Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-10-26
Third District.

As black a crime has been committed
inside the city limits as ever was com
united in any town of the state John
Turner, of Chattanooga. formerly of
this place, went down in E. A. Hud-
sons pasture to catch horse to take
Mr.. Hudson to town. just as he
crossed the railroad aud passed by
briar patch to the left of the railroad,
be discovered dead Child lying on
its face. It evidently had been carried
there that morning by some woman.
Proof and the party is withheld Mr..
Hudson stayed and guarded the child
until Mr.. Turner went to town and
reported to Bailif Vanhooser and W.
H. White what he had found half
mile up the railroad above town, and
White rode horseback above town and
got G. a. Holloway, J. p, and
brought him to where the body lay,
and Immediately a coroner's jury was
impanelled and sworn, to take charge
of the corpse and investigate and rem
der true verdict according to the law
and testimony produced before them.
The body of the child was examined
and taken charge of by the jury and
was turned over to ]. ]. Dykes, the
city undertaken, and prepared for bur
ial, and inferred at the Cheekville
cemetery a. 2 o'clock. The child show
ed some marks and signs on back of
neck and head II had been murder
ed by some unknown hand about SO
hours after birth, and had evidently
been put under some floor from the
kind of dirt that appeared on its back
showed it had been laid on its back
prior to the time it was placed in the
briar patch. 1t was pitched on its
face and never moved and the dirt on !
its back showed to be Of different soil
to that where it was placed. The |
body had only been placed there
about six hours before it was discov-
cred. There were only few fly
blows appeared in the ears and eyes.
On the back of its head there was a
bruised place three inches long which
was fly blown, and we were led to
believe that the skull must have been
fractured or otherwise the fly blows
wouldn't have appeared on any other
part of the head except where it was
bruised and bloodshot. The child was
fully developed in every particular,
and as fine child and as large and
beautiful corpse has never been
seen by any one here. There were
150 people quickly assembled at the
scene and viewed the child as the
little innocent lay PROSTATE on its face
Many remarks on the perpetrator of
that dirty crime were heard from the
crowd. Mr.. Lewis photographed the
dead child just as it was placed, and
also the people that had assembled,
The coroner's jury at once entered
into an official Investigation Of the
murder case behind closed doors with
w. H. White, attorney, of Whitwell,
and p Fl. Thach, attorney, of Jasper,
as the legal lights, and no one was al
lowed to enter except witnesses and
those concerned in the Investigation.
The party guilty of this crime has a
heart as black as the ace of spades,
and IS guilty, wilfully, maliciously,
and Intentionally, of the
crime of murder, and ought to be I
charged in the first degree. The cor
oner's jury who conducted the inves-
tigation is composed of the following
gentlemen as jurors: B. J. Bailey,
Isham Dykes, Grover Davi dson, |
Charles Ridge, J. A. Worley, John
cowan, e. A. Hudson. Robt. Powell.
Lawrence Grayson, Photographer Lew
s DIR. McNabb, Charles Fl. Hollo- |
way, Matt Hudson, which was good
Jury. Further details of the jury's {
inal proceedings will be given out to
he reading public later on as the case
develops, and as to whom the jury {
,onvicts with this bloody crime. {
Whitwell had similar case some {
Two years past. An infant was murd s
red and put in the liver at the old 6
,ompany mill, and the crime came
,ery near being saddled on an inno-
.ent party and, in fact, the dirty, {
nellish crime was committed right in i
he town of Whitwel, and owing to l
he facts in that case, it proved to be t
,artles ranking high up in church cir
les and the dirty, bloody crime was |
mugglel and the identity of the gull
Y parties kept in profound secrecy,
nd public justice was debarred from
yer entering into that case for final
Investigation, and the guilty murder
r was allowed to roam the streets of
yhitwell as party of first type and I
haracter. The accessory to that crime :
] and was as guilty as the principal {
nd all ought to have been convicted s
nder the same law and justice melted S
ut to all. This present case was in $
ended to be worked and conducted the
anne way. l believe if the party who
arried that child's body hadn't brok
n down and hadn't happened to have
net so many people on the road they
you'd have put it in the Pickett pond
r the river, but as this was done in a