Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-08
THE CHILD WAS CH0KED,
But the Question with the Coroner
is, Who Did 1t?


The inquest Of Coroner Halves upor
the body Of the infant found in vault in
the lower end of town and described in
last evenings ANGUS, was completed this
morning. The jury was composed of NJ
Il Sweeney Martin Prick, Q Hodgson
John Brennan, w Fl ladders and 5 X
Wright. States Attorney Entrkin was
present. The evidence of DR.. ). &.
Plummer, Jr,, shows that the child was
deliberately strangled to death. 1t was a
clear case of infanticlde, but as to who
did the deed, the corOncrs jury is not
prepared to say. The testimony tells the
whole story of the case, and is appended
Charles Raisch testified to being
twenty-five years of age, his occupation
a gardner, residing in South Rock Island
About week ago witness brothers WIFE
Mrs. William G. Raisch, tod witness she
had heard that Augusta Rosenberg had
been delivered of child, and that she
| augusta Rosenberg had thrown 1t into
a privy vault on the premises, No. 3l6
Fifth street, Rock Island; witness sister.
in-law lived at 1922 Fifth street. Witness
brother, William G.. Raisch and witness,
made an examination of the vault on
Monday and found nothing. On Tuesday,
shortly after noon, another examination
was commenced, and about 2 p. m. the
body of the infant was found in the north
end of the vault, covered with about six
inches of ashes and about two or three
inches of ice on top of that. Witness
then testified to getting the bundle away |
from where it lay about foot, finding it |
to be the body of an infant wrapped in
blue calico dress. Unwrapped the cov>
ering sufficiently to see one foot, and left |
it there and reported to the police Las
ter, in the presence of the jury, the body
was taken out of the vault, the covering
removed and the body was removed by
the coroner to G. b. Knox's undertaking
establishment. Witness did not know
Augusta Rosenberg.
William G. Raisch testified to being
thirty four years of age, "a railroad man,
siding at 1929 Fifth street, brother of
the last witness and corroboratcd the tess
timony of the preceding witness. Had
seen Augusta Rosenberg number of
times last November or December, when
she worked for Aid. Schafer. Thought
she quit there the latter part of Novem-
Der or first of December and then went
to work for Geo. Taylors family at 800
Fifth street, where she remained about {
two months. Saw her at Taylors the
latter part of January. Did not notice
her condition, but heard rumOrs that she !
lad been delivered of a child and that I
GUIDED therefore to examine the \
vault and did SO with his brother i
with the results given above '
It was rumored that the father of the y
child WAS II car driver on the Moline and t
Rock Island horse railroad, driving car Y
No. 2. Witness did not know drivers Y
lame, and never saw him around Tay, e
or's il
Elizabeth Fowler swore to beng a
wenty nine years of age and residing at O
I1S Fifth street, THE city; wife of David a
Fowler Knew the girl named Augusta
living at Taylor's, who live in the second q
tory of the same house with witness b
Along in December heard that Augusta "
lad been delivered of child, and had |,
brown it into privy vault. About the t.
irst week in December at 5 o'clock one Il
morning, discovered blood on the floor of
he privy. After daylight witness saw
augusta coming from the privy with
room and a bucket She had been h
in the clubhouse. In company
With Mrs. Burton, witness examined the =
Ioor and discovered blood in the cracks -
# the floor, which Augusta had failed to n
eect in scrubbing. Il
Mrs. Matte Taylor, aged twenty-four, t
nd wife of George Taylor, residing at -
l6 Fifth street, testified to Augusta h
living at her house from $
uly-but she did not appear in family X
way at that time-until the second week :,
n December; during the latter part of
he period, however, Augusta remained l
With witness only at night, working at c
Nd. Schafer's house in the meantime. :,
Witness had been informed that Augusta h
vas in family way, but had never seen p
nything in her condition to indicate that Il
he had been delivered. Had spoken to =, =,
augusta about the rumOTs, but she had !,
enied everything. Witness said Chris o
rasmussen was her brother, and he visited 81
er house occasionally during Augustus
tay there. n
Daniel Fowler, a glass gathereT, aged e,
orty, gave testimony of an unimportant Al
ature.
Office W. y Ladders swore to arresting
augusta Rosenberg yesterday morning
n state warrant, charging her with con-
ealing the death of an illegitimaLe child %
'ound her at Mrs. Taylor's. Augusta NJ
onfessed to witness she had been in a a.
lmIly way last December, but she de- m
lined to answer what had become of her q,
hid. II
Aid. II. c. Schafer, superintendent of a,
he Rock Island Glass Works testified to n,
.ugusta Rosenberg's being at his house a
, work some time in June, and was from q,
II appearances in the family way and at NJ
no end of two mouths her condition had ~