Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — A WOMAN'S AWFUL CRIME. [ARTICLE]

A WOMAN'S AWFUL CRIME.

Stitched Together the Lips of a Baby and Threw the Little One in the Water. While a party of young men and women were drifting in a row-boat on the Delaware river, at Burlington, N. J., a woman In white was seen to come out from the shadows pf a clump of trees, and, walking a few yards down the river bank, stop at the edge of. the water. A splash was heard, but, as the woman was still stands ing on the bank, those in the boat thought that a piece of the bank had slipped down into the water. In a few moments the woman disappeared in the clumps of trees from which dhe had come. The next morning a fishermah came across a black bundle Abating in the water. When be opened it he found the body of a pretty chubby baby, and was horrified to see that its lips were tightly stitched together. The woman in white had thrown the black bundle into tho water, and the stitched lips of the child tell why no cry was heard.