This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2193 Message Board Post: 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 th! e 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 who 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.