I’m a sucker for babies — and baby stories. This one ran inside the Tribune’s local news section in 1968. Two residents of a Minneapolis duplex heard whimpering one night and found an infant abandoned in the entryway. They alerted police, who took the boy to a hospital. He was later adopted by a rural Minnesota family and took the name Thomas Moede.

As an adult, Moede obtained his slim adoption file and found a clipping of the story below. In August 2005, he found the man who had found him on that chilly October night 37 years ago. Star Tribune reporter Kay Miller captured Moede’s story beautifully in an article published in November 2005. Maybe someday he’ll find his birth mother.

Baby Left in Entryway
of Minneapolis Home

An apparently newborn baby was listed in serious condition at General Hospital Wednesday night after being found abandoned in the entryway of a south Minneapolis duplex.

The baby was taken to the hospital by Minneapolis police who were called by Mrs. Gus Pohl, 23, and Clayton Houff, 22, who live in the two apartments at 3021 18th Av. S.

Wasn’t he a cutie?

Mrs. Pohl said she heard a “funny noise” outside her front door about 9:15 p.m. yesterday and “thought it might be a cat or dog whimpering.”

She called Houff in the upstairs apartment and he turned on a hall light and came downstairs. Mrs. Pohl came out and they found the baby, wrapped in a pair of oversized pajamas, just inside the screen door.

Mrs. Pohl said she had “no idea” how long the baby had been lying in the hall because no one had left the house since 6 p.m. The baby was found about 10 p.m.

She took him in the house and wrapped him in a blanket. She said she found no note.

Mrs. Pohl said the front door to the duplex had been open and it was “pretty cold out there,” but the baby was “apparently very healthy” because it “kept squirming around and making noises.”

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