Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-29
Baltimore, jane 26.
INTERESTING TRIAL.

.a,, Inn. session, Nancy GAMBLE,
an interesting looking Young woman OF 10
Years of age, was indicted aud tried for
f;d,auping, stealing, and conveying "a
way an infant female child, OF the name OF
Margaret Pool, aged 60 months, the daugh-
ter of James and Mary Pool.
On the trial, Mary Pool, the mother OF
the child. testified that on Thursday the
goth May last, about . O'Clock IN the
morning., the little child, who had just be-
gun to run about, was playing OH the pave
ment;u front OF her door, and being en-
gagged within the house about 10 minutes,
she LETT the child, and on her return 1t had
disappeared--that immediate search was
made for il without sucCess-the nelgh'
borhood was reused in quest OF the child,
bu, nothing could be certainly ascertained
by her until the Sunday after, ls3dl when
the child was brought back most dreadful
~ whipped and mangled, from its little
neck To It's feet.
The Child was produced IN Court with
the marks of the rod still upon it--a sweet,
interesting, beautiful, sprigauy child OF
lSor 90 months ot age.
Gen. Heath testified, that having heard
of The loss Of The child, he went with o.
,hers in pursuit OF it, that alter many iruil-
less enquiries he at length heard 1t had
been seen on the Annapolis road, and &C
cordingly took that direction in search OF
It, along with MIR. Alexander Russell. That
at Mr.. H,nsworth's they were told that the
trayerser dined there ON Thursday with Inc
child, which she represented as her own
called herseit Mrs. Williams, the wife OF
Mr. Jacob Williams, and said she and her
husband had auarreied about leaving The
child with her grandmother in Baltimore,
OF putiing the child out to nurse, and pre-
tended to nurse il herself, before the fami-
ly-lha, she left there soon after dinner,
anu went IN to Cr4ig's Ferry, where she
said The child was her sisters, and staid
that night with the child. The next morn
ing she took the Stage towards Annapoiis,
was put down short distance thlS slae Oh
Mrs. CANDLES, cher auntl and carefully
avoiding the house OF her aunt, had gone
round through the woods to MI Poutrey'S,
near Magothy. Here she was found by
gen. Heath, blr. Russell, and others, at III
O'Clock On Saturday night, IN bed with
Mss Pomtrey, who had taken OF the
chird's clothes to wash. The child, when
found, was in the arms VI the woman iylng
IN bed with The traverser. Gen. Heath
accosted Miss 2. (supposing her to DC the
other woman) roughly, who denied the
crime and charged 1t upon her companion
an bed THE trayerser,j who confessed the
whole truth without any threats or Hattery,
fear oi punishment, or hope OF reward
The traeerSer sttted to ihe purSuers that
she had taken the CHILD from the street in
front of a house in Charles street, which
she described agreeabiy to the ST.
fuaiion oi IIrs. Pools that sac took II up
Pratt-stlelt, to a Mrs. Hamll,on's, near
the keyg avern, where she lett It a short
time in the care OF little girl, until she
would ietrh bundle OF Clothes from near
The Seminary ; that on her return sue LOOK
the Child and brought II ON the Annapolis
road. i'm the manner aboy elm. ntoned. On
beng closely questioned as 10 her moli'e,
she said that her real object was TO obtain
the reward " hich would probably be otter
ed for bringing the child back. General
Heath said, that OH examining the child,
they found i: most cruelty anu nhumaniy
whipped, lacerated, and bruised, 50 that
in many places the blood had gushed thro'
the skin. That on inquiry how this had
come. the traverser confessed she had
whipped the poor little innocent because
il would not walk to keep pace with her;
that II. little arms and body were so mdns-
led, as literally TO draw tears from several
men then present, especially Mr.. Stone,
who shed tears freely, and ciaspeo IL III
his arms. That the trsverser's character
in that neighbosLood was very bad indeed.
She had been abandoned by her aunt as
worthless, and her reputation generally We
= GepraYed.
Dir. Alexander Russell confirmed general
Heath's testimony throughout. Mr.. Hens
worti., Mr.. Craig, and MIR. Cook, respec-