Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-28

ground on the point was looked over. Return
ing 10 the house, some one suggested that they
search the well more thoroughly, as il had been
simply looked into. Graphing irons were Sc
cured, and at the first dip the body of the child
was struck and brought to the surface. Ii, of
course, either fell in itself or was thrown in.
The unanimous verdict of those present was that
the child could not of itself have got into the
WELL In the first place il would not have gone
out in the dark. 1t had never been known to
omen either of the doors, the knobs on each of
which were above its head and one of them
quite hard to open
Admitting that it could have opened the doors
and braved the darkness, and reached the yard
IN the short space of two minutes, il could not
have got into the well. The boards around this
are close together, so that neither toes nor fin
gers could be inserted, and the boards are built
up all around to the height of three feet from
the ground. After the child was taken out it
was stood up by the side of the well, and its out
stretched arms could not reach the top of the
boards, and there was nothing near the well by
which it could have climbed up. These crcum-
stances lead 10 the shocking conclusion that the
child was thrown into the well by some mon
ser who desired 10 crafty a personal spite
against Mr.. Foote, although Mr.. Foote is hardly
willing to believe that any of his enemies, of
whom he has some who have made threats
against him, were villainous enough to safe
their vengeance by numbering an innocent
child, Yet with the exception that it seems
hardly possible for the person who was at the
gate to have reached the room after the latch of
the gate was heard to rattle, as soon as Mrs.
Foote, who was only at the head of the stairs,
the circumstances indicate that some one threw
the child into the we'll, and it is possible,
too, that the rattle of the latch of the
gate was made when the person was
going out, after committing the crime,
and not when coming in. If this was the case,
the person must have been lurking in The yard
and seen Mrs. Foote through one OF the three
windows, when she left the child and went up
stairs. A neighbor says that just previous TO
the alarm given by Mrs. Foote, she heard
child scream twice, and got up from the table TO
20 out and see what was the matter. Mr.. Keis
ter, who lives in the neighborhood, was on his way
TO the city about the lime stated, and says when
crossing Sea street, half a block above Mr.
Foote's. at six O'Clock, lie saw woman turn
down in the direction where hlr. Foote lives.
There are but three houses below MIR. Foote's and
it will be sought out TO day whether this woman
was some one living in one of these houses or
calling there. The neighborhood is greatly agi-
tated by the horrible crime.
There were no marks of violence upon the
child except few slight marks about the face,
as though made by rough hand casped over it
TO suppress the child's noise.
AT the coroneTs inquest, Friday, nothing was
ELECTED TO cast suspicion upon any one as the
author of the tragedy except that the mother of
the child about ten DAYS ago, happening to look
out of the window of her residence, saw a man
prowling about the house and adjoining lot
and behaving suspiciousy, and that on Tues
day last youth named Lees saw a man on the
division fence of tine premises intcntly watching
the house. In the former case Mrs. Foote
opened the window and asked the intruder what
he wanted, but he remained a while unmoved
gazing vacantly upon the house, and afterward
disappeared.
Leonard Russell, brother of Mrs. Foo:e, has
been arrested on suspicion, from the fact that he
entertained hard feeling towards the family,
and is also known to be at times given to fits of
insanity. There is, however, no evidence
against him SO far.