The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-01
BABY BURIED ALIVE
A Big Sensation in the City Ct
NV York.
TIE WOMAN WATCHED
While III Man Dug the Grave.
They Ran Away, But
Was Foliowe d and
Are st9d

Arrest
An Italian who said he was Givrio
Buttaccavallo, living on the lower East
Side Of New York city, and pale
faced girl Of IS, who refused to say any
thing about herself, were committed to
the Westchester county jail st White
Plains Wednesday night on charge Ct
burying live child beneath three feet
Of earth at the foot Of raVine border
ing the village ef Hastings 'on-the- Hud-
son. A contractors foremsD, who dug
the child from the grave and saved its
life, caused the arrest of the couple.
The child may die.
Buttacoavallo and his companion
we're arrested on their way from Has
tines to Yonkers. The arrest wss made
on a Warburton avenus trolley car.
Warburton avenue is the road that con-
pects Yonkers with Hastings on. the
Hudson. Il is about five miles in
lenghth and extends through billy
country where there are but few houses
The road crosses a rsvine near the
Hastings village. A brook known as
RoRley's brook flows through the
ravine. It vas on the bank Of this
brook that the child was buried.
Patrick McAvoy, foreman over gang
Of lsborer. was at work building rail
road trestle over this brook. They
were . quarter Of mile from RoW!ey's
bridge, which spans the brook at War
burton avenue. The men quit work at
12 80 o'clock Wednesday. McAvoy
walked toward Warburton avenue to 20
to lunch at his home in Hastings. He
passed through the raVine along the
bank Of the brook.
About three hundred feet ahead Of
him he saw man and woman kuee(ing
on the ground The man appeared 10
be digging in the ground. As McAvoy
approached the woman beckoned to her
oompsnion as if to tell him to hurry
with the work he was doing. The man
glanced up and seeing McAvoy ap-
proach hurriedly filed in the hole he
had dug Then as the woman started to
run toward the trolley road the man
stopped aud picked up bush which he
placed ever the neHly-turned earth.
BE hastened after the woman and they
crossed WsIburton avenue and dissp.
pesred in ravire on the other side Of
the trolley tracks.
McAvoy hurried after him. He saw
the man put hatchet under his coat
and he believed that the stranger had
used it to bury or dig up treasure.
When No Avoy got to the crown Of the
hill on Warburton avenue the man and
woman wers not in sight. Then he
hurried back to the spot where he had
| seen the man digging.
As he approached McAvoy says he
| heard the cries Of a baby. he climed
over a hedge and throwing aside the
bush, began to dig up the earth with
| his hands. After he bad removed about
three feet Of earth he found q bundle Of
white clothes inside Of which was a boy
baby about three weeks old and ap
parently in good health. The child
had good lungs and made use Of them.
1t had been saved from suffocation by
having its face covered with small
cape.
With the child in his arms M,Avoy
ran to Warburton avenue and boarded
a trolley car going toward Hastings.
He told the conductor and mortorman
all about bis find. The conductor. Will
liam Walsh, said he remembered en-
Italian couple had been passengers on
q previous trip. He said the couple had
get on his car at Yonkers snd left it at
Rowley's bridge.
He thoughtit strange at the time for
a woman to get of the car at this point,
| for most Of Els passengers rode all the
way to the village. Nc Avoy road into
Hastings and turned the child over to
the first woman he net. This woman was
Mrs Barbara Bauer, the jauitress Of
| the village school. McAvoy then rsn
to the headquarters of the village police
and reported the case. He described
the man and woman whom he had seen
buryiDg the child and the village po-
lice tslephoned the description to the
police of YonkeTs.
Conductor Walsh started on his trip
back to Yonkers. About mile and q
half out OF Hastings man and woman
signalled the motorman to stop. When
Welsh saw the couple be made up his
mind that they were the ores who had
buried the baby aud told the motor.
man to call the first policeman they
met when Yonkers was reached. At
that city the motorman shouted to po-
liceman Archer, and he put the couple
under arrest.