Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — BABE SMOTHERED. [ARTICLE]

BABE SMOTHERED.

Coroner Wright was called to Fair Oaks Monday to investigate the death of the three weeks old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Casey, which was found dead in bed that morning when the couple got up. The babe, it seems, had slept in the same bed with its parents and they being a newly married couple, having been wed only a month ago, were not used to caring for children. The coroner found that the babe had been accidently smothered, and no particular blame could be laid on anyone—just a case of carelessness.