The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-28
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PORTSMOUTH, July 81. This morning
Fannie Bradshaw, Young white woman
about twenty-three years Of age, from Isle
Of Wight county, living in The family of hIr,
William Buckston, on the upper part Of
King street, was arrested and committed to
Jail on q warrant issued by Coroner Mat
.thews, charging her with numbering her own
child.
THE IRCUHsTANCEs
as detailed before a jury of inquest sitting
on the body Of the child on Sunday, were as
follows For several weeks Miss Bradshaw,
the accused, was suspected by the lady with
whom she was living (Mrs. Buckston) to be
enciente. She invariably and persistently
denied the charge, although her condition
was such as to be unmistakable. On Fri
day morning last, about daybreak, Miss
Bradshaw was heard to get up and go into
the back yard. The circumstance being un-
usual Mrs. Buckston directed her son,
short time later, to go down stairs and. see
what was the matter. He did SO, and when
he reached the yard be saw Miss Bradshaw
coming from the lower part Of the garden
with spade in one hand and soiled apron
in the other. The girl then went about her
usual morning work and prepared break
fast. After breakfast the boy
MADE AN INVESTIGATION
of the garden, and a mound of fresh earth
was discovered, and a few inches below the
surface the entirely nude body of new
born babe was uneartbed. The remains
we're placed in box and reinterred. Mrs.
Buckston then
CONFRONTED THE MURDEREsS,
and charged her with the horrid crime of
which she was guilty. She stoutly denied
that she dug the hole or buried the infant,
and seemed utterly insensible Of the heinous
character of the offence she had committed.
Nothing more was done until Saturday
night, when Mr. Buckston, who is an engi-
neer on the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad,
came home. AS soon as he heard from his
wife the revolving facts, he at once repaired
to the staton-houSe and placed the police in
possession of the details. 1t was deemed
prudent not to arrest the accused until an
inquest had been held on the body of the in
FAINT, and the question settled whether the
morning Coroner Matthews was notified, and
a jury was summoned, all the evidence above
noticed was taken, and the body being dis
inferred, DR.. E. NJ Watts made an autopsy,
and pronounced that
THE BODY WAS BURIED ALIVE.
The jury then rendered verdict that the
child came to its death by violence at the
hands of its mother, Fannie Bradshaw. A
warrant was promptly issued by the coro-
ner, and she was lodged in Jail, where she
now lies in very indsposed and precarious
condition.
To-day the case was called in the Mayors
court, but Miss Bradshaw being too i'll to
appear it was continued until she RECEIVERS
sufficiently to bear examination.
THE wELL.KSowS WRECKERs
of this city, Baker Il Co., this morning re-
ceiyed a telegram from Key West, announc-
ing the safe arrival at that point of the three
thousand ton British steamer Mississippi,
and the good tidings were received with joy
by the firm, and their steam tugs, Resolute
and Nettie, joined in the jollity, and fired a
salute of one hundred guns. The job will
net the firm 100000, and was raised in the
Florida straits after being abandoned by
New York wreckers.
OTHER ITEMS.
Baltimore and Washington excursionists,
on separate steamers, crowded the city yes
terday.
The anchors and chains, the last remnants
of the famous old-liner Pennsylvania, de.
stroyed by the Federals in 1850, were taken
up to, day opposite the navy-yard.
The frigate Colorado, flagship OF the
North Atlantic squadron, put to sea Yester-
day afternoon for Key West.