The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-18 00:00:00

SALISBURY.

1111: r1141111.11.:L CILUtGE OF CHILD-MURDER.
im Wednesday a frightful case of child murder cams
/71.4elisbury bench, the mayor of SalisburY being
tov Only ntaai.trate prcitent. The charge was against a
4.1•13 named .Ino iimdfellow, aged :e, bring ite,Rndlem-
Lite el, In Hut ton, And the Superintendent of race., in
blue,: for .1 remand, mply stated that, according to in-
formation lie received, he searched the house during the
retioner'v absence, in company with an inspector of police
/MI lie. Gordon, and in a saucepan boiling on the fire be
found the hod) of a child, wrapped in a cloth. The CLIO
441ournel until Saturday, to enable the inquest to be

•ie inquest was held at the Council-house, at four I •,lock in the afternoen. when the following evidence was
gisen -
he la .pe,ior Ainsworth, of the Salisbury police form said
went to the home of the suspected woman. There wee no one in the home whenhe arrived there. He then
4 4114,1•1 t t.o hOUSCS lelow to &re some of the neighbour,
3.1.1,1 for /Dv. Goodfellow, who resided at No. 13.
11r.. Goaffellow herself then cat ie down stain of the
lvme at which he last called, with's child in her arms. It
•1. id one She was taking care of for a neighbour. He said
wental to speak to her, if she would accompany him
Iht"l., own house. Ile then naked her if she had a dead
1504 'MI .sly in her ow n house. She hesitated a few momenta,
she had not. He then told her that according he
int Worm:ikon he had received she had. He did not search
hole but she said there had been one in the ho eel she had got rid of it. Having told her be should
'ethis.rrh the house. she said, " Well. I have a little bit of
; it', only • tiny bit; I don't know what to do
with ; itis in saucepan th. . on the fir." He then went
t. • aueepen, wk.:eh was over the lire. She fetched a
sat having lifted the plate from the saucepan he
'4W ,PhrtiOrt of the bead of the child, which appeared
tn have been tied up in • pot. She lifted it off the fire and
Placed it on the bul,, when he took her into custody, leas.
Ibf the hos)y there, and he subsequently returned with
Mr. Supt. Mathews and Dr. Gorden.
Alfred Mattliedra Supenntendent ol Police, said front
Irihnitation received he sent his inspector to the house in
question. About nine o'clock he returned to the station
with Ann Goodfellow in his custody, and stated he had
foiled the body of a child boiling on the fire. He beft an
officer in charge at the police-station, and sent the inspec-
t:l to Dr. Gordon. Subeequently they went to Spring'
PnWe, and in the inner room, on the ground-floor. sew
more Pan on the hob of the grate. They examined the
• ••Itehts. and found in the bundle the body of a child. one
drill dud hand having dropped off. They then took
of the body. and removed it to the police,
station.
Ma') Ann liriguall said she wad a married woman,
un the Devixes-road. She knew a woman named
Ann Goodfellow, whose husband died about six months
In Monday morning last, about 12.3, she went to
her him& Spring-place to see her, having known her
go, Y,,,Arc hhe wan accompanied by a Mrs. Blake. They
IA not sit down in the house, but remained about rive
niumte., miss they were leavinA Ann Goodfellow walked
not behind her, and she said,' vieu. Ann, how are you
sosi rating.. r• Prisoner said to ha, Itia all over," and Me
" Where hi it r Goodfellow replied, •It is nydritaim ;
iti aline, fat boy, and I would give any one • ahMlnIK t.
go and bury it." Nothing more vs. said, except that
to her the child-had breathed once. She told
that she was in the fainily.way last after her husband
'oed. Witness afterwards communicated with her
husband, who gave information to the police.
G..nion mid—l Mad the body was that M a fully
`leloPesl tusks child; it was vm' much disfigured by the
action of the boiling water. erW at over with
slam blisters. The imp were.toldsd on the hell/, and the
+kali had collapsed Iran What. There in on••••asetion
to show that the child had Dot • sopeests adeleoce. •ad
ftr Peweieptia• is that it had. Irma Iho mellow of boil-
ing water tisusual proofs. however had bora relieved.