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Description: Abandoned Baby Page 12
Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
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.