Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-07-22

THE CHILD wITNEA-A TOUCHING SCENE.
A most bloody and brutal murder wes dis
covered this morning in the North Division,
says the Chicago Tribune of the Sd instant,
which must have been committed on the day
previous. The murdered person is q woman
named Jane McNamse.
The first intelligence of the murder was com
municated by Names himself, who entered the
stable of Mr.. Wright, his employer, about 4
o'clock in the morning, and with both hands
raised, hurriedly exclaimed to the Waterman
on the premises, palmer, my wife is dead!7
!. Palmer asked how i" took place.
II don't know; I woke up and found her
dead in bed this morning.
Palmer Immediately went to the rooms oc-
cupied by McNamee, and the appearance
caused him at once to leave information at the
North Police Station opposite, upon which
McNamee was taken into custody.
The Coroner was Immediately summoned
who took charge of the rooms.
he murdered woman had by her husband
two children, a little girl and a boy. The
boy, four years old, was called as a witness,
and gave testimony as follows:
Previous to the swearing of the last wit
ness, the little boy was brought in and told
his story. He is a very intelligent little lad,
and told his tale with an artlessness and sin
certify that carried conviction to the hearts of
every one that heard it, In the morning he
had been asked by the coroner if his father
had whipped his mother, and replied "No."
He afterwards told Mrs. Cullom that "he
daren' tell that man, for he would tell his
father
After he was brought in, his attention was
drawn to his playthings, until his timidity be-
ing overcome, he told in his childish, lisping
prattle, how his father struck his mother, and
she fell down; how the blood ran and she was
" very sick = how he stamped upon her after
she lay upon the floor, at the same time imita-
ting, with his tiny foot, the motion; how his
mother lay in the dark room, and was e SO
bloody how his father drew her forth by the
1.-THE head, and suiting the action to the
grasped both hands in his hair Flow
his mother tried to get up but could not,
swinging his little body to initiate his mother
how he had no dinner in the day time, for his
mother was asleep on the bed, but his father
got him some after dark; that his father put
hAfh W oCo, bhd1 LIS mUtutr WAS III Lle DeQ
at the time, all bloody by the nose; how she
lay on the boards (the foor) with blood all
round her; how his father wiped up the blood
with a dishcloth and put it in a pan; how he
didn't see why she didn't die before, for his
father did it very often. And finally, when
asked if his mother was drunk, he distinctly
said no, but father was.n 1t was a scene
long to be remembered by all who heard him.
in the innocence Of his childish confidence, tell
his tale, which not a hearer could doubt not
yet old enough to realize bis loss, or the dan
ger in which he was placing his only remain
ing parent.
After listening to the testimony, the jury.
with a very few moments consideration, re-
turned the verdict that the woman cane to
her death by blows inflicted by her husband,
and he was accordingly committed to stand
&is tEjaLfor the awful crime.