A Secret Trip to Redmond, and a Buried Infant
The coroner and prosecuting attorney slip out of Seattle to investigate a rural grave. No one will say what they found.
Coroner Horton and Prosecuting Attorney John F. Miller were in the little town of Redmond, on the Lake Shore road, yesterday, and rumor has it that they were investigating an alleged case of murder. The victim is said to be an infant child, whose body was found buried in the ground. There were marks which led to the supposition that foul means had been used to cause death, and so the case was reported. The coroner and the prosecuting attorney were very secret in their movements and nothing could be learned in this city of their mission into the country. At the coroner's home last night it was said that he was out of town and that they had no idea when he would return.
“There were marks which led to the supposition that foul means had been used to cause death, and so the case was reported.”
Redmond was a rural crossroads when this item ran; today it is a tech suburb, but the case's central questions—who speaks for a dead child, and how much secrecy officials owe the public—have not aged. The brief, unresolved report is a reminder that not every historic mystery comes with an ending.
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