Clay County AlArchives News.....Death of a Baby will probe in Clay County.  October 15, 1931
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Cleburne News October 15, 1931
Chief among the cases to be investigated at the Fall term of the Clay County 
Circuit Court grand jury will be the death of an infant whose body was found in 
Dothard's Mill, pond on the Tallapoosa River in the northeastern section of the 
county last August. 
Arthur Messer, arrested about two weeks ago east of Oxford after Clay County 
officers had been in Anniston searching for him, is in the county jail here in 
connection with the death of the baby. He waived preliminary hearing this week. 
The Clay County officers met Messer on the highway as they were returning from 
Anniston. 
Sheriff W. I. Owen, of Cleburne County, found the body of the baby wrapped in a 
newspaper in the mill pond on August 17. An investigation got under way 
immediately with the sheriffs of Clay and Cleburne Counties in cooperating. 
Officers said that Mrs. Minnie [MARY] Jones Horn, charged with bigamy, is being 
held in jail in connection with the same case. 
They said that she is alleged to have married A. R. Breedwell, also in jail here 
on charge of bigamy, without procuring a divorce from a former husband. 
The body of the child, in all probability but a few hours old when apparently 
thrown or dropped from a bridge into the Tallapoosa River a mile or so from 
where the gruesome find was made by Mark Young lodged on the mill dam was 
wrapped in a Birmingham paper and an Anniston Star and a woman's duster. 
Authorities of Cleburne and Clay Counties have been diligently at work in an 
effort to locate the party or parties responsible for the death and disposition 
of the child.

Additional Comments:
Mary Horn & A.R. Breedwell were convicted of Bigamy and sent to prison. 

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