High Point, Nov. 20—Etta Sheetz, negress, was arrested here today after she is said to have admitted that she was the mother of an infant whose body schoolboys found concealed in a barrel in this city Tuesday. She is being held in the city jail while police investigate the affair.
The woman told Chief of Police Blackwelder that the father of the child choked it to death and then hid the body in honeysuckle vines, where it was found 36 hours later. She is said to have given the name of the man to the police, wo declined to reveal it tonight, officers stating that they were searching for him. Questioned by police, Etta at first denied that she was the mother of the child, but when examined by the city physician, Dr. S.S. Coe, and after blood stains were fund on the door of her room, she admitted it.
The child, she said, was born Sunday night, and its father choked it to death by wrapping a piece of cloth tightly around the neck. He then placed the body in a barrel and carried it to the honeysuckle vine about 300 yards from the house, she said.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 22, 1924
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