The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-22
TINY BABY FOUND
in HOLLOW LOG
To Hide Her Shame, Young
Girl Secrets Baby in Log
Where Discovered by Boy
And Hunting Dog

Ripley Mississippi is all agog over
the discovery of small babe found
in a log near that town. The local
paper prints the following story of
the remarkable occurance:
A live baby was found in hollow
log near Moore's Mill last Sunday by
two boys who were going across the
woods when their dog bayed in the
log and going to see what the dog had
found they discovered the baby. The
little fellow was well wrapped up
and carefully put away so as to be
well protected. They ran home and
told what they had found and officers
Smith and Brock were notified and
came and got the baby and carried
it to the home of good woman in
the community who cared for it until
Monday.
Sheriff Frank Rogers and county
health officer, DIR. r. NJ Adams, were
sent for and went out to the scene
Monday afternoon. A Miss Window
was seen by the officers Sunday eve
ming feeding the baby and so she was
asked by the officers to give an ac-
count of the affair. At first she
stubbornly denied that it was her
baby and said that it belonged to an
other girl in the community who had
asked her to care for it. Later on,
however, she confessed to the officers
and her father that she was the moth
er of the baby and that she had hid
den it out in an effort to keep the
facts from her folks.
Until she acknowledged the moth
erhood of the baby her father and
brothers had not suspected her as be-
ing the mother of the child. Miss
Barbar Window is said to be about 10
years of age, her mother has been in
several years. The family bears
good name and the girl has been the
house-keeper for the family and a
good hard-working girl who is well
thought of in the community.
The story of her physical endur-
ance as related to the officers and her
ffather sounds unreasonable but those
who heard her tell it believe she told
the truth. The fact that she was
soon to become a mother she had con-
cealed entirely from her father and
two brothers as well as her younk
sister. On the evening of March %
she was sick and went to bed for a
while. About dark she slipped out
and went into the woods near the
house and there all alone gave birth
to the child. She took care of it her
self, wrapped it up in a quilt she had
carried along for the purpose and hid
it away in pile of brush, went back
to the house and went to bed. Next
morning she got up and slipped out to
see about the baby and found it all
right. During the day she carried it
to an old cotton pen not far from the
house and placed it where it would be
safe. Fearing it might be found in
the cotton pen she carried it about a
quarter of a mile from the home and
placed it in hollow stump and care
fully covered the stump with boards
so as to keep out the rain and cold
air. the meantime she had taken
her little sister into her confidence
and told her all about it. And the
little girl accompanied her on some
of the trips she made to feedthe baby.
She was very attentive to it, going
that distance two or three times each
day and sometimes in the darkness of
the night to feed the baby.
Sunday morning she took the child
from the stump and placed it in the
hollow log and there it was found
later in the day. After her confes-
sion she agreed to take the child and
raise it and do the best she could for
it and her father agreed that she
might do so and the baby was sent
for, brought home and she took
charge of it.
1t is understood that the mother
gave to the officers the mans Of the
man she claims to be the father of
the child and that some charge win
be made against him.