The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-11
Abducted
 Baby Found

Baby Found
 Detroit, Oct. ii.-tUp)-Polieo recovered unharmed early today four. T.months.old Robert James King, missing for four days, and arrested c light-eolored Negroes who had posed aS . white nurSe- maid, and whom they said, at. tempted to claim the child as her own.
 Recovery of the child and tho ar- rest of Mrs. Eugene smith, wife Of a Negro pharmacist, followed inVoS- tlsation of tip furnished through q Detroit newspaper tThe Times) by a nelghbor Of the Smiths, police said. The newspaper had offered . ei,oo0 reward for recovery of the child.
 Police said that Smith told them ho had been suspicious Of the blue. eyed child which his wife brought to their home and claimed had been born to her in Q Chicago hoS- pitG.
 FlngerprlntS taken at the King honS match those of Mrs. Smith, police said
 The ehlld'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F King, identified the baty aS theirs and said Mrs, Smith waG tho woman who came to their home in answer to . newspaper advertisement for c maid and told them her name was Helen Rosn1An.
 The nursemaid, whom the par- entS believed was white, told them Ahe was trying to earn money to study child psychology At the Uni. versity of Michigan.
 Mrs. Smith, throughout long questioning by police, continued to claim the child was her own.
 Police said the baby, when found, had been covered by c substance to darken its skin, but the diseoloras tion was easily washed on.
 Ohief of Detectives Paul Weneel declined to make any formal statement concerning the case pending completion Of the ques. tioning.
 Fantastic story
 Detectives who participated In developments beginning with Mrs, Smiths arrest last night said her fantastic story revealed that she hat plotted carefully to steal c child and convince her husband that it was their own.
 Mrs. Smith, they said, had told her husband last January that she was pregnant and subsequently pre-. tended to visit . physician,
 Tn June, sho told her husband sho was going to Chicago to visit friends and left Detroit Several weeks later she wrote that their child had been born prematurely at wesley Memorial hospital, Chi. cago.
 Returning to Detroit without the baby this summer, she told her hus. band that she had left the baby in Chicago with relatives because of the infantlle paralysis epidemic in Detroit She subsequently, made several trips to Chicago, telling her husband she was going to visit the baby.
 Late in September, police said, she answered an advertisement for a nursemaid placed in Q newspaper by the Kings, who employed her.
 T love children and love to watch them grow," she told tho parents.
 A week later, Sept. 30, the Kings left their baby in her care while they went to c theateE.
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 When Shty returned baby and Maid were gone.
 Search for the baby was instltut. cd throughout the midwest and eastern states, and rewards total ing oI.B00 were posted by the De. troit times and Wayne County '(Detroit) authorities.
 Numerous clues were picked up but all proved false until the tip wRs received by authorities late yesterday that the baby was in the Smith home.
 A special investigation squad eS- corted King to the Smiths home, where ct first he doubted that the baby with the darkened skin was his and was hesitant in identifying Mrs, Smith as the nurseInaid.
 During the night, however, the child was washed and both par cnts were called to police headquar. ters to examine 1t. Both of them identified the baby as their son, and Mrs. Smith as the womanthey knew as Helen Roseman.
 "The baby Is mire," police quoted Mrs. Smith as insisting. "It's e col- ored child-if l was going to take Q baby don't you think I'd take Q colored child7"
 While the questioning continued behind close doors at headquarters, the Kings emerged from another roo mno their way home and met reporters in the hallway.
 The father, grinning, was tickling the chin of the laughing baby he held in his arm. Mrs. King, look Eng weary, clung to her husband. kne :.anaged a smile and dabbed he' eyes MssssHi . handkerchief.
 Were so. SO happy" she said.
 "Of course the baby is our Rob- ert." Hing said. we've always thought we'd get him back, and it certainly is a relief to have 1t all over W1th,u