“Child Desertion : A Newborn Babe Found at the
Door of the Home of the Friendless”
Hamilton
Weekly Times February 25, 1884.
“The
weather Friday was anything but pleasant for young or old, and the man or woman
who would expose a new born infant to such a storm is certainly devoid of
humanity. But such an outrage occurred. A boy baby, a few hours old, was
forsaken by its cruel mother, and laid on the steps of the Home of the
Friendless, corner of Duke and Caroline streets. A man who said he was passing
and heard the infant cry summoned the matron of the institution who took charge
of the waif. The child was in a small basket, wrapped up in a shawl. The
incident was communicated to the police, who are looking for the heartless
mother.”
