Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — WHEATFIELD WOMAN CONVICTED AT WATSEKA [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD WOMAN CONVICTED AT WATSEKA

Woman Who Caused Death of Illegitimate Grandchild Given Sentence of One Year to Life.

Mrs. Henry Miller, the Wheatfield woman who was accused in Iroquois county, Illinois, with having killed her grandchild, entered a plea of guilty at Watseka and the judge imposed an indeterminate sentence of one year to life. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were respected residents of Wheatfield, where they lived simple, honest lives. Their daughter involved them in shame by becoming a mother. When her condition was realized she was sent to Illinois, where she had a sister and there the baby was bom. The aged woman felt the disgrace to such an extent that she killed the infant, throwing it into a dredge ditch. When the baby was missed suspicion was directed to her and soon the baby’s body was found and her arrest followed. Notwithstaing the horror of the deed, those who knew the old lady look upon it with much charity and believe that she was driven temporarily insane by her remorse. Her aged husband is crushed by the deed of his wife and is receiving the sympathy of all Who know him at Wheatfield.