The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-07
4 SAD MYSTERY
Cleared Up by the Confession OF
a Nurse Girl.
A POISONED PEACH

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Fed TO q Little Tot By Its Nurse R'gh
Ia the Pre- sence of It's Mother
Who Suspected Nothing Until
the Poisoner Told Her
Tale.
It is hs-1 10 conceive OF 8 sadder
mora unexL Unable mystery than the
dessh OF little two-year. old Wilop1
Winship presented to the police su
thorities OF Putnam County, neal
New York. Looking up from her bcoA
and glsncing across the table, Mrs
q. P. Winship wss startled TO see
her baby in convulsions. a moment
before the nurse had been feeding g
peach to the child. In few moments
more the little one was dead. Il has
bean in It's grave near the WilshiI
estate, near Brewsters, n. Y sizes
the middle Of last September.
The fourteen year old nurse, Jennis
Bath Buzch, clears up the mystery IN
8 confession which it Is hard tc Par.
allied in the history Of crime. In 2
spirit Of blind 1evengs the nurse po!s-
oned the peach, led the little one 1nto
its ncacsl's presence and then fed the
baby its fatal n, utl fuls in front OF
its uothsr's eyes. The confession is
IS follows:
O1ce I heard a preacher say, when
be told the Bible story OF ho1 q gcod
man had 6cne something wicked that
surprised all bis friends, that 1T was
the devils day with that man." It
must have been the devils day with
me when set fire to the WinShips'
big barn, and then to their house,
and, then again, it was The devils
blsck, swful day when, forty els he
hours latter, save poison to little
three yesr-oiG Wilbur ard took some
myself.
The barn was burned to the ground,
the house wss saved, but little Wntu'
is in his grave, and I am IN jail here
at White P.ains. waiting to go before
the Grand Jury in December, and to
be tried in Ms7, and then sent away
TO prison maybe Ior life, anyway to
stay until 7 an 3 middle sged Wo
man.
7 loved Bsby Wilbur better than
anybody else on earth, better than my
mother, because sAe lived in Dsnbury,
Conn, and had married and hsd othe,
children, sDd I hardly ever ssw hel;
better than my grandfather and grand
mother, because they were very olo
and didn't understand nor care sooue
what children liked, and I selcon saw
thsu, and then only t0r q little while,
half an hour OF &C; letter than bis
pa,ents, MI. ano Mrs. Winship, be-
capse-well, because be was q oeaS,
little helpless baby, and loved ne bet
ter than any one else hao ever loVeo
ma
sfher me wherever I went, todcnEg
along and holding my skirt, and when
he rell he didn't CRY ike most babies,
bot laughed, and shook himself, ana
gtamhled back to his feet like dear
little puppy. he had . round little
fscs With = forehead as white as milk
and eyes Ike blue psnsies, and sols
yellow hsir that felt Ike the SIX OF
rlpe corn when cu;lsd Els hair. l
never liked wash day, tut WOULDN'T
hsye cared il every day had been WSsh
6ay when I vas sllowsd 10 wash Wa
hur's little white crosses for Sunosj
and his blue diunity and ginghsn ones
for every day. 7 took almost she care
OF him and vas nearly always With
him. I could never love anyone as /
loved little Wilbur Winship, sno YET
/ killed him. csn hardly tell why,
but it must hsvs been because IL was
the 6e7lls day for me-.
All ehis trouble stacted when tne
barn burned down. AL the ne1ghoors
came running to help Us and put out
ths Ere, and Mrs. Kinner told me 70
tsks wilbur over to the Kinners, our
nearest neighbors, and lssys him there
until things we're quieter. I kept run
Ing 5ack and forth between the k:n'
ners and cur house ali osy on srsanos
about the caby. MIS-. Georsie Cul'
hm, Mrs. Krnner's daughter, sslo:
Who ses FIRE to the BARI! Olo
vou?"
Mrs. Cullom is always laughing snc
iok,ne. but this time what she Sale
scared me. Z snswsr mo, l olon.,
net fire to the barn either," nut
vent back to the house and thoush'
about whsu she said, and 1t seensd q
make me crazy. .,
III they IND out I set fire to tn'
barn they will think I so 8 BAG gil
and they will seperate the baby ant
ne" Evsrywhere I went, whereVe
I turned, voices seemed to be ssylns
that 20 me. The voices got louos
snd louder until they seemed Il
scresm. I could hesr nothing els
while 7 vas taking Wilbur home. 0!
the vsy I gripped his hand so har'
he whimpered andsaid, "Naught'
Dennie. Bad Dsnnie hurt WllDar.
I kneeled dovn in the orchard oesid
him and put my srms around hin
cried, and he cried too as he a
vays did In sympathy with me-. q
nns his little arms arcuEd my nec:
and his cool, pink little cheek agsins
mine. and then vowed that noohin
on earth should seperate US.
took him to the house ano lei
him with his mother and went ul
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