A CORPSE NURSING A SLEEPING CHILD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1112, 31 May 1883, Page 3

A CORPSE NURSING A SLEEPING CHILD.

MollieL. Taylor, seventeen years of age, a servant in the employ of Mrs Francis'?. Smith, of 4007 Locust-Street, was found yesterday afternoon, at four , o’clock, by her mistress, reclining in a rocking chair, dead, and holding the youngest child in her arms, while two others were asleep on the bed. Mrs Smith left her in apparently perfect health at eleven o’clock in the morning, singing as she went about her daily duties, and did not return until four o’clock in the afternoon. Arriving at the house she was surprised to find it closed and the doors locked ; and though she rang the bell persistently, no one answered the ball. Fearing that something was wrong she called Officer Green to her assistance, and he effected an entrance and at once opened the front door to admit Mrs Smith. Together they went through the house, the mother trembling with fear and anxiety for the safety of hot children. On entering the bedroom a cry of horror escaped her as she saw the rigid upright corpse of the girl Mollie in the rocking 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 once laid out on the floor to await the arrival of the coroner.—Philadelphia Press, Jan 26tb.