Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-03-01

CoLoRED GIRL DESTROYS HER oFfsPRINp
SIR "DID NOT Know WHAT ELSE TO
DO WITH IT."

A CoLoRED GIRL DESTROYS HER OFFSPRING
SIR DID fof Know WHAT ELSE TO
DO WITH IT."
Especial Correspondence Of RvBRr HvEsIEGl
New CASTLE, Feb. BINARY Meeteer,
(col.) of Newark, in this county, was
lodged IN prison last night on the charge
of infanticide In killing her child, aged
about eighteen months. Mary is abont
eighteen years Of age, single. and was
scduced by white man, and ia said to
have told the officer who arrested her who
the father was. She gives as a reason for
killing the child that she knew not what
else to do With II, as she was unable to
get place, or to keep one, while sho had
the child with her.
Her manner of disposing Of It was bru-
tai in the extreme first, drowning II, and
then nearly scyering It's head from its body,
in which condition 1t was found. Mary is
apparently an intelligent girl, aud seems
possessed of the ordinary degree Of sense
In women Of her class, and, to Judge by
her appearance, entirely incapable Of COM
hitting the act with which she is charged.
coRoNER's INQUEST.
Since the above was received We hsve
obtained the following additional particu.
lars.
Coroner WluslCw held an inquest on the
body of the infant yesterday at Newark
The infant, a boy, was about eighteen
months old and his name was Charlie.
Natter, tho name Of the uDnaturn,
mother being Mary Natter. It up.
pears from her confession that she
committed the murder on the llth
inst, cutting the child's throat from cal
to ear, nearly severiBg I've head from the
body. She then put the remains in q
bucket and put II out In lot under som,
brush, where 1t was found yesterday BY
officer John II. Choate of Newark.
The child was a bright mulatto, thut
proving her assertion that lite father is q
white man. The jury rendered a verde
in accordance with the facts.
ruRTHER PARTIcULARs-HANEER OF TIL
MURDER.
A letter from another correspondent
writing from Newark, Informs us that thu
excitement III that town Ia tho creates
ever eeon there, and states that the girl'
name ls Jane Hall, and that she is YER,
black, while the murdered child IL alnnos
white. she was recently discharged from
a place on account of undue intimac-
with a colored man employed there, AM
Immediately afterwards the child dIsap
pearea. She was questioned concerning
the disap. earance, and gave .evasiv
answers until after it's mulilated re
mains were found by Constable Choate
when she was arrested and confessed he
crime. She said che had taken butche
knife from where she lived the very nigh
che was discharged. She tied a strinl
around the child's neck to keep il fror
making noise, and then took the knit
and cut its throat. Some blood was dis
covered at or near the barn where the gir
had lived, The colored man suspected Q
being her last paramouT, was asked ho'
II came there and he declared that hi
nose bad been bleeding he reekonsd. IA
left very suddenly for parts unknown, an
thereby attached some suspicion to hin
self.
We know the name Of the alleged faith,
Of the child, a white man, bat do not fe,
that Il woHld be Just to publish Il WithoI
> some evidence of the truth of the girl
|, allegation concerning him.