Gilkey, Dan - inf found in shoe box - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last night word came from Alamo to the effect that the remains of an infant had been found in a shoe box on the farm of Daniel Gilkey, a short distance this side of Alamo. The rumor was confirmed this morning by the driver of the Alamo hack, and Marshal Brothers accordingly drove down to the Gilkey place.

The remains were those of a fetus several months old and had been thrown evidently from a buggy into a field of high weeds on the farm of David Stanford. The remains had been wrapped in a woman’s skirt and enclosed in a shoe box. They were found several days ago by some young men in the neighborhood who happened to be passing through the field, the box being about twenty feet from the roadside. There is no idea prevailing in the neighborhood as to the perpetrator of the heinous crime. The officials will make an endeavor to trace the matter down and if found the guilty parties will be made to suffer. The crime is one of the most disgusting and revolting one in the history of the county.