A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31314 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 8 1912 Article Description: Abandoned Baby Page 12 Article Text: Washington Post April 8, 1912 Abandoned Baby Page 12 FINDS AN ABANDONED BABY. Policeman Takes Two-Day-Old Waif to Hospital, Where It Dies. While wheeling along Sherman avenue near Garfield Hospital about 7 o'clock yesterday morning, Policeman W. M. ROUT, of No. 10 precinct, was led by faint cries to investigate an odd-looking bundle on the coping above the stone wall surrounding the institution on the Sherman avenue side. Wrapped in a sheet and an old calico skirt was a male infant about 2 days old. The abandoned baby was taken to the Washington Foundling Asylum, where it died last night about 7 o'clock. Detective George WEBBER, of No. 10 precinct, was detailed on the case in an effort to find the mother of the child. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com