The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26
.CH|LD: MURDER IS
STILL MYSTERY
Part Played by John Tate is
Satisfactorily Explained 10
Folicc.
MET WOMAN by ACCIDENT.
Detectives Looking Up Baby's
Antcccdents, Regarded as In.
Important Detail.

at the City Home are few and unim-
tportant, the affair still being STROUD
ed In lnexplainable mystery. What
still theories only. and 1t seems that
rigid official Investigation onn. SO far,
throw no more light on tho killing OF
Baby Vaughan. There nre some who
though such was the verdict OF the
3coroner's jury. and physicians md
belief. that poison had been crirl-
50 far as John Tate, an innocent
looking countrymnn, was concerned,
the part-a very small part-he played
,expiafned. Ii was only ny accident
that he met Mrs. Gaylord on a train
coming from Mineral Springs on Eas-
ter Monday. Thea engagged In con- or,
lost a wife and the, other O. husband
formed u tie OF sympathy between the
two.
e ei9 i aau ed Of feI peliceHa s suese
squently Mrs. GAYLORD wrote him that
and he, still interested In her case.
turbed when he heard that his name
was connected WIFI the mystery anu
forth and explaining his Interest in
tho affair dissolved all doubts as to
his connection with the, poisoning he
living al s215 9 street. and is employed
by Contractor Walton, at Grove Avenue
and West Street.
1nysstlgation on 9a the ny pa part Isaa Of the the
Quoted at tho home Friday night. left
the matter In as dark a mystery as 1t
was before. Most Of the evidence
brought to the attention o. the :, con- ON
fore tho coroners jury. and notWlln-
a verdict that the child came to his
death by criminal adm inr;sx VII II
nesses swore that they believed this
to he true, one member Of the COM
mittee wanted to adjourn IN order y, 70
BODY. Coroner Taylor,s TESTIMONY.
would have been along tho same lines
OF that previously given.
Grand Jury to the Rescue.
The :" grand jury. which will begin It's
csfigation next Wednesday, and the
police. Two detectives-serg eants
Bailey and Wren--are In Norf ok: look !.
ing up the antecedents ~, ,,i B y bs-
lIevo that this will diss olye the 1nys. !.
terry. The consensus Of opinion is that
some inmate of the institution conf conf,
mitted the deed. and that time VIII
prove the theory to be a fact inquiry
outside the city seems to be useless.
II is believed that the investigation
by the grand jury will be far more
thorough and searching than that con-
Quoted by the Committee on Relief OF
the Poor Other and more materlai
witnesses. who know more about the
conditions existing at the home than
any previously examined, will be SUB
poenaed, Tor the grand Jury has power
more absolute than anv other body APP
pointed under law So far. little at
tention has hee- paid to discovering
the conditions existing. at and the man
agemelit Of the home, and it issin this
direction that the grand Jury. II 1T
follows Judge. Wits charge, Will throw
tho searchllght.
The main thing achieved by the COM
mlttee was the recommendation IT
Chan gees to be made in the rules gov
ernng the institution and the appoin :
1nent OF committee for that purpose.
Judging from this action. moro blalne
was attached - tho committee itself
than to the executive mana cement OF
the City Home. i