The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-27
FED BABY. I
ITO HOGS.
Fannie Stevenson of Ham,
orion So Disposed of
Her Offspring.

warrant Tor the arrest of Fannie Steven
son, 70 years Of age, the reputed wife o
Joe Stevenson, a oolored man living tw,
miles from Hamorton, this county, charg
Ing her with murder. The crims 10 on
OF the most revolving In the history o
Chester county. 1t Is alleged that the wo
man murdered her infant child with az
ax and threw the reNnlns In hog pen
Her reason for the murder was that th,
little ono was deformsd Both the wo.
man and her alleged husband had fed. p
Some days ago the woman had arranged
with nurse to come 10 her home. and
when the woman arrived she found that
| Mrs. Stevenson had given birth to child,
but that 1t could not be found. The mat
tor was at once reported to the authorities
and the District Attorney and Detective
Harry Thompson mado an investigation.
The woman denied everything until
confronted with facts In the possession Of
the officers. Then she declared that the
child was born dead and that she had
buried it In the front yard Excavations
made at tho spot failed to reveal the body,
and then she told another story to the Of
feet that 1t had been placed in box and
thrown In some bushes near the place.
This was also proven to DO untrue, and
she explained by saying that dogs had
probably carried off the body. She also
told third story to the effect that the
body was buried beneath the walls Of the
house, but this was also proven to DO un-
true.
The husband Of tho woman was sent for
while the District Attorney remained
with the woman, and during the absence
of the detective she said tho child had
been born malformed and had been gotten
rid of by her husband When the latter
arrived however, he denied this and said
he had been told a number Of stories by
the woman as 10 what she had done with
tho body OF the child. ~
Then Fannie broke down and made
confession to tho officers. in which she
admitted that she had killed the little one
with an AK AMI carried tho body TO the
hog pen, where the animals had devoured
it.
Thore was no evidence at hand showing
that the child had baen born alive, and
the officers returned TO this place. The
missing links were soon supplied. how
ever, and yesterday the detective won't az
tor the WOMAN aud her alleged husband.
but they had fed. The ak with which the
murder is alleged to havs been committed
was found in room at tho house and TAX
en- In charge by the detective. The au-
thoritics arc now ondeavoring 10 locate
the oman and Stevenson. -.,
City Court Cases. :"
: Mrs. AnnieMc Caffrey appeared aginst her
daughter Ellen in the court this morning.
Sho charged her with disorderly conduct
The girl claimed that she Is abused by her
sistor. The occupants of the house are
afraid that sho will do harm to them.
Whom taken to the city hall tho girl Gre.
ated scone. Ellen will not bother her
mother, and will 20 boarding and find
work. -.
Matthew Council and Charles Sollaway
were charged with the larceny Of q. lot Of
puring material, the property OF Mitchell
and Thomas. Frank Thomas deposed
that the firm lost about four bags OF pur-
ing material which were taken about tb 90
weeks ago. The material was worth
about S25 Suspicion was aroused by ole
Dag having boon carried to window that
lad been broken olen. james Crossap
I'D Lo ia ho
our weeks ago he saw wh,r, the window
lad been broken and found a bag Of ihs
material. He could not identify two
mpty bags produced In court. Chales
lilly deposed DO works for tho w Jones
Z Co., but could not identify tho bags Fo
fought M bushels Of puring last week.
nut neither of the defendants were the
'orsons from whom no purcha cd the pur-
ny. He had his suspicious OF the tiind
nd did not pay for the material until he
er Brown dcLosed he knew the defend.
nts. He saw Connell OH Friday aud Sat-
rday when ho hauled the bags Of puring
0 the factory Of Jones Company from
title scope Of woods on Broomo street.
,onnell hired tho team and SollaWay
row tho bags from the bushes. There
zero five men In the woods. On Saturday
0 made The second trip and secured four
ags. None Of the men who were on tho
,agon at Jones factory were in court,
onnell told him he got the material
own the country and that they took lher
arm to go down for the ma erial. .,
10 Mr.. Hayes who represented Sol o.
,ay, Brown stated that Connoll was with
I'm on Friday whom this matter was de-
vered at Jones' factory. Officer Sswall
Scott deposcd that from description
wen by Mr.. Lilly he arrested Solloway.
onrell admitted he was present when
10 bugs were loaded. -
The case was dismissed. 4
Alexander pasota was charged with
Special Officer Cannon testified
lot thu man was attempting to break in-
, freight cars He broke tho seals of
lTee Cars.
Ho was held In $500 bail for hearing
morrow morning. Y
W llllam COoh WIS Chafsou VIVA "o'"h
,unk. He has been an inmate OF the
olawaro Hospital and was relnaEded u1-
tomorrow morning.
Purnell johnson was charged with dis
.derly conduct. Tho testimony was that
, WAS under the influence Of liqnor, at,
mpLed to assault his wife and btngsd
10 furniture around. He later used bad
u guaso at tho door. Then he went to
e cellar aud knocked out tho window
18th an OK. Ho stated he did not know
hat he was doing at the time. Ho was
led $40 and costs.
Trial of tie charges Of assault and batA
ry against John F. Whitcraft and Of
sordcrly conduct against Thomas Handy
ID May L. Hagmayer was continued un-