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IANA, THUR8DAT, Otr.ieyies-rtstnt.1.t-star•illso-leilli-lr.10.n\edil-anrc-ileim?sstorn-he es ess ;ct to he ire ic-sos lie ral blind ee-iso. the l ho 1st. her •; of ;ole riie ign Uul iise i*le for ofyllov•Ulo i inipro n lygai-es :•LITTLE JESSIE IS DEAD.The Brief Existence of An Illegitimate Babe.ITS TRIMBLE COUNTY PARENTS.NacaiFrom the Louisville Commercial.A brother weeping over the death slt; of his little sister’s illegitimate babe was the pathetic scene which was enacted at the Home of the Innocents last Thursday.On the night of September 2,.a carriage drove up before 918 west Madi- trson street and a young man laid a lit- hlt;•tie babe on the door step. Then the ln carriage drove oil. The child was found by Fannie Smith, who lives in the house. She took the child in.On the next day Basil Angell, the ^ father of the babe, came to the house and offered the Smith woman $f a to week if she would take care of the girl. Angell lives at Milton, Kentucky, where he is well connected.He ruined pretty seventeen-year old Mattie Clifton, of Spring Creek, Ky., hi and when the girl’s condition became critical they came to this city and took lodging down town. The child, ^ a girl, was born, and on his urging it was disposed of in the manner men- B tioned. They returned to their re- jj spective homes, he is to walk among his neighbors unconcerned, but thediwmthpoor girl to live down her shame in clretirement. The girl had been the a belle of the place. She had rare beau-ty, but was a simple country girl who tt was easily deceived. Love for her child ^ remained latent within her until she wfocould no longer bear her secret alone and confided in her brother a, The blow was a great one to her sii brother, and he was greatly pained to hear that the babe was forsaken in a w great city. He immediately packed up, and taking his disconsolate sister with him, arrived in the city and of went to tlie Smith woman’s place. Here it was found that the child had x, been taken to the Home of the Innocent the day after it had been left onfinthe doorstep. The wee babe was suf ^ fering fioin exposure and the colored jn woman was not able to take care of it ea properly. , ^Gently Sister Emily told them th:,t ni the babe had been christened “Jessie’’ °/ the day it had been received and in a few hours'had died of pneumonia. wo n |The scene was then one of mourn- w ing. Not only Mattie Clifton, but w her brother also, were heart-broken.The child had been buried in the ijcHome of the Innocents’ lot in Cave sh✓Hill, and there the two tearfully repaired, where a simple board marked Jessie, was discovered. The two returned heart-broken to Spring Creek. Clifton offered to pay the funeral ex peuses, a nominal sum, but Sister jy. Emily w uld not take it, holding that if anything was to be paid Basil Angell, the father of the child, should dt do so. wwClptbeinwRegistration.
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Madison Weekly Herald
Madison, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1892
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