Childless Hickory Couple Resolve to Adopt Infant Left at Their Door, July 29, 1923

Leaves Baby to Brighten Family. . . Hickory Man and Woman Adopt Child Left at Their Home by Strangers

By the Associated Press

Hickory, N.C., July 28—“I am leaving a daughter here three weeks old; take good care of her,” said a note found with an infant by Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hoyle at 3:30 o’clock in the morning at their home two miles north of town.

A suitcase containing handsome dresses and underwear, a can of milk, bottles, nipples and instructions for feeding, was nearby. Mr. Hoyle, who is an automobile mechanic and childless, said that he and his wife desired to adopt the child.

Adrian J. Rink, a brother-in-law of the Hoyles and also childless, said he heard a large automobile at his home a mile away half an hour earlier but that his dogs apparently frightened the visitors away. He found tracks of a man and a woman, he said. That apparently is the only clue to the persons who left the infant at the Hoyle home.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, July 29, 1923