The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-16
PARENTS PLACE
BABY AND LEAVE
Peters0ns Disappear After
Arranging for Care
of Infant Boy
CASE REPORTED TO
STATES ATTORNEY
Interesting Facts Developed by The Re
former Parents Took All Their
Clothing - Still Owe LandIady, Mrs.
Dunham, $29.5O.

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What appears to be case of desertion
IF a baby three weeks old was reported
% States Attorney Harold E. Whitney
his morning by Roy Z. Day of 30 Chest
nut street, a contractor and lumberman,
and an investigation by a member of The
Reformer staff has brought out some in
teresting facts. The baby, a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Peterson, Is at the home
of AIr. and Mrs Day, where he was taken
to board for 81 day on Tuesday of last
week, but the parents have left town. Mr..
Peterson. who has been working for the
town, said short time before he stopped
work that he had obtained work in Peter
boro, \. H., in cotton mill. He owes
few bills in town.
On Nov. 3 the following classified adj
yertisement appeared in The Reformer:
WANTED Someone to care
for young baby. Address Baby, care
Reformer.'
Mrs. Day read the advertisement and
on Saturday Of that week. Nov. ,, she
visited The Reformer office and left her
address for the advertiser. That night
| Mrs. Peterson, who had inserted the ad-
vertisement. called Mrs. Day by telephone
and said she would call the next day to
| see her. She came on Sunday as prom
| ised and it was agreed that she should
| bring the baby Monday. On Tuesday
| forenoon Mrs Peterson came with the
| baby in an automobile and said that she
| did not venture out Monday as the
weather was cold. She gave as reason
| for having the baby boarded that she
wished to go TO work and said she would
| pay by the week
| Mrs Day said she hoped Mrs. Peterson
would visit the child often, and Mrs.
| Peterson nodded a. indicating that she
intended to do 50. She did not come.
/ however, and when last Sunday passed
with no visit from the mother Mrs Day
became convinced that something was
wrong. Monday and Tuesday passed
| with no call from Mrs. Peterson, so this
morning Mr.. Day reported the matter to
/ States Attorney Whitney.
To The Reformer man Mrs. Day said
| the baby seemed perfectly well and gave
weeks old last Friday, having been born
| Oct p and has dark hair.
J. The PeterSons lived at IL Hudson
street in a tenement rented by r. G. Dun
| ham and family. Mr.. Dunham being en-
IpIoyed by Kolstad, Taylor & Co Mr..
Durham rented two rooms to the Peter
sons. who boarded themselves. Mrs. Dun
| ham said that Mr.. Peterson was Swed-
/ ish and his wife an English woman. She
said they came to the house Sept. 13
| from Rett;ng place, where they lived nine
months. Mrs. Dunham said she gave
| up her position in the Sparks laundry
1 TO care for Mrs. Peterson during her ill
ness. caring for her 10 days and board
! ing her and her husband about that
length of time. Her bill came to S34 and
! Mr.. Peterson paid her $3.50, leaving
| balance of S29.50. which is still unpaid.
| On Monday of last week Mrs. Dunham
| did her family washing and Mrs. Peter
son offered to do the ironing the next
/ day and an agreement to that effect was
made The next morning Mrs. Dunham
| went out to work for a short time. When
she returned about 1880 the Peters0ns
/ had disappeared, taking all their cloth
| ing and leaving only some dishes four
sheets and five pillow slips, and two
| photographs. one of Mrs. Peterson and
one of her mother \ neighbOr said that
when the PeterSons left they had two
suitcases bulging full and that Mrs. Pet
/ erson apparently was carrying the baby
/ in her arms wrapped in a shawl.
! The baby was in a shawl when received
/ by Mrs. Day, and it is believed that after
| leaving the baby with the Days Mrs. Pet
erson went directly to the railroad sta
! ton. met her husband there and boarded
| a train 1t was learned that persons an
swering their descriptions left that fore
noon without buying tickets Mr. Dun
/ ham says Peterson has worked at the
! Fort nummer cotton mill at different
/ times for several years.
/ For some time Peterson had been en-
Iployed by the Brattleboro highway de-
partment under Road Commissioner z. j.
DUDE Mr. Dube says that on account
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