The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1886-11-04

A wife Drsws. Herself and Fsnr Call
srem Amer a QHzrrrl VIVA Her Has
kamS.

A Coroner Of London 10 now iu.paucl-
ling 9 jury to investigate e domestic
tragedy of world wide interest. 1t
seems that q resident of FuIharn. near
the Thames, named Wilcox, passed =
boy. aged seven. sobbing So acuteiy
that Wilcox felt tha; something unusual
had happened. Ts all his questions the
little fellow, who was soaking wet,
muddy and hatless. could only answer
by heartbreaking sobs. Nothing sas
left except 10 take the wandering wgif
L. the police station hard BY. where, be-
fore 4 roaring camel fire. he managed
20 Jerk out. Mother is dead in the wa
ter, with baby, sister and my brothers.
Harry and Frank. want nv father. 4"
II became evident that the bow was
shockingly frightened, yet sooner grow
ing calmer under the reviving influence
Of heat and some food, he gave his
home a. "I33 Denmark road, Gambler
we'll" a, suburban district on the
Surrey side Of the Thames and miles
distant.
A telegram sent TO the nearest station
there soon produced the father, who is a
well to do butcher, and who, on seeing
the child, seemed 10 realize that some
tragedy had occurred and almost tainted
before the story was told. To his eager
questions the child, treasured, now gave
coherent answers, and these made up a
story like this His mother left home
in the afternoon, carrying her babe, five
months old with hel sons Harry, aged
sine; the narrator of the story him self,
Charles, seven years old, and Frank,
aged three. They took the tram car tc
the river side, boarded a penny steam.
boat, got off at Chelsea stairs, walked
to Naux hall and entered penny tea
garden, where buns, tea and milk were
provided them.
They left, walking, doubt es3, aim
lessly along the embankment, beyond
Wandsworth Bridge, when, perhaps by
sudden impulse, the mother turnec
into the Broomhouse dock yard, neal
the Harlingham Polo Grounds, and al
at once pushed her three BOYS into the
dock water, and with her babe in arms,
herself jumped in. Charlie, who mus
have fallen in somewhat shallow
place. scrambled ont, but was too mucl
scared to give coherent account of hi
escape. When the inspector questioned
the father, who, sobbing as badly as tn,
child, said :-''My wife and had
silly quarrel. 1t began on sun
day last and was daily deepened b
mutual recrimination. Yesterday after
noon as she still felt very badly, sug
cested a little outing to friends house
and this this is the horrible ending O
a foolish tiff
The pair remained till dawn at tn
station, when a search police party wa
organized, the members Of which, Wit
much difficulty, found, through tn
boy, the place of the catastrophe
Three little straw hats floating at tn
side Of the dock gave the first corrobo
ration of the youthful tale of murder an
suicide A little later the body O
Harry was found in five feet of water
1t was neatly dressed and had on gra
oyercoat and knickerbockers. The fac
wore look of great terror. Soon afte
midday one of the Thames vulture folk
described IN the first chapter of Dick
ems Mutual Friend" recovered nea
Fulham Bridge the body of Frank, cla
IN neat gray frock aud pinafore, one
white, but now soiled with Thames Sew
erage The bodies lie at the Chelse
MoCtuary, surrounded by an lmmens
crowd of curiosity mongers, eagerly dis
cussing the last London sensation Tn
mother and the babe have not yet bee
| found.
Those in the tea garden VINO saw tn
group of four when taking their las
meal describe the mother as seemln
perfectly sane and apparently happy
Unfortunately, very little can now b
learned as to the cause of such an in
pulse and of the manner of such rt
solve in a mother thirty five years ole
always heretofore lovingly maternal, tn
only witness available being young an
having had his memory obscured py te
ror. Psychologists thus have no Gle
as to what was passing in the woman
mind, and as to W ether her act W.
the result of generalization or of in
pulse.