The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-18

aDOuC i've months ola ana OIL preina-
ture birth, was found Thursday af-
ternoon near the Swift 4 Company
storage, close to the bridge that
crosses the rayine TO the Gof addi-
ton.
Policeman Howe and B. & 0. Or
fcer Powell were standing near the
b. & 0. freight house at 2 o'clock
when they noticed a young woman
acting peculiarly. She walked
around in the lot near the place
where the body Of the child was
found, closely watched by the Of
fieers. Finally she was seen to en-
ter a clump of bushes and remain
there but a second and then came
back, going directly to the house she
had come from, that occupied by
Patrick Martin, the engineer at the
Government building.
None Of the persons who saw the
woman saw her carrying a package
and that was the only circumstance
that spared her arrest at the time.
The woman suspected is from Fair
mont. She is Miss Maudc Leach,
and a Fairmont paper Of April 19
contained an announcement Of her
marriage to Corporal Sicbert, the
local g. S. Army recruiting officer,
now stationed in this city
Miss Leach bore a very good repu-
tation in Fairmont, but it win be
efneinberd that when Siebert was
removed from the Fairmont office
at the request of citizens, Miss
Ieacl's father was one of the men to
complain.
The marriage was said to have oc-
CURED in Pittsburg about one week
previous to the announcement but
very little credencc was given the
transaction by acquaintances.
It is said that the girl came to
Glarksbrg some ten days ago and
has been staying in rented apart
ments at the home OF Patrick Mar
tin.
Physicians who examined the body
Of the child at the request Of Cor
oner Camp, gave it as their opinion
that if abortion was performed then
the child had been dead at least one
day. If still-born death had prob
ably occurred at about the same
time, The child was well developed
and at least five months old.
There has been but very little talk
,of arrests for the finding Of the body
today. There is no positive proof
! that the woman suspected is the one
That placed the child where it was
found Persons who have thus far
been found who saw her going to the
spot did not notice that she carried
any package. If she took it at the
time she was seen then it was very
acleyerly concealed. No covering cx-
eept piece Of newspaper, probably
a half page, was found partly over
the infant. The body lay in a
Slight natural depression in the
ground.
1t is said that a policeman, who
is on night duty, may know some
thing regarding the case but he will
not be awakened. When he goes on
duty this evening then perhaps he
will be questioned
Apparently no Investigation is on
foot. II a physician was in attend
ance he has not YET been identified
THE affair Will more than likely re-
main Just where it is unless some
citizen who happens to he in posses
sion Of some facts comes forward
and make a complaint.
IT has developed that the person
who first saw the woman who is sus-
pected Of having left the child go to
the place is Gertrude Moneypenny,
notorious character from North
view. She was placed in the coun-
ty jail as a witness.
She talked freely in the Jail this
morning. She said that she was
sitting beneath a tree farther up the
y hin when she saw the woman come
up. She describes the woman's
clothes and these tally exactly with
the woman who is under surveil-
lance
Tho woman stlod and looked
around according to The girls story
and then after a little walked away.
The girl says that after the woman
left she went down to see what was
going on and saw the paper lying
on the ground and then discovered
the child. She told the first person
she met and in this way the officers
went to the scene. She thinks she
can identify the woman she saw in
the neighborhood
Violator Jailed