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Show u ACCUSE GARDENER OF SLAYING INFANT SON Santa Darbarn, Cal., Nov. 3. Accused Ac-cused by a coroner's Jury of having murdered his son, two days old, John Ilech, nged 30. a gardener, Is fleeing, coatless and lindens, beforo a sheriff's .posse in the hills back of Santa liar-tmra. liar-tmra. The bod of tho bube was found shortly after dark burled under tho floor of a barn nt tho Itech homo at Monteelto, near hero. In custody of several deputy sheriffs, sher-iffs, but not manacled, Hech dliected the diggers Taking advantage of the excitement following tho find, ho stepped back and disappeared. While the deputies nnd a dozen or more volunteers look up tho chase tho coroner called a pury and returned a wrdlct blaming Itech for tho child's death nnd reeonlmendliig that ho bo tried for murder. Tho discovery was tho lesult of Information In-formation furnished tho authorities by tho physician who attended Itech's wifo when tho child was born, and who became suspicious when ho called today to-day nnd found tho child gone. o |