A DASTAEDLY GRIME.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 7 June 1879, Page 6

A D AST AEDLY GRIME.

The Irish Timet says ': - " A; crime? 'of a most fiendish nature [yak attempted within the last few days at; Dublin;. ' ' ; A° wonian advanced in years enticed a r nicely-dressed little. girl; ; aj)but f fog'r 1 years of age, away with her' from the" | neighbourhood 1 of Pili'Earie. j She ; in-' duced" ' the' ' unsuspe'ctlng : cniKl to ; ac- Jj company her over tfo'tbwn, it : being then 1 dusk; and even^ually^broiigKt Her to a place well-known as 'The Back of ; the: ; Pipes/ 1 near ffye G-rand dahal Harbour; of James-street! ' Hei^e'tfi^J kidnapper Stripped tlia pdcw cbild ; e'veb'-. to.|ier chemise, and then,: endeavoured' to.fbr.9TOr put an;ena to' all : evidence ffgafaat Her ' iby drowning' : • tih^' ' ; in»iifi'* Olbge'to the appt runs thelfiyer 'Poodle^ which'' -is here 'j&kpoaed lf to ; vielw, hub' lower dpwii is covered oVeri and 1 parses b^ 1 mean's ! of an arched '-sewer under Ardee-si^et, Thomas-stiirgef;, and Lower Bridge-Bfcreet t till it empties? itself into' the liifey near'Bloddy; Bridge';' ( . !&S---traled the Stream is projected by a wall' some sis feet high, so thafe the 'actdai fall from the top 'qf r ihe T 'wali ; fco ! the level of the river 1 When" only* 'half fullwould jbe a,bput eight fee't^ ; 'Usually 1 tha; Poodle; is s 'a swift r streain, ! f aWd 'is oftbii 1 Wur feet in deptn. 'Owing, to the^ great inclm'e thej curreEfc is very strong and 1 "'fepytlprig* thrown "into 1 the! f riyeP whbr^e' it is bpeii would sobn i Be car'riea' down into the Sewered culvert beneath" the I 'city 1 streets, and thbtiee into the; muddy Liffey. ; $he old: fcarbankii fcoo^ the naked child, hurled iHer' 1 over the wall into the dark'nver^a^ithea slunk; off intb the 'darkiieß»i 1 ! ''M&oktieiy' tlib' little girl was only modibaEariiy'&tunaeii' by the fail, kd there^as^ ohlf/'about two feet ' of water in the s'tr^a'm I,'1 ,' enabling the little creature tb 'gato;"iW legs. Its dreadful cries were heard ■by a man who lives near, and he 1 at once proceeded to where the screams H(M& from. : ' He fouhd the half-drowaed little girl grasping thei' bank with f! a death-like grip; and almost dead ! fr6m fright. 1 ' t Speedily he: rescued her^ ani3 conveying' her to his homei oad reat6ra r tives 'applied with the best success; 1 r M thai; the tiHild iis ' now ■ processing ' ' admirably, 'The police haye 1 been ebthl municated witn tlie little girl related'her atory'to the officQr^, and the dbteetives at bnce set : i;o wbrktb find the mdnstSr who had- endeavoured jitd ' murder 'th§ cHild. ! The following "moraiiig th% clothes bif the child' were found- pawned in one ofthe piawof ofiices in- the cityj showing that it was mereily for the sake of plunder that the awful crime ' Had been attempted/ >y: > ■ '-- ■ !) ' ? -'•' ■■'-td ■ ■ V ■ i ,17 „.. '■' ■■■■ I ■ , '. (