The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-11

Discovered.
The body of 8 mulatto male child was
found yesterday evening between and
o'clock in the rock quarry ON Kimb ball
avenue. near the gas house plant, by
John William Saunders and another
colored boy, each about ten or twelve
years old. The body was wrapped up
in o bundle and Saunders claims that he
believed he had found package OF
goods. He carried it from near the
street, where it was partially covered up
in dirt, to on adjacent hillside. when he
opened the bunnle and found the body
of the child.
The boys told several persons at once
and the affair WAS reported to the police.
Chief Terry, Acting Coroner W. s Pole
and one or two officers went to the spot,
but finding the body had already been
removed from the place where it was
first found the coroner ordered it taken
to the undertaking establishment of G.
w Sisler on Commonwealth avenue.
The body was wrapped in a child 6 dress,
around which was rolled a copy of the
Richmond Dispatch of the date Of April
~, on the margin of which was tag
reading: ~. w. Shields, Jr, June,
'03 This was then rolled up in the
skirt Of diagonal worsted coat and
tied with piece of Irvine.
Coroner Pole impanneled jury, con.
sisting of j. A. Plum ey, foreman; j.
Payne Thompson, w. r. Cross, A. j
Loughery, j. r Bower aud j. e. Hough,
which convened OF Sisters. Dr. Moor.
man made an autopsy and testified that
the body was that of male mulatto
child, not quite fully developed, born
alive and dying shortly after its birth
either from blows at the base of the
brain, indicated by bruises, or from
failure to tic the um bilical cord. y
John William Saunders was sworn.
He quickly convinced the jury that he
was an able bodied, all around, orna-
mental liar, as his story was full of
strange and unaccountable inconsis-
tencies, of conduct. he claimed to
have been hunting in the quarry for
''dabs" or marbles, and to have found
some, discovering the bundle by acct
dent. He was given q cooling spell
at the jail to develop his memory over
night.
ADMINISTRATION by The police shows
that the copy of the Dispatch dated
April 12) had p-o oably been brought
a charwoman employed in the Terry
building. Her husband knowledged
that she had brought papers home oc.
casionally some weeks ago, but she
denied it. There is general denial of
knowledge as to whose was the child.
An old but clear headed colored mid
wife, Aunt Clarissa Tarrance, was the
one to whom Saunders first told of his
discovery. She alarmed the neighbor.
hood. She gave the jury some valuable
pointers for the determination of the
existence of colored blood in newly
born infant, but nothing else. She gave
some of the colored and white denizens
OF unsavory localities in that noighbor-
hood general going over for all around
cussedness.
Inquiry revealed several. ases of "a.
cent child birth in the vicinity of the
quarry, and the police will investigate
and report to the coroner's jury, which
will reconvene this morning ct 10
o'clock.
The TIMES reporter is thoroughly CON
WINGED after blowing around with the
police through the slums, alleys and
bypaths of Diamond Hill, Postum Trot,
Peach and Honey, Greasy Slide, Red
Row, He'll Hollow, Buzzsrd's Roost,
Blood field, Swampoodle and other de.
lectable quarters, that the police ought
to patrol it in squads instead Of pairs.
The sooner the electric lights are on the
better it will be for tho peace OF the
community.
DR.. Henry's lecture on hypnotism, old
Opera House, tonight. Admission 25
cents.
Funeral of Mrs. Mary AGREE.
In speaking OF the burial of Mrs.
Mary s. Acree. the mother of Rev r.
r. AGREE, OF the Calvary Baptist Church,
the Danville Star says: The remains
OF Mrs. Mary s AGREE, of this city,
which were carried to Burlington. King
and Queen county, were inferred at that
place on yesterday. This ends the last
sad rites over good woman, a consist.
ent Christian, and o conscientious
mother. The body left this place under
tha caro- of har so,aa Asasa-z n -.