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dnitivita* ched-ipers amp-a for thea, lo-weenalter-[ for jreen gram \urch inday arbe-sville lient, i day rs IsL.Allen Mrs, 1 will ughnangoamp-ughn,rtt and I Y., f her ithurlocal I dish ii theand'turn-afterb herwardI son injur-yardoundwhotenposi-untyW* Johnson.Interment was in McKean Memorial Park at Lafayette.•Members of the McKean County Bankers Association called in a group at the Fry Funeral Home last Friday evening.Newborn baby is found dead near EmporiumEMPORIUM—Cameron County authorities are investigating the death of a newborn girl whose body was found in a paper sack near here Sunday morning. The case may prove a homicide, depending on the pathologist’s findings which are due today, authorities said,ACCORDING TO Coroner Walter Coppersmith, the infant girl’s body was found along Route 120 about 8/fOths of a mile west of Emporium at 8:45 a.m, Sunday. It was stuffed into a paper sack after being wrapped in a plastic bag and copies of both local weekly newspapers.The body was found, authorities said, by Lyle Freer of West Creek Rd,, who was inspecting a piece of ground along the highway Sunday morning.HE SAID the bag in which the body was wrapped was lying at the base of a tree some 18 feet from the highway. Authorities ■— including the district attorney and state police — said they believe the child was abandoned sometime late last week. An autopsy was immediately ordered and a coroner’s jury called to verify the death. The jury will be recalled later this week to rule on the cause of death,It it develops the child was aliva when it was abandoned, then the ease becomes one of homicide,Authorities have asked anyone for information to contact the coroner, district attorney or state police.
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McKean County Democrat
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, May 16, 1968
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Wendy D.
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