The evening world., 1921-02-05
il BABES, TRIPLETS
AND TWINS, FAXED
FOR MOTHER LOVE
Wife of Atlanta Clerk Con-
feSSed TO Deceiving HuS-
band for ID Years.
FATHER" is STUNNED.
Head of Home for Orphans
Admits She Supplied Little
Ones When Requested.


INFLATED and broken, f. f. A. South, a
grocery clerk, who is siKty-one years
old, was unable to decide to-day
what he would do with the problem
which confronted him last night
when his wife, fifty-two. confessed
their eleven children were waits
adopted from founding and mater
nifty hospitals during the last four
teen years
81 want to do the right thing-God
knows l debut such problem,
such a problem South declared.
THE fact that those children, nine
of whom are living and are at home,
were waits probably nameless 49,
doesn't matter 80 much; it's the de-
ception," he added.
Last night while stunned by Mrs.
South's confession, which came Ike
a bolt from a clear sky, South de-
clared he was going to leave home
'never to return" Deliberation and
further thought caused him to change
his plans. But to-day he didn't know
what he would do.
eco away and let me think" he told
reporters.
While Mrs. South fooled her hus-
band, fooled the children, fooled the
public, fooled everybody but herself
and the institutions from which she
procured the babies, she has commit
ted no wrong in the eyes of the Jaw.
81 don't like movies, don't like
theatres, I don't like to go out. The
greatest thing in my ~ is children"
she declared. THAT Is why did 1t
because love children and because
1 wanted to give them the best rails
ing / could, especially the little name
less waits in the maternity hospitals,
who haven't got a chance in the
world"
Mrs. South declared the reason she
fooled her husband with triplets
born" on New Years Eve, but in
reality procured from Mrs. NJ. r.
Mitchelrs maternity hospital, was
because the women in charge OF the
cradle roll" at st. Pauls Methodist
Church, where she has her member
ship, had agreed to educate as mis-
sionaries the first born to a church
member.
Mrs. South said she is the daughter
OF a Methodist minister. She was
brought UP in a religious home, she
declared, and she felt 1t was her duty
TO train as many good children as
possible, whether they were her own
or not During her married life she
has actually had three children Of
her own, now grown up and married.
Mrs. South Is hfty-b two years old.
More than ten years ago, she said, her
yearning for children to take the
! places OF her grown-up sons and
| daughters was so overpowering that
she hit upon the scheme OF deceiving
| her husband with a fake birth"
| As she succeeded in fooling him, she
said. at annual intervals she adopted
| others.
Mrs. Mitchell, who conducts the
home, admitted Mrs. South's state
ment regarding these sets OF tripletS
| ana lWlllEs no bAApltAnt hctlu nal y,
Mitchell, were not really triplets, but
were three little girls of three differ
emit mothers.
1t was noted at the City Health
once at the City Hall. where all births
and deaths are reported by doctors
that no certificate OF the "triplets' :
birth had been turned in. An in
spector was sent to the South home
and to him Mrs. South gave the nam,
of a doctor. No such doctor could b,
found. The inspector was puzzled
He reported his findings to the Cit!
Health Office. An attache Of tn
once, having his suspicious and hi
own theory about tho case, happened
to mention It Friday morning to
newspaper reporter,
SAY" he ended, why don't you tr,
that maternity home on Windso
Street? I'm willing to bet the trip,
let's came from there"
And his bunch proved correct, 1
the statement OF Mrs. Mitchell an
Mrs. South's own confession are to b
believed.