Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Child Dead—Great Excitement. [ARTICLE]

Child Dead—Great Excitement.

Great excitement existed yesterday, 17thinst., in the neighborhood of Edina Place, relative to the death of a child, named John Joseph Wall, whose parents live at No. 124, on that street. Stories of the most exagerated description were afloat, acme saying that the child had been beaten to death, and others, that the father had seized it by the legs, dashed out its brains against the wall.’ The Coroner was notified and examined the case, which dwindled down into the following facts: The child, who was only seven months old, had been sick for a long time with on incurable disease of the liver. Yesterday afternoon, it was dying, and the father, who was beastly drunk at the time, in a sort es maudlin affection, declared that it should die in his arms. The child wee lying upon a pillow in its mother's arms, and the father seized it from her. nd staggering about, let it fall upon the fl.'or, without, however, injuring i , the pillow break.ng its fall. The physician f .x iinined thechildand pruumneed, that it died a natural death, and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with this decision. The ex itement was most intense in tho neighborhood and at one time strong enough to lynch the man. Muny persons, who had spread abroad the most inflated stories, being put u;;» a their oaths before the jury, knew notleng '■<’ • the case, and thus, Eke many <>th ■ -r occurrences, a horrible m"rder dwii- .< j t'. a n .tural death.— Chicago Daily Jjurnci