Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-06-15
1NFAN? MURDERED.
Someone Commits murder
That Their Own Shame
and Disgrace May
Be Hidden.

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Be Hidden.
Because some fond mother, hav-
ing implicit faith in her daughter,
has allowed her to roam the
streets whenever and wherever
she pleased, that girl, once the
pride of her mothers life, is now a
murderer or the accessory of one,
and when the final day of reck-
oning comes she will be brought
before the highest tribunal with
her hands stained with her own
Infants blood.
Early this morning, as the shop
workmen were on their way to
their days toll, one of them, while
passing through the railroad COM
pany's reserved ground west of
the paint shop and south of Erie
street, noticed two dogs, each
striving to gain possession OF
lsome article which at the time lay
on the grass SSeetween them. Final
ly one of the dogs took the .ertlcle
of contention in his mouth and
started away with it. Noticing
that the package, whatever it was,
was enwrapped in a woman's dress,
the workman started after the
dog, and after chasing it some
distance the animal dropped the
bundle and ran away. When the
workman came up to the package,
which then was laying in a pool
of water, he was Mortified at the
gruesome sight he beheld. There
on the grass before him lay the
remains of an infant, with it's
head almost severed from the
body and the tiny skull crushed in
in manner that would indicate
the use of board, or some other
article having a flat surface, in
accomplishing the hellish deed.
Marshal Coleman was notified
and soon, with the coroner, the
officers of the law were on hand
to take charge of the body.
Before moving the body the
medical authority which accompa-
MED the officials was requested to
examine the body and by 30 doing
determine how long the child had
been dead.
From appearances the baby had
been murdered short time after
its accouchment, and from the
condition the body was in, the
murder was committed about three
days ago.
A short distance east of the
place where the body was picked
up was found a womsn's calico
waist, also a portion of a shawl. In
these the child had been wrapped
after its creators had murdered it.
| The officers who are working
on the case are utterly at sea for
an explanation of the reason the
instigator OF the heinpus crime
had in leaving the body at place
where over half the workmen in
the company shop would pass and
repass it daily.
A lady who lives near the scene
Informed the police that she no.
ticed the bundle Saturday morn
ling as she passed along the path
Heading to the shops, but suppos-
ing the bundle was only IN old
dress she thought nothing further
of the incident until the terrible
revelation this morning.
After extinguishing the feeble
mystic spark contained in the
newborn, the persons who begot
it were apparently not yet salts
fed with their damnable work, IS
both the infants legs we're broken
in several places and the entire
body crushed and bruised.
Whether or not the child was
murdered before or after being
taken to the pasture the officers
are unable to determine, but they
|are rather inclined to the belief
that the babe was first taken to
the secluded spot and then MUIR
dered, as portions of the frail
skull were found some distance
from where the clothes were first
noticed.
/ When the coroner had made
the customary notations the re-