Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Unknown, Baby Boy 1922
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Payette Enterprise 5-25-1922
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, May 25, 1922
 
BABY FOUND IN RUBBISH
 
The finding of a dead baby in the rubbish pile on the bank of the Snake river 
last Friday revealed by far, the most vile crime that has ever been committed 
in this community.
 
James Wallace in company with other men who were camping near the Snake river 
bridge just north of town on their way to the construction camp of the Oregon 
Highway, merely by chance found the body of the little innocent victim.  He 
was walking along the bank of the river just west of the cemetery where the 
bank extends above the water some 25 or 30 feet and seeing a new grain pack 
that had apparently been thrown over the bank among a lot of tin cans and 
other rubbish, thought to save the sack, went down and found the sack tied 
with what appeared to be a lot of rags inside, he cut the string, dumped the 
contents and was greatly shocked to find the body of an infant child inside, a 
blood stained flour sack, together with an old dirty coat, towels and other 
rags.  He at once notified the authorities who deeming the case of so 
importance, demanded the attention of the County Coroner who held an in quest 
over the little body at the court house, Friday afternoon, the verdict of the 
jury being as follows:
   "In the above entitled matter we, the jury, find as 
   follows:  That the infant child came to its death 
   from exposure, and from the evidence, its  identity
   could not be ascertained".
 
From expert testimony given in the hearing it is firmly believed that the 
child, a fine baby boy, about 11 pounds, red hair and blue eyes, born about 
twenty-four hours before, had been thrown over the bank into the rubbish pile 
alive.  A cut over the left eye (presumably from striking on some sharp 
object) had bled freely and seared over would be sufficient evidence to bear 
out the belief, a cold-blooded murder of the worst type, in a civilized 
community where we send missionaries into foreign countries to civilize and 
christianize the heathens who in the worst of heathenizm would shirnk from 
such a crime.  the perpetraters of this act are undoubtedly in this immediate 
vicinity and without any question their are those woh are in possession of 
evidence that would assist the officers who are seeking to locate the guilty 
parties.  Any one with holding such information are in a manner almost as 
guilty as the parties who commit the act.

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