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Show AX I.VFAXT 3IUKDEREI). X Clear Case or Infaallelle B-rorc Ihc Coroner. Shortly after noon yesterday three hoys named Charles and Heary Fera!rom and Bailey Dunford, whoie ages range rront twelve to fifteen van, were playing in tlie rear of the Social Hall when they taw a bundle wbirdi attracted their attention. On further investigation they disco vereep It to be the dead body of a female Infant, uvldcntlj-newly uvldcntlj-newly born, wrapped Iu an old undershirt. un-dershirt. The boys notified two men named Carlson and Anderson, who were in the vicinity, and who removed the remaini to police headquarters. Liter the corpse wis conveyed to the undertaking room of Kvans i Ross on West Temple-Street, where Dr. Meacliaru, tlie city physician, mado a jost mortem examination of IL Ono luug was removed and what to called the hydro-tatic test was a piled to It. It was placed In waterand Iloatedllgbtly.lt was then cut up Id small piece?, which also floated. Some of the pieces were then ul Jccled to a pressureof about 203 pounds, after w hlch they still fl jatcd. Tills to regarded as conclusive conclu-sive proof that the child had breathed fully and naturally. 4V long strip of white cotton cloth, aTout two Icciiei wide, and apparently appar-ently torn from a sheet, was wound tightly arounl Iho infant's neck, and was doubtless thenuseor death. The physician detected evidence-which evidence-which led him to surmise that no. iiiyslciau nor midwife attended at tlie birth. Tho child had, in the oj Inion of Dr. Mearham, been born lei than twenty four hours at the time the corj.se was found. It had auburn hair aul was well developed. devel-oped. City Marshal Young has taken charge of the garment In which It was wrapped, and of the strip of cloth found around its neck. An iuque-t was in progrcsi this afternoon before Coroner Harris. |
