The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-24 00:00:00

PORTIA ND.

THE SUICIDE BY A CHILD.

Tbe foU.iwing evid ace was given at the inquest
held at the Grove lan, betwe F. C. St. spill, Esq.,
Dori nor, ou the body of Manor Catharine Jessop,
aged 11, Ann, wife of Henry Bowman, one
of the principal warden of the Convict Prison
aid that about 25 minutes pest Iva that morning
abe beard the deemed Wishing in the yard. Slic
looked over the widish divides Jemop's premiers
from bens and saw the damned lying on the Moses in
the yard, and resting her bead on be ar.n. She Das
wren,' times to the licensed, bet received no answer.
Wm. Jeasop tine tapped st her wf. doer and asked the ;
deceased (her stop daughter) what was the matter, bat 1
she aetorned no sneerer. Witness thee west in shoat
her own business, hut almost immediately 'afterwards
Mrs. dem is ftlied to her over the well to some end see
what was the matter with Kat*. She went sod saw the
eeeramel was in convulsions, and Mtn Jemop was bolding
Jim in a 'hair. D. Bann was iternediately sent for,
and he epplied r,modtss to her. Wilson heard it
stated by some ono that the child had taken poison.
Wines remained with her till she died which win
cheat sten o'elook.-111r. Hogan Samoa moistest,
surgeon at the Consist Priem, said that shout lit
milieus to sic resin& that merging he was sale I lir
the father to ern the deeseased. He went lasseonlady
and found her lying oa the sofa, Is eoerubioar, sad
•implatning of pen in Use gullet sad throat and ap.
petrol to be In • very Seabed Mate. If. prepared ark
oherte mad administered some +He eggs, ea an aatidet..,
the father lavitig told Inn the* the child was deita
from having takes tome of Hernett's Oinks:Mee Buie.
The emitter; produced MUMPS and gab. 'meet eeteating
H. afterwards edisimetered a deeming of Peruvian
bark. This was 'he paltered end customary treateteet
in ma ogio. Moira &keg the father bow he soatel
A.. Am to re at the poison, sod be r•-plied that
the try of the eaPbeard bsvinl helm Weta the lisek had
hese forced eat amid aot be In ; he added that
ha id not think rho amid have (Intik mach. RA. own
looked op and said she drank a inn fall, el,I h would he
shoal fce wawa TN, deseined rented for s sliest
time and • uplaimed el greet hear I. eteetaal,. bar
therahrd. /raw worse aisdrabed • quite helms
•;4141. Hareetlfs dititkrestarr laid is. vielset emeshy
resemnuid he lberti• deer 114 wowed* el Au
&awed, the esseirsout cif the &diatom! Obi rerksedit
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Julep, the father of the diewessed, said he wee on' of
the prissipal weiders of the prises. About ten minutes
before ell that morning, ea he was taking his breakfast
in the prisou, be was informed that one of hie children
sae tekso ill, and the doctor sent for. When lu left
house, it wu about dee minutes past l's. His wife
was aaleep. He saw the deereeed coming down stair.,
bet did not speak to her. When he got home he saw
his daughter lying on the mole, sod his wife told him
that Kate had taken some of the atulr they used to kill
begs with. He Immediately went for the doctor,
who asked for some warm utter, which on
biting supplied, en emetic nod other attidotes
were immwtiat, ly admieiatered. The pniun was
k. pt under the lock and key till the other day while
the prig net. were preparing the room they famed the
leek. The &mord wee of trery sullen a eloper rind .t
Hines not right in her mind. Her mother.ns"elof
her mind at times for three pore previous to her death.
H. was not aware thet his daughter had received any
ensiled treureutit bout soy one to induce her to take
her if., tied be bad not laid hia band on her since heat
December. He knew of no canoe for her destrotice
herself. The deceased did run away from home last
December, and he found her •t the station at the bottom
.4 tit- 1.111. H. hid previoudy wrested haw for being
saucy I. bin wire nod f..r betting one of her brothers.—
Charlotte Jeesop, wife of the lost witness and Are
mother to the deemed, said that betareeto See and sip
o'cl wit she heard the dunned crying. She went down
stairs and ea. the child lying in the rod ai d asked her
what was the matter, and told her not to make such a
noise as she was only sick and would soon be better.
Witness then took her Into the boon and 'seed if she
hod been oath.' anything to guns the sickness, when
a' e replied "Olt, no, it is the sitar I hue amok out of
one of the bottl-s." Witness immediately went to the
cupboard and found that the houteemitaising Burnett's
theirifeening fluid had been removed from one alielf
to another. The d liter wee immediately
for. Witness knew of no cause that reell have in-
duced the di owed to take her life. Wu not aware
Met she hed berm reerivifte ill-treatment front any on..
On Thursday morning deceased struck herr brother and
was to "ne of her sells* tempers the whole day till b d
Wilollllll did not overeat or strike the deceased.
She had been mauled abut four years and during that
time had imenetiews seen • sturgeons of hebsvionr,
voids, from temper, as eh* thought, bet bee father used
s.y that she Ind got her mother's peoplabes and that
see was not at times right is her mind Ans
who wee wash' g at the cis the preview; day. mud
sae beard the dece.s.d had struck her brother. He
cried out and the. Jellraii told the deeneed that obi
would not allow her to best him. This was all that
pseud and the Summed stood in the puree in • ennui
mood for upwards of an hour and then WINO up stairs.
Be had often seen great strangeness In the eonduet
deceased and had often mid that she could not be
right in her oiled. Had never nes her father or step
mother correct her although she had been frequently at
the house. The jury after • brief oweellatioat returned
• verdict that deepened destroyed herself while in an
wooded state of mind.