WILL SHE GET HER DESERTS!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2379, 21 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

WILL SHE GET HER DESERTS!

The Argus gives pSrticulav'a of another case in which it is alleged that a young woman has met her death at the hands of tho notorious Mrs/Taylor; On the afternoon of the 22nd ult., a Mrs Warburton called at the Police Office and stated that for about five weeks prior to that date her daughter had lived . with her, and • she had. reason to believe that she was likely to become a mother in about four month's time. On Saturday-the 17th the girl ■left home, and on Thursday Mrs Waiv bnrton was called to her bedside in the house of a Mrs Hamilton, at 25, Young-street, Fitzroy, and found', her to be dying, tfhe was inutteririff'.'hiir prayers while in' a semi-uiieimwious state at the time,- but did not make any confession. A wotnau named Mrs Elizabeth Taylor wat in the house. Dr Peacock was sont for, but the girl was dead before he arrived." Mrs-Warburton asked Superintendant Kennedy, to whom she made this statement, that aninquiry should be mado into the circumstances attcuding her daughter's death.. A-post mortem examination < was made upon, the body by Professor 'Allon next morning, 'and' as the result' of his report, the officers named arrested Mrs Taylor at her own house iu Bridge-street, Richmond, early, in the afternoon. The accused miido a statement to the effect that she ■ had been sent for to nurse tho deceased, and on finding her in a dangerous state she had advised that Dr "Peacock be called in, which was done. < ; .Mrs Hamilton, in whose house the deceased died, stated to the police that deceased came to her on Monday night, weak and ill, to be taken care of,. Mrs Hamilton describes, herself as tiie wife of a carpenter, living, with her lnlsband. She has occupied the house in question for'some months, and no one was known to occupy it but the family The. neighbors did not know that there was anyone else in the house, which is a small tenement, until: after the deceased died there. On finding,that the girl was in a critical condition, Mrs Hamilton' sent for her mother, who arrived about an hour before .she expired, as the result, it is believed* of blood-poisoning, due to an : illegal operation. The police are now engaged in tracing the .whereabouts of the girl from Saturday, when Mrs Warburton was summoned to see her.

At the inquest the principal witness examined so fur has been Bose Callaway, alias Mrs, Hamilton, who.said, after detailing the treatment tliegirl had received at the hands ; of Mrs Tuvlor" After her death I asked Mrs Taylor what I was to do, and she, said ' stick to oie and say nothing 1 ." This is the fourth time' that: Mrs Taylor has been accused of the same offence, but each time she has been acquitted by a jury at the Criminal Sessions after being committed for trial at, the Coroner's inquest in .the respective cases. The first case related to. the death ,of Mrs Kobertsqn, a widow ; and in the second in which a Mrs Montichon was charged in connection with Mrs Taylor, the girl (Cecilia Frost) recovered, and both,the accused were found not guilty.. In the third case brought against : Mrs Taylor, the alleged victim was Eva Latham, a single woman, concerning whom the proceedings were brought, in January, and February, 1885, 1 A girl named' Florence Waddilove died in Mrs. EYaser's house from what'was alleged 1 by the jury at the inquest to be malpractice, but the evidence was not strong enough to induce the authorities to charge anyone as being the guilty person. " The lmpless young woman, Georgina Warburton, was a tall, lady-like girl of rather prepossessing appearance, She had been connected with the stage for about twelve months, She joined the Majoroni and Wilson Opera Company, and played at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, last year,' Subsequently she: *

travelled to Sydney, and pjayedj in the chorus up to Christmas. She returned to Melbourne, and afterwards- ; joined the Opera Company, playing at the : Opera, House,..-When i^jMifis' Amy Horton'au'd'Mr j. t," ; Hiill tookiSt.George's Hall some months back,' Miss, Warburton played small parts in " Little poo.' Galatea." Since then she has not been on- the. stage. -She was the . oiify'J daughter of' 1 the late Percival- Warbiirton, formerly " front manager" at theithealiißoyal. : He lost tion when. the • triumviraW took the Theatre over, and he'afterwards carried ou an agency up to the. time of his death, four or five months ago. , The jury at the inquest,,had a - shocking ordeal to undergo in viewing'the b6dy Of the: deceased. The features were black and swollen from the blood, .poisoniug, and the -atmosphere of the room, in spite of the .presence of' disinfectants,' was -very^.'offensive.; ; Im.mediately after the body : had been • viewed the Coroner gave, an 'order for burial.