Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1901 — The Hammond Infanticide. [ARTICLE]

The Hammond Infanticide.

Mary Saeel Tells All About It. The following is condensed from the Hammond Daily Tribune, cf Wed need ay. “The infanticide case with which the name of Dr. Mary E. Jackson is connected, was the first matter taken up for consideration by the grand jury today. The testimony before that body was of necessity secret but The Tribune has been in possession of the information for several days past as to what might be expected in the way of evidence. Simultaneously with the publication of the story in last Saturday’s Tribune a police affioial of Hammond went to

and took charge of the broug>fi£ Miss Nagel, who was in a privtSMps oity and cared for any ou t reach of obstructed thejpMk would have came willingly and Sb® a Tribune representational by complaint to offer except Dr. Jackson and Earl Mann. . k

story cleared up the last cloud iff the State’s case. She said she had been forced tn accompany Mann to Hammond, but that when she was brought to Mrs. Jackson, and learned the nature of the revolting operation, she refused to continue and begged to be allowed to go home again. She says that, at this, Dr. Jackson said she was a “little fool,” that “it wouldn’t kill her” and “it might as well be done then as any other time.” She says farther that Dr. Jackson operated on her and put her in the greatest agony previous to the birth of the infant. The connecting link between the opera tion above described and the infant found under the Hohman street bridge was also furnished by Miss Nagel who said she brought a napkin with her from Rensselaer and that it was one belonging to a young lady in whose home Miss Nagel lived for four years up to the time of the operation. She said Earl Mann took the dead child and left the house. The infant found by the police was wrapped in a napkin on which were embroidered the letters ‘G. T.” The napkins was identified on Miss Nagel’s arrival here as belonging to the young lady and as the one she brought with hot to Hammond when she came. Michael Nagel, the father of the girl, came to Hammond this morning and brought some important documentary evidence with him together with the assurance of the leading residents of Rensselaer that he could have all the backing he needed in the effort to bring the guilty ones to j ustice.