Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-20
FOR CHILD MURDER.
A Girl Nineteen Years Of Age Placed
in the Jail for the Crime.
SHE MAKES A FULL CONFESSION.
The Infants Body Found Under q Fence
Gate in Allegheny.
SrRANGLED TO DEATH BY THE MOTHER

Miss Agnes Taukert, . German girl of
Allegheny, 10 years old, is under commit
ment in the county Jail, charged with in
fsnticide. She has confessed the crime.
Yesterday morning police officer tele-
phoned to the Allegheny City Hall that
some children had found dead baby under
a fence near the Eleventh ward schoolhouse.
Detective Glenn was sent at once to the
place, and by splendid detective work, sue
ceeded, in very short time, in discovering
the murderer of the infant. He found that
strip of flannel, about yard long, had
been tied around the baby's neck and had
been twisted tight and tied. In front of the
throat safety pin had been thrust into the
strip of flannel, the snarp end of the pin
piercing the infants throat nearly half an inch.
A great crowd of women surrounded the place.
ga zing with curious horror upon the body OF
the murdered infant. In this crowd Mr. Glenn
began his quiet inquiries, and the body
was removed to Herman & Ebbert's under
taking office
GLENN's QUICK WORK.
Mr.. Glenn pursued his investigations through
the families of the neIghborhood, and within
an hour the detective had decided that Miss
Taukert was the young woman whom he
wanted. When he called at her fathers house,
on Schimmer street, between Shady avenue
and the New Brighton road, about noon, he
was told that she had left home at II o'clock.
The parents are poor Germans. Mr.. Glenn
on the New Brighton road, near the place
where the dead body was found, at about
O'Clock Tuesday evening. She was carrying
basket in her arm.
There isa spring in the hillside near where
the infant was discovered. The clear water,
issuing from a pipe, falls into large cask
sunk in the ground. Detective Glenn believes
that the girl intended to throw the body into
this cask. To reach it she must pass through
gate in close board fence. This gate was
locked and the body was simply thrust through
under the gate. Every woman in that neigh
borhood, except one, hurried to the scene after
the corpse was discovered. The exception was
found to be Miss Taukert, and she had left
home soon after the excitement in that COM
munity became general. Detective Glenn was
convinced.
FOUND AT HER SISTERS.
He learned that the young woman had a
married sister living on the hill near the top of
Thirty-third street, Pittsburg. He Immediately
went to that house, and there found Miss
Taklcert. She is small, comely young woman,
Of robust but not heavy build. She stoutly de-
MED at first all knowledge of crime, but she
was taken to the Allegheny lookup. There De-
tective Glenn had a long talk with her. He
put before her the many links in the chain of
clrcumstant1al evidence Wnlcn ne MAD 1orceo.
She at last broke down, and amid tears and
moans confessed her crime. She declared that
she had been driven almost wild with her
trouble and that when she killed the baby she
did not know what she was doing. She gave to
the detective the name of the young man who
was the cause of her trouble He lives in Allie
gheny, not quarter of mile from the City
Hall.
The dead body was examined by two physi-
clans. who said that it had been ch0ked to
death. It is the body Of pretty well deVel-
oped girl! The body was seen by the Coroner,
who will hold an inquest to-day. The Coroner
made out commitment for the young woman,
to await hearing for murder, and the prisoner
was conveyed to the County jail in carriage,
about o'clock last night. She cried piteously
during the journey At the jail she was at
tended by DR.. Chessrown, whose testimony be-
fore the Coroner will only corroborate the con-
fession made by the young woman.