The evening times., 1896-03-30
BABES IN 1 HOLLOW LOG
Found in the Weeds Not Far
From BaIt!m IRE.
TWINS FIVE MONTHS OLD
Bodies wrapped in a WOman's Gar
nent-NO Marks of Violence on
Them, But Physician Thinks the
Children Were Killed and Then
Hidden-NO CIew to Perpetrator.

Baltimore, March 30.-In a hollow chest
nut log in a clump OF woods on the farm OF
". b. and X. L. Phelps, situated on the
Hillen road, about IL mile and a half south
ca st of Towson, Walter Eyre, labOrer iu
the employ OF Mcssrs. Phelps, found the
bodies of white win bali IS about five mouths
old. This occurred last Thursday.
The county authorities were mott fled
and Deputy Sheriff Eugene Burke went to
the farm from Towson with DR.. Jarrett
of that place. The physician told r. L.
Phelps that he thought the babes had been
killed before they were hidden iu the log.
The bodies were put ck where they were
found nd the log was sealed up.
The discovery came about in this way:
gang OF men started out last Thursda y
morning to cut wood. NJ. b. Phelps was
with them. The woods they were going to
adjoin the Hillen road, some distance south
of the farmhouse, and extend eastward.
WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND.
The bodies were found off the road, IN Il
place where the underground has not been
cleared away. The surroundings there are
wild, although near the roadside the spaces
between the trees are thoroughly cleaned.
Eyre was one OF the woodcutters. While
Mr.. Phelps was pointing out the trees lie
wanted 10 have cut, Eyre and the other men
were skylarking and Joking.
Suddenly Eyre spicd the hollow log. 1t
looked like log that had been cut off for
a rence-post and then abandoned because
u was hollow.
HI said Eyre, Il guess there must lie
a 'possum In that log ''-
He int m
hole. Ashis eyes became accustomed 10 tie
gloom something attracted his attention.
There's no 'possum here,'"he said, but
I think have found q coat.''
Reaching his arms into the aperture, he
drew out a black bundle. Il was about two
and Il half feet long aud a foot in diameter.
The outer covering was OF black cambric or
silesia. The men took Off this covering and
found another, formed ofa part of a wo-
man s chcmise. Then they found Il woman's
gauzc undcrShirt, and inside of that were
the bodies of the babies.
KILLED AND CONCEALED.
A man was at once sent to Towson Ia
tell the sheriff of the discovery, and
deputy and a physician FASTENED to the
farm. II could not he told how long the
3abies had been in the log. as it was rain
ing hard and the bodies had become some
what disfigured.
While there were no MARKS OF violence
upon the bodies, the physician made the
statement to X. l.. Phelps that he believed
the children had been killed and then con-
cealed in their unusual sepulcbrc.
There is no clcw as to where the chill
dren came from or who put them in the log.
Persons in the neighborhood think that
they came either from the City or from some
point remote from where they were found.
They argue that If any one in the neighbor
hood had twins five months old, the neigh
bors would have known 1t.
That any person or family in the thinly
settled region could have kept the exist
ence of two children concealed for five
months is deemed impossible.