The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-18
YEARLY ADYERTIsING.
Professional misunderstanding
observation-disclosures OfLiGC among
the RritIAl CAmnIIIe.

PROFESSIONAL lnluutlCiuesssssSttlFll
ReYeIntiOnS..CIlmps of Life among
the BritISh CHHOIIie.
From Me London TfmHa, July3l.
The public mind has Oflatc been more
than usually Mortified by eases Of muir
der. and We might have hoped that II
would have been for some time impos-
( sible to surpass the dreadful impression
which had been made upon our minds.
Yet u case has Just been tried on the
| Western Circuit which not merely eX-
ceeds in horror the two recent cases,
but, In all probability, triInscends any
I instance within the remembrance of
most of us. Last February the body
of Il child was found on the public road
/ in the neighbOrhoOd Of Torquay wrap.
ped in IL newspaper sOwn up with wOr-
sled. 1t might have been dead some
DAYS, for the weather had been extreme
I ly cold, and its appearance was CONF
natible with its death having been caUs-
cd either by exposure to the weather
or by sufEocatiOn. II appeared to be
about four months old, and by cOmpGr-
ing this date with the Register Of Births
I tho police were led to suspect that II
wns the iIlegitinlate child Of II servant
girl named Harris. 1t was soon dis
covered that the child of this girl had
/ been placed with IL woman named
| Charlotte WinsOr, who, with her hus-
| band and with little granddaughter
eight years old, lived in retired cot
tnge in the neighbOrhOOd of TOrquay.
| II was also made certain that the child
thus placed with this woman had sud-
denly disappeared few days before
{ a. ~ L., 80, f,,,nd Tho nrnO1 JaUuI-
4 ter had one day been sent out OF the
room and into the village while the in
| fant was with its mother and Winsor,
| and on her return the infant was gone,
and she was told its aunt had come for
1t md had taken 1t AWAY. This little
/ girl no sooner saw tho dead body ofthe
child than she exclaimed, "Thnt's little
Tommy and the body was further
identified by the woman ut whose house
the child bad been born. The story
about the aunt was proved to he false,
and Winsor wHs detected in several
other misstatements. Upon such evi-
dcnce as this both Winsor and Hnrris
were tried EOrmurder ut thelast Assi2es,
but rom some incompletencss in the
evidence the jury were unable to agree,
and the Judge dismissed them. He or
dercd, however, both prisoners to be
detained in custody, and they were
accordingly ngain placed upon their
/ trial ut the present AssiZeS. Before this
second triGl commenced the prisoner
Harris was offered and accepted MS
Queens evidence, and her testimony,
which we reported in full on Saturday,
contains the horrible revelations to
which we have referred.
There Is u bare and CHASTITY reality
about the cold details of her statement
which we could hardly induce ourselves
TO reproduce, even If 1t were necessary,
but the merest summary Of tits horrible
enough. Having obtained place about
two months after her confinement, 1t
became necessary for tho mother to
find some one who would take care of
her child, and after falling in one or
two inquiries, she made an arrange
ment with Winsor to keep 1t for two or
three shillings n week. She accompa-
MED Winsor to tho cottage on the day
she left the child with her, and con-
yersation passed between them on the
road Which we must needs quote In the
very words of the witness: "As we
were taking the child to the prisoners,
/ / snid there had been one child picked
mn in the country. The prisoner said,
| i wonder had not got myself into II
once before She had put away one
for n girl who was confined ut her
house, who had promised to give her E3.
but she did not give it her. asked
her how she did it. She said she put
her finger under the jugular vein. She
said she had stifled one three weeks old
/ r.. and hOI fItrnVVsn
| It into Torbay, and when It was picked
up 1t was nearly washed all to pieces;
/ that she Ind put nwny one for her sister
Poorly, as her sister said she would give
/ her III, a | asked her il she
was not afraid, and she said. 10 -
with you; its doing good md she
would help any one who would never
split upon her. was leaving, and she
said: FG'll do whatever lies in my pow
er for your child, and said All right,
and went away. A fortnight after, she
said If wouId'give her 50 she would
do away with the child. ! snid I hnd
not got e5 to give her. She
asked me to give her a note to the
\ Ftlther of the child. / said could
not do that. She said, Get II any how
else; I'll put them all by for thee irthee
u uuSL 9Vs SuIu SlOuAi uUb Nu any
such thing. She said she did, and l
could do the sNmc.n More than an
other fortnight must have passed be-
forc these diabOlical suggestions bore
their natural fruit. Winsor endeavored
to make sure of the money in nnticipa-
ton, and moreover, in order to- insure
Harris silence, was waiting for some
opportunity Of committing the murder
when she would be in the house, and
would thus be accessory to the crime.
One day the mother came and found
her baby sitting up in chair playing
with the granddaughter. Tho girl was
sent away, and while the mother sat u
consenting witness in one room Winsor
took the little thing and smothered 1t
4 in the next room under the bed-clothcs.
The mother looked in, "and saw the
bed made, but no child" II was soon
dead, nnd then the two women quietly
undressed 1t, wrapped it in newspapers
and put II into box. Themother shut
down the lid, and Windsor locked 1t,
: and put the key into her pocket. But
; their work wns not yet over. The child
was got rid OF. Winsor came again TO
Harris Mt her place and demanded IS.
) more to "tAke Il up to Exeter" She
had not got 4s., but she borrowed Is. I'd.
|, other mistress, gave It to Winsor, and
thought twas all over; but the iniquity
of Winsor was full, and the child was
found and identified.