A CORPSE NURSING A SLEEPING CHILD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3668, 17 April 1883, Page 4

A CORPSE NURSING A SLEEPING CHILD.

"Moliie L. Taylor, seventeen years of age, a. servant in the employ of Mrs Francis P. Smith, of I OUT Loc.usi:-street, was found yesterday afteruoou, at four o'clock, by her mistress, lvlining in a rocking chair, dead, and holding the youngest child in Lor arms, while two others were a sloe , ]) on the bed. Mrs Smith lefc her in apparently perfect heallh at eleven o'clock in the morning, siiiu-ing as she went about her daily duties and did not return until four o'clock in the afternoon. Arriving at Ihe house she was surprised to find it dosed and the doors locked : and though she rang the bell persistently, no one answered the call. i'Varing that something was wrong she called Officer Green to her assistance, and he elicited an entrance from the rear, and on entering the house at once opened the front door 1o admit Mrs Smith. Together they went through the house, the mother trembling with fear and anxiety for the safety of her Children. On entering the bedroom a rvv of horror escaped her as >]n: saw the rigid uprighl corpse of the girl "Moliie in the chair, while her youngest child nestled on the dead girl's breast in calm repose. The other two Children lay on the bed fast asleep. Mrs Smith took in the situation at a glance, and removed the sleeping babe from the death embrace of the young servant, and the body was at o:k-c laid out on the floor to await the arrival of the coroner.—Philadelphia I'l-ess, .January 20th.