New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-29
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-, "a that eItreme ceremony, fot crifnet Wnlcn
II uas sfterwt I'd proved they c0ud rot have oOn
mitted. We have 0urselyts recently repeated 'no
vtpsuowu story Of tee execution ot the 'e'"o''
murd,rsrs. which was hirderrd OIL, b the oppH-
,r,s reappear,ne of the murdered man very
l.tel,. ia Eng'a msn named Cagg gave hnso'
No TO ius'ice the murderer o. the ch'lu''o''" ~
the murder at Roso, lear Bath, which Is 10" per
ME ,irg tbe English public by its inoom 'reneoS'oie
on, ru,i,v Tbis mnn confessed that be had I'M
,o,ed The or me- being hired TO DO so b. tho father
of tte child But 90 examination, what oiu wei
Ter Calls "anGieibi wasproSed against h'nl, soo"
IT. hat ne WAS at Portsmouth on he nght oil the
murder, AZ d be wss ANONYMOUSLY discharges io-
stead OF beng he center Of terest OF oil Eog'aod
IL was, und ubttdly affected by the de'usion, o
atich The Black9o"d store. are examples, that
Iuufespes on III Dis in certain state OF disease, q
7. oil belief that they have do things With
wfict fscte aiteraaId showed they could have had
potb)ng to do.
Thir child murder at Rood il one Of the most ex
traocdirSJy crimes on record, from tue cIrcun
st,Dces of it commission and the apparent absence
Of all prCvucatiOD ct occasion of 1t DIR. Samu,
SavJlle Kent ia gentleman of property, living at
Road 10 Wit hire His family cOossted OF his
wife son Of four years old by her, and son and
two daughters BY a former mar ,lsge. Oh the
NOR, ing Of The 29th Of last June, the htsle boz
was missing from his nursery. Az alarm ~ss g'yeo
and search made, upon which the BODY OF the
Guild. with il. throat cut wss fund 10 the vault
Of prisy belonging to the house. The coroners
in,y sat upon the body, and found averdictot muir
der by per obs unknown, but it seems to have con-
Quoted its business accOrd & 70 the true "Cro~n-
er's Quest" precedrEts, az it ON tied to examine
the only persons who could have known anything
sbout the matter viz the meGIbeIs Of the house,
hold. For { wss demo lstrable that the murder
must have bten committed by some psrson within
the touse; because the fastening Of the doors and
windows on the si1e we're all as they should be
that m rnng, 20 that there could nave been no for
chile entry from without. 1t is true that WIN
dow on toe groutd floor was found Open-but,
then, The shutters Of this widow were found
Fastened on the inside thing impossible to be
dore by one making his escape that way, but very
possible to be done by bungli G and agtated NUT
deIer within, who thus bOtched his owa device for
giving a fsl,e hypothesis If the crime.
But this state of thiogs only makes the case the
more mysterious. Who could have been the ruth
less ereny of the innocent child, thus cruelty
butct cred Who had any advantage to gain from
bis being put out of the way The father aud
III tber, who we're d"atiusy fond of he hoy, would
seem to be out of the question. The servants had
DO nj 70 TO lead them to such an action Add
could susprcisn fall upon the sisters OF the hall
bio, d. two young ladies OF gentle blood and breed.
inc. or ritter of them7 1t did, however; and
When after uuaccOuntable delays, London, do
tecise was sent down to look up The case, he ar
rested the youngest daughter, Miss Constance
Kent, on the horrible uspicion. On Investigation,
sb- Was discharged from custody, from want OF
sufficient evidence to hold her fo' trial, but still
under her fathers Iecognzsnce to be forthcoming
If wanted. Sir George Bowyer, the member for
Rome ss Mr.. Punch sometimes calls bin, censured
10 Parliament the arrest Of this your lady BY the
Police as harsh ard uncalled for; but SlrCornewal
Lewis the II me Secretary, justified their action,
from his own kbO~ledge Of the case, as proper and
necessary. The circumstances throwing suspicion
UPON her. ss far as they appear, are these; The
had been known TO complain when at school of the
paTtalty shown to this child by her father, and OF
the companions be drew between him and William
Kent, her brother Of the whole blood. That there
was domestic unhappiness, arising probably from
the sec, nd marriage may be inferred from the fact
that Miss Constance and her brother William
Ouce attempted to away, she IN boys Clothes
and to 60 Oh bOtTd ship at Bristol On that occa
SION. it was proved that her hair, which her
brother cut off with knife, and her usual
clOfhee were thrown down the same vauitin which
the body Of the murdered child was found, Ga the
| night Of the murder it was proved that she had
| thIee night-Gre ses, one in wesr and two 10 her
chest Of drawers. A ter the murder one had dis
appeared. She accounted for this by sayiOg that
1t was lost in the Wa.h the week afler the murder
| But the laur dress aud her two daughters swore
positively at they received The family iaen on the
day Of the murder, aud that no such night drcss
vas among it. The housemaid swore that it WAS
| put into the clothes basket at II o'clock that |
morning, while the laundre.s and her daughters |
swear that it was not it when il arrived at their
hpuie an hour bfterwGrd. But this was not tde |
whole of tie housemaids testimony. She swore,
! also, that aftoc the clothes were yut into the |
ba,ket, including Mrs Con,tances nigttdrees,
this yoang lady, who was standing BY, asked her |
to get her glass of water following her to the head
oftbe back stairs. OnreturniDg with the water che |
found Mi,s Constance standing where she had |
lett her. She drank the water and went into her |
bedcbsmber. Did she take the night .dIess out Of |
the basket and destroy it And ifsO Why
Oie circumstances which was Thought most ex-
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