Decatur County Journal
October 22, l896

G.W. JOHNSON, who lives on the JERRY LANDES farm a mile east of town,
upon returning from the political speaking held here last Friday night,
was startled to find an infant one month old in a tomato box, lying upon
the door step of his residence. Some marks upon the box had been
erased, and the thin cloth in which the child was wrapped, bore nothing
which, would reveal the identity of the infant's parents, nor the
heartless wretch who placed it there.

Toward ten o'clock, MRS. JOHNSON and her children heard somebody drive
past their residence, but they did not, however, hear the footsteps of
the person who brought the child, nevertheless, ample proof has been
discovered that the man who drove up to the residence deposited the
child on the door step and drove northward. The tracks of the horse and
buggy were very distinct and the following morning MR. JOHNSON followed
them expecting to obtain some clue whereby he might find disposition for
his young guest. His search, however, so far as could be learned,
proved unsuccessful.

MR. JOHNSON moved on to the JERRY LANDES farm last spring from Penwick,
Ia. He has a large family, is in comfortable circumstances and it is
possibly for these reasons that the parents of the child concluded that
in the JOHNSON family their offspring would receive the best care. Had
the child remained outside through the bitter, cold night, as it surely
would have done if MR. JOHNSON had not happened to have noticed it when
returning home, its life would have perished.
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