The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-08-08
EVIDENCE ON BABY FARM,
POLICE FIND SOME FACTS IN
CASE OF MRS. CAMPBELL.
Baby Whose Death She is Accused of
Causing Found to Have Fractured
Skull - Prisoner Tells Story of
Life and Claims Girl, Viola, Who
Makes the Charges, as Her Daugh-
ter-Father Said to be a Printer.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-lnvestigation of
the death of the infant which was found
in the Grand avenue home of Mrs. Neil
Campbell on Friday developed evidence,
which Coroner Traeger thinks may
strengthen the murder charge and also
throws light on the ~parentage of the
girl, Viola, who charges her supposed
mother with having kidnapped her from
a wealthy father in Cincinnati.
One discovery made yesterday was
That the infant, besides starving, had
suffered from a fracture of the skull,
which DR.. E. p. Noel of the %coroner's
office says might have produced death.
This fact was not brought up when
Mrs. Campbell was arraigned at the
West Chicago m police court on a
Charge of murder, but the hearing was
continued for further investigation of
the charges of baby farming.
The fracture in the skull was discov-
cred by DR.. Noel.
How it was caused | cannot tell"
said DR.. Noel. TT may have been done
at birth, or at any time since then. 1t
may have resulted from a fall or a
blow"
Mrs. Campbell claims that the child
met with no injury or violence after it
came into her possession, when it was
two weeks old.
In the morning when Mrs. Campbell
was taken to the West Chicago avenue
police station. she told Inspector
Wheeler the story of her life. She said
Viola was her own child, but that a
Cincinnati printer named John Reed
was the girls father.
MY mother died when we were in
Italy" said Mrs. Campbell, land father
brought me to this country. | went to
live with an uncle. Hiram Jattona. at
Lily Chapel, o. Later my uncle adopted
me, but my father sent money for my
education, and | learned to paint and
to sew. When | was IA years old I
went to Cincinnati. and lived with my
uncle, Rocco ,Jattona, at Sixth and
Race streets. I taught painting. There
I met Reed. Later I was sent back TO
Lily Chapel, and thence to Big Plains,
where Viola was born June %. 1889.
Viola was a year old when I mar
ried Pedro Blanco. a S%paniard. He was
a salesman for a Key West cigar factory
and was well to do. Three children
Ntlt boll. tNlO was lilt OlNtSl. lutIl
Theresa and then Madeline. Madeline
died when she was a few days old. and
Theresa died Aug. 2S, 1895. when she
was six months old. In 1896 Mr.. Blanco
died in st. Louis June 81, and on Aug.
5 of the anne year nv son. Pedro. died
at 1893 Adams street. Chicago.
II married Mr.. Campbell in 1898. and
we have had three children. The oldest
lioI hofOrn e yyoc lo ntiuo1 onI &C. +hn
one Viola refers to as Nellie. Ruth died
when she was three weeks old on Nav
ID. 1900. and Frank died July ~, 1901.
After that I adopted twin girls. ! called
them Indella and Esther. | secured
them from a woman doctor. Mrs. Held
richs in Carroll avenue. Esther died
Aug. %. 1901. when she was two weeks
old. and Indella was with me when the
police took her to st. Vincent Orphan
asylum.
Louise, the child that died last week,
! got from Mrs. DIETRICH, a physician in
Wells street, to take the place of the
deceased child of Mrs. John Brazellie,
my adopted sister, but my sister died,
and | kept it. IT was weak and i'll when
| got it. and the doctor said it had not
developed right and could not live.
Then when it died he refused me a
certificate, and got me into all this
trouble"
The police claim to have found evil
dence to dispute the woman's story of
her children. A Mrs. Becker. who lives
in West Van Buren, street. is said to
have told the police that she gave Mrs.
Camnbell the children, Theresa and
Madeline. Other women are said to
have admitted giving her children.
A telegram to the Tribune last even
ing from Cincinnati stated that no
John Reed, 2 printer, was known to
printers there.