The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-05-07
NEARING THE END
O0R0NER'S INVESTIGATION NOT FAR
FROM BEING COMPLETED.
Mother of the Drowned Baby is Looked
Then Close-The Horizon Looks Bright
er Now For DR.. Jones and His Release
From Jail Before Tonight is Not Inn
probabIe-No New Developments In
Yesterdays Evidence-The Hiring of
the Colored Boy Has Little Foundation


Yesterdays Evidence-The Hiring of
| the Colored Boy Has Little Foundation
The inquest over the baby found
| drowned in the Arkansas river last
| week was resumed yesterday al the cor
| oner's Office and County Attorney John
| Davis made a searching investigation.
DR.. Darrin was the first witness call
ed. He testified to being called TO room
No. 2 Of the building number 254 North
Main street, on ST. Patrick's night and
finding a woman there who was in ad-
vanced pregnancy. He said that he
wanted to have nothing TO do with
such cases He said that the woman
was a blonde who wore an old fash
ioned cloak and white hat on the streets
and when the jurors were craning their
necks and curling their hands around
their ears to catch every word Of what
the doctor uttered il developed that
the woman he was attending was not
the mother Of the drowned infant at
all but a well known and faded street
walker who is now in the county jail
waiting to be taken 10 the asylum.
The officers found they were on cold
trail with DR.. Darrin and they aban-
doned his testimony.
DR.. RentZ was the next witness. He
testified that the drowned baby was
born alive but in his opinion il died
shortly afterwards. He took the lungs
from the body and examined them.
They contained air but not very much.
1t was air from respiration but in his
opinion the lungs were not we'll filed
with it He thought that DR.. Jones'
story of the birth and death of the in
fant was very probable.
Mr.. Hale, proprietor OF the rooming
house where the birth Of the baby took
place took the stand. He said that
the young woman had been in his house
three months but that he saw her only
once and then at a distance. She kept
herself secluded, locked in her own room
and her rent paid by a young man.
He could not describe her, didn't know
her name or anything about her.
Octavius Cogsdell knew the young
woman pretty well, saw her every day
and carried notes from her 10 DR.. Jones
but never knew what was in the notes
as they were sealed. He knew that she
had given birth 10 a child but did not
know what became of the infant He |
said the young woman was in the room |
up till last Saturday when she left for |
Marshalltown, Iowa.
Sheriff Cone testified as TO taking the |
baby out Of the river, described its con- |
dition, produced the fiat iron that held |
it down and the strings with which |
it was tied. He testified as to conversa-
tions with DR.. Jones in the county jail |
which were exactly the same as were |
published in the Eagle Tuesday morn
ing. He did not believe the story that |
DR.. Jones hired a colored boy to bury |
the body and intimated that DR.. Jones |
had given up that part of his state |
ment. 1.-The DOCTOR" said he, "has told |
me that one part of the statement he |
has made is not true" That is prob |
ably the part in which he said that he |
hired a colored boy to bury the in |
fant.
The next witnesses were Detectives
Wood and Sutton. Their statements