Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1899-03-24
a Baby Found Dead in Bed.

IlS idIIIly Vi Ian w IIILe1L4lS' IOI''
living in the southwest part of Keytes-
vile, known as Kansas" was horror
stricken last Tuesday morning when
the discovery was made that Lizzie
Smith, the four-months-old baby OF
Mrs. Williams daughter. Bertie
Woods, had expired sometime during
the night previous.
As mystery surrounded the death
of the child telephone message was
sent to DR.. c. A. Jennings, coroner,
at Salisbury, and he came over to
hold an inquest.
The witnesses who testified before
the coroner's jury were: Eta Beverly,
COL, Dr. J. NJ. Gallemore, Mrs. Dan
Williams, grandmother to the dead
baby; Bertie Woods, the child's moth
er, and Dan Williams, its step-grand-
father.
The testimony Of all Of the wit
nesses, except that of DR.. Gallemore,
was to the effect that the child was
found dead in ded, Tuesday morning.
Eta Beverly and Bertie Woods testi-
fed that they and the baby slept in
the same bed, Monday night. The
mother also stated that Lizzie (the
baby was frothing at the mouth when
she first saw it, Tuesday morning, and
all day Monday, and that the little
one had had a cold for a week. but no
doctor had been summoned.
DR.. J. NJ. Gallemore, who assisted
in the autopsy, testified as follows:
Il reside at Keytesville; my occupa-
ton is that of practicing physician;
1 assisted in the autopsy on Lizzie
Smith the twentieth day of March,
1899; I found no marks or evidences
of violence on the body; l found a
Slight inhamm alton Of the lungs and
bronchial tubes; l found a slight exu-
dation Of muc Gus, which, l think, in
dicated slight bronchitis; the heart and
kidneys were healthy; l also examined
the stomach and found no evidences
of disease; the second cervical vertebra
was slightly displaced; do not think
the bronchial trouble sufficient to have
caused the death of the child; l at
tended the woman and delivered the
child the third day of December, 1898;
the child was of average size and
healthy at that time; l attended the
child in January, 1890, and found it
afflicted with capillary bronchitis from
which it subsequently recovered; since
that time l have not examined the
child; l know nothing of the reputa-
ton of the mother or the father of the
child; | think, as a medical man, that
the child came to its death from being
smothered; | was sent for, Tuesday
morning about seven O'Clock, to at
tend the child, but upon being told
that it was dead, did not go, and
told the party to notify the coroner; it
is possible that the chiId's death might
have been caused by dislocation (par-
uaD of the second Cervical vertebra;
from the condition 1 found the child
in l think it had been dead about six
or eight hours"
After due consider alton of the testi-
mony the coroner's jury returned the
following verdict:
I'VE, the jury, find that deceased
came to her death by suffocation from
unknown cause.
&c. B. GILLIAN, Foreman,
PETER r. O'BRYAN,
wv. T. CURRAN,
"CHAs. PARKER,
j S. CHIvERs,
&C. SCHE.L"
D. c. Maloney of Brunswick has
sold his farm three miles northwest of
that city to his brother -in-law, --
late of Franklin coun-
ty, and will shortly move to Vinita, L.
T.. where he will open a blacksmith
shop. Mr.. Maloney has been con-
Quoting a blacksmith and woodwork