Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-07
vatet was at last" brought to bear upon

water was "at last" brought to bear upon
the first mentioned house, it was almost
Immediately seen that the addition would |
be saved and so it was; : but why do not |
the Board of Commissioners attend TO |
their business and see that the hydrands |
are ever in readiness? Immediately after |
the fire on the I'd inst, child was found |
in woodpile in the rear of Purday, |
Barnes & Weir's Chair factory; and>Qpon |
examination, it was found thatit had been |
murdered. A gentleman employed at the !
Staten of the NJ. s. & n. /. (now known
as the Lake Shore & Michigan Southerh)
r. r., had that morning observed wQ-
man alight from the cars with a bundle in
her arms. ; He noticed her GO out back OF
the depot and return bundleiessi so that
when the murdered infant was found, he
recalled yividly the occurrence, and gave,
as best he could description of the wo-
man, to Sheriff Dan. Brown: who, in
company with Messrs. Moore and Gro
yer, of this city, proceeded to Chicago in
quest of the murderess. Before dispatch
arrived at Chicago in reference to the
matter, the train had arrived and the pas
sengers had all disappeared Officer
Brown then telegraphed to several sta
tions on the L. S. & NJ. s. R. r., east of
this city, for further information of the
woman, and in due time received a reply
from South Bend, with minute descrip-
ton of the woman and bundle She had
taken the train, at South Bend, at about
three o'clock, a. M. and with descrip-
ton of the wretched murdress, he,
| BROWN with the assistance of a Chi
cago detective, soon succeeded in tracing
her to saloon and boarding house, in
the Western division of Chicago; but the
woman was not here" she had gone to
Mr. P's. on - Avenue. Officer Brown
and his worthy assistant repaired to the
house OF Mr. P, and there succeeded in
arresting the woman. The prisoner at
first utterly denied all knowledge of the
murder-said she was not mother-had
never been, &c-that she did not deny
being on the train that arrived there at 8
a. m. on Saturday; but she had NO child
with her Brown then procured the
Cook County Physician to ascertain
whether or not the prisoner had ever
been mother The Physician soon ar
rived. and Immediately pronounced her
mother Whereupon the prisoner burst
into violent weeping, and admitted that
she was a mother, and also that she was
a murderess-that she had child and that
she left it at Laporte; and that she had
killed it and cast it into wood pile near
the depot Of the L. S. & NJ. S. r. R.
that she was % years of age, that the
child was born at South Bend six weeks
) since: that she had no intention of muir
| dering the child when she left South
Bend, or even while upon the train be-
tween South Bend and Laporte; that she
got off the cars here, she knew not why,
and laid the child on a wood pile and
struck it with her fist, and killed it; that
it died Immediately thereafter; that she
had had a great deal of trouble with the
, child, "a boy J that she could not nurse
it; that her wages as servant girl at pri-
vate residence in South Bend, was only
$3.50 a week, and that she could not sup
port herself and child1on this very meagre
sum. Hence the murder An investiga-
ton this a. m, before the Coroner, proved
to substantiate the above confession, and
that the child come to its death at the
hands of Caroline Johnson its mother
at Laporte. Laporte CO., Ind, on the 20
day of March, A D., 1872 She will
probably De sent up for 10 or 10 years
But, Mr.. Editor, how many hundreds
mothers are there in the land, only trifie
less sinful than this poor wretch who has
now, few friends. She has brother al
South Bend She is an unmarried wo
man, and her seducer, whose name she
gave, is now in the peniten,iary IN Sweed
en-. She was Swede, and is called by
some, prepossessing Although, all here
whom l have heard express their views
:, on this point, cannot agree with our Chi
o cago editor, who, in his Sunday article
: touching this point says, -'She is 2;
). years old, and is very prepossessing; thai
d being the probable cause of her down
d fall" She is course and iarge-largt
featured, and am told her child was quite
q large-supposed by some TO be 8 or
months instead of weeks old as slit
/ states. More hereafter.
II F. " CHAPMAN.