St. Louis County MO Archives News.....An Infant Deposited May 20, 1847
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Hannibal Journal May 20, 1847
An Infant Deposited. -- Yesterday morning, when the servant of Wm. Glasgow, on 
Fourth Street, opened the front door of his residence, he found two bundles 
deposited in the recess.  Supposing them to belong to some street walker, he 
gave the first a kick, which sent it into the street; and in the act of 
serving the other in the same way, he discovered that it contained an infant.  
On taking the child up, it was found to be a beautiful little girl, a few 
hours old, with black hair and blue eyes, rather neatly clad.  The bundle 
kicked into the street, contained a quantity of clothing, from the marks on 
some of which, it is probable, the cruel mother may yet be detected.  At the 
time the infant was found, it is supposed that it was laboring under the 
influence of some drug.  It has been placed under the care of the nurse, and 
will be properly attended to, whilst no effort will be left untried to find 
out the parent who so unnaturally abandoned it.
Mo. Repub.

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