OBIT: Infant GIBSON, 1904, Blacklick Township, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, December 23, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 50 Concealed Child's Death There is confined in the country jail here a young lady whose case has attracted considerable attention through this end of the county. She is charged with having concealed the death of an illegitimate child and it is said that this is the second offense of the kind of which she has been suspect. As is provided by law she was returned by the Constable of the district in which she lived as having given birth to an illegitimate child at the last term of court and was brought here on December 6th on a process from the court. She refused to make information against the alleged father of the dead babe and county Detective Knee from evidence which he had collected charged her before Squire Waters of having concealed the death of the child. Since December 10th she has been locked up in default of $500 bail. Attorney J. F. McKenrick appearing for her, waived a hearing for the next term of court. The girl is Alta Gibson of Blacklick Township. Her mother, it is said, is dead. Alta had been employed in one of the lumber camps in the north of the county. The remarkable thing about the girl's trouble is the fact that this is the second offense against morality in which she has been concerned. Evidence to convict was lacking the first time but Detective Knee warned her of the gravity of the offense which she has repeated. The girl, it is said, admits that a child was born, saying it died and her father buried it.