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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 549, 13 October 1871, Page 2

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Baby Fabmlvo- Ext kaordina«y.—At tha 1 \ir "■ • ---■ — j.» v _, r.-"^.n.'j:u.v was indicated for the manslaughter Ot a enllq the daughter of Agnes Murray. From the cvi denoe it appears that the prisoner had been it the habit of adverti ing under the name cl, Irving. In consequence of one of these ad vertisements, insetted in the. month of January . a young lady of the name of Agnes Murray, 6 giving that name, wrote to her, and had a, interview with the prisoner at bur!house in Knightley-street. At this interview tbj prisoner said she would adopt a child of ti*Y - witness for the. sum of £3'; At this time Agnef Murray had not been confined, but was in ci A '. pectation of being confined soma time in Fel « ruary. Early in February this witness wrot a letter to the prisoner, mentioning that sir should require her services iv about t-ight day*, i and subsequently sunt a letter-in, these words* —" Please come ; baby is born.,. Come aB sooas possible; say nothing to them here; bix that youare Mrs. Johnston; lpudly ask for Mi-... 't Murray." : There was subjoined -an addrefj at Choi-ley, in Lancashire, some twenty-ail miles from Manchester. The fetter was writ.,.;.. ten and despatched the very day on whic Murray was confined;, and the following da"-* j Fridayl;, "February 25, .the, prisoner came t, ;,: Chorley, and took away the infant, a little girg , :in her arms. On an evening early in Marts- | Murray called at the prisoner's house and founl ; her child there ailve, but almost at the poiri jof death, in a frightful state of emaciation, aus, j all but starved. Murray took the child, whic; j was in a very emaciated state, to the hous where she was staying, and on the jfJoJJowiri day a doctor was called hi. Its pupils .were cor \ tructed, its body wasted, without any signs c- \ disease, and, as he would prove, the: child t- ■'. : all appearance was at death's door, and wa' not more than half the \v„igbt;°which a healthy ohild would have beon under .the circumstance*^ ' and was labouring under all the symptoms eg j slow poisoning by opium, accompanied by da < privation of food or improper-feeding. In con": { sidering this case, it would be necessary t<, :! deal.witb-tbe circumstances .under which j_\ was treated. On March 12, three days alter;..?" Agnes Murray's, child .was removed, Polieefi constable Haslara , went to the prisoner'p :honse, ana il>mo found a boy of eight <">r m-">€" v years, a male child about ei»ht months oUi? \ of the name of Gfvlagher, and a female chi_H lying in one of the upstairs . rooms coverer, ,; with an old dirty bianket. ~;, This child waH about eight weeks old, and in the same room lying oh a little strawj was a little girl eigh*^ ; years of age, . which the prisoner said was r- : ; distant relativel'' There -was."nothing; in th:^ * room besides'the straw arid a tin box, anffi 'three'bf'the other rooms in the' house wer|- j :quite destitute of furniture,.but had a littlKj Istraw in them. This was not the whole of thß' miseries encountered. The Police-sergeant; | .following the' prisoner into the cellar, noticed-1 a'very disagreeable and bad smell, but fount?,! nothing there but some straw'alid a coal-bag j The disagreeable odour seemed present in tin. \ kitchen, and the constable searched the priso,'per and'-fduud concealed about her person the.; body of a dead child, tied up in browm ipaper' in an advanced state of. decomposition} O:, , the body of this child.a. post-mortem extuninav . tioh was made, and the-uocter gave it as hi; f opinion that death had proceeded from con- '. •vulsions, caused by the administration of opium aud iiuprpper' feeding-, The chemisflv would: be called who would prove sales oft i laudanum to the prisoner- almost^ %^/ery: day.* The prisoner had passed - under a '-variety" of '"• names, had changed" her residence a greatj • .many times during theCsix mobths they had been able to trace her, and had carried on this nefarious traffio all this time. It was proved that'the mother of the child Gallagher had, paid a weekly sum for the child, which was ; .' still alive, but Murray and a person,-of the*; name of Robinson had each paid lump sums of £8 and fc'6 respectively^ and there could be.. little doubt that these "sums were received for t)ie purpose-'Of'disposing' of the children, or/ that the inducement to get rid of the— was,direeland immediate-.1 Evidence of a conclusive character having been tendered; the jury; found the prisoner guilty. She was sentenced:: .to twenty.years':pmal servitude. \ .' * :|?: The' Batswateb Tragedt.—The trial of. Flora Davey, alias Newington, for the man.; 'slaughters of, Frederick James Moon,; com»,Y jneuced'on I,3th,, July, at the Central Criminal iCoiVrt The, prisoner having been fo,uud.g*ivtty and called, upon in the. usual way to showj t rcause wny sentence should not, be prdnouuaed,'Y! isiid—Only lam innocent. ; If I were guilty, - and "giiitty in my own m'ihd, no Ypiiriishment ,' wo'Cild be too great, "for, me—-if I could havio. I done that to him wh'iim I have'known "for so/. I 'inia\vv yfeVs.' ' He'lias' been all in all to me". I "■•; loft my hu-ibaud Cor him, and aftsr i-em'aining Jv with I him lor all these years, I could not havd •' hefingujlty ofldoing that.to him . W-lum MvjA ■ YMoon'.,*firsti.'bnew jne,l :I wat 3 mixing in.:t.he>l societiy-fUi'ii'Mo-xswn iamily. My husband wislied to get a divorce, but to say c the family of .Mfv Moon, I joined my husband again at Boulogne, ! and* the matter was condoned. My husbandafterwards came to England and broke every- i tliin^jii tfbo botise, and left me, saying that all 11 wanted was a divorce, but .that I should not have it. There was a gentleman in Court, Mr. Turquand, who wrote letters to my husband ; I at'ithe.dictation.of ( Mi\ John Moon, the brother , j of Mr. Frederick Mobn. 'After that they per-:I ! suiided him to leave me. He did leave *__ ! My. Piokford was one selected to go with l:mi.«' | He.left„me only for a.lime, for he came hue'vi, j I yenV-tbhisbVuthei- J'ohiiiaiidtfskcd him' itf j he;, would give Mr. Frederick M o nn a letter j j from me, to the eileet that I wouk! nevo.- see j j him again, and thai, I would live with my j hnjsbau'a-.'.-; E HeiSaid'.'-No ; Sir fraucis *v_i j they had arranged that no letter -honld. be ! sent." In the meautime, Mr. Fred M:-on | returns, and we~ag*ree that I am* to be entirely 1 with Mm—np.t td live with,^Vim altogether^ but; } thtlt 1 should belong to butt This last, year, ; fori eighteen months after his mother's^deijth,., , I he \ was always unhappy,, and ho did not' see , ; tjepough of m_ -'Then; he propped 'that I should I- - bo Entirely under his protectou, for he was so \

unhappy, as his letter states, thsl, beeouldnofc have me all to himself. My daughter beiiu. married and settled, I determined that I would be with him entirely. Tiiis is the if.kole We have been mo3t happy. He was most iind." Hie whole of his consideration had been to ; promote my happiness, and I hay« studieu" \. I could not—could not have done him '. , injury. It was in the struggle. He was goiuj to throw a bottle, and I jumped up quickhjE He tried to take the knife from ue. lam nol sure whether he got it or not. We strung** " and fell. I thought at first I nusfc be thedfy \ injured. I found blood on rae-wann blooU, [ said, s< Ob, Fred, what haie you done!" Then I found, of course, it was him, not myself. I tried all I could to io somethir jfe stop it. ; First of all I applisd cold , qrUtcir•' j then I remembered that cold Vate'r producei | blood instead of stopping it. Then I sent JcV I-ice i ap'd tried that. Thpu-|tt'^doctors eaniß, "hen, my lord, vchen you's^lt to iha.'jnu* ! ani stud that th;- servants heoS E-'.'reamu,j oti :. said that only a i w steps dir-ided the kitoUeu ■ .rom the^ining-i "Jin. -herepe two flights;ti —one *?f i_()ut tvTilve step^ and the other,of about six, Mr. Eccies comi-prove it. '.Then you spoke of a- scream, and that a bell rang very loud. The servant Mtry Hole, rang the call bell. That has been in dispute.: From Mr Piekford's evidence you must know that I could not have said that Mr. Moon had broken a blood vessel. I have noihing more to my my lord. ■ ■ ;