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MARKLEYSBURG GIRL ADMITS KILLING CHILDArabella Glass, Lloyd Close Arrested By Officers After Finding Babe.By order of District Attorney Janies A. Reilly. Arabella Glass was removed from the city police station to the TJntentown . - hospital in the ambulance at 1:15 this afternoon.The move was taken to safeguard the health of the woman who save birth to a-child Monday. the first riat attorney said. j* * J 1 • i J• . IConfession that she dropped her; new-born child through a hole in! an outhouse to die was reported to-! day by Motor Patrolman John E.! Gettier from a child-minded 23-1 year-old unmarried mother, Ara-. beila Glass. Markleysburg.Incarcerated in the Fayette county jail today she declared that the child : was still-born, though motor police ] report that she last night confessed j that it cried after its birth. ■. Also arrested was 34-year-old; Lloyd Close, Listonburg. club-footedi dwarf, who admitted that he “might | be the father of the child. He, “couldn't be sure,, though: there; were so many.''The arrests followed a whirlwind j investigation by Officer Gettier, after neighbors reported seeing an arm of the child sticking out fromj under the outhouse where it had; been left early Monday at birth.The gruesome sight was reported j to Deputy Coroner Tony Rendin.e,j who notified Motor Police at once, j Tiie mother admitted to police, that she bore the. child in the out-j house early Monday, ana left it there without further attention un-; tfi it was found late last evening.The reputed father asserted, ac-i cording to police: that he knew the baby was expected.'but had intended to marry the girl. He denied, having advised her action.or having! any knowledge of the crime.The body of the child war, taken to the Humbert funeral home in Confluence, where an autopsy was I to be performed today to determine' definitely whether or not the child had been alive at birth:It was fully developed, however.: and officers have little doubt that; with reasonable care it would have survived.Murder will be charged against: the pair if investigation indicates: that the babe was alive at birth..
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Daily News Standard
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Aug 12, 1937
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