The Portland daily press., 1896-01-31

where 1T was herself.
Rose insisted on going back and searoh-
ing for her baby, but her mother would
mt let her. Rose was crying and her
mother said she
WISHED SHE'D STOP HER CRYING.
When they got to the Bosworth house
her mother threw out the can of con-
lensed milk. When they got home Rose
went into the kitchen and sat down by
the stove and.then helped her sister get
supper. She did not change her clothes
that evening. Her mothers clothes were
wet. Her shoes and stockings were
clothes afterwards. About q week after
that the sheriff came to the house and
her mother told him that Rose had gone
and taken the baby Rose went, to Bos-
ton about IL O'Clock that night. Her
brother Warren brought her to Portland.
She went to friend. a Miss Horsford's,
in Dorchester at No. 9 Beal street. She
with her address.
When Sheriff Plummer came to see her
in Dorchester, she went to the door when
he called. He asked if her name was
Rose Dolley. They went into the kitchen.
He tUld her who he was and did not tell
her, as she remembered, that he had q
warrant for her arrest. asA
She was very much frightened and
cried. He asked her where5her baby was.
She CT
SAID SHE'D GIVEN IT AWAY.
! She didn't care to tellsto whom. She
told him she was the one that carried it
into the woods. Her reason for this was
that her mother talked to her SO that she
felt as if she was the one to blame and
the one that had brought the trouble to
the family.
In the sheriff's office in Portland, when
| her brother came in she got up and put
her arms around his neck and sat down
in his lap: He asked her to tell him
about her baby. She told Firth that she
was the one that carried the baby into
the woods Her reason was that she
WANTED TO SHIELD HER MOTHER.
She was the one that caused the trou-
| BILE.
She learned from her mother what was
done with the child from what her moth
or said to her. Her mother had on a
black dress that day. 1t was torn. Her
mother told her she tore it on barbed wire
in the woods.
II Her mother is much smaller than Rose.
| During Roses testimony recess was
taken. She left the court sobbing and
returned to the witnessch sobhing.
She testified that her mothers foot was
about the same size as hers. When her
mother left the carriage to go into the
woods the shaw was about the baby:
| Rose wore a shawl into the city and put
| it round the baby. Therefore she wore
no shawl while driving out When she
took the child out from Mrs. O'Hara g,
| that was the last time Rose ever had her
child in her arms.
WAS the child alive when taken out
of the carriage by your mother?"
| cit was, as alive as I WAS" with
fresh tears and great sob.
DISCRIMINATION OF ROSE.
Cross examined by Mr.. Powers When
they came to Portland for the baby they
got dinner on Federal street. They had
shopping to do. They got into Portland
somewhere near noon. They started for
home between three and three-thirty
O'Clock in the afternoon. She did not
know what time they got home. She
had been over the road frequently be-
tween her home and Pride's Corner, but
was not much acquainted along the road.
1t was quite thicI1ly settled, except this
half mile of woods. 1t was dark and
stormy when her mother got out of the
carriage. Her mother said that she'd be
back in few minutes
Rose asked her where she was going,
and she said into the woods.
You let her take the baby with her?''
Yes. sir, she did"
4 There are houses on both sides of the
woocs.
"What did you think had become Of
Il your mother and the baby?''
II did not KNOW with sobs 1t be-
came dark while she waited. She die
not go to any house to give an alarm
When she met her mother she asked hel
where her baby Was the second time
I, She said she had taken care of it.
q Rose told her she wanted her baby
and would go ana get it. She said she {
taken care Of it.
"l)id you ask her where it wasp
She said that it was in the woods,
that she didn't know where it was anc
that couldn't find it.
''Were you satisfied with that?'
mo. sir. we stood still and talked quite
while about it -
What kind of care did you understand
your mother to say that she had taken ot
it by the time you started up the horse?'
THAT SHE'D KILLED IT."
wv 18th hesitation and sobs.)
Did she tell you she'd kille it9''
Long hesitation and sobs and then,
81 don't think she did in words. but
she gave me to understand that she had. y
I, They did not call at any houses on the
way home to have any search made.
hat night the family had supper to-
gether.
nWere you crying at that timea''
mo sir, | don't think / was, at that
time" g@es
Her next conversation with her mother
was that night alter they got home, il
the BEDROOM.
she learned the next day from hel
mother additional particulars.
What was it that you learned? A long
!; silence and sobs. Finally, she told me
that she'd lett it in the woods
She also told her where she thought she
lett it
What else did she say that she did dt
with the child?''
II think she said she smothered it -
well, don't you kuow?''
i ! Yes sir, she did -