A Dead Infant Found

Title

A Dead Infant Found

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Bibb Blade

Publication Place

Centreville, AL

Publication Date

4/2/1891

Transcript

A Dead Infant Found. An Inquest Held and a Verdict Rendered. Friday news [illegible] retrieval of another base crime committed near Randolph in this county, which adds another stain to Bibb's record. We did not learn the part who found the body, [illegible] than it was found and they reported to Esq. Mahan, who summoned a jury and witnesses to [illegible] him one male from Randolph to the woods, where the body was and with a string tied around its neck, and it was a negro child. Mahan [illegible] his jury [illegible] look such evidence as he [illegible] the case, and the verdict was [illegible] that the infant came [illegible] from strangalation [illegible] mother was a negro [illegible] name Roxie [illegible] was at the time of [illegible] the child in Briarfield [illegible] returned to the [illegible] warrant issued [illegible] Elliott.

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