Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-12
MIXED BABY WEARS
SHORT DRESSES AND
SHOWS DIMPLED KNEES
Continued from Page u

SHOWS DlMPLED KNEES
CONTINUED from Page ~
self-assurance Of lady giving 9
conductor a transfer an hour old.
Outside of these points, Louise
Madeline is an ordinary child, with
! chubby pink cheeks, dark brown
eyes and dark hair hidden under a
| white bonnet, threaded with cherry
ribbon. She laughs, cries, COOS and
it must be confessed. occasionally
slobbers; and she appears utterly
unconcerned over the question Of
which she is the storm center:
Who's little sugar are you?''
These Impressions of Louise Mad
cline are the result of two days OBJ
! servation in Judge George L. Bells
courtroom. where the legal battle
was resumed Monday to decide
Two babies were born at Grady
hospital May %, 1919. One was
Mrs; John c, Gamers, the other Mrs
Daniel L. Pittman's. Twelve hours
after birth, the babies were brought
to their mot hers to nurse at inter-
walls of three hours. The stork
came on a Friday.
Saturday morning. about two
o'clock, claims Mrs. Garner. they
brought her the wrong child She
complained, and was told matters
morning, she says, her own baby
was brought to her, but Immediately
was taken away with the statement
that it was Mrs. Pittman's child
She Gle she continued to protest
daily that she had the wrong baby.
hlIt fina11Hy fnrond RI 4o1y
from the he pital with her, because
nobody else would mother it," Mrs
Pittman d her child, declared
Mrs. Garner.
was called Mary Elizabeth. The
baby Mrs. Pitt,nan took home was
called Louise Madeline. Mary Eliz-
abeth had reddish hair, blue eyes
and pink-streak cheeks. Louise
We had dark hair. brown eyes.
successful attempts to. get the
Pittmans to swap babies" the Gar
ners last February swore out a writ
Of habeas corpus for Louise Made
line.
Before. the case ever came to trial
the Carriers forbore to press mat
ters. They did not know, they say,
that their suit was withdrawn. But,
after waiting for time to heel their
hearts, and waiting again for an
other child to be born to Mrs. Pitt
man they swore out another writ.
1t is this writ which is being
heard before Judge Bell.
Court Room Scene
The scene in the courtroom is in
teresting. The benches are packed
with spectators, many Of them rela-
tives of the Gamers or the Pitt
mans, many of them witnesses Su-
perintendent Steve r. Johnston, of
Grady hospital, is there; the head
nurse, other nurses. the negro girl
Lilly Wright, who was an attend
ant in the maternity ward when the
baby was born. Here, too, are 9TH
-er mothers. one Of whom claims her
infants in their arms; now and again
child bawls vigorously.
judge. To his right is the witness
chair. The jury box is empty The
court reporter scribbles away at a
mahogany table inside. the rail, are
the principals Of the little drama
the Ptttmans, the Carriers and their
lawyers.
At one end of the table sits Mr..
Garner. a street car conductor, a tall
a mop of black hair. Billy Arnaud,
his lawyer. is beside him when he
isn't walking UP and down. The ia
bic is Uttered with photographs,
thumb-prints, documents of various
kinds.
Mrs. Pittman sits beside her hus-
band. She is a rather pretty wom-
an, with dark hair. olive complexion
and vivid brown eyes. She is dressed
IN brown. with a brown picture hat.
Occasionally she smiles. But most
ly she folds her arms and keeps her
gaze nXed lnfnnf1V tho wit
Less than ten feet away from her
sits Mr.. P1ttman, meat cutter. He
IS small chap, neatly dressed. I'm
der heavy black brows, his eyes.
apparently blue. keep straight to the
front. He seldom looks at the Gar
ners. In his arms is cudd1ed Louise
Madeline. Perhaps she is asleep,
perhaps she is cooling over his shout
ders at some Of the spectators, in any
event, her cherry ribbon in her white
Mrs. Pittman, also dark haired
and dark eyed, but with ruddier
complexion than Mrs. Garner, sits
aeout the same distance on the left
OF her husband that Mrs. Garner is
On on J. the right James W. Austin, the
he, too. is on his feet frequently,
questioning the witness, presentine.
a chart of the maternity ward, look
ing over the witness Shoulder at
aI;I "pii9 VI lHe mOtnerS and the
Twisting impatiently in three big
chalrs in front of the table, facing
the judge, are the little Garner girls
1ona May, nine years old; Virginia
seven years old, and Cecil, five Years
oIu. Ihey are all dark-haired, dark
eyed and olive-skinned, each dressed
IN stiff!y starched little dresses
each with gray little bow of ribbon
on her bobbed tresses In another
eilalr, near her mother, twists anoth-
er little girl, the Pfttmans', abolt
sy-cheeked. GU
During the court recess, the Pitt
man gather on one side of the room
the carriers en- the ether. They have
ilothlng TO say to each other, but If
IS znotlcea"le that the attitude of one
courteous and considerate through
out the controversy
In sIcn a situation, one might
imagine there would be black looks,
angry words bit of hair-pulling per
haps. P
But, when the Gamers mention the
Plttmans or the Pittmans mention the
Carriers. there is no anger, no sneers,
no rGproaches: each mother is con.
fldent she is right, but, whichever
mother. wins, one feels she would be
sorry for the other mother even in
her JOY OF victory.
Madeline, decides she will take
walk. Sho chambers down from Mr.
Ptttnan's arms and begins to cir
culate. she toddles up to the clerk
and, gives HIM the once over. The
enough to smile at her. The judge
beams down from his exalted posi-
tiop. The spectators crane their
necks and grin. Louise Madeline.
hun = l, TT -, u.