Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-04
DEAD INFANTS BODY
 FOUND BURIED IN CELLAR.
Mrs. Sybii Parker, coIored, Admits She is the Mother and the Father is a White Man.

Monday afternoon a9orge H. Pate naude. a prominent butcher. who lives at 452 Pleasant street, while cleaning up his cellar unearthed the dead body of a female child that was in compar- atively fine state of preservation. He immediately communicated with Cap tain Richmond of the police force, who went to the house shortly after 3 o'clock, and after aseertaining the con- ditions there notified Medical Examiner Louis I. Mason, who now has the body in his custody.
 Captain Richmond learned that a buxom young colored woman, Mrs. Sybil (Archer) Parker. aged "A, who has been in the city only about six months, had been employed by MT. Patenaude some six weeks ago for a period of three weeks. He found out where she was staying and brought her to the police station. There at S.45 o'clock in the evening Prosecuting At torney E. Frank Bugbee, Medical Ex- anliner Mason, Captain Richmond and Mrs. Parker held conference, and the woman admitted she had given birth to the child a short time before Thanksgiving, and that she had later, the same night, taken it to the cellar and buried it. She said that she went upstairs about o'clock in the after noon to change her dress, preparatory to getting supper, and then had the child and tainted. When she came to her senses again she saw the child on the floor. She picked it up and wrap ped it in some clothing, among which was an apron, and wound the string of same around the child's neck four Or five times and placed it in her bed. She tEen went downstairs and got supper eating supper with the chil- dren. Mrs. Patenaude and her hus- band were away at the time The girl said, when asked why she had wrap red the string around the child's neck, that although she did not hear the child cry or see it move, she thought it might revive sufficiently to give some outcry while she was downstairs getting supper.
 Mrs. Parker says her husband died butler in New York state. She said she knew who the father of the child was, and that he was a white man and had promised to take care of her.
 Medical Examiner Mason stated that when he called at the Patenaude house that he saw the child in the cellar, partly buried. and that stone lying up- on it. had smashed in the face some what The infant was wrapped in clothing. including an apron, and the strings were wound several times about the neck so tightly as to cut into the flesh and he was of the opinion that the infant might have been born alive.
 Coroner A. G. Bill of DanieIson will call an inquest this morning at 10 o'clock, and will have Medical Exan- which it can he decided whether the child was born alive or not
 Mrs. Parker had been stopping with a family on Walnut street previous to and after being employed by the Pate naudes.
 MT. Patenaude said he was not aware of anything wrong at his house, and did not know that a child had been born there. Even after the girl had left his house his suspicious were not aroused. He said they had noticed blood stained clothes in the woman's room when cleaning up the room, but h f1d mi at Cf The first intimation he had of the af- fair was when he came across the body in cleaning up the cellar.
 Mrs. Parker is locked up in the po- lice station pending the result of che inquest and autopsy today.