Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-16
MURDER WILL OUT.
A OolOred Woman Arrested as
the HeartleSS Mother Of the
Baby Found Frozen.
circumstances Point Pretty
Sharply at Her as the
Guilty One.
Others Suspected of Taking a Part
ia the Cruel Act.

The readers of The BEE will re.
member the fact that q few days ago
the body of a new born babe was
found frozen in the basenent Of an
unfinished and unocoupied building at
the coraer Of Broadway and Union
venue The babe wal apparently q
healthy, we'll developed child, and
evidently came to Its death by being
placed there o after birth by some
heartless person, and left there to
freeze to death. Since then Coroner
Faul and ex. Constable Rosecrans have
been working mp the case with some
diligence, and yesterday, as a result
OF the information they had gathered,
a young colored woman, giving
her name was Georgia Anna Wash.
ington, was arrested, charged with
the murder of the little innocent as
her own offspring. The evidence &C
cumulated against her is the fact that
she came here from Kansas City q
short time ago, and on a Whit to
another colored family named Green.
She was accompanied by her mother
and a sister, and all three stopped at
Green's, they being related to him,
their mother being his sister and the
girls therefore his nieces. The young
woman's condition wal such as
to attract the notice of the neighbors,
the coming event casting its shsd W
before, Ono night last week there
was a colored dance which was at.
tended by the Green family, but this
woman, her mother and sister, are
said to have remained at home most
of the evening, and 1t Is avowed that
this was the time when the child Was
born. 1t is surmised that either the
mother or the sister, or both, helped
in the disposal of the infant. The
sister has already left the city and
gone to Forest City, Nc. The
mother of the two girls still remained
here Until yesterday, when she,
with the n now under
arrest went to the depot to take the
train for Kansas City. just before
the train started both women we're
taken into custody.
The young woman who Ia said to
have given birth to the child had little
to say about the affair. She lie a
q%uadroon, quite dilapidated in per.
sonal appearance and apparel, and
having evidently more animal i'm.
pulses than intelligence. She claimed
to know nothing about the matter and
threatened to make II hot for the
Ulcers who arrested her. Her mother
claimed to have been away from tho
house tor two or three hours On the
night in question and not to know
SnYthlng about the affair.
Abound the body of the baby was
found = piece Of Q comfortable and a
woman's sack. 1t Is said that wit
nesses have been found able to identify
the sack as m which was worn by
the accused, and the comfortable as
being M that had been used in the
house. A portion of the same bed
covering vas also found o short dis.
tahcs from the house.
As a further fact pointing to the
Washington woman as the guilty one,
an examination wss made yesterday
by a physician, who discovered evil
dences that pointed to the pame state
of affairs.
The woman was brought bsfore
Judge Aylesworth yesterday on infor.
nation being filed charging her with
murder. Sae not being able to hire
an attorney the court, at her request,
appointed w. II. Ware to look after
her interests. Bail was fixed at so, 600,
which she was of course unable to fur.
nish, and she was taken back to Jail,
the examination being being postponed
until next Saturday.
At the time of the inquest DR.. En-.
onds, who viewedthe body, gave 1t as his
that it was a white child, but in view
of the evidence now disclosed the
the body was taken up yesterday and
and subjected to a careful pos
norton by DIR. Macrea, who pro
nounoed it a colored babe surely, ant
that it breathed and lived some time
after birth. No special marks of vic,
lence were discovered, however.
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