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Find Mother1^ Of Twins In MishawakaTell* Reporter* She Doesn't Want Blue-Eyed Babies9SOUTH BEND, Hu*., March 16.(UP) — Mrs. Margie Anderson Johnson, 39-year-oid widow who abandoned twin girls a day after she gave birth-to them, said toduy she didn't even know she was pregnant.“I tell you/' Mrs. Johnson said. “It wit5 a shock when I woke up imd found I had twins.1’The bare-footed woman talkeri freely to reporters who found her In a one-room apartment, where j she had been “keeping house to athethefor'wirtheWiGthejHeMatwonrocJhanCQU!COIYtheclefoveEmotrucking company -employc.”T h e three-day-old blue-eyedtwins were in St. Joseph hospital at Mishawaka, where their mother left them Tuesday without even seeing them. Scores of childless couples, including a former South Bend man from Clinton, io., wanted to adept them.'No Interest’Mrs. Johnson said she had absolutely no interest” in the future of the un-nmned babies.■.'How could I take care of them?” she asked.The twins were born after Mrs. Johnson fainted In a Mishawaka restaurant and was taken to St. Joseph hospital. *“Everything was a blank between the time I fainted in the restaurant and woke up in the hospital,’ she said. “Nobody was more surprised tjan me when they told me I had twins.”She said the twins were the sixth and seventh children she had borne, but only one other was alive.All the;rest died at birth she said.Father killed Mr*. Johnson emphasized the twins' father was not the man she is keeping' house for now.'The twins don’t belong to him, she said. “My dead husband was the father.” ' She said her late husband was Euel Johnson, killed Dec.19, 1949, in an auto accident In Herrin, III.Mis. Johnson said she was born In Hancock county, Kenlucky, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oney Anderson, sttll lived In Dawson Springs, Ky.Meanwhile. Mishawaka Police Idet. Lester E. Brower said the police had lost interest in the case and did not intend to prosecute.Wllmcr Tolle, st. Joseph county welfare department director, sakl his organization was going ahekd with plans to secure the future of the twins by putting them DUt for u d option. 1yoi:\tin:motolurSOIto]thirmanIhbypewlbefaJewlhitxccingt
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1950
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