The Washington times., 1922-07-17
.STORK AGAIN To
CALL ON SWAMP
BAbY'S. S.MOTHER
Girl Is Ordered to Hospital to
Await Arrivals Reunited
With Family.
BY WILLENE TAYLOR.
international News Service.

NEW YORK, July l7.-This was
happy day for Leah Silver, the
twenty-one-year.old girl under arrest
on d charge of deserting her sixteen
month-old baby girl in a swamp al
Coney Island a week ago. She has
not only received the forgiveness OF
her mother and brother, but mas
been sent under commitment to the
Kings County Hospital, where she
and the baby can be together.
Magistrate James T. O'Neill, Of the
Coney Island court, after holding
her in $1,000 bail for further ex'
animation on July 28, made this ar
rangement with the hospital au
thorities.
Finds Friends In Police.
Mother. dear, I'm so glad you are
here. I've suffered much, but
everything will be all right now"
the young mother sobbed. The po-
lice have been SO good to me.
thought l had no friends. but now
know l have many"
The girl was taken to the hos.
pital. for she is soon to become a
IllOtneT again.
Leah put her arms around her
mothers neck and sobbed. silently,
Then she murmured:
You know / didn't mean to hurt
my baby. You know how loved
her, and how l stood the scorn and
jeers Of everybody in Lynn to have
her near me. Don't you know?"
The older woman was crying. too,
now. consoling the child as the
latter hurried hysterically on:
why, couldn't have left my
baby to die. left a bottle of milk
in her arms. even had 1t heated
love her too much to have de-
serted her like that"
After the brief arraignment the
girl. being held for examination on
July 2s, was taken TO Kings County
Hospital, where she will remain
until her new baby is born and her
health permits of her removal.
Mrs. Silver and her son, Harry,
had hurried to New York on learn.
ing Of Leah's trouble and sought to
visit her Friday night in the police
station.
Kind to Baby, Mother Says.
The mother said: We never meant
to be harsh with her. She was a
hard-working girl. and SO good
hearted.
she adored her baby and saved
enough money to board and clothe
it. Time and again she changed the
place where she kept II, because II
was neglected. That was the trouble
the day she left home. We had gone
to see the baby and found II almost
eaten up by bites OF some sort. The
little thing was dirty, too, and Leah
always so clean. She couldn't stand
it and took the baby away.
when we got home we were up
against the same old problem again.
1t was unbearable the way the people
In town treated us. / don't want
my child to live in n small town any
more. / wish / didn't have to live
in one myself.
That night she decided it would
be best to bring the baby to New
York and try to place 1t in some IN
stitution or a good baby farm, where
she could pay for its support. Then
she meant to get job and try to
save up for the new little one that's
coming.
Il don't want people to believe
l know she couldn't have done that.
And the terrible mosquito bites
were on the poor little thing when
we took 1t out Of the house in Saugus
where we were boarding it,"
Chit Returned In Box.
The mother then told of the vain
struggles the family had made to
place the baby soon after birth in
an institution where they could pay
for her care and be sure that she
was not neglected. A Jewish insti-
tuition in Boston, she said, accepted
the child for a charge of SIS a week.
Then there came a time in the
family's fortunes when they were
100 desperately poor to send the IS
Leah's mother continued:
AS soon as that happened the
institution sent a woman to our
house with the baby. She was
carrying it in a box"
The police of New York, as of
New Haven, where the girl was
arrested Friday night, believe the
she engaged a chauffeur to take
board her baby and that he advised
hNl " Illlt nun III pldIS
where she would be picked UP and
taken to an institution for care,
and almost certainly find a good
home with foster parents.
AS soon as she Is able to stand
further questioning, the authorities
will get more minute details of her
meeting and the trip with the Chauf-
feur and seek his arrest.
Another matter to be taken up
with the young mother is the baby s