The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-29 00:00:00

THE EXETER CHILD MURDER.

RUTIL.

TM trial of Anal. Tooke, :-.7,--d with the wilful
murder of Reginald Bade, the filegiumate child of Bin
Hoskin" of CornealL was concluded at Beater. on .
Teeday, before Kr. Justice L
The erst witness called was =k Pisa Perkins. public
malyst for tbe city„who dlosed.tosliscUng traces of blootl
upon articles beloodus to
Captain Bent, Chief Comiesble of Rider, stated that
after the primmer was taken let* custody she made the
following confession to him, which wee reduced I. writing
by him and signed by her :—‘ I am • widow, and the
latter and of lad yea I received a baby to nurse from •
gentleman and two ladies, who I have dna, discovered
to be Kr. Henry Hadrian, Kiss Mary Hoskins", and
Kra Tonkin', all of °embanks, in Cornwall. I re-
I °dyed from Kra Tontines the sum of AIL and wee
, told by her that I was not to ask any questions site
the bor's Perentaga They did not care whether the
child lived or not, and if I liked I mightput it into the
Union, bat I was not to my how I got it On
Monday the 12th of May, IRA I put the child into
1 his cradle with Its feeding bottle about three p.m.
(my children had all gone to schooLl It fell asleep, and
then I put a large pillow on its farts and kept It there for
newly mkt hour. It never toted, and when I looked at It
again 'he was quite dead.' I carried him into my bed-
room, and put Mm into a Monk wilds I geed as ad
table. When my girt Bowie came holm from
about five p.m.*, imbed me where the baby was. I said
It had been fetched by a mama and taken to ite relatiasm
I kept the body there until Yriday morning, the 16th
May. when I took it from the trunk and earned it into
the end eaphoird. end oat edit, head, arse, and I. I
wrapped *eh 11 up in an old brown apnea which was la
strips. I est off the little private iamb NUM be should
not be Identified, if found. He had • onoulim malt, MA.
tioll. I used an old black-Undid table knife (now shown
md and a batted to out up the body. He was gelte odd
when I cut him up. I went to Alphindon as Tuesday,
lfith May and returned horse aboutltran =. sad about
nine o'd of ock, Seer I carried this tuame
sad t clown Ifollowayotreettill I reached thew
=
mid prnsh Asylum, turning down there till I reacted the
ri.miiiver.
.nnd.l was afraldiaoate throw
rm.dr. tkt tit. Ithewall:Loyis Com-
.road;
and whoa I elope to Tnrwe' Weir KIM on the left band
din I threw It into the stream. I then felt very faint,
and walked home by St David's-bill, going pp a vary
deep hill. I got bane before 11 o'clock. I should never
have committed this mender if Kra Tanking bad not put
It Into ma mmg. /yawned some of the child's clothes,
and mmij pag .upport it Prs&t.Tbuoriith my own children.
--Guildhall, Exeter. Jane 1879. This statement is
.01.t.rfly made by me to Mu Ccestable of Exeter,
oppadt Amos TOOKV.—" Thomas Bent, C.C., in the
proviso. of John Sheet, Inspector." When In custody the
priemer wrote a second statement, the effect of which
was a total denial of her first caufessiom After the 1
~,,i,.... was arrested her lodgings were searched, and the
raiarmaa--- to by the analyst were removed. This
ong the case for the prosecution. Mr. Matthews
node an . &aqua to the jury on behalf of the
0.6.q.a.a
prieoner an bones deliberation the jury fated the
peleoser nifty.
Whims asked by the dark of Anise if she had 1417-
Obi to say why entienee of death should not be
E=ritatateheal ' I merely wish to state that
4 what is not thee f and added
SW Phil wished tol her sdreade for flio maim in
Irma las bad casissisd tbs sum iiistedae of death was
prosaaaold hs lb* Oval timo.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.
TEL GOVLIUMINT 11CV81 TEL SLIM TRADE.
In the House of Lords on Monday Lord Selborne, in
moving for papers relating to the question of slavery
in Cuba, called attention to the manner in which
Spain had broken her treaty engagements to abolish
slavery and assist in suppressing the slave trade. Lord
Salisbury consented to grant the documents asked for,
but deprecated anything like pressure being brought
upon the Spanish Government. Lord Granville
remarked that the speech of the Foreign Secretary
, sounded very much like a defence of the Spanish
Government for breaking their treaty obligations.
Lord Beaconsfield retorted that it was unwise to press
foreign Governments too strongly to carry out the
terms of a 'articular treaty; and the matter then
dropped.