A horrible story has just been brought to light at Owasso in which a woman named Nellie Hayes is charged with cremating her new born babe, Mrs. Abram Truax at whose house the woman was stopping, being the informer. She says that the Hayes woman was taken sick at her house last May, when birth was given to a child which she deliberately threw into the cook stove and watched it burn. She gives as her reason for not divulging it sooner that her husband, who was father to the babe, threatened her life if she did so. An investigation is being made. The Hayes woman is now serving a term in the Detroit house of correction. She denies the crime.
[tags]Ann Arbor Register, August, 1895[/tags]