Unknown County WA Archives Obituaries.....McCallum, Infant Daughter Of Blanche March 5, 1903
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Morning Oregonian
Child Smothered To Death
North Yakima Girl Charges Alleged Father With Crime

North Yakima,Wash.,Nov.17-(Special)- Willar Boyd, the young man charged with 
murdering the illegitimate child of Blanche McCallum, of which he is alleged 
to be the father, was brought before the Justice of the Peace Nichols at noon 
today fro a preliminary hearing. The girl was the star witness. She said that 
she gave birth to the child at 2 P.M. Monday, May 25,1903, and that Boyd took 
the child and smothered it to death beneath the bed quilts during the night. 
He then kept it in a valise till Wednesday night, when he placed it in a gunny 
sack and then carried it to the Schanno ditch, near the city, and placed it 
under the Northern Pacific Railway crossing.
The girl says that they had an understanding that no one was to know anything 
about the affair. She also says she never told her parents about it until this 
last Fall. The whole day was taken up in examining this one witness. Tomorrow 
will be devoted to the side of the defense.

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