The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-06-14
SPEND ALL IN
HUNT FOR BABY
Vanishing Infant, Vanishing Wife
and Vanishing Mother Com.
! pIicated Five Lives.

Memphis, Tenn.-A Tiny PINK scar on
the right cheek has cleared up the
mystery Of the vanishing baby.
Baby Graham's fate was decreed
legally when Judge Camille Kelley,
sitting in the Juvenile court, listened
to the girl mother, Mrs. r. G. Graham,
twenty, "schoolma am" of Cybur,
Miss, tell of this slender Identified
don.
.xhe must be your baby" the court
decided after having held the noted
infant In legal custody for more than
I week
The story of the vanishing baby Is
the strangest ever told In Memphis
court records.
When Letitia Leggett, daughter Of
- w. Legget, a well-to-do farmer, of
Seminary, Covington county, Miss,
vas teaching school at Kelby Greek,
ID the same county, she was courted
By. r. @. Graham twenty three, son
a L. A. Graham Of Sanford, Coving-
ton county. Mr.. Leggett objected
enormously to his daughter keeping
Company with Graham, then a clerk
Il a plantation at Cybur. That
was about two years ago.
A Secret Marriage.
The course Of true love was stormy.
Ehere was q. secret marriage. Then
came a cloud upon the horizon. The
chI wife disappeared from her home
and neither husband nor parents
could find her. She had found her
way, however to hospital In
Natchez where she remained until
the baby's birth.
Meantime her husband was search
ing high and low for her.
Also a patient in the Natchez hos
pdtal was Mrs. T. NJ Jenkins. Mrs.
Graham now can take up the story.
Z thought l was going to de-" Mrs
Graham told Judge Kelley. II was IN
the hospital under the name Of Mrs.
gladys Jones' My husband had gone
to California. Mrs. jenkins seemed
such 4 sweet little woman and when
she asked me for my baby / thought
Il best to give 1t to her.
After Mps. jenkins left the Natchez
hospital, the health Of Mrs. Graham
began to improve Her husband had
returned from California and renewed
the quest for his wife. They were re-
united the early part Of last Decem-
her.
1--WE then hired detectives" Mrs
Graham told the juvenile Judge, land
traced Mrs Jenkins to Cary, Miss.
+ 1t first she attempted to deny she
ever had met me. Later, under Sc
we're questioning, she broke down and
admitted she was the woman to whom
I had given my baby but she would
not let either my husband or myself
see the infant.
~We did not have an officer with us
and could not force the woman to
turn over the child. When he finally
had obtained the services of an officer
and returned to the Jenkins home in |
Gary she had gone taking my baby
with her.
1--WE traced her to vicksburg,"
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Burns, who con-
duct nursery at SS7 Kney street, now
come into the narrative.
"On JAN "a last" they said, "a |
woman, who gave her name as Mrs
Dorothy Brown, brought a baby to
our house. She said she could not
work and keep her baby, but she
would pay for It's keep.
Now enters T. NJ Jenkins.
AdvertIses for wife.
Mr.. Jenkins came to Memphis IN
quest OF his missing wife after a
search Of three months all over the 1
South. He decided to advertise and
offer reward.
Down in Cybur, Miss, Mrs. r. O.
Graham, the mother of the baby, iden-
tiled the picture Of the missing Mrs.
Jenkins In the newspapers.
They got into touch with Mr.. Jen-
kins.
Then jenkins. 0raham and Burns
1T together out at tho nursery. Mr..
5enkias Identified scarf left there
- dorothy Brown" n belonging to
hls WIFE, Gra1sams telesraphsd his wife
md she came On. to Memphis. K
That's my long-l lost baby she said 1
4 knew that little red scar on her
brecioue cheek" and shs grabbed up
he baby, Overwhelming 1t with
.aresses.
xben to selling my little home. to OBJ
IN fu1j6s wl&A which {ts hire detec- !,
l~as," AFs 0saham .selA-
"But We don't regret IT, do wer'
ut IN Mrs. Graham a. she stood close g