Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-29
A BIRTH AND DEATH.
Is the Baby Dead or Alive Pho
End of Trouble.
THE MOTHER DEAD, THE CHILD
WITHOUT PARENTS.
Attending Physician Exonerated.-The
Facts IN the Case.

A'hoHS otiieI tiiit4S tue pFeSeiit
grand jury has been Investigating is
tile death of Miss Annette Moore, of
South Mexico, which occurred last
week AS far as We can learn the
grand jury will he able TO tind no
biil unless they find that the baby is
non est. It. appears that Oh Jan. 81
DR.. McFall was called to See Miss
Annette Moore about IL a. m and
found she had labor pains. Patient
SAID she did not think time was up
for two weeks yet aud wanted the
pains stopped if possible; that she
had made arrangements to 60 away
in two OF three days to remain with
a se, who WAS to take care of her
during her confinement. Her mother
had been giving her fifteen drop
dnses of l:luianum previous to call to
stop the pam, and when this failed to
arrest the pains a physician was sent
for. The physician left medicine
and thought the pains were SO light
that she would he all right About one
hour later he was summoned to call
again and on returning found baby
born all right. He left the baby well
and hearty. sucking a piece of fat
meat and the mother doing we'll. At
night he was sent for again and on
arriving was surprised to find Mis-
Moore dead. Her mother said she
died from kind of suffocation and
hal been subject to heart disease for
more than ten ye'rs and she thought
that she died from this disease.
brought on by her trouble.
Doctor McFall was called before
the grand jury and we suppose made
he statement as above, which fully
vintllcales him.
The question now appears to be,
where is the child? Mrs. Moore,
mother of the unfortunate young
lady, says that her daughter and the
father of the child (whose name she
gave to the dnctor) expected to leave
for st. Louis this week and Stay till
The baby was born and that then They
were 10 he married. Fate was against
them. The mother is dead, the father
is i'll dire trouble. The baby is, as
we are informed, being taken care of
hy a coiorrd woman employed by the
father. The report that the father
left, we are informed. is a mistrke
lie is still IN Mexico and is really and
willing to do ali he can to make up for
his wrong. The report of an abor-
to- is all untrue. The report that
the baby WAS taken away and ,lispo, sell
of is also false. The grand iur,
could not even fad where any mcdr-
cine TO produce such Il result hatt
been bought, and we know all CON
cerncsl, even if SD disposed, have too
much sense to kill a baby and lay
themselves liablc to an indictment fo,
murder. The case has caused great
excitement in Mexico and the above
is the result of our investigations a>
far as We feel called upon to give
them at this time
LArER-wHAT MRS. MOORE SAYS.
Yesterday noon a reporter of the
LEDGER called on Ms. David Moore,
mother of Miss Annette Moore. and
cleaned the following facts in regard
to the case. As our readers will see
she says, the child was born dead.
while the doctor says he left it we'll
and hearty. Her statement is as fol-
lows:
1uSSuuf- udAudi ~, d'Out booH
Miss Neltie was out in the back
yard saving few sticks of wool.
After she hal finished saving wood
and while in the acl of turning around
To set the saw down against the plat
form, her foot slipped and size fell
down, her side striking against the
corner of the platform. She had
plates on The heels of her shoes which
uiatie them extremely slippery. One
of the boards was broken off of the
corner where her side struck and it
was sely sharp. Her mnlher saw
her immediately after size fell and
asked her what was the matter thai