The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-08-28 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

RBURY.  MURDER AND SUICIDE OF A YOUNG- WOMAN.— Sunday evening, the inhahitants of tiorbury we e shocked by the report of a murder and suicide having been committed in the river Calder, where it passes through Lupact Pastures, in that township. The rumour proved to berme. It appears that a single woman, aged .26 years, •nan2ed Ellen Coop Carter, who resided with her sister in the Ring of Bells yard, near the Parish Church, had had an mate child, a girl, then 16 or 18 months old, to a young man trow Wakefield. He had been to see her et Four o clock in the afternoon, and after be left she dressed the child in its best clothes, and went with it in her arms out 1:4 he house, and straight to the river side at the low end ot. Horbury. to a part called Lupset Pastures. She was seen by somep rsous on tee other side of the river to ti 0 the child's head in a handkerchief, and also to tie its feet together. Sh - then threw it into the river, and meat jumped into the stream herself. An alarm was immediately raised, a small brat procured, and, with the eider grappling irons, the bodies were soon recovered, bet eat before life was extinct in both cases. The bodies. Stern removed to the house of the deceased in the Ring of Belleyard. 'Phe mother had taken off the child's hat, eluded st, ston in it. and left i upon the river's embankment. She also did the same with her own hat —The district coroner, Mr. 'Thomas Taylor, held an enquiry on Tuesday, touchiag the circumstances attending the death of Ellen Coop Carter Knd lea' illegitimate daughter, Florence. It trenelaired at the vest, which was held at the Arms Hotel, Herbury, that the elder deceased. a mill operative, was 26 years of a.m. Her child was 16 months old. They lived with an unmarried sister, who also works at the mill in the Ring of Bells-yard. near the Parish Church The deceased woman has been in a depressed state of mind for some weeks past, consequent, it would appear, from the fact that she carts about two months from her confinement et another illegitimate child. She had heard also that it inn probable she waild he turned away from the mill where she worked 0 Sunday, aboet one o'clock, the father et the deceased child, Florence, called and left some money.. tie did not rear long. His visits wore usually very brief. She was crying when he came, and while be remained ta her society. When a neighbour entered the house a little later, the unhappy young woman was reading the N-ew Testament. She conversed us usual with the. neighbour, and having told her younger sister to go upstairs and wash herself, the deceased dressed herself teid child, and weat out osten,ibly for a walk. She called on a neighbour and asked her to accompany her, hut 118 the friend declined Oa the grQuod of id-health, and offered to call on her at hem after tette d, ceased said, "Now mind you do," and left. It would appear that she went straight from thence * Lupset Pastures, threw her babe into the water, and thee leaped in afterwards herself Her body was recovered sit five o'clock, or an hour and a half after the rash act wee committed, and that of the child was found at seveno'cleck, ahout eight yards from where the unhappy mother was diecovered. In the pocket of the latter was a hymn bookThe jury returned a verdict that the child Florence was murdered by its mot her, who afterwards committed suicide) while in a state of temporary insanity.