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cav*k kok igriin,SiMtrloc M.VHtltlea Over the I lent It ofnu IntHnt.Bf.fcTKicK. May 2*»’ {Special. ] A%:hieh txxinlitiTt ;Ui ol!{ei«l o\.*un\tiNtion,(* »h© apjH-arai cot infanticide, ami |iiselosing a frightful degree «»t jitv, was unearthed in this tit this afternoon by the authorities Todaythief of Police Reed received n lettera fating that at a certain hour a child I’.ad twm born and then murdered Ha©sued orders for Policemen Jaokson «tnd Randall to make an investigation,which was begun by a visit about •o’clock this evening nt the house. Ac companving them was Citv Phvsician Tr. «. T R sv (in entering the house, m hich is located near 'vhat is known as Willson's pnik. in the northwestern part i f the city, the woman who gave the name of Mrs Anna llorriok, waa found •done. Phe city physician began a vigorous questioning eliciting rwponses which afterward proved, by her ownconfession to be n i instate men t* li nally, when told that any attempt at con cealment would ouly serve to make matter* worse for her, she volunteeredto disclose the whereabout# of the child, which she first stated, had been thrown In the river.Upon going to a corner of the yard attier directions, the ottteors removed a nail *og and began digging in the ground About two and a half feet down they found the remains of u fully developedchild. It h i eon buried without •jiothing or any thing about it The un natural mother said that the ctui.l yvas l*orn hist We in sday at 51 o'clock. a i l that they had buried it the Saturdayaught followingUpon finding the body CoronerAlbright was notified, who instituted an Investigation. The woman is about thirty eight years old. She soya she w is last married At Marysville, Kansas, lastt'eptmnU'r to Charles Herrick Her former husband’s name she gave as Mr. .Cotta, Her present husband is at work an WymoteThe coroners’ jury, empanelled to in vestigat© the c«e of Mrs. Herrick and her baby, spent the forenoon today in ex •imining witnesses, resulting in a ver diet in effect thnt the child found buried In Mrs Herrick svard,had died from situ jile neglect The mother was placed on the stand and by her testimony plainly indicatixl that she w as concealing some thing and that what it wan would crim Innte the father of her child, v ho is notl»elieved to have hcon her husband, butthe father of another family She now claims to once having been the wife ofThomas K Doty, n printer who is well Iniowu in Beatrice and Lincoln. Sheeavs they w ere married about ten vears«go in Lincoln; that he deserted her three years after marriage. She claims that siio was not aware of doing any thing wrong in burying her child where *he did. The case is one of peculiar interest
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Lincoln Semi Weekly State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, May 26, 1893
Page 8
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