Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18
HnrrlhIe and TerrlhIa.

One of the most awful crimes which it has
ever been our misfortune to record, transplred
on the 26th of November last, at ArnchR, in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. 1t
appears that Mary HOdgsOn, the paramour OF
an old man named Richard Jaques, aged 76
wears, by whom she had child, and it was
charged that after its birth. she endeavored to
conceal her degradation by first numbering and
then burying the body of her offspring. The
evidence goes on to say, the prisoner, Jaques,
is miner at Arnclif, near Sklpton, and the le-
male prisoner lived with him at his cottage as
his housekeeper. The female prisoner was OBJ
served bv her neighbors to be pregnant, and
neighbor named Margaret Lister called to see
her about u o'clock on Wednesday, the 26th of
November last, when she was told by Jaques
that she could not see her, as she was not well
and had zone to bed. At that time Mrs. Lister
saw a Washington containing blood and water
on a table near the door, and asked what 1t was,
when the prisoner, Jaques, put his suck across,
| and said she could not see It, She observed
| that at that time there was little fire in the
house Her knowledge that Mary Hodgson
was pregnant, and what she had seen, excited
her suspicious, and she went and told Mr. Rob
inson, the Surgeon of the village, that she sus-
pected that Mary Hodgson had been confined.
! AT 3 o'clock that day her attention was drawn
to a very bad smell and to thick smoke COM
ing from Jaque's chimney, and on going to
! Jaoues's house she saw the prisoner, Hodg-
son, sitting before the fire, blowing the fire,
and Jadues sitting opposite to it whiting a
! stick. She asked what they were doing with
so large a fire, and Mary Hodgson said they
were going to bake She asked the reason Of
the fire cracking so, and the prisoner Jaques
said it was the " Skipton Goals" Her suspi-
cions being excited she saw the surgeon, and
told him what she had seen. Mr.. Robinson
the surgeon, in consequence, went to the pris-
oner Jaques's house about o'clock, and saw
Jaques with a coal-can in his hand going to the
coaLplace, and told him that he was informed
by Mrs. Lister that Mary Hodgson was about
to be confined. Jaques told him she had gone
to lie down, as she was not well, and there was
no occasion for him. He wished to see her
| but was told he could not, and IN consequence
went away for the constable, and returned in a
quarter of an hour, and he then found both pris-
oners sitting opposite the fire as described by
the last witness He said to the female prison
er, 'How do youdo, Nary" and she answered
"I am better than have BEEN" He then said
to the prisoners he suspected they were endea-
voting to conceal the birth of Mary HOdgsOn's
child, and Jaques answered, Nothing of the
sort Won may search the house" He then re-
marked on the cracking Of the fire, and stuck
his stick into it and felt something soft. He
then took coal off the fire with the tongs and
took from underneath, the head, chest, and
heart of newly-born infant child partly CON
sumed After this Mrs Lister saw the female
prisoner alone, and she told her that she felt
III, and went upstairs to bed, and was deliver
ed of a child on the floor of the room that she
knocked for Jaques to come up, and said to him
when he came into her room, "Now it is come. "
He asked her, "Where is it2 I'll soon do fol
it." She said to him, 4" Don't hurt it ;" and he
took it and wrapped it in piece of linen anc
ahrew it out amongst the kinding in the coal
hole. She afterwards told Elizabeth Brace
! well, another neighbOr' that she had been con