The Sun. — 1866-04-16 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY 1N A GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE.  UXBRIDGE, Saturday.  This morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. F. Charsley, coroner for Bucks, resumed the inquiry at the Crooked Billet, Langley-marsh, into the circumstances . surrounding the death of the newly-born male infant found barbarously murdered at Iver Moor. Itwill be remembered that the corpse of the child was discovered with its head severed from the trunk, and lying in a stream of water in the grounds of Mr. Ellis, a gentleman of property. That a cruel murder has been committed there can be no doubt, and had it not been for the ingenuity displayed by the Bucks police the actual mother of the child would never have been known. Susan Jarrott, a young woman aged 22, has been accused by the police of the murder, .and is now in custody of Superintendent Hodgkinson, of the Bucks constabulary. Mr. W. Gardiner, solicitor, of Uxbridge, appeared for the prisoner. Ann Jarrott, prisoner's mother, was examined, and stated the families in which her daughter had lived as servant, and also described a bag she had made out of an old shirt to hold dirty linen. Mr. Raynor, surgeon, of Uxbridge, examined prisoner with Mr. Bruce, another surgeon, and they were convinced she had had a child, but she denied it. She was examined a second time, and the suspicions of the medical men were confirmed ; but she still denied that she had been confined, though they said she must have been, and that recently. Her bedclothes were produced, and their appearance seemed to justify the accusation. The medical men said that the accused must have been confined within a fortnight, but they would not say whether the child's head had been Sc! ered from its body before or after it had had a separate existence. It might have died from suffocation. The fellow-servants of the accused were called, and stated that she lay in bed from eleven to five on the day on which she is supposed to have given birth to a child. She got up the next day and went about her work as usual. One of them was in the room with her for some time, and she groaned and appeared to be in great pain. Mrs. Susan Maria Ellis, of Iver Moor, mistress of the accused, said the prisoner had been in her service about four or five months. When she first came witness remarked her size. She seemed very large round and awkwardly built. It was explained that her sprained foot prevented her getting about, and made her get large. On Sunday,the she was told that Jarrott was in great 25th u pain, andit very ill. the Monday, about half-past nine, witness was in the kitchen, Jarrott came to while iyl e i the boiler for water. She appeared slighter. On Monday she mentioned it to the nurse, as she almost fancied she had had a miscarriage. She explained that she knew the flooding was from a different cause. _ _  A verdict was returned that the deceased was the child of Susan4arrott, and that it had been murdered by some person or persons, but by whom there was not sufficient evidence to show. A very affecting scene occurred at the inn where the inquest took place when the mother of the prisoner, who had been brought from Norfolk to identify the bag in which the murdered child was found, learned the nature of the charge upon which her daughter was arrested. The prisoner was removed in the custody of Mr. Superintendent Hodgkinson, and now awaits her re-examination by the magistrates.