The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-21
GIRL WIFE, IS,
SEEKING LOVE,
KIDNAPS BABY
Infant Returned to Family,
Amazing Deception Is
Laid Bare.
ABDUCTION, IS CHARGE
Sought Child to Bring Back
Husband, She Tells
Police.

Police.
The lone fight 13-vear-Old Mrs.
Dorothy Marsh had waged for FIVE
months 70 recapture the love Of her
estranged husband led her Yesterday
into q needless crime and today into
CITY Prison, charged with kid
naping
Believing she could WOO her mate
successfully with child 10 take the
place Of the one that had been
denied her. she Yielded 10 an i'm
pulsive whim and Yesterday stole a
four -day-old boy from its mothers
arms
Mrs Marsh went IN the home Of
Mrs Grace Robbins, PAT Lexington
av. Yesterday. took 4-day-Oid VIII
liam Joseph from the arms Of the
invalid mother. fled with him to a
waiting taxi and disappeared.
Find Sleeping Powders
Four hours later police found her
m he'd with the child AT 842
Fletchcr-av. with nothing 10 feed it
and apparently no immediate plans.
She insisted that the baby was her
own. born that day. and gave the
name nj the physician she said at
tended her He was called. denied
knowing her. and police called her
lsndladv. MIS- Mary Gov. Mrs. Coy
and several other roopers there
lolned Mrs Marsh in insisting the
child was her own. born that day,
and told Of the weeks Of pregnancy
which Mrs. Coy said she could not
have mistaken.
Mrs Gov said Mrs Marsh had,
short while before. walked I'M
certainly ND stairs from the base
ment Of the house and announced
she had Just then had her baby
down there.
Searching the room police found
quantity of sleeping powders and a
pad They took her to City Hos
pital and after an examination
there she readily admitted the baby
was not her own She admitted
she had taken the sleeping powders
in overdoses to produce in her the
physical symptoms of pregnancy
and had used the pad to produce
the visible symptoms
Sought to Win Back Mate
After an examination Of the child.
Detective Harry Conner returned
him to the small. huddled and be
wildered family group at the
r.t.t-,,-- 1870 o,I To,J hin, l,o ~ ~
the arms of his mother. The five
other children. all girls, knelt at the
side Of their mothers bed and the
father. Joseph Robbins. an FERA
worker. looked on mutely.
Mrs Marsh. meanwhile told pO-
lice she conceived the deception as
means or reCOnCiline her nus
band. now an invaded accident
victim in a Plymouth hospital. Her
husband Porter Marsh. a garage
mechanic she married July 10, lived
with her until July 81. when they
became estranged. She said she
was pregnant at the time Of The
marriage. but that her child was
prematurelv delivered dead
Mr. Marsh filed a suit for divorce
Oct I in Room FIVE. Superior Court
charging cruel and inhuman treat
ment. and alleging Mrs. Marsh mad
not IN fact been pregnant at the
time Of the marriage. That suit
is pending. Richard Smith is Mr..
MarSh's attorney
Seizes Baby, Dashes Out
Mrs Marsh had come to the Rob-
bins home first on Wednesday at
noon and remained until t. Mrs.
Robbins told police Mrs. Marsh
represented herself as being an in
vestigator for the Roman Church. -
She said. Mrs. Robbins related. that
she was inspecting the belongings
OF the family in an effort to de-
termine what gifts for Christmas
wouls be suitable and whether the
family was. in fact. in need.
She returned the next day. pre-
sen-ed the mother with a sack con-
tanning two dresses for the girls and
filled IN Al the bottom with useless
rags. and stayed there while
Then. without word of warning
she picked I'D the baby from me
arms Of its mother and dashed 70
the door. INTO the cab and away il
was related by Mrs Robbins. Later
the driver of the cab told police she
had driven aimleSslv around for =
while and then into an alley N the
vicinity Of her home. where she
dlSembsrked.
Charged With kidnapping
Mrs. Marsh told police. they said.
that she had not premeditated the
kidnapping. but had been seized with
a sudden impulse 10 take it and
acted on It. She said she had IN
fact gone to the home first to see If
the family needed relief and that
she was acting for a Mrs. Hamn-
ton
Mrs. Marsh today said she had.
several weeks before answered
an advertisement for some one to
adopt a baby expected in January.
but had found so persons had ap-
Piled for the child before her.
She was charged with kidnap-
ing and held under $4,000 bond
which she could not supply.
She slept last night the matron
said but this morning appeared
nervous and continually wiped tears
from her eyes. She said she never
had been In trouble before. and re-
peated she had been seized with a
sudden impulse.
Asked 10 smile for press photo
Mrs Marsh replied Not this
morning. I feel more Ike CRYING ="
She was 10 be arraigned before
Municipal Judge Dewey Myers on
the charge Of kidnapping today.