Show HORRIBLE DISCOVERY CHICAGO BOYS FIND TUE IX A SOAP BOX the ghastly affair shrouded in mystery CHICAGO oct 13 A ghastly dis-covery was made by a couple of boys in the deserted brick yard at the cor-ner of thirty third and laurel streets this afternoon they found an old soap box and opened it the dead and decomposed bodies of five babies laid side by side within the thir ty fifth street police station was noti-fied and the remains sent to th 0 morgue the bodies were examined and round to be badly decomposed two were males and the other three females one of the males and one of the females appeared to have lived about two weeks while the oth-ers had died shortly after birth A cursory examination revealed a seeming fracture of the skull in two cases but these were the only marks of violence discovered the babies had probably ben dead for about ten days have been as-signed to work up the case the rea-son being that there are none to spare the strike causing the tempo-rary abandonment of all detective work the po i e of the thirty fifth district are of the opinion that the babies came from a baby farm or lying in hospital none of these are known to exist in the vicinity and it is believed the soap box was carried to the brick yard from a distance with a pile of refuse of which a con-ssiideerraabbllee amount has been deposited there Eni eror |