Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-08 | Page 1 | Body of Babe Put in Stove

BODY OF BABE I PUT IN STOVE I 1 Horrible Story Told to I Butte Police. I Prominent Physician of Cop- H per City Figures in the H Case. Eundlo Which He Asked Cook in Restaurant to Cremate Con- tained Body of Child. . Special to Thc Tribune. BUTTE. Mont., June 7. Details of a horrible story of tho burning of the bodj of a small baby were told to jf the police tonlsht, and a serious charge will be preferred against a prom- IH Incnt physician of this city as soon a.s he can be located by the police. According to thc story told thc offictrs, thc physician entered the kitchen of the Dclmonlco restaurant on Park street, one (H of the bc3t-known eating-houses In the 'H city, this evening carrying a bundle jH which he wanted to put in the firo. As thc doctor upon several previous oc-casions oc-casions had put bundles Into the fire, ihe cook thought nothing of tho request' and granted It. Several minutes later the-cook, the-cook, unable to got thc stove-lid down, removed thc Iron and was horrified to find on the top of the mass of flaming coaks the body of a baby slowly burning 'H to ashes, thc complete cremation of which jH would have been accomplished in a few IH minutes more.