The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-13
Tcorrespondence of the New York World.l

correspondence OF the new fOTk WOTluJ
LONDON, June rs.
s'They have been making great row about
the fellow at Denham who killed seven people;
what do you say to woman who has killed
forty children ?" Thisinquiry was addressed
to me by Policeman x. Y, 9S7, and as In re-
ply expressed my ardent anxiety 10 gee this
female Herod. he kindly piloted me to the
Lambeth Police Court, and there pointed out
to me q woman in the dock, aged about thirty
five years, of plain, but not repnlsive, appear
ance. This was the great baby-farmer, OF whose
exploits have already written you some ac-
count, Mrs Margaret Waters, alias Willes, Hur-
ley, Walters, Ellis, Oliver, Blackburn and Fort.
AS you are aware, this woman was originally
arrested on the charge Of starving to death
only one infant. IN illegitimate child committed
to her charge by Miss Jeanette Cowan; but
facts that have since come to light make It
probable that she Is guilty Of The murder OF
no less than forty Infants. whom she took for
G5 each, (which includes everything, and
parents loving and tender care" At the time
of this woman's arrest her house was found
to contain several infants, all of whom were
being gently showed along the road to death
by the aid of '.Paregorlc Elixir" and other
similar appliances. For four years. IL appears,
this amabe dame has been conducting the
business Of baby-farrning.
ADVERTISING FOR BABY BoARDERs.
Her mode of operation was to advertise, un-
der one Of her many names, her Willingness to
adopt an infant, on the payment OF premi-
um of f5 She would appoint meeting at
some railway station with those who replied to
these advertisements and would there make
the bargain, which was to the effect that the
infant and the money should be handed over
to her, and that no questions should be asked
on either side. She did not ask where the
child came from; the party who disposed Of It
was not to ask where 1t was to be taken. In
this manner, as has now been ascertained, forty
children have passed into this woman's hands
during the last four years. what has become
OF them? Well, what has become Of some OF
them has been ascertained.
THE BoARDING-HoUsE.
The house where this woman lived was In a
ton within few yards of the house are some
vacant grounds, called Myatt's Fields; and in
these fields, and in other places close at hand,
have lately been found the bodies OF no less
than seven infants, all Of which have been at
least partially identified as the remains OF child
rem who were given TO Mrs. Waters, with f5
each, in order to receive "a mothers tender
man seemed to be perfectly conclusive. Her
servant, Ellen O'Connor-a miserable creature,
only fourteen years old, and reminding one
forcibly of Dick Swivellers marchioness-testl-
fled that when she went into the prisoners
service, three months ago, "there were seven
infants, and the number shortly increased to
eleven Mrs. Waters used to go away IRON
home, and, when she came back, she would
bring new baby with her.
TAKING THEM TO THEIR LONG HOME.
Zone night Waters took two Of the chill
dren, who were very i'll, away from the house;
when she came back she brought some Of the
clothes of the Infants with her, and said she
had taken them home" Afterwards she took
away another infant. and returned with it;
and about three weeks ago she took fourth
child away In the same manner. The suppo-
sition is that the woman administered to the
infants enough "Paregoric Elixir to kill
them; took them into the fields, and left them
to perish. The servant was in the habit OF
going to the postofice to get letters address,
ed to Mrs Uliver;n and when Waters had
read these she generally burned them.
SOME CORRESPONDENCE.
Luckily, however, she neglected to destroy
ell her correspondence, and NUMBER OF ietc
tiers were found in her house and reao ~
court. One of them makes an appointment
with her "at the Loughborough road station,
on the London, Chatham and Dover line, June
II. at4P. NJ" and adds, "pleasc walt In the
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