The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-02-01
Coroner's Jury Finds Infant
Found on Dump Died
From Strangulation.
NO TRACE OF MISSING WOMAN
Police Work on Theory That Woman
May Have Brought Child From Some
Other City, but Physicians Declare
Child Was Born Here.



The coroner s jury called by Judge
Clifford E. Randall of the municipal
court to investigate the death of the
infant child found on the dump near
the plant of the Simmons Manufactur-
ing Company on Tuesday morning, re-
turned verdict just before noon to-
day finding that the child had died as
q result of strangulation. The evil
dence produced at the inquest did not
throw any light on the identity of
the mysterious woman who threw the
dying infant on the dump.
Before the inquest a post mortem
was held by Doctors spalding and
Bernstein and this revealed the fact
that the child had been born alive and
had died from strangulation. The main
witnesses at the inquest were the ply
sicians and the man who had picked
up the parcel in which the baby was
found. The opinion Of the physicians
was that the child had been born in
Kenosha only a short time before it
was thrown on the dump.
The police officers Of the city are
still cropping in darkness in an effort
to discover the identity Of the mysteri
Gus woman who threw the little baby
on the dump at the plant Of the Sim
mons Manufacturing Company on Tues
day morning and nothing has been
found that will in any way cler up
the matter.
Tuesday afternoon police officers of
the city visited every house along Mar
ket street and asked the people if they
had seen the woman with the grey
cloak, but none Of them had seen her
or if they did see her pass on he1
way to the lake front they were not
impressed sufficiently to remember the
case. The hospital has been closely
watched with the, idea that possibly
the mother of the child might be tax.
en- there for treatment, but this lead
has also proved fruitless one.
Chief O'Hare is working under the
theory that the child may have been
brought in from some other city and lie
has asked the police in all the sur
rounding cities to keep q close look
out for anything that may aid in the
lsolution of the mystery.
In speaking of the case, Chief
| O Hare said: II can not believe that
any sane woman would have deliberate
| ~ carried that child to the dump in
broad daylight unless she had come to
the city either from some rural part
of the county or from some other city
IF the baby had been born to any
Kenosha woman she would not have Sc
lected public place like the Simmons
| dump to dispose of it, but on the other
hand this would have been the most
natural place for person not
acquainted with the city to go to. II
the woman left the train at the North
western station she would undoubtedly
take the first street leading to the
lake and this would be Market street
1t is strange thing that there was
no one but the man who found the
baby who saw the woman walking
along Market. street. It is said that
the woman was well dressed and she
must have attracted some attention
carrying bundle large enough to In
clude the body Of the baby. The
woman might have disposed of the
baby and got the next train out OF
town and ia that case she would have
been out of the city before the facts
in the case became known to the police
department. We have 40 clew on
which to work There was nothing
about the baby but the old black
skirt and this is q skirt that is worn
commonly by working girls. =
The people interested in the case did
not give up the fight to resuscitate the
baby until late Tuesday afternoon and
lit was four clock before the body
of the child was taken from the
temporary incubator that had been
arranged over the register in the rear
room Of the Mischler and Stanton I'M
dertaking parlors. Women Of the city
who heard Of the case telephoned to
| the parlors offering their services in
attempting to save the life Of the child
hut they were informed that they could
do nothing to save its life.
The case is one Of the most unusual
ever reported in the history Of the city
| and the unusual conditions under