Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF UNNATURAL DEATH [ARTICLE]

FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF UNNATURAL DEATH

Coroner Wright Found Mo Marks on Body of Edna Lintman’s Baby— Burled Without Permit. Coroner Wright, who was induced to go to a graveyard northeast of Kersey last Saturday to exhume and examine the body of an illegitimate child bom Thursday to Edna Lintman, found no marks on the child that might indicate foul play. Dr. JD. N. Loy accompanied him there and Dr, Fyfe, of Wheatfleld, was also present and examined the body. The child had been buried without ■a permit, and an affidavit has been filed at the clerk’s office against Eugene Lang, with whom the girl has made her home for a long time. It Is thought probable that the case against him will be pushed. The Lintman girl filed charges against a young man named Lea Terry and at the preliminary trial held at Kouts Terry was released. It is said that a number of young men there made threats against Lang, whom they claimed to have been responsible for the girl’s condition. A statement made by Mrs. Lang, it is beileved, would prove a complete alibi for Terry, who lives in Porter county. Dr. Blood, of Hebron, was called to attend the girl. He called Dr. Fyfe in consultation. The child Was apparently dead when born but artificial means of respiration were resorted to and when the doctors left several hours after the child was born it was apparently air right The next day Long reported its death. He went to Wheatfleld and bought a casket in the absence of Undertaker Keen. Dr. Fyfe would not give a certificate of the cause of death and Lang went ahead and buried the baby anyway. Neighbors were suspicious and the exhumation followed. At the coroner’s inquest it developed that the baby died in the lap of a neighbor woman, Mrs. Jennie Crawford. Among other witnesses before the inquest was Mrs. John Nordhouse, mother of the Lintmian girl. She was very indignant that her daughter, whb is 23 years of age, continues to make her home with the Langs and talked very plainly about it. This is the second time the girl has had trouble, the previous occasion being about five years ago. At the Inquest Lang claimed that he went to Dr. Blood for a burial certificate and that he found Dr. Blood sick in bed, but was told that he could go ahead and bury the child and he would fix the certificate after he recovered. Some doubt seemed to accompany this statement from Lang.