The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-12-06 00:00:00

DIBECLLE FEIJALK AT BEM REGIS.

On Friday last an Inquest was held bef6l.• W. IT,
Atkieson, Req. osoroosr, at the Royal Oak Inn, Bevil Retie;
on the body of Mary Jane Carter, daughter of Mr. fob,
Carter, of Loodoo, formerly residing is illandfoed.-
The *videos, taken folly condrmed previous remount
that the perties who bad been entrained with the up.
fortunate woman bed grossly abased the trust reposed
in them by most eruelly neglecting her, and there
appears bat little doubt that her death wee hastened by
such peewit. The jury drat proceeded to view
the body. which presented • very eimaciwied
appearance, the bones being nearly through, cod tte
arena and legs completely wasted &army. The following
evidenes was then adducted :
Jane Burton, wife of Mr. Daniel Burke, deposed f
I identify the body of the deceased as that of purl
Jena Carter, ear °jos. Me is the daughter ef my
brother, Jobe C.rter, and wee about 28 years of age. I
last saw her alive on the 12th day of October last se
the how• of John Whinnell, at lbws Roes. I bed
previously seen her Sunday, the 9th ef Outober. 0.
that occasion I went to go up into her bedroom expos'.
lag to dud her there, bat I accidently opened • door 1
a little hack room under the stairs, a sort of clew&
✓aw the derwed sitting on • stool in that phsea
took her by the hand and led her out into the ?robe
parlour, and sat her on a choir. She was =laming from
mental imbecility, and had been so all het fffe. On thie
*session she wee very dirty, and her hair Was dreadfully
entstogled, rough, and dirty, and I picked off some
vermin from her neck. She bad a very shabby, dirty.
fresh on, and otherwise very thinly dad and mid.
was very much .urprised to sew her Is such a stets, INA
remonstrated with Mrs. Whitman' and bee daughter
about it. Mrs. Whlnnell said It was the portieular with
of the deceased to sit in that place as At preferred
doing no. In toy opinion it was not •IR plain for any
human is,ine. I left, and returned again in the morn-
log, when I found the had been teethed, Lod fobbed
much better and cleaner. I had bought • bread Gaffe.
souse J which I pre her with some butter, and she
ate it ravenously, but they winffd not allow me to give
her mush, as they said it would inure bee She was
very thin and emaciated &bold her persoo, and appeared
to have been neglected and iiltrested in every respect.
I did not observe any marks of violates at! did non
examine her. I believe she had been with there three
years. la conaequenes of what I saw I wrote to bet
dither on the Monday, who tame down the next dsr,
and on the Wednesday I came to Bare with him We
found her sitting in the room where I had left her on
the Sunday, ea looking very this sad emaciated, but
*leaner. I went with my brother to Mr. Nott, •
gestiesnan, and mentiosed the ewe to him, and
requeesed him to attend her. I never saw bey Jive
after that afternoon.

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By • Juror : When I returned ea the evening of lb*
9th she was sitting in the front kitchen where I wall;
found bee. I led her down the garden. and when
emus beck I opened the door of the closet I. which r
first (mind her, and said, " you meter sitting here dustyou ?" fate said, "I hope not, but where's tbe stool r
I said, "No, you shall not remain here, my dear," aoll
led her into the front room again. The plass had bees
cleared out since the Sunday, aad the stool tabour away.
Thomas Nett, surgeon, having been sworn. add:
am a surgeon bring and practising at Bent Boogie. I
recollect the ad witness coming to me with her father,
John Carter, on the 12th day of October lest. in eon-
sequence of a eommunication from them, I, as the fel.
lowing morning went to the home if John Whlasell,
and saw the dee...est but did not Ikea ezaralas her.
About three days after I wmit to the bare elf
William Rulnrd, and there saw the dessewett.
I omitted that her hair was la a dread&
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mate, full of site Had her stripped. sad found a
tarp armee la the middle of the beak, sad she wew
sufferiag from whet we all "poverty ineb• has dirt,
and • peat eery marks of aerators shoed infra*
peres of the body, mostly sell-Indicted apperpmegr;
the was en naively thin. I ordered her to be
washed with • little sulphur in the water, end
ducotions u to her furry diet. I viatod her several
titre after that, and found bee mush improved in bar
pearl appeeranoe, though eaesseively Ibis. She had
an atteekrol diarrhea, for wields I pee bra mediebes
for several daya. I was Mos takeslit, and herded her
over to my parker—Mr. Lys. Whs. I fret saw her,
be, growers denoted that she had bees very eau&
pagioated. Of my own knowledge she bed bees
to its for massy years—epileptic Ik. I Ismer Fa=
she did not have proper food, but die had bees greedy
Pagleated on the soon of damiliness. I ereider that she
was suffering from • serotalons dieser, whist'
would interfere with bee food properly nourishing leer,
and that sold, dirt, and inattention' would Lades the
progress of that disease. I had not bees galled be
before for about • year sad • ladf, whoa I breed •
'Lehi wound on her head, which I was told hod been
caused by • blow from a fall in • St. I rare my
what eared the abeam in bet back but it had sot
bees of long Justice.
Elisabeth Hanford, wife of William Hastostl. doped:
By the wish of her hither, Jolts Career, on the Ittb
day of October last, I frobed the deseased from
Wiiisseire to my hashaad'a When I et bar boar her
hind was in • dreadful state, tall of lir and dirt, and 3
bad • terrible job to der it. She bad on •derie hock
and • yellow shawl and • light 1144012. very little and..
I °Loehr& and that all ie rap end pod for seething. 3
stripped bar and put bee to bed. I wr quite
highroad when I did so. Her body seamed
ears op by the Mob, and abe had • large
1 shears mt bet beak, wide& broke three days after.
Sr was very thin, esprially about the lap tad arm%
which appeared to be more arm and base. She wee very
filthy dirty all over.aad I was obliged to wash bar from
head to foot I did sot observe any seven bruises
shoat her para. After proper wadalag sad food as
noommesded by Mr. Nott, she appeared to improve kr
about a week, but she shereards went bask and gee
gradeuilly weaker and weaker till she died on Monday,
November Mb. When du In game to me abs
showed signs of very great meat sad want of proper
treatment, store esprially as regarded eleanlinees, sad
she appeared to be very imam, sad ate heartily some
food I gar her. I was with bar wises she died. Ilker
' was sensible to the lad. _

said: I am • sergese
rending and practising at Bar. Bagi.. About • month
eines I maw the deeedied at the bones of Iliimbelab
Hanford, the last witness. I found bar millsring trews
Sit? .me debility and diarrhea. She wee mere
smaciated, and pneeeted the general symptoms of
&altos I preserthed tte &worm'', remedies end
diet, and have freqemitly visiW bat.... that time. I
last sew her on estarday, November nth, in Qv
evening. She eras mush weaker, had • hectic Auk
and did not appear likely to live long. 811111 died as the
gm. Is my OplOtin the ma., of death wee atrophy
by disease of the intestiem of
'wading, and that sash lei& have been
by want 01 Mint disk Mettlaters, and fresh air, but
have no knowledge el my own whether suet were
empties in this partieelar sees
Thie Ming the whole of the widen's. the Conrear
summed up, and UN jury returned the following
verdict :—" That the deceased, Mary Jane airier,
died from natural mans'; but the jury think the
treatment practised towards her _ by the
evideses rsleete tits greatest diagram and discredit on
John Whiplash and his wife. They also eceseider that
the friss& of the deceased have not esersised due
vigilance in seeing wbevber she was properly mired for
and attended to."—Tbe °Grew thee rent for Mn.
Whienell, and most severely seeserml her for beer
\earthen and inhuman aominet to the diseased, whet
from her allierod state, ought to bars awakened ids"
tenderest feelings of rympathy and ears in her liseent,
instead of the Gruel eeriest she had being guilty .1.—
We unclaimed that the ease has exalted • pest deal
of indignant feeling moos the iehabitaals of the

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