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Butlerville Items.March 26th, 1873.INFANTICIDE.,The town and neighborho^ here have been terribly excited during the past week on the account of a fearful crime that has been committed in our midst, and what renders the case still more mysterious and revolting to a fair minded community is that thus far the authorities have been unable to elicit any legal evidence with regard to who the criminal is. The circumstances are as follows. On last Tuesdayafternoon, a dead infant, apparently fullds aboutgrown, was found in the woods about two and a half miles southeast of this place. It was immediately brought to this place and Coroner Anderson McGannon notified. He arrived here about three o’clock on Wednesday morning, bringing with him Dr. J. Cope, of Vernon, as medical witness, and at once summoned a jury and roeeeded to an investigation of the case, r. Cope made a post mortem examination, applied the tests usual in such cases and gave it as his opinion that the child had been born alive and had come to itsBdeath by blows upon the head. The skullidwas fractured and crushed in in the region of the frontal bone. After having examined the body the inquest adjourned untilWnine o’clock a. m. When it again met and continued its investigation nearly all day using every lawful means within its power to ascertain who the perpetrator of thisdreadful crime was: A certain young ladywho lives near where the baby was found, was suspected as being the mother, and she together with the family with whom she lived was summoned before the coroner’s jury, and carefully questioned, but nothing could be elicited to confirm the susi picion. The coroner then requested the young lady to submit to a personal examination by a physician as a vindication of her innocence. This (partly through the advice of others) she declined, and so thejury was compelled to return a verdictIdthat the child came to its death by blowsinflicted uPpn its head by parties unknownto them. The entire community hefe feels indignant to think' that so revolting a crime may be perpetrated in our midst and the guilty go unpunished. Yet unless further evidence can be produced such seems likely to be the case.
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North Vernon Plain Dealer
North Vernon, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 28, 1878
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