It Was Murder!

Last Saturday the news spread qaiokly about the city thntaghastly discovery had been made by some plumbers as they were digging in the cellar of a Greek letter fraternity house on Monroe 8t. That society purchased the house a few months ago, had occupied it ooly tbis past fall, and were now having some plumbing work done. The thing found was a bavket about three inches under the surface which contained the dried-upremains of amale child wrapped in two articles of underwear. Coroner Jenkins promptly took possession, and had Dr. Víctor C. Vaughan and Dr. Conrad Georg last Monday made a careful examination cf the body. They gave their opinión that the child had been alive and was murdered. Indeed, it doesn't require a professional eye to see clearly that there was an attempt to murder the child ; but the evidence that it was alive at the time of the attempt is such as only a physician could be expected to give. It seems conclusive, however. On Tuesday evening Coroner Jenkins eummoned a jury composed of Abb Mann, Joe Martin, D. C. Fll, John Lindensehmitt, Andrew Muehlig, and S. S. Bütz, and the witnesses were called. JAMES QÜINLIAN (estified that he was a plumber living in Ann Albor, and was digging a trench for pipe in the cellar early one morning when his spade struck the basket. It was about three inches under the suiface, and in the front part of the cellar farthest from the kitchen. He took hold of the basket at one end and pulled it out. The soil was loose sand and gravel, and that part of the cellar was not cemented. Didn't notice whether groand was disturbed or not. It was right over a cold air box, and between the coal bin and furnace. He examined tho contents sufficiently to convince him of its nature. Covering the basket were three pieces of paste-board, and wrapped around the body were articles of underwear. He could not fix the day on whieh he found it, nor could his two companions. The three are young men unused to giving testimony. FRANK M. CAMPION testified that he had worked as a plumber for Schuh & Muehlig about six or seven months, and was working in the house at the time of the discovery. He was callad to 8ee the object in about two minutes after it was found. He agreed with first witness relative to location in the cellar, and in all other important particulars. When he first saw it, the contents of the basket were undisturbed, but the basket had been taken out of the hole. He thoueht it might have been two, three, or four days before the coroner took it away. Both saw the ribbon at the neck of the child. JOHN KINNEY is also a plumber who worked in the house. Thinks he was notified of the discovery in about 15 or 20 minutes. Tcok a gasoline torch and looked at the ba-ket and content?. It was about three inches from the hole. Didn't remember the day on which it was found. Told hig nncle about it. Didn't know who put the body there, nor how it carne there. It was about three inches from the hole when he saw it. The three young men are confused about the time of finding the child, but close questioning after the examination was over and when they had had time to collect their thoughts, makes it probable that it was found on Tuesday or Wednesday of last week. They all swore that they knew nothing whatever about the child previous to the discovery, and that the basket and remains before them were the same that they found in the cellar. DB. VÍCTOR C. VAUQHAN swore that on Monday last, in company with the coroner and Dr. Georg, he made an examination of the body. The child was completely mummified, nothing but skin and bones. Had been in a dry plaoe. May have been dead 3 years or 300 years. So far as body was concerned, it could last iadeñnitely in such a soil. Clothing could last at least three years in such soil. No one can say deñnitely how long the body had been there. Might be three to six years. The ribbon was tied about the blood-vessels of the neck. The head was crushed in. Chest crushed in. All of them couldn't have been caused by accident. Thinks it was a full born child. There is no evidence that there had been much putrefaction about it. Couldn't see any object for the ribbon but that of destroying life. Thinks the child was born alive. If the child had been dead, there would have been no object in tying the blood-vessels. DB. CONRAD GEORO corroborated Dr. Vaugban. He had made measurements of the head, and tbey correspond with those of iully developed children at birth. There was bright red blood under the scalp where the head was crushed in, which is positive proof tbat the heart was beating at the time the blow was struck. He gave other evidence that to a medical man proves that the child was born alive. Any one of the three Djuries enough to cause death. Believes the chile was murdered. THE VERDICT OF THS JURY. The coroner's jury soon gave its verdict that the child carne to its death by known hands, and that they do believe it to be willtul murder. Coroner Jenkins handed the verdict yesterday to Prosecuting Attorney Norris, and demanded an invesiigation. The proseouting attorney has authorized the sheriff to make an investigalion.