The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-10
OF BABY At
! new ROCKFORD Is
/ 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL
'4aby Born III Deserted Shack
70 Feed Child, Girl Walked
Ten Miles Each Night

NeW Rockford. N. d Oct. ln.-hftor
ACQUIRING the country hcreaboutS ana
chasing down every possible ciu@.
Eddy county authorities have fila!iy
solved the pcvplexing problem oilerta
by the little founding. Mary Anita.
This child was recently found III y
packing boz that was showed into DR..
J. r. MacKenzie's office by q person
who quickly closed the door and DIS
appeared in the night.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Zubcr. juvenile
commissioners. came from Fessendel
and with local authorities ~condllctee
a searching investigation. Several per
sons were given a more or less severe
crilling. and then 4 little country Gifl'
barely Is years Of age. told his re-
markablc story that was subStantl-
sted III every particular.
Walked Five Miles
Il was getting sick. ana didn
tell my folks because ! Wa alra,a
they would send me away to the re-
form school. I walked five miles q
an empty shack out in a field. 1t was
Sunday. Sept. /. The old shack haa
a doorway but no door II had nothing
but a dirt floor. and not any WIN
dows. I was alone. Before l left home
/ told my folks that I was going to
one OF the ncighbors to help them for
a few days. I stayed alone ii the
shack two days. and had nothing C
cat nor to drink while | was there.
The baby was born Sept. !.
Il went home or the third day ans
, helped my folks in the harvest field
/ worked in tho fields till the fal
! work was done. then the men went Y
! digging a we'll and l pulled the dir
: up for them. When the baby was tlyf
days old my folks had gone away
from home and l went 10 the shack
/ took the baby to the house and gave
It 4 bath. the first II eyer had.
: weighed 1t. too. and found 1t Welghee
! five and onc-half pounds. kept II a
. the house a while. and then l Walkct
back to the shack with. it.
II kept it in a packing box III ths
/ shack four weeks. At night after tn
J folks had gone to bed ! would get UP
take some milk from the house. anf
J 70 out there five miles away and fect
the baby, then l would 60 home ant
Z 20 to bed. No. I was not afraid tn
1 coyotes or wolves would get my baby
!. but when it was four weeks old m
! folks were going to move to anothe
3 farm. It was so far away that wo'!l;
! not be able to take care Of The bah
m the shack any longer. MY folk
! didn't know that | had a baby, and
! didn't want them to.
b without my folks knowing any
!. thing about it. I brought tho baby t
4 town Saturday night and put il i
y DR.. MacKcnzie's office. When I &C
8 home and had gone to bed l began
! cry. / couldn't help il.
/. ITS Mine
.Nrothcr heard mo crying and cam
s-d fsKcd me what was the matte
g I told her that I had a bad toothach'
d +; nc tried to do something for it. bt
= ls.nt OIL crying. and tho next ola
g .l- Trough. INC To town to sec
t,ntist. But I want that baby all ,
. ts,e time. l don't care what you d
With me- If YOU will lot nsn have til
= baby. I've got to have it. That baby
n,iile."
All Of this. and not a tear. bt
, now. rhcn the nurse came forwa1
and said We'll. here is your baby
I. and placed it. clean and sweet an
pretty. iii the little girls arms. the Il
= broke. She clasped the child to h
q breast. all her pent-up feaiings ga
way, and she burst into wild weepln
It was noticed. too. that she was II
the only person in the room who wef
" The little hild-mother and h
d baby are ncN at the Daily hospit
~ here.