The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-28 00:00:00

" P.B.—Pkeee to have my letter in your baud."

" Uay 1.
" Madam,—ln reply to your letter I beg to say vre vh.,u Id be
very Weaned to adopt your baby ; we love children very much,
and woted do all in our power to secure the happiness of th..
little one. I should like very much to me you, so if you all
wnte, 11. yins where and st hen I can do so, I shall fee' obliged.
Hoping soon to bear from you, I remains your's sincerely.
"11. livaLar."

This letter seas addressed to M. L G.. TO4 OfSo*.
Stoke Ilowington-rost, and found there
by the offioers.

Mr. Polsod.instructed by the solicitor to the treasury,
•I posted to prosecute; sad Mr. Mayo was for tbo pri-
bof.erik.

Eden O'Connor. aged 14, stated th.t the had resided
at the °metiers' house as re. vent. There were eight
children there when she went, and at erward. eleven.
While witness was there four chil lien were talt.n
away. Two were taken by both pri-oners about ten
o'clock at night, and they returned with the ohildien
after twelve o'clock, and said they were too late for the
train. On the oast night they again took the child en
"home." as they aid, and returned without them.
The two were in long olothes, and had been in the hose
about a month. Tie prisoner Waters told bee they
were taking them sway bec.u.c they w,re ill. Who,
the prisoners came hack they brought back a hood,cape,
and cloak. Afterwards Mrs. Waters took a little girl
away and retnrivd without her. About three week.
ago another infant—the fourth—was taken sway.
Waimea bad never seen the four children since. She
was frequently kohl to go to the po•t-offloo at Brixton
and get letters addreseed there to "Mrs. Oliver." some-
times she got sir at one time. After the prisoner
Watrrs had read the letters she generally burnt them.
She read them to Mrs. Ellis. Witness went twice to
Mr. Eaves, chyrniot, for laudanum—on one 000saiou
Mrs. Waters told ber to say she had a toothache, and
on the other occasion it was wonted to rob the chest of
Miss Cowan's child. She also went to another chrtniat
for laudanum, and he refused to let her have any.
Waters had sent her to a builder's close by to get lime,
which she said wos to keep sickness away from the
children. After putting a piece about half the sue of
her baud into a jug of water for an hour a dessert
spoonful was, by the direction of planner Waters, put
into each of the intent's feeding bottles. No child died
while she was there. Mr. Harris, surgeon, attended
Mrs. Ellis, and other medical men attended at the
house.

Cross-examined: The clothes brought back ate, the
children bad been taken away belonged to the house.
They were bronght to the Loll 4 in • night gown and
blanket. Tile prigoners were food of children, and paid
• great deal of attention to them and treated themaliks.
Little Cowan had • cough when she fetched the
laudanum, and she was told at had been used to rob its
chest with. It was not warm weather when she got the
lime. It was very cold, and she thonsht it was about
a month ago. The milk sometimes turned sour, but
she did not know that the litue was used to prevent
li. She understood that it was pat in to prevent
sickness. They bad corn dour, arrowroot, isinglass,
baked flour, milk, and Ridge's food; and thy were fed
four times • day, and had plenty. The sour milk was
thrown away, and that in the bottle at the top of the
cupboard, which the police found, was not, she believed,
intended to be given to the infants. Each child was
bathed every
,morning.

Police-nonetable kin, 193, proved finding the dead
body of an infant, and produced the things in whieh It

Mr. Polald said he should be able to identify the
articles.

A labourer named Francis stated that he found the
dead body of a child, and the articles of clothing found
with it were produced.
Polioe-oonstable Sheen, 19/3 P, stated that on the
17th of bla• the last witness banded the body to him.

P.C. Alford. 285?, said on the 24th of May' he sa;.at
buket at Peckham covered over, and found the body
of • etudd very much deoomposed. tie produxd the
art,cles found in the basket On the 13,1 of June inst.,
be saw a brown paper parcel and • piroe of red flannel
wrapped round the body of a dead child about five or
six weeks eid.

Alf re 4 Dean proved finding the body of a child in •
brown piper pared at Peckham.
George Anderson, • boy living at Peckham, said on
Sunday week he wss on some logs of wood, and saw a
brown paper parcel.
The summoning olSoer for th• Coroner of East Surrey,
to whom the brown paper tarosl found by the last
witness bad been given, said on the brown paper parcel
was the name "Yrs. Waters."
The girl O'Connor was reealled, and Identified (as
having been in the house where the prisoners lived)
several articles produced by the witnesses who had
found ths dead bodies of the infants. One of the
articles had been worn by "Little Emily," one of the
children now in the workhouse. . . .

Mr. Poland asked for • remand. and believed on the
next occesion he should be able to produce further
evidence.
The prisoners were remanded, and a hope was ex-
pressed that on the next noeurion some of the persons
who had placed infants in their care would communicate
with Mr. Superintendent Gaston, at Carter-street
Police-station.

LA DIES' DRESSES.
A rem meetly tried in the SuperioriCourtandoldmm: Boston
boa drawn the attention of aspiring wives
lug husbands to that part of the world. Mrs. Flynt,
daseribed in the oewspaerds as a distingnished.dress-
Inskrr, seed Mr. Coolidge for 1,911 dollars, being an
account for dresses supplied to that gentlemen's wife.
Tbe plaintiff boasted that no woman in Boetoo could
make dresses equal in taste and beauty to the elaborate
dreeees oonstruoted for Mrs. Coolidge. The purer'
'.ad Bouness were unapproachable in style, the silks,
it. 4t.it005, and the lame were the produce of the most
"41thi wnrkinenships, fairy lagers had assisted in the
gorgeous architecture, and "all the world wondered"
at tbe root enriensbie of the &sego. Wittman" wars
ealledon both sided, and on both iddai there was nothing
acid but an agreement to differ, Mrs. Flynt's supporters
acid the It° 'metal were moderate. Mr. Coolidge's Maoris
warps were monstrous; and the unfortunate
Jur,. Ilk* I.ll* proverbial donkey, for four-and-twenty
hour., !Quid deelde nothing. son; of them believed in
the aristocratic
"Ino a Flynt •
sympethteed with. the others
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io Coolidge 'with •
and wetter. remain Mask filio waiting for more light