The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19
KRUGER UNDER
$4,000 BOND
after ARREST
Trial in Baby Case as Soon as
Possible, Prosecutor Prom
ises-Bond Given.

Following his arrest on a grand jury
Indictment, charging involuntary man.
slaughter, DR.. Frederick w. Krueger
appeared before Judge Bond in Wayne
county circuit court Saturday morn
ing, and was released on $4,000 bond,
pending trial. The date for his trial
was not set by the Judge, who said it
probably would not be before next
month.
Prosecuting Attorney Gath Freeman
said Saturday that he would ask that
Kruger be brought to trial as quickly
as possible, and before the court Of
ficials take their summer vacations,
in August.
Krueger's bond was signed by the
same five men who signed the bond
for his appearance before the grand
jury, all of whom were present In
court Saturday morning. Those who
signed the bond were q. F.. Hiatt.
George Eggemeyer, Adam H. Bartel,
Henry Gennett and G. w. Hayes
The indictment returned against
Krueger does not specify that volun-
tary granddaughter was committed.
According to law, in order to commit
voluntary manslaughter, the accused
must have been in Sudden heat Of
passion" which was not the case In
Krueger's action. The full text OF
the grand jury Indictment and the re-
port of the jury follows:
The Indictment reads partly as fol-
lows! "The Grand Juors for said
State Of Indiana, charged and sworn in
Wayne Circuit Court to inquire with
in and for the body Of the same said
County of Wayne, upon their oath.
charge and present that Frederick w.
Krueger, late of said county, at said
county, on the 30th day Of June, A. D..
1919, did then and there unlawfully
and feloniously in a rude, insolent.
angry manner, touch, strike, cut,
wound and injure the person Of one
John Smith, the said John Smith be-
ing then and there the infant child
of one Lewis Smith and one Isabel
Smith, and that said Frederick w.
Krueger. did then and there and there
by unlawfully and feloniously inflict
a mortal wound and injury in and up
on the person Of the said John Smith,
of which mortal wound the said John
Smith did then and there languish
until the first day Of July, A. D., 1919.
and so languishing at and in said
County of Wayne, and State Of In
diana. the said John Smith did, on said
first day of July, A. D., 1919, then and
there did die"
And so the grand jurors aforesaid,
upon their oath aforesaid, do say and
charge that the said Frederick w.
Krueger in the manner and by the
means aforesaid, did then and there
unlawfully and feloniously kill the
said John Smith, being then and there
contrary to the form Of the statute
in such cases, made and provided, and
against the peace and dignity Of the
State of Indiana.
Second Count
And the said grand jurors further
charge that Frederick w. Kruger, on
the first day of July, 1919, did in a
rude. insolent, and angry manner
throw, hurl, and discharge the person
of John Smith down a steep embank
ment with great force and violence
and that Frederick w. Kruger die
| inflict a mortal wound and injury upoT
the person of John Smith, of which
mortal wound and injury John Smith
did then and there die.
Third Count
And the grand jurors further
charge that Frederick w. Kruger die
cruelty ill-treat, abuse and infllct un
necessary cruel punishment upon ONT
John Smith, by cutting off the um
bilical cord of the said infant Joh1
Smith, and by neglecting to tie tht
same so as to prevent bleeding, ane
by permitting infant John Smith tt
bleed, and by failing to wash ant
cleanse infant John Smith after it
birth, and by wrapping said lnfan
John Smith. in a piece of cloth ant
a piece of newspaper, and by layin'
infant John Smith upon a bureau, ant
by permitting infant John Smith, thu
wrapped to be and remain upon sait
bureau, nine hours, and by permitting
said infant John Smith to remain
upon the floor of the house, and b,
permitting infant John Smith to re
main upon said floor for six hours
and by placing infant John Smith. thu
| wrapped in certain automobile OF tn
said Frederick w. Kreuger. and b.
hauling and conveying said infan
John Smith. in said automobile alon
and upon the public streets of tn
City of Richmond. in Wayne county
Indiana, for eight hours, and by hur
ing and discharging the person of ir
FAINT John Smith down a certain stee
embankment, of the east fork Of tn
Whitewater river, the said Fredericl
w. Krueger, being a physician of sal
county of Wayne and state of Indiana
and having as such physician under
taken to attend to, and treat, infan
John Smith at the time of his birth
and thereafter. And the grand juror
upon their oath further charge an