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i«.amps and Bonds♦*IMother Awarded InfantThe infante own mother will have custody of little “Doris Marie/1 Big Springe miracle-baby, Judge Cecil Codings ruled last night in a district court hearing.Mrs. Margaret White, who two weeks earlier had signed a statement. claiming motherhood of the foundling baby, was handed thelusty baby girl in the district court room after the judge had grantedher a writ of habeas corpus against the Big Spring hospital, which had cared for the infant since its discovery.It was the first time she had seenthe hardy child since she hastily ■towed it in a weathered pasteboard box and stuffed it between the branches of a cedar tret inBirdwell pasture March 9.According to Mrs. Whites statement, signed sometime ago before several peace officers, she gave fbirth to the baby, unattended, a few feet from where it was found a few minutes before it was dis- * covered. 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, the room was crowded with a morbid throng who came to see the mother and child.Last night the hearing was held in near-secrecy, with only a handful of people present.By summons of the court, Miss Doris Nugent, Big Spring hospitalsuperintendent, appeared at the hearing with the child.Acting Police Chief J. B. Bruton sketched details of the 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. White, who told details of the birth and hiding the child in the cedar clump, and two brothers, Henry and Ernest Moser, who supported their sister s application for the baby’s custody and her ability to take care of it.There was no opposition voiced to the mother s requests, and Judge Collings ruled that he could show no legal cause why she might be restrained from having the child.
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Big Spring Weekly Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1942
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