The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-05

| street south of the Occidental hotel
| She said that her husband worked for
/ one of the express companies. She had
no husband but the statement would
be true if she had said the father of
her child.
About noon last Sunday week, the
doctor received a note from the young
woman and he went TO see her. He ar
| rived at her little room none too late.
The story that follows is exactly as
the doctor related it.
In short time a child was born but
dangerously so and while the doctor
was trying TO help the baby who was
| either dead or near dead the mother
| took what seemed to be a serious fit.
If any Of them have to die thought the
doctor ii is better that the child should
rather than the mother. He could not
go out to call anybody because the
mother needed all of his attention. He
laid the baby down on the bed to revive
the mother and when he saw the infant
| again il was dead. He did not tell the
| mother then that the baby was dead
but that il had certain indications that
| it would not live long. In short time
after he announced that il was dead.
He said he was hungry and tired and
| wanted TO go home but the mother ask
ed him whether he could not see that
the child was buried without any fun
eraI parade. Then" said he sis the
time became guilty OF being a fool but
not of being a murderer"
Before that the woman explained to
the doctor that her husband worked for
the express company but would not be
home for several days.
The doctor then tied the cord of the
bay, washed it wrapped it in a white
cloth that he got in the bureau drawer
and chucked it into a paper cracker box
that was in the room. He took the box
under his arm, walked down stairs,
| down Main street and Douglas avenue
to his office.
He left the box in his Office and went
TO a meeting of the Y. NJ. c. Aand
waited until dark before he could dis
pose of ii.
While at the Y. M c. A. meeting he
became alarmed atthe thoughts of what
he was doing and he was greatly Wor-
ried over 1T.
When darkness came he put the box
under his arm again, walked over to the
Second street bridge TO the west side
of the river. He had intended to bury
the baby the first chance he got but
every spot where he thought he could do
it safely he found the ground too hard
to dig with his hands. He then thought
OF a sandy wild plum patch farther
down and he tried to find it. He ran
up against a bluff which he could not
climb and he pursued his way along 1t
until he came TO a culvert where he saw
hole among the timbers. He then
Thought of something his brother told
him once and that is that he didn't care
hat Of n Of ba
With this recollection he put the box
into hole and left it there. He passed
over the Douglas avenue bridge return
ing to town and was turning tine corner
up Water street or Wichita street when
he met colored boy.
'tDo you know me?" he asked the
colored boy.
mo, sir; do not" said the colored
boy
THAT IS exactly what 1 wanted to
KNOW" said the doctor, because did
not want him TO know me-" He then
asked the boy whether he did not want
to make 90 cents and the boy told him
he did. He did not have so cents but
he had one silver dollar and being
afraid to make any change he gave the
boy the money if he would go to the
culvert, get the box and bury it. The
doctor then returned home and slept so
well that The thought everything was all
right. Once before he had similar
experience. A young woman got into
trouble and he took the baby that would
not have been fully developed for some
months and dropped it through crack
in the Douglas avenue bridge into the
river. He stated this to the reporter.
The doctor became greatly alarmed
when he read in the Eagle last Saturday
morning an account of the finding of
the baby in the river. He said the talk
about murder, etc, frightened him very
much not because he thought he had
committed any crime but he was afraid
the people would criticise him for dis
posing of the child in that way. He
said THAT he did it all to help the wom-
an out and that he did not receive a
penny as pay for his services.
The case was handled very cIeverly
by the officers. Sunday night they
found where a woman had been to see a
certain doctor in this city who would
have nothing to do with the case.
through that clue they found out the
facts.
When Bedford Wood went to see the
doctor yesterday he was alarmed and
excited and told him a story similar to
now that he told anything TO Wood.
When Bedford Wood took the trail he
found the cracker box in the hole in
the culvert and the cloth that was
wrapped about the child. It contained
no evidence that the child was ever in
the box. With the box and cloth was
a ladys pocket handkerchief on one
corner of which are the initials of the
woman who is suspected of being the
mother Of the child. The father Of the
child acknowledges enough TO prove
him guilty Of an Illicit love with the
mother and there is no doubt
Of the additional facts being brought
out before tomorrow. The coroner's
jury viii be summoned together again
in few days to base their verdict on
the facts that Will be submitted 10
them
The officers viii probably prove that
the fiat iron that was tied to the cord
that sunk the infant in the river be-
longed either TO Dr. Jones or the mother
of the Child. There are other evidences
that there was no negro boy in the case
and an effort was made 10 get DR.. Jones
TO give up that part of his statement as
being improbable.
The doctor says he IS too poor TO en-
pioy an attorney and will rest his case
on his own statement Of the affair.
CAUGHT A BOLD BURGLAR
oficer Jones Traces the Perpetrator of q
Crime by Trail of Flour.
Sunday morning as Officer Sam Jones