The Cairo bulletin., 1909-06-14
MISREPRESENTATION
YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE WELL
CONNECTED ACCUSED OF
MURDER.
Threw Their Baby Boy Into Fond OF
Water--Circumsta Evi.
dence Convicts Them
Of Crime.

Murphysboro and Carbonate have
had a sensation for several days past
in the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Georg5
Morris, well connected young people
charged with the murder of theiI
three months-old baby boy, whose
body was found in pond near Muir
physhoro. The Independent tells the
story in part as follows:
On December 1908. George Nor.
ris and Miss lea Vancil. both giving
Carbonate as their home, made ap-
plication for and secured a marriage
license from the Office of County
Clerk Dan Bower The Young man
gave his age az 90, the young woman
swore she was Is, They went to
Justice Edwin Loosely aud were mar
ried There the young woman said
The return part of the marriage
license shows that Morris is a son of
John Morris of Carbonate and was
born in that city, and that the young
woman is daughter Of H. Vaucil
4 end was born in Nlrphysboro town
ship
+ Three months after their marriage,
~ ohcut March 8. 1909 Mr.. and Mrs
Norris came to Murphysboro and
81 III "a - homa Of a Mrs. Rust at
H. eaHEa. al = rtr&H ard Maple
WIS Norris remained there
$50 weeks and on March % a son
a. hem Mrs. Rust states
-7st when she took the baby TO its
laHH1 ma..s.r shortly afterward, she
tma9 aHv from it and said that
she aant nothing to do with it.
Tho mother left the Rust place leay-
ing the bAby in the care of Mrs.
Rust Mrs Rust states that the par
ents never furnished the baby any
clothinr hut that she made nearly
all of its clothing.
An effort was made TO find a home
here for the child. It was taken TO
the home Of Mrs. Cheatham, and Mrs.
Chea,ham took it to the home of
Mrs. Imhoff in the country. Mrs. I'M
hoff became i'll and could not care
for the baby SO it was sent back to
the Rust place.
Mrs. Rust states that Morris called
at her place during the day about
twelve days ago. She believes it was
on Monday, May, 81, but it may have
been on Sunday, the 30th. He told
her that he had home for the child
that one of his aunts was going to
take it. He called again at 7 o'clock
in the evening and got the baby. say
ing his aunt was waiting for him lat
the depot"
Mrs Rust gave him a bundle con |
tanning aeiothing .faRritht' child She
says Morris threw the bundle into a |
corner of the room, remarking that
they had plenty of childs clothing. /.
He left with the baby going across
the field north of City cemetery dest- |
ward. which direction is toward the |
Iron Mountain depot al Twenty.third !
Mrs. Rust saw of the baby or its /
father
When she gave the chill to its
father, It wore white lace hood /
made by Mrs Rusts daughter, two
white flannel understands, long
white dress. no stockings or choes. a |
white cloak with cape, and that is |
exactly the clothing on the baby
found in the creek It's hair is dark |
brown, the color Mrs. Rust said the |
baby had.
Baby Clothing Identified.
Through somebody's oversight the
clothing on the dead baby when #
was found in the creek was buried .
with the body. Coroner Forsheee On
afternoon had the clothing
aiken from the grave to he held as
7yidence. and on Thursday evening
Mrs Oliver Cheatham, at whose
home the Morris baby remained one
lay, was shown the clothing taken
rom the dead child. and positively
Identified the garments as those on
he Morris baby when it was at her
nome.
The Tracks in the Mud.
In the mud at the edge of the
water in which the baby was found
Wednesday are the tracks of a man
md a woman. Coroner Forshee took
7~oful measurements of those tracks
'a, WAS bat Of a man, wearing No.
Success rha other that Of woman
CARING 80 5 shoes, he states.
80 tas alter edge mud hal been
In rp WITH the fingers of a man i'm
ne mace and with a woman's fingers
n ann'lar place, the coroner states.
The M vas used in the baby's long
lress to sink the body, and was
ound rolled up in Ile dress when
he body was prepared for burial.
CUNT uIMcCIC