The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-07 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER OF A LITTLE GIRL

IN KENT.

There Is no leaser aly doubt that the remains of Om
littlesirlfoun4 in this no., Meiway, on Sunday at Yaid-
ins, near Mendetone, are those of °wraiths Moore, who
Nu teea miseitut flow her home at Pimlto*. London, Moos
li•cember 90th last. Tao boly was found floating en the
river Medway within 100 Yards of a cattails Inbsbited by
• te-.on named 'tether Pay, a roamed woniaa, aged
shout 36 yeses, who le living apart from tier hostemd,
whose residence is is at Et We•tmereland-etrest, Pimlico.
Some six weeks since the woman absconded from her
bow.; and it is staved that the police authorities had. in
cotts-quence of the abduction or lb. Maestri, been soak.
ink inquiries no to hr wheresboots. It was may that
whim the body of the deceased child no. fated in the
Medway on Sunday, clothed as described la the printed
bills that had been general circulated, that Kr. Pay was
diacoverei by the police. Inspector Marshall and
Sergeant Cos-ins, from Rochester-row potioeetatioo,
Pimlico, visited Yakibig on Tuesday, sad thin ricostand
the worm.) Pay.
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—The myetery which envelopes the fats of the little girl
Georgina Moore bee only been partially dissipated by the
revelatioes made at the examination of lather Pay, who
Is charged with having caused the child's death, at the
inquest held at Yaldnut From inluirles made at the
swine of the 'tiding of the body, it would seem that the
oonnecttoa of the moused with the disappearance of the
child is much more apparent than the evidence addeced
at times legatee's Waded to show. lather Pay, the
accused, is one of sight deughters of Wiiluins Humphreys,
bailiff to Mr. Alfred White, of Nettleetead, a village
which adjoins the perish of Yaiding, bong divided
from it by the river Med wsy, which at that point is
only ',boat twenty yards wide. She hoe recently been
separated from her husband, but foe what mem is
not apparent Par some tiene_previous to their removal
to their present address in Winchester-street Pirntieo,
the oirente of the child Moore resided with the Pays
In • neighbouring street, and here it would seem
the fatter of the demeaned child made the aoqualateaos of
the accused. This ecquaintance was of such a natant es to
allow of Moore paying • visit to the wooed at her father's
house at Nettiestead dariag the hopping 0•61011. discs
that lose neither be not the accused have been seen in the
village until Saturday last; but about three week. ago •
man and • woman, the latter of whom miseries to the
description of the accused, went into PublioAease at
Notilestrel, where they Were closeted In • private room
for dues boars. The identity of the man has not bees
established. At the point on the river's bank where the
bargeman, Alfred Tinhorn, found the body of the little
girl, • pathway leads up from the towing path over
the railway, thence acmes • hopaeld and meadow, to
the Maidstone-road, where it comes out by the aide of
the house of the bailiff Homptireya It thus forma •
direct line of communication between the spot Where the
body was found sad the beilifs. It was by an eaten.
ordinary ioadvert4mos that the body was di.onveeed by
Masora It appears that Fathom watt • unitive to the
locality, and not knowing tee brd of the river Over well.
he allowed his barge to Urine ro,ni tr She libellee
portion of the dream sear the bank, end at was here by
the merest accident that he inserted his boom to push
the barge off, and by doing NO brought op ea object
which proved to he the body of Us* miming child. Prom
the careful manner in which the body was bound it is
assumed that more than owe prom assisted in the
accomplishment of the dead. Several tarns of wire were
made rotted the body, and two loops were wads at the feet
to bold bricks R 3 sink the body. One had slipped out, sod
it is expected will be found In the bed of the river when
the wester is drawn ad on Friday. It is also thought Nut
the child was murdered before being thrown In. as the
body was quite fresh When fated.
The solicitor who conducted the defames of Lefroy,
Mr. Dutton. has been engaged for the defence of lather
Pay, who is charged with the Pimlico murder. The bed
of the river Medway at Talding was searched on Friday,
but nothing Wee discovered calculated to throw any light
on the mysterioui affair. It is now believed that the
body was in the water at any rate before the 12th of
January, and this opinion is arrived at from the fact that
on that day the river overflowed considerably, partly
coverlet' the field in which the hat of the 'incensed was
subsequently found. James Humphrey, of Leeward, an
nada of Mrs. Pay, picked the het tip fal the Idth Diet . and
tadlt OD a hides near, without thinking wayside,/
.* of the discovery of the article, and it wee again
sobbed there after the body had been taken from the
water. Rain fell heavily on the night of Thursday the
12th, during the water to dew very fast, and It I.
believed that the hat of the deceased was by this awns
carried from where to. body hied been sank In the river,
err from the high, W the spot whore it was (stud by Mn.
Pay's uncle.

Tim ROTel. ILLILItIAOn.—Tbe Whitehall &Tint NM is
that at the =armee of H.R.R. Prime Leopold, Doke
of Albany, there will be 'debt bridesmaid., memoir, two
Duke's daughter., Lady Rumen Lad Lady Constance
Campbell ; two eia's daughters, Lady Alexandria.
Vane and Lady Jane puha= ; and foor Earl's demob-
t-ra, Lady *ire Bridle Wilbraham, Lady Eva Brooke,
Lady fillorence asstnee Amon, and one other. The same
foturnal adds that he Prime tot. receive from iliciotlead •
reed national marriage present. official (kart
Cirmdar my. Prince Leopold, having sprained his knee,
bet b-en detained foe tee present at Arnhem.
iligenteo Pam= POTATO,/ TO AnnilLlCS.—We are
reminded of the familiar anoosaly of "media, coals to
Newcastle' when •• Mar of expertise potatoes from
this country t Americo. This process. however, is now
going on from the Lathom and Burecoogh district' of
Lancaahir,--portioas of the county which have • wide
reputation for their excellent potatoes During the past
few days large shipping or Mrs have been executed there.
sad fanners hare had all their teams at work cortYit the
potatoes to the station. Toe extent of the porchaes made
by American beyen—who are selecting seed p.1.1'.. of
some of the best variatim—appsen large, to " Lan.
• cadthiri tide who are accustomed to blg alum
Ten Cues or Lima:la—At ea exhibition of wild
beasts Me other day to PrieyomeTkil, • little toys io
the south-east of Prue* the spectators were suddenly
terrified by the screams of • lad of about eleven year/ of
qpi, who bed been seined by a limas. The mem reserved
for the spectaton was separated from time owes by alarm'
chats at • ammoe of rather more thee four feet; but the
rwed hid contrired to roach the heed 'of the boy and to
it towards be? te=lv Axed between
born IlnallY. • Bauman, at.,
haring vainly attempted tos drag the, boy away,
°eels Introduced his area through the bar" betwec=
=sawn, and thus with difficulty in dime.
its victim. . The stendannterl handiCars Mated
deeply lacerated by he talons of the I
testellya. woo found to hem rewired only alight et=
A 3 Accolgrusigur Strutouts.—Dr. Lliriarel Nathan
Gam; who is mid to be • Soclidist. and to bare bees
secretary to the Revolutionary Congers, held r. ovally in
London, was charged at Bow-street on Thursday on an
extradition warrant, with angled fraud within the Jure-
diodes, of the Ninherlsods Govoromeat. The pneoner
• man of superioe rile:atop. it being understood that he
could C 012•111.•• in 1.1 cl,ff 'rent homages. It was alleged
that the prisoner had resided la Rotterdam frogs whence
he had circulated advertisements la Germany rooroosate
log that he could supply roods M resteurnats, $O., at •
e rate than the* cedilla Procared in that
firE means be was &Wad to have received IO,Ot
Amins without executing the orders tins. Re abecoodel
to Rotitbaniptoalivhere he we takes tato envied: op the
Ghana of= goods frontairanaos by false premocea
WU. aeons warrant
Eider the root:atig=lll, Visliariart woe re-
sitailita let wait inidease.