The Indianapolis times., 1930-05-15

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They were paving the way
for taking away all her rights
of motherhood over Robert
Eugene, her year-old baby
who was found in a driving
rain on the Bluff road April
%, and whose parentage was
not established until late
Wednesday.
Found at an isolated farm nine
miles southeast of Bloomington,
Mrs. Breedlove admitted readily she
is the mother of the baby and that
she abandoned it on the roadside
more than seven hours before it was
found.
Couldn't Support 1t
She declared she was unable to
support the child.
Tearfully, she begged to be per-
mCCeQ TO see IL LOQays
But juvenile court authorities
overrode her pleas with the calm
statement that, by her action, she
has violated all rights of mother
hood and that the case now is one
for court decision.
The baby becomes a ward of the
Monroe county juvenile court, which
must decide its custody, juvenile
court officials declared. Criminal
charges of child neglect against the
mother will be disposed of in Marion
county courts where the actual
abandonment took place.
This afternoon Mrs. Breedlove and
Louis Reynolds, 20, of Blooming
ton, who drove the car in which
Mrs. Breedlove brought the baby
here to abandon it, were to be taken
into municipal court on vagrancy
charges.
To File New Charge.
These charges will be dismissed,
juvenile court officials indicated,
and the new charge of child neg
lect against Mrs. Breedlove and
charges of contributing to child
neglect against Reynolds will be
filed. They will be taken into juve-
nile court, where bonds will be
fixed. Maximum penalties under
the charge are six months i'm
prisonment and $500 fine.
The child neglect charge is the
only one possible against. the
mother who abandoned her child,
court officials declared. A charge
of intent to kill could not be
proven, it was believed.
I'll take Bobby back If they'll let
me and work hard to make both
ends meet" the mother protested
today. "I'l1 take him back. I'll
take him back
Her eyes were swollen from all
night sobbing in a cell at police
headquarters.
Arrest of Mrs. Rreedlove came
Wednesday afternoon after Sheriff
Winkler received letter from her
divorced husband, William Breed
love, pointing to her as the found
ling's mother. Breedlove never had
seen the baby, which was born May
l, 1929. He and his former wife
separated in September, 1928, and
a divorce was granted Dec. 81, 1928.
Mother Located on Farm
| Times photographs of the baby
we're taken to Bloomington by Sher-
iff Winkler.
i Mrs. Minnie Sullivan identified
the photographs as those of baby
she cared for nine weeks, beginning
Sept. 9, 1929. Mrs. Jacob Brown
identified the photographs and Mrs.
Ora Trasher confirmed the identifi-
cation with statement Mrs. Breed
love and the child had roomed at
her home from March until April
Is of this year.
Mrs Breedlove was located at a
farm nine miles southeast of Bloom
ington. Attired in a soiled calico
dress and wornout shoes, her only
clothing, she was putting a cigaret,
seated in an automobile with Earl
Webb of Bloomington when Sheriff
Winkler's party approached. Deputy
Sheriff H. E. Flynn of Blooming
ton had been added to the party.
Know What You Want
Were from Marion county," was
the only preface needed to bring
admission of motherhood from
Sally.
"I know what you want" were
her first words. 1--WE been expect
ing you. But Earl here isn't to
blame. He had nothing to do with