The Northern Guardian. — 1896-06-10 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHER CONFESSION. A special correspondent states that special precautions were taken to keep from Mrs Dyer the knowledge of the preparations for the execution of the three convicts yesterday morning, and that as it was impossible for her within the walls of Newgate to he beyond the hearing of the bell of St. !Sepulchre's tolled during the execution she was removed with the greatest secrecy late on Monday evening from Newgate to Holloway Gaol, where she was kept until last evening, and was taken back with equal secrecy. The same correspondent says that Mrs Dyer made a statement, in the course of which she said : " With reference to the child my daughter had from Gloucester—the one, I learn, she is charged with murdering, the one she says she herself took 'to Bitniingham—my daughter has only said that hoping in some way to screen me ; but the truth of , the disappearance of that child is this : I myself, the day after my daughter brought that child home from Gloucester, took the same—a girl—to Loudon. I intended taking her to the Foundling Hospital. I knew once there the child would be all right. She was very heavy to carry ; and 'whether I had forgotten where the hospital I wanted was, or whether I had lost my way, I could not tell now, but I found myself outside a large church at a ! corner where three or four roads meet, not far from Paddington Station. I saw the gide gate was open. I heard singing. I think, and went into the vestry. The child was asleep, and I laid her down , just outside the door. I never intended any harm should come to her. I felt sure someone would soon be coming out, and the child would be cared for. I don't remember distinctly when I got home if I told her what I had done, but I have an idea I told her I took it to the Foundling Hospital. lam speaking truthfully. Poor girl, she has raid and suffered all this thinking it would lighten my punishment. The little girl we called Ike' came with me, and that child was handed over to her mother on Paddington platform, in the presence of my son-in-law, who accompanied me. I cannot be sure of the dates, but my (laughter can tell that. I believe it was either at the end of August or early in September of last year. I fancy the child's name was Curtis that came from Gloucester." The statement goes on to give an explanation as to the child Marjorie Fraser, which "Granny said I took to London," and then reverting to the child Curtis, says :—" My daughter can tell if I brought her up to London, and if I did that must haN e been the child I left on the step of the church door. Sometimes I have my misgivings, and I think if that was the first child I destroyed or not. Anyway, if it was, I can safely say my daughter had nothing to do with it. I never did let my daughter or her husband know the truth of what I did do. I am telling the truth in this matter They never did know. I had entirely forgot to mention the last two childree, Doris Marmon and Harry Simmons. The statement my daughter made to the magistrates is perfectly true ; neither Mary Ann Palmer nor her husband ever had anything in the world to do with either. I can speak truthfully, and say not in any one case have they helped me or knew what I was going to do. What was done I did do myself; my only wonder is I did not murder all in the house when I have had these awful temptations on me." Mrs Dyer did not know that the case against her daughter had been withdrawn.