Gastonia, Sept. 10—Lying on a chair in the inner office of the police station was a tiny atom of humanity, not more than six weeks old, sleeping contentedly, notwithstanding the fact that it was the hero of a rather tragic experience.
Bill McAvers, of the Torrence-Morris Company, found the mite in his car, which was parked on Marietta street beside the Raylass chain store, when he started to lunch Thursday. A bundle of clothing wrapped in a newspaper gave no clue to its identity.
The baby was taken to the police station and laid on a cushion in the chief’s own chair looking pathetically frail and helpless in such incongruous surroundings. Now and then it stretched its tiny limbs and blinked sleepily at the puzzled, pitying faces above it, but the mystery of who its parents are and whether it was willfully abandoned or hastily placed in the car by mistake remains unsolved.
The tiny hostage of fortune was turned over to the welfare department and placed by Mrs. Keller und the care of the nurses at the Gaston Sanatorium. The baby is well nourished and appears to have been well cared for. Its clothing was plain but near the clean.
It was at first thought the infant had been left in the car by mistake, but after the lapse of an hour no one had called for the baby, or had made inquiry at the police station, the officers decided that it had been willfully deserted.
From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 11, 1926
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