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Grey River Argus, Issue 70, 23 June 1866, Page 3

Five Devonshire Murderesses. — The annals of the Devon Lent Assizes of 1856. probably have no parallel. Five women were at one time within the county ■ gaol at Exeter, who han been guilty of i murder, ascomplished or ''attempted.. Charlotte Winsor, most notorious of child slayers, there, awaits the hangman's fourth approach. There, too, was Mary Jane Harris, her. accomplice, and who is a murderess none tne, less because, by placing the halter" on the neck of Winsor^ i she has lifted it from her own. There, • again, was Alice Dodd, whose propensity t for poisonins: well nigh resulted in the death of five victims. Theje, too, v^s " 'Elizabeth Duff, the hapless girl, whp smothered the infant she had" brought 1 into the world, thinking Hihus to reh' eve • herself of the consequences of her firs,t -, wrong step, and against whom the death • sentence stands recorded. Therej' finally, : was the vilest orininial of them all—-Carb- • hne Ashford, whose deliberate death plot was based on the ■worst of motives, and -aimed against the one who of all others :; should have been safe from her wicked.- ' ■■'-ness. ■-■■:~ y --'^ : '- .""■. r ;-- v -. :'";; "-'"'.'