Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-12

pies. Her brown eyes seem mex
pressibly wise; she appears far more
judicial than the judge; there is some
thing tremendously serious and old
line is like a sybyl-a brown-eyed
little sybyl IN a white coat, white
cap and a cherry ribbon.
Finally she appears to have de-
hanged or. knlghted. But, reserving
her opinion she toddles about and
makes to1 4 green light burning
brightly over his desk. She blinks
at the lighC soberly: One can imag-
IN my day. It'll do, though; it'll do"
She Is suddenly aware of many
people. She stops in her tracks,
plucks at the bottom of her skirt
adn Ser baad me Tben iust to
show she is nothing, if not uncon-
ventional. she does it again, deliber-
atcly, trazenly. One prays that she
VIII not shimmy.
has knocked 'enl tead, Louise Made
line rctires to Il chair. 1t is a giant,
leather-rpho1stered piece of furniture,
fitting her about Is we'll as a number
eighteen collar or a high school boy.
But she appropriatee it masterfully,
Kicks her heels over the edge, stares
around her, blinks at the. judge.
"I'm ready" Louise Madeline seems
to say Proceed"
The Judge leans forward respect
call the next witness, Mister Ar
The declaration of another, mother
that her baby was also mixed AZ
the Grady hospital, testimony ny e.
duction of finger prints of the Garner
family featured the hearing FRIDAY
morning before Judge George l.. Ben
on the writ of habeas corpus sueo
out by Mr.. and Mrs. John {. Garner
for the possession OF ntt!e LOUISE
Madeline now in the custody OF MI.
and MRS. Daniel L. Pittman. Both
sets of parents claim the child as
their own. O.
Mrs. Lawrence Collins. of Fl r rs
teen street. one of the witnesses TIL
day morning, testified that she was
giyen the wrong baby while she was
q patient in the maternity ward at
the Grady hospital The error she
said, was later corrected.
D. Ernest Randall, a neWspapet p
facial features, testified to strlklng
resemblances between the Garner
family and Louise Madeline, and TO
rasemblances between Mrs. P1ttman
and Mary Elizabeth, the little oany
that died. Atlanta
nhotographer, testified to the same
resemblances. Both these witnesses
had large photographs of the Two
babies, the two mothers and the llt-
tie Garner children before them'
WOMAN HOPES JUDGE
WILL DECIDE CORRECTLY
The Journal has received the fol
lowing letter from a woman "no
sign her name, but asks that 1t DC
withheld. The letter speaks for it.
self:
ATLANTA, Ca. Oct. 9, 1920.
editor of The Atlanta Journal:
"I have been deeply interested III
the mixed baby case from the very
beginning. I therefore, beg every
Christian mother, as we'll as those
Christian women who are not moth
ers, to pray earnestly that God will
guide the judge In the decision on
this case.
"' More things are wrought by
PRAYER than this world dreams of.
and this is the day of prayer 40
most earnestly hope and pray THAI
the child's own mother may be. CIV
en- the child bv the decision Of the
court.
Every truly yours,
"a chi1d1ess woman who loves all
children and all mothers.
OTHER 'MIXED BABY"
CASES TO, BE ALLEGED
When Judge George Bell resumes
his hearing Monday morning IN the
ing the identity of Baby Louise
Madeline, claimed as a daughter by
both Mrs. John c. Garner and Mrs:
Daniel l.. Pittman, testimony Will
be introduced. 1t is understood. in.
tended to prove that the mixing of
babies at Grady hospital occurred on
several occasions.
1t was said Saturday afternoon
that Mrs. w. c. Hoffman, of Bon
ME Brae avenue, had been examined
sci for Mr.. and Mrs. Pittman. and
that she admits. having. witnessed
an accidental exchange of babies at
Grady hospital, the mistake bring
rectified by reason Of the fact that
one Of the babies was boy and the
Mrs. Hoffman is i'll at her home,
Judge Bell, declaring that he desir-
ed every item of evidence brought
before the court, gave permission
for her affidavit to be presented as
material evidence
In her statement, which was tran
scribed at her bedside by a stenogra-
pher,. she deposes that while sick in
tai. she became acquainted with two
mothers, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs.
CAN'T, who, after the birth of their
infants. were brought to the influenza
ward. She says that on one occa-
sion the babies were brought in to
the two mothers, and after some
minutes one of them, Mrs. Dudley,
discovered that she was not in pos
session of her own child. Nurses
stripped both the infants, and &C
cording to the statement which it |
is understood Mrs Hoffman has
made, no Identification whatever, in
the form of tags or otherwise, was
attached to them. Due to the diff
ference in sex, it is said the children
We're identified, however, and given
to their mothers.