Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-16
HERE'S CASE FOR
KING SOLOMON
One Mother Believes Babies
We're Switched in Hospital.

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 16.-A strange
story Of mother declaring that her
baby was exchanged In the hospital and
threatening to take her claim into tho
courts, the other mother insisting she
has the right child, has come to light
here
Mrs. John c. Garner, No . Oak street.
west end, and Mrs. b. L. Pittman, No. IS
Haygood avenue, are the mothers in
volyed.
They are the mothers Of baby girls,
both born the night OF May %, 1919, in
Grady hospital
Mrs. Garner declares Mrs. Pittman has
her child; Mrs. Pittman insists she has
her own child.
ats a poor mother that doesn't know
her own child" said Mrs. Garner.
Mrs. Garner bases her claim to the
Pittman baby on the ground the other
three Garner children have brown eyes
and dark hair, "favoring" their mother
that the baby she now has Is endowed
with red hair and blue eyes. and that
Mrs. Pittman herself has red hair ana
blue eyes.
The tangle began, according to Mrs
Garner, a few hours after the storK
visited Mrs. Garner and Mrs. Pittman in
the Grady hospital.
NURSE BROUGHT
BABE MINUS TAG.
The night OF May %, 1919, the storks
came, each was left girl.
'"That night, or about o'clock in the
morning" said Mrs. Garner Thursday
Il asked for my baby. All the regular
nurses had been called to the operating
room because there was a rush of cases.
and negro girl we called Lille came in
NTH hahv in arms
"'Whose baby is this?" Lille asked
ccording to Mrs. Garner.
Hasn't it got a tag on its arm? My
name is Garner" said Mrs Garner.
"'WeIl, it's your baby then, Lille
told me-" said Mrs. Garner. at was
dark and I didn't notice until the next
morning that It didn't have tag on its
arm. I knew it wasn't my baby because
my baby had little scratch on her face,
like it had been scratched with a finger
nail.
Mrs Plttman had my baby. tried
TO tell the nurses that Lille had snapped
the babies. but they said she didn't
When my husband came, | told him Of
the swap. Lille told him and me that
she didn't swap them, but it's a Pocr
mother that doesn't know her own child.
PUTS 1T UP TO
HOSPITAL CHIEF.
Il have been twice to see Mrs. Pitt
man and my husband has gone three
times. Last Sunday was the last time
Mrs. Pittman believes she has the right
baby, but it is mine.
My baby, the one Mrs. Pittman has,
looks exactly like my eldest child when
she was months old. And If Mrs. Pitt
man won't swap babies I'll so to court to
get my own"
Mrs. Garner declared she has gone to
Steve Johnston, superintendent of Grady
hos Gtal, about the alleged swapping OF
| infants.
1.-The nurses and Lille say the babies
weren't swapred," said Superintendent
Johnson. Mrs. Garner has brought her
baby to me with her. l told Mrs. Gar
ner TO have Mrs. Pittman bring her child
to me. too, and if they both wish, III try
to decide But the nurses and Lille say
they weren't snapped"
The Garner Pittman baby case recalls
the King Solomon case, and the case of
Bobbie Dunbar, the kidnapped youngster
Of Opelousas, La. One of the judges of
the Fulton county courts, if suit was
filed by Mrs. Garner, would have to be
the modern King Solomon.