The Haslingden Gazette. — 1906-08-25 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

WILL DROWN YOU."  Oewaldhvistle Mother Charged.  A tall. slightly built young woman, named Isabella Peasson, algal twenty-five, and lodging at 2, Town Bent, Oswaldtwistk, was on Wednesday morning, at the Blackburn County Police Court, charged with attempting to murder her daughter, aged two yearn and three months. According to the statement of Superintendent lickeand, seemed was a winder, lodging with a Mi.; Henrietta Orbotson. of 2, Town Pent, Oa waldtwistle. She had two illegitimate children. On Tuesday afternoon a male lodger in the home named Cooney sent prisoner to a neighbouring public-houee for three gale of beer. When she returned Cooney accused her of either having drunk some of the beer on the road or kept some of the money. They got to high words, and ' Cooney was said to have called the child in gue, tiou a bastard. Thin remark teemed to have annoyed prisoner very greatly, and she immediately tunlree,,xl the child, and placing her in a beesinette which was in the room, left the kitchen. After a short time ~he sae heard moving about in the back kitchen. There was not a tap in the beck kitchen, and water would have to ho carried from a raintub at the front of the house. Accused had filled an earthenware mug with water, which was about two feet deep. and in consequence of a noise which she heard Henrietta Orboeson went into the back kitchen and found prisoner holding her little girl'e head downwards in the mug. She unitched the child from prisoner. remarking •.. _ .  "You hall not drown her in my louse." Priwailer replied." If I have to wait up MI uiglit I will do it. I will wait my opportunity, and wht n you are mitre I will take the child from p nand drown her."  When P.S. (615) Hodgson and P.C. (51) Greenwood entered the holltie Cooney said to prisoner, "The police are coming." She answered, "I don't cane for the polka or anyone else. I shall drown the child. You shall not call her a bastard any more." The sergeant tried to calm her, boo. ing that was very excited, and when charged at the Oswaldtwistk Police Station with attempting ' to drown the child oho replisd. "I intended to drown her and I would have done it U she hod not stopped. me.•l_  ss Henrietta Orboi,son. single woman. of 2. Town Bent, Oswaldtwistle. deposed that the prisoner lodged with her. Accused had two illegitimate children, both girls. On Tuesday, another ledger named Cooney omit prisoner for three gills of beer, and she returned with only a pint. Cooney sent witness to Fee if she bad paid for three gills, and the landlord said she had, though she might have spilled some on ths road. There were argry words between the two, ending in Cooney calling her child a bastard. She then said: " I will &cum you out of the road. You shan't he a bastard." •Witness did not think she meant to carry cut her threat. Prisoner then left the kitchen and went  into the back kitchen. Shortly after, in con,e. quence of hearing the child screaming, witness  went into the back kitchen and saw the child struggling in a mug of water. Witness mid: You are not going to drown this clAd." Accused replied: "I will do it." Witness mid: '' You won't," and then took the child from her,  and prisoner' repeated: "I will do it if I have to stay up all night." When witness got the child out it could scarcely breathe, and half-an-hour elapsed before it came round completely. On this evidence Supt. NlcKoand asked f: .r prisoner to be remanded to Church Ses.ions on tho following day (ThurAlay). Asked if she had anything to say, trisoner replied: "He ie always calling me, is Cooney." Prisoner was then remanded in custody.