Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-02-27
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coLORED WOMAN AT NEWARK, kills IrER 1rTrr,
CHILD, EIaHTEEN MONTHS OLD.


CHILD, EIaHTERN NoNTus OLD
NeNAEls "a Allsd With horror and excitemant Al
the discovery OF fevoltfhg case Of infantlcidel n
Which hs'd Just been discovered in that town
The circumstanc5 5s are as follows f" D w y
Jane MeeteeT, q bright looking mulatto woman
apeut tEenty-tWo er three years of sge, who has
been living IN and around Newark for several
year., mad child. about eighteen moutha ga. tha
result OF linctt tntefeouSe with whits man. Fae
the last two weeks the child had been missing and
the people there, not seeing it about beran q suS-
pect something wrong The mother was question.
cd with regard to its ab1snce, but always qaye nm
satisfaetory aud SquivOoaI answoRr, Al
Wednc day afternoon, about three O'clock "A
Oonetape John Choatf, was walkiuY thrOuRh the
yard OF . vac mt iopse, owned by John KILLER,
next 20 the Bank, aisc oyeFed two curious look
ing object protFut above the surfacs Of The
snow. he approachet than, and was hoFt fed
to In that they were ne feet Of child. He i'm
meniatsly duS tue anow away, ana discovered a
water bucket, In which was ofowda the hodv a.
JaHe Meeteers child, with its throat cut from ear
to ear p '3 st.f-',
After Masking his discovery known, Constable
Choate, procured horse aud carriage, and started
aitsf anes who was then stopping at the house of
a coe6rod &ohhn, about four miles feom town, He
arrested her, and brouIht hsr to the Office Of Es-
qulre JAS. ii. Ray, of Newark, where she was in
tormed OF the cause for her arre1t. She made a
tnoreueh cOnfessiOn, and stat3d shat Just two
weeks before the body was found she had drown
cd the child in q bucket Of water and then cut Its
| throat, When asked why she committed the hor-
rible crime, she replied that the child was in her
| road; no one would keep il, and nobody cared to
employ her while she had it with her. She made
the confession IN quiet manner, and did not
seem 70 exhibit any fear or rsmorss for the awful
| deed which she had committed. After her confes-
sion, Esquire R1y committed her to jail, and Con-
stable Choato took her to New Castle in the even
| ing
Since the above was in type, special correspon-
dent, from Newark, sends US the following:
HORRIBLE MURDER AT NEWARK, DELAWARE.
At noon, Wednesday, the people at Newark
| were much excited by Constable Choate finding
the dead body of a mulatto infant mashed into =
horse bucket aud hid under some bushes, weeds
and rubbish in an unused garden belonging tC
John Miller, ESQ. SusDieiOn restinR upon il,
mother, negro gih, naulsd Jane Msetsai, Con
stable Choat5 arrested and took her before jaime.
| II. Ray, Esq where she made the following
| CONFESSION.
My name is Jane Meeteer; am about 10 year.
old, and was raised ia the family of Mrs Mus
grove, ol Newark; my child was sixteen months
old; ITS father was white man; could not get
home, as no one would give me WORK while I haC
the child; It was 90 cross and Troublesome coulC
not get any one 10 tIke ths child, although ollsr
cd it to several families; did not know what 4
do; did not care anything about the child ant
wanted to get nd OF it; cut its throat aud takinl
a hOrge bucket from Mr.. John LaWiss barn
pressed the body into It, and hid it in the gardeI
back OF the bank, under soEne buAhes
Upon this confession, Esquire nay sommitte,
the prisoner to Lew Castle, add then by TELEGRAPH
summoned ths Coroner to hold an inquest. At
o'clock the coroner summoned q Jury, looked a
the body, examined two or three negro women
who testified that Jane Mestssr offered them he
child which they refused, heard the copEassioH Z
Jane, aud unanimously aGrsed TO the verdict ''tha
child came 10 its death by violence at the hand
Of its mothsr." The prisoner nov hes a home il
the county jail and OF course must stand her triG
for murder in the first degree.