The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

THE ROAD CHILD MURDER.

-Dlvantage was given of a private vinit of Mr. Eillin,
barrister, to the family of Mr. Kent un Friday la.st, to
hold a conference witli I and Mr. Dunn, solicitor,
and Mr. Pur•mtw, surgeon, the latter of whom, it will be
remembered, wan; ailed in within an hour after the dis-
cos, ry it tim murdered body of Frimein Saville Kent.
superititemiciit, Foley, of Trowbridge, Woolf, of
I) vises, owl Sue:•Lmees, of were in attendance,
and were present dining part of the interview of the
poefe,sionot gei.tlemen. Some inquiries were pursued
and suggest its ililitle which it is thought inay eosiiuty
lenil to the discovery of further and important informa-
tion. Stone of tic local papers have fallen into an error
iii •toting that Mrs Kent was delivered of a stall-born
chill within at few hours iif the re:ease of M inc Constance
Kent, and th it she in very ill, the foot being that
although nlie gave Kelliatilre birth to a son on the 211th
ult., both tile mother and child are at prwient d g
Tilere have alno been conjectures thrown out in
articles in sonic! London and iiroviticial journals as to
the 'imam& by which II ester Ilully, the laundress, became
acquainted with a tumour on the ii ty of the murder
that a niglitilri• Ns wan iiiinning from the house of Miss
Kota, 'l'he ‘pLizi.ition is this —I 111 searching the
loom iif the lltuuieuleo coll the morning of the murder a
was. found having marks apparently of a anal-
nature tuicun it. Mr. Pi.rmilis, niirAeon, how-
ever, informed the poli-e that the appearances were to
he ilea...tinted for from natural causes ; but in the exer-
cise of tlii•ir letion the ptiliCe fill/light it !tripe( to
garment from the house and Antonia it to the
it.- pi of another inciliral Mali, who confirmed the
opinion Ilia; hail Inn emir. 1-y Mr. l'arsaitin. The
f of Cia• Art AS in liven taken
iseeiessiiiii of an I reilloveil front the house hy tile I.OllCe
became bruited iii the village, with Ate additions
usually made by rumour in nuela cases, in due course
reaching the cal, of the laundry... the old woman ex-
pressed het ih•tertilliotion to satisfy h. ru•lf of its truth
av Soon a. Si,.- reci•iveil the clothes fr, on Mr. Kent's
bonne gin the following Monday. llonee on that day.
an soon as slit. reached home with the two lianketn uif
She at once searched and found confirmation if than
. rop..rt which had liven cirtulatod lir missing a night-
dress I...longing to :111s.ColiStailet• Oil the police
• tie jinni-, of her on the Monday, nlie told them
i that the lin, all right aseording to the book,"
Colt the number of article-s were duly
• eat, reel ; lint she Withheld the information that tin-re
• Was a 'll.:lit-11,s, ..f )11,n Constanee's iiii•••ing.
• nig. an die s. Dint it lisil liven kept back for the filar-
ini •e iif rel ii,r. as hail sometimes that it
W.I. already in the pon-e-niiiii of the police. It has not
yet hocii puldlielj- stilted that on the morning the
murder wan discovered, Mr. Parsons, surgion. Made a
couial examination of all the kiiiven to the
(none of a hich slid subsequently
noioilitted them to a ilijeriloctiliiC itiVeCtioll. but COllll
disroVer Ilio trat-es Of l.iti,nl Oil any of them. Mr.
, Parsons is also st itell to have expressed lilt 01 that
the severe wound,. f 1 out the lanty of the thee, now I
and which were inflicted both before and -item
iloatfl, tiuiulil liot IsaVe Callwil liv aiiy of the knives
• found in the hou-e. The alinenee of the weapon with

that ler was r fled and the mysterious
di•app. grace,, of the nightdress of Mk% Constance
Ken. have hitherto battled the researches id the police.
Mr. Inspector tViiieher and Sergeant Williamson have
returned to to await further instructions from
the lloine Secretary, who, it is hoped, will take some
iminyliate action in Ids 'undid tiu.itt, r. It has heen
wiggestes! that the investigation al it be c 1111 l niencyl
dr fooro, hod that, in addition to the employment of
metropolitan detectives and the county emaraloil iry, a
London solicitor of experience tit t rondo: tof criminal
investigations, with a stipendiary magistrate to asaist
the loyal jullilicea it.. their assessor, should he employed
1,, the endeavour to fathom this mystery. of
Waylv. ehle.l that the two pieces of newspaper a Inch
were !mind stained with 1.1.5. I, and in which it
poSeil Ih.it the knife or as Awn with which the murder
tl as verpt.tratea alter the crime hail been
1111 l pleted, lisve !wen proved hi he portions of the
Trite., of t`.e !111. of Jane. They were st...ted at the in
psri •of a paper wtiteli was not t %hell in by
.h. fit or :Me tier Ver•oll reiil,lll Ii tt.e house,
and (reel I!, it C,11,1111,t .• tire iry or Amite
cr. 1... tie r• tisi.l-a “111.4
g•••,.• .‘ • t ft-tier. are Ie he
1. I, sf t! .• w r•-..zal .I.lv •applieil to
Mr. the (heels, whi, alewhite
e:!11111 y. the lelirave %Ca, wutile
Illate of the holl,e is . fsr yinfirmed.

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