The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-12-06 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

HOCKING TRAGEDY IN PRESTON.  Ou the afternoon of Tuesday last on affair of gest deplorable character was brought to in Moor Park, Preston, revealing a tale of oiotic trouble and suffering which, if haply is not the less sorrowful to contentto. A middle-aged woman named Alice  the wife of William. Blake, plasterer, in  immond-street, had, along with a child secly fit e weeks old, been miming since an ::y hour on Sunday morning. She is be;A not to have gone to r, at the previous It, end to have left home home about five ck in the morning, though on this subject ling positive can be ascertained. Her dis;orance naturally caused considerable  Kulation„ among her neighbours, as she was ..iilways as a well-disposed and most res.:able person ; and although to very active appears to have been taken by her hus.i to discover the cause of her absence or  r whereabouts, curiosity was only the more inulated among her friends. During the tole of the first day the affair was enveloped Imystery, and during Monday this state of nertainty continued and formed the topic of rad conversation. Towards Monday night IE rumour was brought to the ears of some of neighbours to the effect that a woman, wed in black, which was the kind of cos-3e in which Mrs. Blake was last seen, had fl ebserved walking round the lake near the I)entine-road, Moor Park, just before dayat—the hour being fixed at seven o'clock— Sunday morning, by a man who was going The man—whose name we have been Unto obtain—is said to have watched this taration, which was moving round the walk a most mysterious manner. He went to look a police officer, but not meeting one :he moment, is reported to have taken . . This  !father notice of the circumstance.  ri being circulated, and the people of ~istrict knowing the poor woman state of LI for the previous few days, at once aroused ciona of a nature which may easily be wined, and one or two persons went to the a: with the intention of searching the pond, r having no instruments for the purpose, Le away. Next day, Blake the husband, and gave information of the affair at the i•ce station ; and Chief Inspector Hornby, :ing in the absence of Mr. Oglethorpe, who at Manchester, decided that the grappling ts kept at Avenhain Park should at ouce be Lined, and a search of the pond instituted. u rdingly, P.C. Baxter, who is stationed at k goer Park, assisted in the melancholy duty bike, commenced A search about three el on Tuesday afternoon, and had not been 1-.ak above an hour when the dead body of  k iceman was pulled to the side. The tiody I:he unfortunate woman was lying in the tide of the pond, a few yards from the ornaral bridge and almost opposite the summerLe. The search for the body of the child k continued at the same place, and in a few ass more a substance, wrapped up in a Li pilaw', was dragged out of the water. was found to be the body of the child, tdi was lying close to that of its mother. bodies were removed from the place to the I:se, 173, Hammond-street. A numerous Oy of spectators had assembled by the side he pond while the search was being made. ,l(tes not appear that there can be much Ot as to the motive which induced the  ipirtunate woman to commit this double act !infanticide and suicide. For several days  fur to the melancholy event she was noticed II be in an unusually despondent state of tad, and made observations as to the "trouble' itch was upon her. We believe she was halved in difficulties of a monetary nature, tie at is reported that her husband has not Pied himself as faithful a helpmate as he %gin to base done. Under these and other rlpre:isive circumstances, the woman is supto have rushed to the place where her kdY and that of her child were found, in a fit al despair, with the intention of drowning herlii and the child. According to the account Cho man before mentioned, and supposing C left her home at five o'clock, she must have 'seed about contemplating the desperate act ulse time, and eventually have thrown herell into the water, and thus relieved herself of kruoubles. There is no doubt that at the 14, she threw herself into the pond she had "Child clasped in her arma, for when she was .Irerl out her arms were in an attitude sugLive of this. 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