Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-08-12
Supposed child Murder.

We extract from the st. Ansgar
Gazette, OF last week, the following
particulars of u mysterious affair
which has created much excitement
In Michel county and Ii not yet
cleared up.
| The facts developed In reference to
the supposed murder of their child,
! by @. q. and Emma Harrington. are
aboat as follows: About two
months ago, the parties came to
Usage and engaged board for Mrs.
harrington, Mt Mrs. Hooper's. The
husband being engaged In teaching
at Shell Rock Falls, was with her
only on Saturdays and Sundays.--
About the lst of July she engaged
board with Mrs. Steb6ins, where, on
the Attn, u male child was born. DIR,
Chase was In attendance and, we un.
| derstand, prunounces IL a premature
| birth. The child weighed three
| pounds, and was invariably feeble
and cold. Mrs. Farrington's recoy.
cry was very slow, and she maintain
| ell that she dare not nurse the child
which was consequently fed by hand
On Thursday, the husband having
arrived-a few days previously, they
| prepared TO leave, hiring livery
team to take the wife to Orchard
station, upon a plea of giving the
wife ride in the open air, she being
weak and nervous. Harrington re-
| Turned to Usage with the team, ard
upon being asked how the child
stood the ride, replied: "Oh, very
well.n lie was too late to take the
afternoon train MS he intended, and
walked to Orchard that evening,
where he joined his wife at the house
of Mr.. Murry. A lady from Usage,
visiting at Mr.. Murry's noticing
some things that did not appear all
| right, reported them In Csage on her
| return 10y the 10, p. m., train. Par
ties from Usage proceeded to Orch
ard the same evening, aud finding
the parties without the child, de,
manded TO know what had become
of 1t. They stated that upon arriv.
ing near Orchard they discovered
that the child was dead, having been
smothered in the blankets that he
| took the child with him In the car
riage, while his wife walked To the
depot, as he was afraid he would be
late TO Usage for the train, and that
he had hidden IL in the woods. "A
warrant was procured, and In the
morning Constable Loomis arrested
| the parties. The husband conducted
him to the place where the child
was concealed where they found IL
beneath some rotten logs. They
were brought to Usage ON Friday,
and great excitement prevailed, the
whole affair being. of course, greatly
exaggerated. On Saturday, the jury
convened before Coroner Suy les
rendered verdict, finding that the
child "came to its death feloniously,
by suffocation, In the hands Of e. e.
Harrington, or by his placing II un-
der log" IL appeared upon the in-
| quest that the parties, instead of
/ going directly to Orchard, went thro'
| Watertowu. and reached the station
by way of Flint's Ford-they say by
mistake others think by design.
The parties are young people, OF
very respectable appearance, and
quiet, inoficnsive behavior. Mr..
Farrington's parents reside in Dela>
ware county; her father, Rev. A.
Gould, being a highly respected local
Methodist minister. Both have re.
ceived excellent bringing up. They
were married In March last, and the
situation i'm which they found them
selves, was, owing to their charac-
acters md anteeedents. TO them a
delicate and shameful one.