The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-10
: *.+ss 1865

little three months old babe, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert B. Bur
CESS, custodian of the Lehigh farm,
lay at the Story hospital last night
in the throes of death, it's frail
body racked with the deadly grip of
which inhuman hands had
forced down its baby throat while it
lay in crib at its parents home,
on the tract of land northwest of the
clay pits of the Lenigh-POrtland Ce-
ment company. At three o'clock the
wee form stiffened, the delicate
nerves showing the agony of its
last distress. Quietness settled over
the tiny limbs and it was dead. A
CHASTITY murder has blackened the
police records of the city. Today
the department is busy unraVelng a
conspiracy of lOathsome context, the
fabric Of which is network of bes-
tial guilt and when the facts are
known, as have been limited at, more
will be brought forward to answer
the indictment OF infanticida.
Husband Notified.
At five O'Clock last evening Albert
Burgess was notified at the Fifth
street Greek bakery by telephone
message from his wife that the baby
had been poisoned. Burgess, who OPP
crates the farm under the manage.
ment of the Greek butcher, Louis
Chirikos, hurried to the car line and
was dropped off at the end of the
circuit. Stumbling across lots, he
rushed to his premises, arriving at
six o'clock. The evening whistles
vert just blowing. Crumpled up on
the running board of his Buick au-
tomobile in front of the dwelling
was the shaking and sobbing figure
of his wife. At first she refused to
talk.
She kept repeating, Pm afraid to
go inside"
Where's the baby, Ada?" he
asked.
I'm there where he left her.
The story came out in a recital of
imaginative utterances as to cause
unbelief in any close observer.
The nineteen-year-old girl mother
told how, at shortly before four
o'clock she had gone out to put
some clothes in a washtub, after fin
ishing her tasks she returned. Stand
ing in the doorway was man,
masked with a flour sack over his
head, through which eye holes had
been cut. He held a small package
Give this to Louis" the figure or
dered in broken English.
Louis was her husbands employer.
''And if | leave this here and you
don't, I'll come back and get you
The Masked Brute.
The girl had advanced within the
room, according to her recital, and
had started for the other door, to
escape. Then she alleges the masked
brute leaned over the crib and
smeared white powder on the babes
mouth, holding it's head so it would
swallow it.
She says she ran back to protect
her offspring, when the man grasped
her. In the struggle he held her
nose, forced her head back and
placed some of the same substance
in her mouth. Then he left.
Whats that?" Burgess asked
roughly, pointing to some white
smears of powder on the table by
the crib.
"It's what he left" said the
woman
fastened to Doctor.
Scraping this into a bit of paper
which he retained, Burgess took his
wife and baby in his car to DR..
Hubbards. 1t was now after seven
O'Clock. Meanwhile the wife said
she thought the man was a Greek
and that he resembled George
Ranges. one of the proprietors of the
Main Cafe She said his build ana
his clothes resemBled his general ap.
pearance.
DR.. Hubbard took the child to the
Story hospital, where it died at three
o'clock.
The husband believes the wife's
story implicitly.
Burgess married Ada Holcomb last
March. The girl is nineteen and the
husband about forty. Her parents
live at Amboy, Mimi. At the time
of her marriage she was living with
, Burgess mother. Mrs. Della Burgess
at Rockwell The wifes parents are
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Holcomb
Two arrests of Greeks were made
| this morning, and the preliminary
hearing continued until two O'Clock
| this afternoon.
From records kept Saturday morn
ing and Monday afternoon and even
] ing by Henry Robel, Sr., and J. B
Coy, it was found that 172 pedes
TRANS of the 1884 who crossed the
bridge were delayed by the trains OF
! the Main street crossing, 1O3 out o.
629 teams were stopped. 10 out o
III automobiles, and twenty-one from
100 motorcycles.
These men ktpt the record to ge