| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 12/20/1910.
The body of a fully developed, newly born male child was found in an
oil tank on Rowels Run Thursday of last week by gauger Sam Flemming.
Prosecutor Mathews went over Friday and caused an inquest to be held, which
resulted in establishing the fact that the child had breathed and lived,
owing to the fact that the body had been submerged in oil and that the
weather had been very cold it was impossible to tell how long the child
had been dead, but by a newspaper which was found in the tank and with
which the little body had been wrapped, it is supposed that not more than
a week had elapsed since the fiendish crime had been committed. The
report has reached here that there is strong evidence connecting a young
unmarried lady who resides in the Rowels Run oil field with the crime. |
