Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — Hammond-Rensselaer Sensation. [ARTICLE]

Hammond-Rensselaer Sensation.

A sensational story comes from Hammond which concerns a well known yOung man of Rensselaer and a young girl employed as domestic in one of Rensselaer’s most prominent families. The Hammond News of Dec. 6 made the following mention of the matters connected with the sensation: Last evening as Adam Lewandowskl, aged nine years, was passing along near the Hobman street bridgei he saw a bundle lying down the embankment. He picked it xtjr and started to get on a wagon to take it home. At that moment he saw' blood on the paper around the bundle and hastened to put it back where he found it. This morning he returned to the scene with two other boys, Joseph Fisk and Frank Byzenski. They unwrapped the package and found it was the body of a dead child. Undertaker Stewart was notified and took the remains to that company's morgue in the Huehn Block. Physicians and also coroner Turner, view'ed the body and pronounced it that of a fetus seven or eight months old. It is believed the child was horn without criminal operation, but was strangled after birth. Coroner Turner returned a verdict of death by strangulation. The physicians be*, lieve that the child had not been long dead. There is no clue to the parentage or to the parties causing the death, other than the cloth found around the body hears the initials "(j« T.” The police followed up what clues they could find with the result that an officer came here to arrest the supposed father of the dead child and its mother. The young man in some way got wind of what was up and left town hurriedly, but the girl was interviewed by the officer. Just how much she told him is not known to us, but a woman physician of Hammond is now mentioned in connection with the affair. As no arrests have been made at this writing we refrain from mentioning any of the parties.