Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — ANOTHER SENSATION EXPLODED [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER SENSATION EXPLODED

Death of Illegitimate Babe Near Whe&tfteld Was Prom Natural Causes.^ On complaint made by neighbors of the Eugene W. Lang family of northwest of Wheatfield, that an illegitimate babe of Edna Liutner, aged 23, who bad lived with the

L*ang family since the death of her father, some ten years ago, had died under suspicious circumstances. Coroner Weight, Health Officer Dr. Hemphill and Court Reporter McFarland went up to the place Saturday and conducted an investigation, finding that the babe’s death was from natural causes. * Drs. Blood of Hebron and Fyfe of Wlheatfield were in attendance when the child was born. Oct. 2, and Dr. Fyfe testified that the child was born weak and they had to work with it and use artificial means to keep it breathing. In fact the women present were ill working with the babe when he left tthe house. The child died a few hours later in the arms of a Mrs. Crawford, a relative or the family. Mrs. Nordhouse, the mother of the LJntner girl, said she went to the house after supper of the night the child was born, it being born about ll' p. m. and confirmed Dr. Fyfe’s evidence as to the child a condition. Mrs. Nordhouse is unfriendly to the Lang’s, openly making charges against Mr. Lang, and she doesn’t like it because the girl stays there. 'Mrs. Nordhouse they did not see, but from all the evidence gathered and after exhuming the remains and finding no marks on th© body, a verdiot oT death from natural causes will issue, The Lintner girl, it seems, also gave birth to an illegitimate child some five years ago. She charged a nephew of Lang’s with being responsible for her predicament at that time, but the lypung man left the country before any addon was brought against him. The babe died about 36 hours after its birth. The death certificate was signed by the attending physician. In the latter case the girl charged Leo Terry of near Baum’s bridge, in Porter county, as being responsible for her condition, but a hearing before a justice of the peace up there recently, Terry was cleared of the charge. When this babe died also toon after birth the neighbors did considerable talking about its having been put out of tihe way, and the stony grew to such an extent that Dr. Fyfe would not sdgn the burial permit and it was buried without a permit. The health officer and coroner were asked to investigate and both thoroughly satisfied themselves that the death was from natural causes. Lang told them that Dr. Blood had promised to Issue him the permit, but Blood was sick in bed and the officers did not see him.