Unknown County WA Archives Obituaries.....McCallum, Daughter Of Blanche May 25, 1903
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Monday Oregonian November  15,904
Accused Of Murder
North Yakima Man Charged With Killing A Child
Crime Committed Year Ago
Dead Infant Daughter Of Blanche McCallum,Whose Father Has Made The Charge 
Against Millard Boyd
North Yakima,Wash.,Nov.14-(Special)-Millard Biyd,of this city,is in county 
jail ona serious charge of having committed a murder almost a year and a half 
ago.It is alleged in a complaint sworn  to by McCallum,a rancher of the Naches 
Valley, that Boyd on May 25,1903, did "starngle,smother,kill and murder" the 
child of his daughter Blanche, and the act was premeditated.
On Thursday of last week Boyd had a hearing before Justice Taggard,here on the 
charge of seducing  McCallum's daughter.The evidence was so strong against the 
younng man that the justice held him under $1500 bail for his appearance for 
trial before the next term of court.
At this hearing it developed that he was the father of two children born to 
Blanche McCallum,one of which is still living.It was also further developed 
that over a year ago a dea dchild was found wrapped ina gunny sack in the 
Schanno ditch at Tramway crossing below this city.It is believed that this is 
the child that Boyd killed. The father of the girl alleges that Boyd took the 
child from the mother after it had been born, wrapped it in a bed quilt, and 
held it there until it was smothered to death.He then placed it in a gunny 
sack and kept it in an adjoining room for several days before throwing it in a 
ditch.

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