The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-08

carpetbag away from their house: 1t was
then heavily weighted with the bodies OF the
two babies. but IL Is for the police to prove
their assertion that the husband ard wife
corted Mrs. Dyer to the railway station, and
saw her upon the train back to Reading.
She arrived late at night, and before going
pers bridge. 1t Is presumed that she then
threw the bag into the water. On the next
day, Good Friday. she was arrested on sus-
picion of having murdered the first child
that had been found. Since then the four
other bodies have been discovered, and the
phe r e bee ras t he dr w th na
more
The fit. body found ,ould not have been
the SPOT where it had been thrown in was
shallow and muddy: indeed, there was
scarcely enough water to cover the parcel.
dry. On the inside Of the wrapper was found
the address "45, Kensinoton road. Reading"
for long time the ink would have become
obliterated. This chilu had been dead quite
ten days, and it is believed that II had been
xept in Mrs. Dyer's house all the while.
When inquiries were made by the police on
the day of the discovery Of the body il was
round she had gone away. On the next day,
arrangements to bring a baby there on the
following Monday and to pay premium of
800. After teri she had gone s,: Mrs Dyer said
Godsend that money will be.' She meant
by that that the money was needed to de-
Tray the cost Of moving. for she was about
to take a house at Bridgewater the follow
ing week,
seventy. the reporter learned that Mrs.
Palmer had been brought up in great fear of
her mother, and believed that she was only
tempted to kill her. rushing at her with a
knife. "Grannie'' had had many words with
the, woman on account OF her neglect OF
and violence with the children left in her
care. and the garrulous old creature says
that since Mrs. Dyer has been in custody
baby now at the house. the child of a
servant in London, has increased greatly in
weight and is considerably better owing to
CERAMICS" looking after her. There is a
carload" of babies clothing of all descrip-
of the country. In addition to the hundreds
Of pounds of infants clothing found in the
Dyer cottage.
A STRANGLER FIEND.
You have heard by cable how Mrs. Dyer
made a second attempt at suicide. after her
arrest again. as she did when she was ar
rested in Bristol. The cable has also in
formed you that this second time she tried
to deal herself the same death by strangula-
ton which was melted out to SO many little
babies-her victims. If the police are correct.
She is said to have tied her shoestrings
around her neck in the same way as the tape
was tied around the necks of the babies.
with the same knot and under the left ear,
as was the case with the babies.
The funerals of the babies attracted enor-
nous crowds, and fed the great excitement
ly quieted down, but crowds still watch the
police. crowds still assemble about the
Clapper's Weir and Caversham Lock, and
the babies found in the weir must have
walked with her guilty burden. Caversham
pers and d'asent pretty TO bit the Of S eoaD
try. though 1t is only quarter of mile
from the towns smoke and hustle. Henley.
famous for its annual regatta, is but twenty
miles further up the Thames, and charming
Cleveden, William Waldorf Astors palatial
country seat, is less than six miles from the
scene of the crimes.
Before Mrs. Dyer made her written con-
fession to the police the latter had perfected
case against her which was regarded as
will not yet reveal the details Of It the con-
fession nor whether Ii duplicates Palmer.
the son-in-law. The evidence produced in
the police court on the first case selected
by the prosecuting attorney was cverwhelm-
Mrs Dyer had been indicted for the murder
of Doris, the two-months-old child of Miss
Evelin Marmon. of Cheltenham. 1t was the
strang.ed body Of her baby which the police
found in the Thames that gave the cew to
had been wrapped in broWn PAPER and o this
bore the address Of the Dyer woman.
Only nine days after she. surrendered
fetched by the police to Reading, and there
in the morgue saw and identified the body
as that CT her child. whom she had given to
In a good home' Miss Marmon testified
that she saw in a Bristol paper an adver-
tisement of Mrs: Dyer for a baby for adop-
ton and that she answered it. Mrs. Dyer
replied, under the name OF Harding. say
ing:
Y should be. glad to have a dear little
baby girl-one could bring up and call my
own. First / must tell you we are plain,
homely people, in fairly good circumstances.
Myself and husband are dearly fond
of children. I have child of my own.
child with me will have good home and
mother tlove and care / should not mind
see the child at any time. 1 only hope we
may come TO terms. / can give you good ref
erences."
HER HYPOCRITICAL LETTER.
The second letter of Mrs. Dyer. Ia which
she named the price for taking the baby,
was as follows:
AS Kensington Road, Oxford Road, Reading,
Tuesday, March "a, 1885,
my Dear Madam-You letter just to hand,
and shall be only too pleased for yourself,
or any friends. to come TO see us sometimes.
We don't have many visitors out here in the
country. l assure you it would be as great
a treat to us as the change would be.
shall really feel more comfortable to know
cared for her. 1 shall value her all the
more Rest assured, promise you faithful
1y, i VIII DO motner'S DUTY Dy ner, and
/ will bring her up entirely just the same
as my own child. Every care will be taken
of her. and when yoE come, you will see
l do my duty. Dear child, 1 shall only be
too glad to have her, and I will take her
entirely for the sum of f1O. She shall be
no further expense to her family. i will
come on Monday next. If / shall / will let
you know later on what time train. / have
not a time card, but will find out and let
you know. am, yours faithfully,
A meeting was finally arranged, and Mrs.
Dyer came to Cheltenham to bring the baby
away Miss Harmon paid her the money.
and the following paper was drawn up be-
tween them:
II, Annie Harding, of No. Is Kensington
road, Reading, in consideration of the sum
of f10 paid to me by Evelina Edith Marmon.
do hereby agree to adopt Doris, the child
of the said Eveina Edith Marmon,
and to bring up the said child as my own
child, without any further compensation over
and above the aforementioned sum of flo.
AS witness herewith we have this day, the
31st day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six,
subscribed our names. Annie Harding. Eve
lima Edith Marmon. in the presence of Mar
tina Dastnell, widow: Of No. % Manchester
street, Cheltenham."
Standing up in the witness box OF the
court Miss Marmon, with a dramatic ges-
ture, pointed a threatening finger at the
covering prisoner, and said: That is the
woman who took my child away" She also
identified the inseparaele carpet bag which
II seems Mrs Dyer took with her when max