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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1981
Page
14
Chicago police search CHA apartments for the mother after a newborn girl was found in a trash chute at a South Side project. A janitor found the infant Sunday morning, and hospital officials said she was in good condition at Michael Reese Hospital on Monday. A man, William Handy, 29, reported hearing a kitten crying before locating the baby on the second floor.
A 32 year-old inmate Raul Crespo at Joliet Correctional Center was found hanged in his cell Monday at 5 20 p.m. He had been imprisoned since April 1980 for two burglary sentences. This marks the second hanging at the facility within a month. The Illinois Department of Law Enforcement is investigating. The prior death, James Pangburn of Rockford, 21, April 28, saw a coroner's jury unable to determine homicide or self harm amid sexual assault allegations.
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