The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-18
TWAS AN AWFUL CRIME
II Belief of NeighbOrs Be True
-ACcOuChement in the
Yard and Infants
Body Cannot Now
Be Found.

Regaining standing position from
her accouchement bed on the grass in
the lot about her fathers farm house
near Wyandotte, Emma Humble, suf-
fering bodily pains and awful mental
anguish because of her shame, stag
gered wildly through the darkness Of
last Thursdays midnight and, half
crazed, threw her newborn babe into
pen OF hogs that evidence OF its birth
would be concealed by the ravenous
brutes.
Such is the picture drawn by four
women and two male neighbors who
were here yesterday afternoon waiting
from O'Clock until after nightfall to
testify al the preliminary examination
Of b. G. Humble and his daughter,
Mrs. Beard.
Humble is quite an old man, typi-
cal honest, hard working farmer
With his daughter he patiently sat on
the wooden bench In the corridor Of
the Hall Of Justice for upwards OF five
hours, not seeming to realize what it
was all about, but obeying orders to
wait there until the court gets
ready" The commissioner was busy
with other matters. so Humble waited.
The warrant Of arrest charges Mr..
and Mrs Humble and the two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Beard and Emma Humble,
with concealing the birth Of a child |
This, the law says, is felony, and the
punishment made ia tit the crime by
the wise lawmakers is a term in the
penitentlary, the same penalty being
preScribedas in the case Of manslaugh-
ter.
The old man and Mrs Beard we're
brought to this city by Deputy Mar
shal Prater while the mother was
permitted to remain at the bedside Of
her daughter, Emma, under guard Of
a deputy.
Late last night IL was determined
not to hold preliminary examination
until these two could also be present.
and the two prisoners were each re-
leased on $500 bail.
The story as told by the witnesses is
that Emma went into the yard during
the night and gave birth to a child:
that the mother was present at the
time or a few moments afterward;
that evidence Of the place Of accouhe-
plent near the hog pen were plainly to
y seen. The next day the giil's sur
lefings became so intense that Mrs. 1
Youngblood a midwife OF the locality, /
was sent for. She asked the where !
abouts Of the baby. Both Mrs. Hum
bic and Emma denied that there had
been a birth. SO pronounced were
the evidences, however, that Mrs
Youngblood declined to have anything
TO do with the case until after DR.. Z
Dumiller arrived from Wyandotte.
Then the young mother was attended |
to, and is now suffering with fever
consequent upon her exposure.
DR. Dumiller and Mrs. Youngblood
made complaint to the officers, with
the result that warrants were issued.
That there was baby born appears :
positive. Where the body is now can
only be surpised as the two women i'm
sist that there was no birth.
II the baby was fed to the hogs il y
viii not be known unless one or the
1ther of the women confess If the
body was unfeelinglY and inhumanly
thrown among the beasts it cannot be
whether it was dead or d
live at the time. s
old man Humble says he was in bed s
II Thursday night, and did not know p
hat anything out of the usual was
ranspiring about his place. He had !,
10 idea, he says, that his daughter !
vas in trouble. This seems to be gen b
rally believed by those who heard his I
tory, and much sympathy was ex- e
PRESSED for him. t
without some evidence Of the exist
nee Of remains, or a confession Of one a
4 the parties, charge OF infanticide :
annot be maintained. !.
Miss Winnie Meredith IS prepared a
o do all kinds Of fancy dressmaking "
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