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THROWS BABY TO DEATH;• * •• I •She is; Taken to Hospital After Discovery of the 1 Infarit’a BpdjvCORONER HOLDS POST MORTEM' ’ • • • .* * . . . f; .\V!»Oit Girl Is Able lo Tayc CHHttfcO Stmc Institution goie Wlil.bc Given Hearing- on - Infanticide Cl«rgo ITc-ferrcd by County. Detective Smith.Accused of Infanticide for*the death of her new-born boy, Anna Zavalchan, a 19-year-old Slavish girl of Deleon-ring No. S, is in the Cot logo StniQhospital here. Members of the hospital staff have been instructed 10 notify District. Attorney S. Hay Shelby at Linlontotvn. when slit* Is able to leave the institution.The body of the child was found in a pile of «jond in the rear of tho -Wyman hotel. South Pittsburg street, about G.30 o'clock Thursday morning. Constable J. W. Mitchell was called by John Luckey and William Yates, employed by the J. It. Davidson Company. They pointed out: the small form. The Imprint in the sand led to the belief ihui tho Child had fallen from some height.In the hotel It wns reported that Anna -Zavatehan, r. dishwasher, hod reported sick Wednesday evening, and Another girl had boon substituted. The Zavatchan girl, however, was working the next morning. After lengthy questioning she admitted that' tho child was hers, an'd that she had dropped it from a window' In' hop room, according to Constable Mitchell.Coroner Harry J. Beil of Duw.vjn. •District Attorney Shelby of Union-town. Deputy Coroner T. B. Kenard nnd Burgess J. L. i’vanr. here, wr«J notified. The girl's condition u s such that she was sent to tho hospital, after being placed under nnv?t i Ui await action by county officers.Coroner Bell conducted n posi-m«»r-\ tom examination on the child’s h««:iy ; in C. C*. Mitchell's undcriiiking eslab-I lishment, 5. Pittsburg street, Thured :y j nl^lu and declared Infanticide was 1**0 i cause- of death. He learned thin tho ; child had been born about S.20 o'cio ; Wednesday* nIght.t Anna Zavatehan is the daughter of ' George Z.ivatchan,. h funner. Wtau - iiskcd why alio hud not told him or ! the child, she declared she was afraid.I She said the child w«p dead wh«n i bnrn, but Coroner Bell fin Id It wag *!v-I lug. The body weighed 7 pound?*.| Anna Zuvntclian. the Slavish girl *.£ i Deisenring. sent to the Cottage bUUo j Hospital after her dead .• baby.. . was ! fouud in the rear cf the-Wyman Hotel Thursday morning, escaped from that institution about S.3U. o'clock Friday night. • : ’ •Ifnlf an hour later she .was found sitting on the curb at Devouring avenue and Eighth sLreet, West Side, -y Policeman Henry Geiger. The. girl was awaiting h street car Lo her home near Daisenring No.1.3. . PoliceiranGeiger look her lo iho police station, where she spent the night. She was relumed to the hospital by Chief of PpUce George HeUel.On Saturday the girl's father. .George Ztvvalchnn, Was notified au«l off or Is- made to procure ball for tho •girl, ntrttimst whom li-charge of infanticide whb made by Coroner Ilorry J. Bell on hin undertaker’s certificate following a postmortem examination lt;»f the baby’s body.Within five minutes after a.auw' left the Zavatehan girl In the hospital ward; she got up. found a skirt and her coat, and leaped from a bathroom window, about 3^fect. When taken to'the* police station, she was permitted. to sleep In Burgc-ss J. L. Evans' office and not confined in a celL •; J wanted to go home, the girl said. “My mother wits at the. hospital yesierday and wanted me to. leave.
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Connellsville Weekly Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1912
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