The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-28
GAYLORD WOMAN
4. Makes [ ! |. 6 DENIAL j: 1
Says She Did Not Kill Vaughan
Baby, but Thinks She Knows
WHO Did.
GRAND JURY READ FOR WORK
Hastings Court to Make Sweep
ing Inquiry, All Others
Having Failed.

Although the fact that the Vaughan
baby was murdered at the City Home
YVES clearly established by the coro-i
ner's Jury on Thursday last, the po-
lice are still unable to place the re-
sponsibility, the department being ap-
parently at sea. Just as 1t was when
tho belated report OF the tragedy reach
ed headquarters.
Having been Informed by one OF the
nurses Sunday night that she was
suspected OF the crime. Mrs. Ethelyn
Gaylord, an inmate OF the institution,
against whom the hand OF suspicion
has pointed for circumstantial reasons,
requested the officers yesterday ITO
send for the reporters in order that
she might give strong denial to the
charge
Thinks Negroes II Guilty.
What she said was merely repeti-
ton of what has been printed hereto
fore. the most important statement be-
ing an attempt to show that a colored
girl. was guilty OF the murder. Mrs.
Gaylord has been III for some time.
When, she talked with the reporters
she was propped up In bed. her young
infant sleeping quietly by her side.
Mrs. Gaylord went over tho same
ground that has been covered hereto
fore. Her talk was rambling. She de-
clared that Miss venable. the head
nurse. was mad with her. having sus-
pected her OF the first attempt to
poison the child. and for this reason
shc was subsequently removed to the
maternity ward.
Mrs. Gaylord's father, A. j. Jack
son, OF Raleigh. N. c., wrote Super
intendent Davis yesterday. saying his
understood his daughter was suspected,
and adding that he was prepared to
give her every assistance possible. Mr..
Eavis replied that there was no evi-
dcnce to connect her with the affair.
The coroner. tho police and the Com
mittee on Relief OF the Poor having
failed to clear the mystery, the Hust-
ings Court grand Jury will take up the
case tomorrow with the determination
OF sitting It, regardless OF whose feel
ings might be hurt.
It was said that moro than a score
OF witnesses had been summoned. and
that the investigation will take wide
crime itself and general conditions ex-
listing at the City Home. It Is admit
tod that the baby was poisoned by
an inmate OF the home.
No Trace Of Poison.
Coroner Taylor completed yesterday
the autopsy over the body OF the
Vaughan child, reporting to Common
found no traces OF poison 1t did not
surprise him. The coroner is firmly Of
the opinion that poison was admtnis-
tered with criminal intent. In his
statement he said:
"The autopsy OF the Vaughan BABY
who was i'll a little over six days, show
ed marked inflammation of the upper
lip and OF part OF the roof Of the
mouth"
tThere was also inflammation Of the
stomach and bowels. A chemical
analysis OF the stomach and liver Svns
suspecting that corrosive sublimate had
been ndpinistered to the child, this
poison was particularly sought for. No
poison, however, was detected. 1t Ia
possible that some corrosive poison
other than corrosive subli,nntc was
used, concentrated I've, for xnmpl:.
The failure to hnd poison In the stom-
nch and livtr does not by any means
show that poison was not ADM 1l"tsred,
for, under the circumAt IN Yes, the Ike
lihood of detecting 1t by annlysls was
very doubtful, since only u little Of the
poison was probably swallowed, Tor
only a little of a corrosive poison could
be swallowed by an infant four and
half months old without tts killing the
child in much less time than six days.
"MoreOver, much of the little that
- lloyved must have been expelled
by the lonE-continued vomiting, while
the fraction that was absorbed would
have been diffused throughout the syA-
tenn and mostly eliminated during the
long survival. As for the chtO:of1rm,
1T would hive been quickly lost by
eyap0ratiOn. n Therefor notutthstnnd-
ing that have not detected 3nuy poison
In the body OF the child, nm Of Gpin-
ion that II was killed with poison, fer
I can conceive OF no other explRnntiun
OF the external and Internal appear
ancen OF the body and of tho symptom
and other circumstances con ucstcI, VII III
the death of the child as they were pre-
sented In the testimony given to the
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