The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-15
WAS IT CREMAIED?
The Mysterious Disappearance Of Mrs.
Smiths Dead Infant.
Charred Bones Found in DIR. Gardeners
stove-Confiicting Stories Told-The
Doctor Arrested but Released.

What became OF the body of the child,
born to Mrs. H. G. Smith in the Singer
building, corner of State and Second
South streets at O'Clock Monday night,
in which case DR.. Gardiner was the at
tending physician?
This is the problem which agitated the
mind of Coroner Taylor yesterday, until
his white beard almost became whittier
from the strain of thinking. At one time
he thought he had it solved, but the tech
nicality of law interviewed and he is again
in quandary.
Chief Paul, Captain Donovan, County
Attorney Murphy, his assistant, Mr..
Eichnor, Coroner Taylor, Detective
Sheets and DR.. Gardiner were closeted in
the chiefs office yesterday afternoon at
tempting to probe mystery which pre-
sented neither front nor back, and which
is still as anomalous as it was before IN
vestigation was had. The chief figure IN
this coterie of people who have much to
do with crime was DR.. Frederick Gardi-
ner and the caase of him being there was
that all concerned in the interview be-
lieved he could answer the question.
Yesterday morning Detective Sheets,
accompanied by two men, one OF whom is
the son-in law of Mrs. Mason, who is the
landlady of the building where the child
was born, entered Coroner Taylor's
office, and the latter asked for an investi-
cation of certain conduct OF DR..
Gardiner. The story which leads up to
this demand is as follows:
MRS. SMITHS STORY.
Some time in July, as Mrs. Smith says,
she was married in this city to II. G.
Smith, by John Morgan. About five
weeks ago, Smith, who is carpenter,
left her under suspicious circumstances,
ostensibly to go to Denver, but really
went to Chicago. Discovering that she
would soon become a mother, Mrs. Smith
started to Park City last Friday,
where she has relatives. In attempting
to board street car, she slipped and fell,
which injured her slightly and she was
compelled to return home. Monday, some
where between II o. clock and 2 O'Clock
her pain became SO great she sent for DR..
Gardiner, who responded to the call but
went away. At O'Clock the same even
ing his services were again required, at
which time a girl was born to Mrs.
Smith, alive. All this is corroborated by
independent witnesses.
The infant lived about an hour and a
half. Mrs. Mason had kindly taken care
of it, but on discovering that the small
thread of its life was about to snap, left
it to the care of the doctor. Yesterday
morning Gardiner went to see his patient
and was importuned TO remove it, which
he at first refused to do, but finally re-
Tented, and carried it away wrapped in q
piece ofsnewspaper.
GARDENERS STORY DISPUTED.
And this is where the contradictory part
of the statement comes in. Gardiner de-
clares he gave the dead infant to man
upon the street, whom he knows very
we'll, but whose name he singularly could
not remember, whereas the two men
mentioned at the beginning say positively
they watched Gardiner go across the
street, enter his own gate and go in the
house, having met no one on the journey.
1t is simply question of veracity as be-
tween Gardiner and the two men.
| AT noontime, when all the others were
at lunch, Coroner Taylor concluded to
make little private research, which had
previously been officially done by one of
the city's detectives, and went to Gar
diner's house in company with Captain
Donovan. Searching about in the room
they discovered in the ashes of stove
more than dozen pieces of bone, appar-
emily belonging to an infant. The coro-