Mother Held for Trial for Abandoning Newborn in a Sack in the Road, March 14, 1925

Alleged Mother Held for Concealing Birth. . . Gladys Trogden Held for Trial in Randolph Superior Court—Still Searching for Man

Greensboro, March 13—Gladys Trogdon, alleged mother of a child now here in the North Carolina Children’s Receiving Home was today ordered held for trial in Randolph county superior court, following heading before Magistrate J.S. Ridge at Asheboro, charged with concealing the birth of a child.

The baby, naked, in a tow sack, was found on the Greensboro-Randleman road, nine miles from here, by a mail carrier, Scott Hodgin, of this city, about a month ago. Sheriff D.B. Stafford of Guilford county, who, with his deputies, investigated to find the identity of the mother, was a witness in the proceedings at Asheboro.

An effort was made to capture a young man whose description has been in the hands of the offices but so far that has been unsuccessful.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 14, 1925. The alleged mother’s last name was spelled “Trogden” in the headline and “Trogdon” in the article. A tow sack or gunnysack is a large sack made of burlap or another coarse heavy fabric.

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