Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — EXHUME BODY OF NEWLY BORN BABE [ARTICLE]

EXHUME BODY OF NEWLY BORN BABE

Coroner Wright Asked to Come to Wheatfield to Investigate Death of an Illegitimate Child. Parties from near Wheatfield were here Friday to see Coroner Wright and other officers about having the body of a baby buried in a cemetery north of that town exhumed and an investigation made as to the cause of the child’s death. The baby was born to Edna Lintman, a girl who makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lang, two miles north and one mile east of Kersey. Some time ago the Lintner girl brought paternity charges against Leo Ter,ry, a young man of Porter county. The preliminary hearing was brought before a Hebron justice of the peace, who heard some testimony that legally could not have been heard, it is said, and he'released the defendant. Later, however, a case was brought in the Porter county circuit court Attorney J. A. Dunlap, of Rensselaer, was representing the girl. The case was to have been heard at the next term of the court The birth and death of the baby occurred during the past week and for some reason neighbors thought the babe’s death was due to unnatural causes. The inquest is the result.