Newborn Found Abandoned in Shoebox, Dec. 21, 1920

A dispatch from Greensboro says that the lifeless body of a new-born babe, wrapped in no clothes at all and lying in a shoebox, was found about 121 o’clock yesterday in the ladies’ rest room on the second floor of Gilmer Bros. Store, on south Elm street. It was discovered by three employees at the store when they entered the room to eat their lunch. They immediately notified W.T. Herrin, manager of the store, who in turn notified police officers, and the body was turned over to a local undertaker. The shoebox was tied with a cotton string, according to Manager Herrin, and was lying beside a cot in the rest room. When the box was opened it was discovered the putrifaction had set in; and it was therefore impossible to tell whether the child had ever breathed or not. It had apparently been dead three or four days, according to physicians who saw the body, and indications were that no attention whatever had ever been given it since it came into the world. The body was fully developed. (From The Monroe Journal, Dec. 21, 1920)