Butts County GaArchives News.....A Brutish  Act February 11, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County February 11, 1898
A Negro Woman at Cork Murders Her Baby

Parson McKleroy was called to Cork on last Sunday evening by telephone to hold 
an inquest over the dead body of an infant negro child , which came to its 
death very soon after being born, in a very inhumane manner.

A negro woman, Mary Clark about 18-20 years old, living on the place of Mrs. 
Mary Walker, near the Major Ward old homestead, stole away from the house and 
sought a hiding place some three or four hundred yards from the house in a 
gully where she gave birth to the child, and put it into a hole of water and 
went off and left it.  She was soon suspected of the matter and an 
investigation was begun which resulted in the finding of the child.

When the child was taken to her she acknowledge that it was hers, but denied 
killing it.

The jury in the coroner’s inquest rendered a verdict of premeditated criminal 
neglect, the same being a case of infanticide.

The woman was put under arrest but was unable to be carried to jail and she was 
placed under guard until able to be moved.



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