CHILD MURDERRED IN AN OVEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 287, 7 July 1875, Page 3

CHILD MURDERRED IN AN OVEN.

murder is not an uncommon but it is rarely we meet with Kiclr a revolting case as that just ■eported from Havre. A baker, named ■rest, had three children, the youngest I girl of three years, who, on account It her bad health, instead of extra affiction from her parents, of their negligence A Few days ago s'v t e: strange burning grease, issued bakery while the bread was nade. However, no further was taken till two days later, ■beu the shop was shut on account of leath in the family. The, deceased Burned out to be the little girl in ■Bestion, and as nobody had seen her stench alluded to above, was aroused, and the police ■S called in." They found the body a fearful sight. The face and neck had been gashed with a knife, and the legs and arms were partly burnt away. The remains Were taken to the public dead-house, while Brest and his wife were marched off to prison. From subsequent investigation, it appears that an attempt was first of al 1’ ‘made rodent the child’s throat, but not e (weeding in that the murderer then t ieW her hands and legs, and pitched her into the bakery oven, where the poor little victim was burnt to death. The baker hoped to escape detection by pretending that the child fell into the oven, ana would probably have succeeded but for the strange stench of burning grease which aroused the neighbours and led to his arrest, and discovery of his barbarous crime.