Mr. Jonathan Heniy Price, a Dissenting minister at Woodham Ferris,
and Mi. Priscilla Ruffle, daughter of a widow occupying a farm at High Roothing, were charged at the Colchester Police Court, on Wednesday, with casting away a male infant, intending to murder it. On the 6th instaat, they met at the Ingatestone station; Miss Ruffle then had a child in arms: afterwards they were together ins. pony chaise driving through Grove Lane, with a basket at their feet: still later,. Miss Ruffle was seen at the Chelmsford station, without child or basket. The child with found in a basket like that seen, in the ditch of Grove Lane. Both the prisoners were committed for trial on the charge of' murder; but bail was taken.
Rebecca Smith, the wife of a labourer at Westbury, bits been committed to he tried for murder, on the finding of a Coronet's Jury that she has poisoned Inc infant child with arsenic. She has had eleven children, and all of them died in their infancy.
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