The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-24 00:00:00

SZAITESDURY.

CUTTING UP AND CONCEALING A CIIILD.
At ShAftenhary on Monday last, Julia Denbeigh, •
yo•lng w into of the town, wa. hr mght up in cuetqdy
chargiri vtith concealing the birth of her ill •Atictitte
child on or about the 19th of July.
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The cue woe investigated by the Mayor (J. Now, Nesq
and ex• Mayor (J. Mullett, IL q.), on Monday in the Town-
hall, which was ctowded with people. The lois inor was
charged with unlawfully concealing the bieth of her
illegitimate chill, at the perish of Holy Trinity, Shaftes-
bury, on or about the 19th of July. The wined is a
young woman, chat irk stature, and slizh.ly 'milt, and
from the reapectsbility of her appesea iee one unreel,
axpected to bear that she has an illegitimate child living
about two years of age. She in an orphan. and (tom bet
childhood has been with the family of Mr. Elmer. enn.
fectioner, whose shop she has of late yea, n man 'ix. d Be
appeared in caeirt in deep mourning. and was arcom lated
with a seat, att)iou.:h she .44 apparently unconcirn:d at
the pron.:dings The that witness, called wag
Riles Bennett, wife of Tom Bennett, of D inliesd St.
Mary. who bald she wan acquainted with the prisoner.
Outs Saturday night at the beginning of March she wee
at Mr. Elso's, and 113 she was very wet prl.oner told her
she wul i sleep with her, and she did so. Prisoner than
told her she had been inulted Day a person witness
named) on the previous With of October. She noticed
that prisoner was rather clouts, than she used to he. in
April she saw prisoner in the shop, and ohs then said she
felt her Ante very much. She advised prisoner to toll
her muter of her condition, but she itafd alio rhoold not
make it known. They talked shout the pilsoner's time,
and reckoned that she wonti be coolie° I ,bout 'h., middle
of July. The prisoner left Mr glues on the 9lt of
July, and on the 111th she received the following no's
from her:—" Mn,. Bennett,--1 am home., but lam alrieht.
Please don't come up-1 would rather Ton did not. You
can keen the flannel ; I don't want anything from you.—
Deunginti.“ .e bed __flown the prisoner uyi,ral tsr.,
end she used to wish her clothes for her. She nor:.l the
prince:ler when the had her lnat baby.
Waal] ()Alan% a widow, of Shafteahney, 011,1)1 rhe
lived in the some hose° with prisaner, and she often lazed
her with her state, which she always denied. She told
prisoner what she beard about her from time to time, and
she away' replied, "Well, Mrn. Goddard, yeti m,y rent
yourself perfactly satisfied It is not correct.' On the day
of Ws chapel !ate she noticed that prinoner es,u maeb
thi?.tler,

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gr. Wore Rohort Fih.mard. mireeoe. oShnfteohu T.
maid ho examined nris..u..r on Friday sloth% and found
1:100 al her Ivorlna b man recently tleliyere I. he shout I any
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er tLin the lad month. fi9nte of the bone,. inalocvi were
!weal on of a rccontly born chill They were not all
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"-fiq-at Wield !staled that on the 10th and 11th in-t
starched the house and premier's! in Bell-street, wbera the
priaater had been living. lie received the bones now
tor oduc-d from P.C.s Woessiell and White. He could not
find soy batty linen provided. Oa the 11.12 inst. he
°Mallard a warrant, and on the 12th he went to L nd it
and erg ths prisoner at W Greet Quebec-sir. e',
bob& lie read iho warrant to her, eat ealVaned her.
She made the following stat-ment„ which he to k wn to
writing:—" 1411 have a chill at Alhafteslei, y three via elm
ag last Monday. 1 bad It be royeel in !he night. N
syse wtsiever was with me. Tdo not know if it was dead
horn, I,utt foaled it deo, in the morning —Signed, JULIA
Dawns." Ile broilzht Prisoner to Shaftesbury n-xt
day, aid on the 101 l owing day she sent for him to hr cell.
and told him eh* wished to make a staterneno. HA swain
st,mtioced her, and took down her statement in writieg as
fidlevr :—" I wish to make a sta.ement to von, Vest is, I
rut up the lo say in small pieces and pot it in the rr:ty
whieb belongs to our home In 1114wireet. I bk the
biter from the brd the fir:t mirning athr I war confined,
end put it in the ca.il el-el. where it remained one day
before I took it to the miry. I wish vu to tell the
magistrates this—Signed. JULIA DIVIDRIGII."
Wermiell said on Tuesday, the 10'h ins.., he went
w.th Seil. Plaited to the prisoner'e house to search the
prs Mile*. In the privy be foetid • quantity of linen and
ora.dien rare, one pine,, of linen toeing marked with the
lett,r 'D." Ile also found several mill bones On
Wednesday he male a farther search In the prisoner's
room, and in her 'as he found a piece of flannel stained
with lotond. It aporared recently washed. On Thornier
ho sonde a further search at the closet, in compony with
pm White, an I bound come mere bone..
P.O. White said he searched the closet in Ilellestreet on
Tneeday, and found several nieces' of un. n and woollen
rag, and also seine bones. On Wedneraisy he made a fnr-
ther. march with the last witness, and found some mora
linen rags ani fi !noel. and some more bones. They eon.
tinned the march on Friday. and found other boner. On
Friday also he found • few more small bouts.
Mr. Henry George Norton said he was II registxar of
births and deaths for the sub-district of Shlf sodomy, He
had remirel no Intimsth p of the miernwh:Vlll/ been
~f a c 1.11.1 sal•t,ln Vie 1 ort rar No rue had
5e0u..1.• sl hoe to resister AU/ sal!. hirtk.
Prisoner hat not enorth'nz to es, In answer to the
rlttr.r, end ere wee e,mniltted for trial at the Amiz
Pilionees I r other. • mspectab'elooking you'll nose. who,
P54"..1 s'. feel be M1.1Ii•VI of his sister more scot ,to- then
ohs till here-If, asked the nmalstrates what bail they
would accept, end .be Mayor replied the prisoner in £lOO
and two sureties In .L. 50 each; three o'clock on Tuesday
aom
tmonn toeing the time fixed for taking their recogni.
avec. P. if they were forthcoming.
mbled outride the Town-
A large erowd of people asse
het to witaore tbe denarture of the prism-r, who was
driven Maul from the Poliee.statlon In a fie.