Mothers Sought
In State Inquiry
Into Baby Farm

    Chicago, Jan. 29 (AP).--Assistant Attorney General A. T. Washburne, of Michigan, tonight sought out mothers who had patronized the Beulah Maternity Home and Farm as a half-dozen agencies attempted to dissolve some of the mystery surrounding its operation.
    Washburne, who came to Chicago after a search of the "baby farm" conducted by Edward L. Brooks, at Beulah, Mich., had uncovered a cemetery where two infants were informally buried, was furnished a list of patients by Miss Edna Zimmerman of the Illinois Department of Public Welfare.
    Assistant State's Attorney Charles Daugherty ordered all records of the institutions impounded shortly after they had been found in the huge home Brooks had operated here for several years.
    The records contained the case histories of the hundreds of mothers, many of them unwed, who had been treated at the North Clark Street Hospital. Prominent citizens once supported the 40-year-old institution.
    Walker Wynekoop, son of Dr. Alice Wynekoop, who was imprisoned for the slaying of her daughter-in-law, was among the curious who gathered in front of the home. Brooks has been quoted as saying that Dr. Wynekoop had sent him several young women patients.

Source:

Unknown, "Mothers Sought In State Inquiry Into Baby Farm," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, 30 January, 1935, p. 3.