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Ths Infant's own mother wttlhave custody of ltttla Dorla Marla, Big Spring's miracle-baby, Judga Cecil Colling* ruled last night in a district court hearing.Mrs. Margaret White, who two weeks earlier had signed a state* ment claiming motherhood of the foundling baby, was handed the lusty baby girl in the district court room after the Judge had granted her a writ of habeas corpus againstthe Big Spring hospital, which had cared for the infant since its discovery.It was the first time she had seenthe hardy child aince she hastily stowed it in a weathered pasteboard box and stuffed It between the branches of a cedar tree inBirdwell pasture March 9.According to Mrs. Whits’s statement, signed sometime ago beforeseveral peace officer*, eh* gave birth to the baby, unattended, a few feet from where It was found a few minutes before It was discovered. She claimed to have left her baby there while seeking aid of relatives to give it care.The hearing was in sharp contrast to the courtroom scene a week earlier when the case was first set On that occasion, ths room was crowded with a morbid throng who came to see the mother and child. vjjtfLast night the bearing was held in near-secrecy, with only a handful of people presentBy summon* of the court, Miss Doris Nugent, Big Spring hospitalsuperintendent, appeared at thehearing with the child.Acting Police Chief J. B- Bruton sketched details of ths child's discovery by a woman living near the scene and its subsequent delivery by Policeman E. B. Bethel to the hospital.Only other witnesses were Mrs. Whits, who told details of tha birth and hiding the child in the cedar clump, and two brothers, Henry and Ernest Moser, who supported their eleter’e application forthe baby's custody and her ability to take car* of It.There was no opposition voiced to the mother's requests, and JudgaCoiling# ruled that he could show no legal cause why she might b* restrained from having the child.
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1942
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