat we got rid of it. While my
sister waited ! walked UP the steps or
a house n placed the baby near the
door. * There was a light. burning in
the house.
IT did not put the baby in the snow
In the bushes where the policeman
found it. 1t must have been moved
after I left 1t" y
Krusik said he. thought, when he
learned the next day that the baby had
been found and that 1t was not inJur-
ed, that the affair was ended. but
when he saw The Journal and the
baby's picture, he felt that exposure
was certain.
"That picture just stuck out of the
paper bigger. than the whole front
page" he said. ct was exactly like
the baby, and I knew that If Mrs;
Jensen saw it the stuff would be all
off,"
Hears Boy Inform Police. e
when I got home Thursday night
my sister was gone and A L. Bean,
| police sergeant with the Humane So
ciety, was there. He took me to police
headquarters where I found my sister
and the boy. Donald. They put me in
| one room and I could hear them talk
ing to my sister in another room. They
tried to get me to talk, but you bet
they couldn't get nothing out of me.
Then, through q. crack of the door, I
heard the boy telling all he knew and
/ knew the stuff was off for sure. So
I told them all I knew"
DOnaldS story, as taken down by
the police, corroborated John Krusik's
story in the main details.
Inquiry Already Planned.
W. W. Bradley, secretary of the
Humane society, said today that
Mrs. Krusik would have been investi-
| gated ever had she not abandoned the
baby. At the time Mrs. Jensen re-
turned the baby to the Krusik's she
went to Mr.. Bradley's Office and told
him Of the circumstances and said
she suspected everything was not
right; that she thought a baby farm
was being conducted.
I'VE were just about to take UP the
matter" said Secretary Bradley,