Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-23
BURIED ALIVE.
Horrible Fate Intended for Little
2-Weeks-Old Baby.
Man and Woman Seen to Bury it,
Rescued Just in time.
P :opIe Arrested and Seem indifferent Aboi
Matter. Refuse 10 Talk.

New YORK. April BY the mcre;t
chance 2-wecks-od baby which hal
been buried alive by a man and woman
presumably the parents-was discovered
today. by Patrick Mcf,vo:. "A Iaborer of
Hastings just in time to save II from
death by suffocaiion. The child had been
thrown into a hole about three feet deep
\ little cape worn by the baby had in
some way fallen over the face This kept
away the earth and held the air for mo-
mcnt.
a man and woman who answer the de-
scription furnished by the baby's rescuer
were arrested By the police of Yonkers,
several miles away from Hastings, on a
trolley car. The man said he was Givor
DuttacavoIo cf Manhattan. He said he
was married and had three children The
woman said she was Francisco Stinella,
Is years old. a drcssmakcr and unmar-
riCd. She declined to say where she lived.
but Roundsman Brady at police head
quarters in Yonkcrs volunteered the in
formation that she was a niece of her
companion. The woman denied that the
baby was hers. She appeared very little
concerned over her arrest. After being
question by the police they were ar
raigned and turned over to the chief Of
police Of Hastings. who took the prison
ers back to that place. In the mans pos
session was found lather's Ratchet. 1t
was covered with dirt. On the mans
hands and under his nails WAS also sand
and dirt. i motorman on a Yonkers car
line told the police that he had seen the
couple carly in the day on car passing
through tho city. He thought they had
come all the way from New York by
trolley.
McEvoy told an interesting story. TO-
night of his discovery of the living child
in its grave. He said that as he was at
work on one of the streets of Hastings lac
noticed man and woman enter ra-
vine in the woods. The woman was cor
rying a bundle. Shortly after the pair
entered the woods McEvoy heard a cry.
The cry bothered him and he became
convinced that it was the woman trying
to cry out and her cries were bCin.
stned. At first he hcsita cd to inveSti-
gate. fearing to be mixed up in any affair
of a suspicious nature, but finally he
went into the woods and located tho cot-
pie in the dense underbrush Of the IA
vine When McEvoy sighted the couple
he says they were in the act of stampinS
down earth on the side of the ravine. A
soon az the two saw him they ran
through the woods
McEvoy went 10 the spot where they
had been at work and began TO remove
the freshly replaced earth ard came upon
a cloth Taking hold Of it ne dragged out
a child. The couple had not waited to ,ii,,
the hole large enough to allow the child
to be stretched full length Instead. IT
had been curled up SO that its feet were
almost touching it's face This Kept the
dirt from uirect contact with the face and
probably saved its life. The little one
was already black in the face. McEvoy
with the child at once went to Hastings
where a. the first drug store the child
was quickly revived
This evening. the prisoners were given
a hearing before Justice Tompkins of
Hastings. they refused to say anything
and formal charge of attempted infant
icide was entered against them. They
were committed without bali to the coun.
" Jail at White Plains.