Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Baby Smothered In Bed. [ARTICLE]

Baby Smothered In Bed.

Sleeping on the dead body of his 9-months-old child, whom he had Innocently smothered, R. I. Johnson, a night watchman at the Elgin, 111., watch factory, did not know what he had done iintil his wife arrived home after an several hours and made the sorrowful discovery. The baby had been placed on a pillow beside him. It Is supposed the baby rolled off the pillow and In some way got under the father. The coroner’s Jury exonerated him from blame.