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Show WfM 1 1 IMirglWf II III ! MMMm- i SHOCKING CASE OF INFANTICIDE. The lie suit of an Incestuous Union The Mother Goes Free, as the . - Child Was Still.Boru. Yesterday morning Miss Hannah E. Craig, a 17-year-old girl, whose home is in Spanish Fork, but who has been working work-ing for some time in the family of Mr. John D."Coalter, 246 Third East street, gave birth to a still-born babe, and con- i cealed it and as she thought all knowledge knowl-edge of her shame from the world. It will be remembered by many that on the 12th of last July, Mrs. Craig, a widow of nearly 40, gave birth to a child and at once killed it by choking and cutting cut-ting it with scissors and then hid the body in a cellar, at Spanish Fork. A half-brother half-brother of Mrs. Craig, named George Thorn, was arrested in this city as the father of the child, and was said to have aided in its death.' Thorn and Mrs. Craig are now in the Provo jail awaiting trial. It seems that Miss Hannah realized her condition, and yesterday morning at about 2 o'clock she got up, went outside and was delivered of the child and then threw it into the vault. She fainted from exhaustion, but on recovering went back to bed until the usual time of arising, when she got up, built the fire, and again retired to her bed, after which she informed in-formed Mrs. Coalter what had happened, and said that George Thorn was the father of her dead child. ., Drs. Anderson and Bower made an examination ex-amination of the body of the infant and expressed an opinion that it was stillborn still-born and had never breathed. The entire en-tire evidence being given, the following verdict was presented from the jury. An inquisition holden at the City Hall, in the Fifth Precinct of Salt Lake City, on the 28th day of September, before Adam Speirs, Justice of the Peace of the First Precinot, upon the body of a newly-born infant, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed: the said jurors on their oaths do say, from the evidence presented, that said infant was the child of Hannah E. Craig and was still-born on the morning of September 28th, 1885, at Salt Lake City. In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands, the day and year firstabove written. Geobge M. Davis, . , John Muzzelii, Frederick Cetlmeb, Jurors. Adam Speirs, Justioe of the Peace and Acting Act-ing Coroner. ' - . - The unfortunate girl is to be pittied more than blamed on account of her youth and apparent ignorance in regard to such a shameful occurrence. Thorn and Mrs. Craig, the latter said to be a hard-looking female, will undoubtedly get the full benefit of the law when their trial comes off. |