The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-04-15
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About IL o'clock on last Sabbath
night a white male infant was placed
on the porch Of the home Of Lewis
Hutchison, an aged colored man,
living about one half a mile above
Smyrna cemetery on the Anderson
highway. Lewis states that he and
his wife were asleep, but he was g.
Weakened by q noise in the yard. he
went out to investigate, heard some
one running across the cotton field
and in a few moments heard a car
start off going toward Barnes. BE
entered his front porch and found .
box, which contained the infant.
Next morning Lewis and his grand
daughter brought the child to town.
DR.. iKrkpattick promo, need him a
well-matured baby about "a hours
old. When found he was fully dress
ed in baby garments Of very coarse
texture and crudeiy fashioned. The
goods box, in which he was placed,
contained an old bed sheet and oth-
er cloths, also a bottle Of milk from
which the label had been torn. There
were no marks to indicate from
whom or from where he had come,
except on an underskirt which he
wore made of a flour sack, could be
family discerned the words, "Craft
and Hartwell," presumably the gar
garment made from a sack con-
tanning flour purchased Of a mer-
chant at Hartwell. Messrs. Toombs
Broadwell and Guy Mann took the
little infant to Abbeville and placed
him in the County Hospital.
Through pity and sympathy for the
little nameless waif, Mr.. Mann
christened him for himself, James
Guy Mann. Sheriff McLane and his
deputy, Mr.. Cam came to the scene,
but before their arrival the citizens
of the town had made careful in
vestigation with no definite results.
The footprints crossing the field
were large evidently those of a man.
The place where the car had turned
in the road, some distance from
Hutchison's home. was plainly dis
cernible. No other traces, thus far,
have been discovered. Every effort
is being made to find the parties
who perpetrated this brutal, inhu-
deed.
Mr.. Axel Jensen, a native of
Sweden, but now stationed on the
lighthouse boat, The Brunswick,
near Charleston, has been an inter-
visitor at the home Of Mr.. E.
W. Harper, Sr. His visit was the out
come of a very pleasant episode,
dates several years ago:
About sunset on a cold evening in
1915, a young foreigner
a tramp, tired, footsore
and moneyless, came to Mr.. Harper's
home and asked for lodging, on be-
ing told the family did not take
dodgers, he asked if he could not
sleep on the porch. Mr.. Harper told
it was too cold for him to
sleep there, invited him in and gave
him entertainment for the night. He
spoke only a few English words, but
Mr.. Harper understood that he was a
who had come to America in
search of work, but becoming dis
outraged, was making his way to
where there was a colony
IF Swedes who would help him to re-
turn to his native land. Being i'm
pressed with the demeanor of the
who was about 19 years Of
age, Mr.. Harper's sympathies were
aroused and on the next day he
him a ticket to Augusta. Mr..
Harper gave him a self-ad-
dressed card and asked him to re-
turn it when he reached his home.
Several months afterwards the card
marked Stockholm, Sweden, was re-
turned, stating the boy had reached
his native land. Last Christmas Mr..
Harper received a letter from the
young foreigner saying he had e
to the : United States and
would like too' see the family again
and make a personal expression Of
gratitude foF what they had done