Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-10
Nurse Girl Admits
She kidnapped Baby

Continued from rage Ohe
the baby for Philadelphia this after
noon.
Until the very last foundation had
been cut from beneath her feet, Ada
Huff maintained the pose that she was
the mother of the baby. 1t was only
when Detective Hodge drew out his
memorandum book with the identified
tion marks carefully written down and
examined the baby to see if the descrip-
ton tailed that the nerve of the girl
weakened, and she admitted the theft of
the child.
The identification was complete.
There was the mole on the left arm,
lust as described by the real and heart
| broken mother in Philadelphia. There
were the dark eyes, the light hair
what there was of it-and the two teeth
that had already forced their way
through the gums. with the three more
just ready to follow. And the baby
was plump, ten months old.
When Ada Huff first arrived in
| Stroudsburg with the child at 4 80
o'clock Saturday afternoon, she proudly
| her own. She telephoned her mother
| that she was on her way to thu house
with her baby.
i
! to a drug store in this town and
ordered some patent baby food. She
showed the child to the clerk, and in
vited him out to the house to see it later.
The Huff home lies out in the country,
four miles from here, just over the hill,
near the little railroad station and town
of North Water Gap, on the Sus
quehanna Railroad. Mr., Fluff, foster
father of the girl, is station agent there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huff say they are
Through with their foster daughter
They frequently have sent her money
to get out of scrapes since she left home
two years ago, they say, but they viii
rot furnish money or counsel for hel
in her present predicament.
Got Ada From Home
eve got Ada from the Children
Home, in Trenton, when she was al
infant" Mr.. Huff said. 'We did MOI
know her parents, but we raised hel
as our own child. When she wal
eighteen years old she left home. From
time to time she wrote and told us o
her affairs.
"She visited US frequently. She tolC
of her marriage and the birth of child
rem. But she never brought the childreI
or her husband home. She always sait
they were boarding.
''Then she came home with her baby
We were happy. And the baby seemed
to take to us at once. This latest de
velopment is breaking our hearts. 1t il
the last straw. Ada must face tn
world without our help from now on.
The Rev. Or. Apgar, pastor Of thu
Broad Street NJ. u. Church, Fleming
ton. N. j., is the head of the hom'
from which the Huffs obtained Ada.
Here, in the cosy little house, wer'
Ada the sister and Mr., and Mrs. Huff
The house itself is a two story frame
dwelling, of the Village type" with d
front porch, front garden with its
picket fence. and its swinging garden
gate, In the rear are fruit trees,
and a little farm of few acres, upon
which Mr.. Huff raises his vegetables in
the summer. Around about are the
mountains covered with snow and a
heavy growth of pine trees. Not many
miles away IL the Delaware Water Gap,
to the south, famous summer resort.
The great hotels are closed now, and
the villagers are just beginning to dig
themselves out from beneath the eight
cen inches of snow that blanketed this
country during the recent blizzard. All
day yesterday Ada played with the baby