The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-28

AemOI0o O0oo II TINS OIeys
MOTHER DESTROYS THE BODY or HAR HLy0rrnkATu
CHILD ny BURNING IT IN YURNA0a.
About ak O'Clock Sunday afernooa ths fany sf ths
Rev. John Cotton Smith, rector of tho Episcopal Church q
the Ascension, corner OF Fith avenue and Toath
street, observed . peculiar and mysterious sdor
pervading tho whole promises. search was In
mediately instituted to ascertain its cause, aad
almost every part Of tho house bad bosa examined before
tho cellar was finally searched Tho largo furnaoe which
Is there located was exanaed and the bsdy Of child,
burnt almost 70 crisp, discovered the Goals.
suspicion At once fell upoa young Irish servant girl,
named Grace Heeuan, and Capt. Dn II The Fifteenth pro
oinct, was Gent for. 10 oams, bringing with him
Poace Surgeon DR.. Jones, who nade an examination
Of tho girls person. and discovered unmistakabe evidence
Of the recent child birth She finally confessed having
put the body Of The child In the furnace stating that II
was still BORN and that she had been seduced BY nAa
living on Long Island She Also said that shs was delv
cred OF the child about two O'Clock On Sunday morning
and that she thrust into the furnace to destroy IT,
The body Of tho child was removed to the fifteenth
precinct station house. where Coroner Schsrmer held an
inquest yesterday afternoon.
Margaret Miller, being duly sworn, said:I live At the
domestic; Grace Heenan was about two months there
she the cook had suspicion OF her condition from
appearAnoes slept in the same bed With hsr she got up
about four O'Clock Sunday morning, complaining that
she unwe she came back into bed without leaving
the asked her how abe felt and she said she had
pain in her sde did not zee her again until four O'Clock
in the afternoon; she got up out OF bed after LEFT her.
she got clothes belonging her. took pail OF water
and went up stairs she remained there shout an hour
not see any blood on them went up stairs, and became
convinced that confinement had taken place; heard
great steLcn; went down into the cellar 10 ascer-
tain the cause; I saw Grace by the furnace;
nsr fas SS sa ss ~.
In the furnace asked her what she said she did not
drew the body out OF the fire 70 the mouth Of the
not me, but went up STAIRS followed her, lock-
ing the cellar door behind me- told the lady Of the house.
ns Smiths sister Of the fact when vent up stairs
slept with Grace heard no groan nor cryJ
DR. Aanson s. jones, Police Surgeon Of the fifteenth
s,y place; about eight O'Clock Sunday evening was
called 70 the house No 81 Tenth street. proceeding to
the cellar found the body OF male infantthe one here
present-it was In charred and mulated condition;
took the body and sent to the station house, then pro-
ceeded 70 the kitchen, and there found Grace Keenan,
whom examined, and ascertaned that she had recently
been devered upon charging her with being the mother
Of the infant found in the cellar after some
admitted that she the mother that been born the
night previous saying cried; she stated
that the chile lay dead in bed all day Sunday with her
that about two hours previous interview she brought
the child fom the upper part of the house into the cellar
and placed in the furnace she seemed rather ignorant
girl, and did not to appreciate that she had been
examination saw the tes. applied to the lungs
there was no evideace to show that the child ever
breathed
Geo. B. Bouton M. D., being duly sworn, deposed as
foflows:I have made post norton examination OF the
body Of the dead child now lying In this station find it
TO be that Of male child OF small sze externally there
indications of extensive burns the right is burn
ed and the right side of the body charred the right lung
was also both lungs when subjected to the hydro
static test did indicate that respiration had been e.
tabished.
The evidence here closed and the was submitted
verdict Of I" Stillborn."
Grace Heenan is still lying in q rather precarous
dion at the house Of her employer She Is young GIRL
being only twenty years age and is devoid Of any
great personal beauty. When examined by DR.. Jones,
abe stated on being closely questioned by him. that while
her bedroom entered in the night by laborer
one Of the farm hands who violated her person. and that
an improper intimacy had succeeded, with the result
shown above