The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-28
The LOCAL NEWS RECORD,
A DEAD BODY FOUND IN A WELL.
I'm Inquest Fails to Establish Its Ma
ternity-The Movement to Aid the
Peor-Death of Mrs. Bates
Court Notes, Etc.
Dreadful Deed

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as T. HI. Eastwood, boiler-maker, who
resides on Camp street, was returning
nome, he paused at an old well on va
cant lot between Camp street and Pat
terson avenue, adjoining Matthew'S
lumber yard, and gazed down into its
depths. His curiosity was rewarded by
the discovery of the corpse of an infant
on the surface of the water. Officers
Sheehan and Barber were notified of |
the fact, and succeeded in rescuiug the |
body. The following testimony, |
taken before coroner's jury, inn
paneled by Justice Schulz, is all
the information that was elicited:
Suspicious, however, as to the mother of
The babe and the perpetrator of the in
fanticide, are INDUCED. Opinions differ,
100, as to the color of the urchin. While
very straight, and physicians inform
us that Africans do not wear those Kind
of locks, no matter how young they
may be. The corpse was placed in the
hands of the city undertaken and was
decently inferred. The testimony is as
follows:
t. H. EASTWOOD.
Thomas Eastwood being sworn SAYS
Ny name is II. III. Eastwood, / live 3l9
FAINT in a well between Camp and Pat
terson avenue; the well is in a COM
mons; was going home and passing by
the well / looked in to see If there was
any water in il thought l saw an in
FAINT in it; passed on and went home,
my wife to whom / related the occurrence
said it would be well to go back and get
some other persons; went to Mr.. S. Il.
Roberts and asked him to go with me;
thought there was a body in the well
and he went; we looked at 1t; he said 81
believe it is an infant you had better go
notify the police;" | found y policeman
and took him over there-Policeman
Sheehan; when we got there he goi
some rope; during this time they got a
hoop and let it down under the body OF
the infant and drew it up; / am not
positive whether it is white or black
child; the hair looked like a white
child the skin that was on it looked
black; most all the Skin
was gone; saw no marks
of violence on it; it was new borr
child; my judgment would be that il
had been in there about two weeks; the
body was floating on the water; the
we'll is about fifteen feet deep; some
negro houses are nearest to the we'll; i
was male child | discovered tht
child about 3 o'clock; this was in tn,
city and county of Dallas and state o
Texas; the nearest house is about fifty
yards from the well, and is occupied 10y
negroes ! think.
A. BARBER.
A. Barber sworn, says: / am police
man; | went with Mr.. Eastwood to lool
into well on the commons between
Camp street and Patterson avenue;
found child in there about $50 O'Clock
January q, 1885; looked down the well
could not say what it was; got hooI
and rope and fished it out; it was mall
child, newly born; II had been in tn
water about three weeks, / think;
could not see any marks of violence eX
cept blood mark over the eye; thinl
it was wrapped up in som
except some person who is sick owe
there; she is a black woman; she live
in house just south of the well; sh
sent for me to get her husband to trea
her right; she said she had pneumonia
she had pain in the side and back; tn
reputation of the house is pretty bad;
think il is black child.
VERDICT OF JURY.
We, the Jury sworn and impanele
to enquire into the cause and manner
the death Of q male infant found in
well on the commons, between Can
street and Patterson avenue, find tn
we believe the child is black mai
newly born child, and came to its dea
by being thrown into said well by
person or persons, to the jury unknow
A thorough Investigation will
made, and due vigilance exercised
the detection of the perpetrators of I
crime. Several warrants Tor arrests al
capiases for witnesses have been issue
NJ. st. Paul, Paris physician, has
fered, the French Academy the sum
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