The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-02 00:00:00

CATTISTOOK.
BAO DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

BRCTAL TiIikTNICNT.

A young pent.; named Willcox, for sometime eta-
1110yed 4.1 barmaid and h....keeper at the Fox and
Thomas, Cattistock, was found dead on Thursday under
very dispiciowt ciromtstsawas, hating given birth to
n ClO'', which! was 100 itPtilld dead by her hide.
appears on the previous earning some person at the
inn nomwked to deceased how ill she was looking,
and ad,...d her to wild for a doctor, but this she
declined to a 1.., swag she should he all right again
in ti,. morning. Sonte hours oftar, however, 1110,
WAS:discoven4 dead, as above stated, and had
evidently been so some time. The Contner was then-
mew come. 'cated with, and on Saturday aftaTteson
Mr. If. Symonds opened an enquiry into the etre 44444 •
stances at Cattistock, and, the evidence being of a
very unsatisfactory nature. the jury expreoned a Wish
fir a pm stork m examination of th.. hotly to Ile made,
for which punt... the inquest W(1,1 ailjoturned till
Tuesday. Deceased was only 27 years of age. Mr.
Dawe, the proprietor .4 Ike inn, was away at
Weymouth with the Yeomanry at the time
the occurrence, which has been the subject of
niuCt gosailo (air 'since. Will• 111(0114 wax resumed
isi Ite!viay miming Wort: Mr:. H. tmynnte.
Ti.. evidence was to the following enect :—The
decell44.ll was the howswkeeper t.. 'Mr. Dawe, the
landlord of the FOX and Hounds, and had been there
for two years. Mr. DAR,. joined the Yeomanry on
Thursday awl loft her ii chargo of the inn, and she
continued her usual work ...trying in the lott Wall six
o'clock in the t•vening of that day. She then called
a WOlll4ll named Churchill to le4p her. and at eight
o'clock said she should go to bed and did so, cone
plaining of feeling unwell. Mrs. Churchill saw far
frequently from eight o'clock until half•past
a man ns 1111 l Marsh, a cousin if the landlord's also
went up to see her on her sending for him to tell him
where the keys of the till were. At half-past nine
Mrs. Churchill went to the bedroom and there found
the deceased kneeling on the floor with a newly•born
chaff by her aide, and sonic conversation took place
between deem. Churchill lifted deceawtd on to the
, hsalt and sloe at enc.+ leant back and appeansl to go og
'ln a faint. Churchill stater in ht r evidence she
Is.lieved deceased (lied when she lay back ; and she
also tin sight the Child was then 'lead, and !woos' it
Moat-so-nor .4 the MORI in the otowterpano. on which
it waslying. She then Went down to Matah, who WM
the only other person in the house, and told him,.
thought Mi. Willcox watt dead, and bogged him big.,
up to her, hut he refused to do ot, and told her not to
gm up again until Dr. Wilda!l (fur whom he sent)
arrived. This was about half-past nine. The doctor
C4llO, anon' twenty nuntitos past eleven and
xliately went to the bosh-men where he found
both deceased and the child dead, In his ..pinho
the mother died from hemorrhage and exhaustiow eon.
sequent instn it, and the child died also from that
neglect at his birth. An a result .4 his post morrow I
examination of the Issly of the latter he stabsl the
child had without doubt lonlatlosl and had a separate I
ex istence. It WSW stated Imth hy the man Marsh and '
the woman Churchill (the latter the :
liiotoer og sot
chiltln-n) that they hail had no suspicion .
%AA u se. int., although the latter admitted in her
is idence that the deceased coniMainewl .4 fooling
tiains.—The Jury retunietl a tenhet " Ileath from
Mum,' cause.," hut they m:tt:rely amnsureorl both 14..
Churchill and Marsh for their inhuman conduct and
neglect of the deceased. It appeared no a...Wane°
whatever was rendered to the poor girl, and no
restorative of any kind administered.