RICHMOND, Rosamond Luarene

Hassayampa Miner (Wickenburg AZ) Thursday, March 23, 1916, p 1 One of the most sensational cases that ever arose in Phoenix was in connection with the death of the six-days-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Forrest L Richmond. The child was smothered to death under the mother's body, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury. Dr A B Nichols testified at the inquest that the parents had begged him to end the child's life because it had only one finger on each hand and the forearms were bent. They drew his attention, he said, to the Bollinger case, wherein a Chicago doctor, at the solicitation of the parents, killed a deformed infant. Jeanette Bailey, a nurse in the Richmond home, testified that the parents had prayed that the baby might die and that the night before it died the mother said it could not live till morning. The coroner's jury did not charge the parents with responsibility for the child's death and no steps have been taken by the authorities to make a further investigation.