The Verdict of Murder Against the Japanese Amah: Inquest and Full Details of the Tragedy We have received the following report.of the inquest. on Dr. N. Hay Bolton's baby, found drowned in a brook near Chipping Norton en June 21, in consequence of which a verdict of murder was returned by the Coroner's jury against the Japanese amah.
On Tuesday week a tragedy of a distressing character occurred at Enstone, near Chipping Norton, when a Japanese woman in the employ of Dr. and Mrs. Norman Hay-Bolton, as a nurse, was arrested on the charge of murdering the nine-months-old baby daughter of her employers, The occurrence created a profound sensation in the village, where the parents of the deceased child are well known and highly esteemed. The father, Dr. Hay-Bolton, is a nephew of Mr, Edward Bolton, s.p., and is a member "of a firm of doctors in Shanghai, China, having recently come to England on furlough. The child was born at Shanghai last year, The mother, Mrs. Bolton, is an granddaughter of Mr. J. J. Adams, The circumstances are the more pathetic on account of the facy that the parents, who had been staying at Enstone on a visit, were away for a short holiday at the time. It appears that on Tuesday afternoon. the Japanese nurse, whose name is given as Otoki Sakabe, took the baby out in a perambulator, complaining before she went of pains in the head. She did not return, and the relatives became anxious, and, with the continued absence, the anxiety grew into alarm and a search was i nted and information of the missing nurse and baby was given ta the police. Towards eight o'clock a woodman on the Heythrop Estate found the child in the brook which runs from Heythrop towards En-stone, Tt was quite dead. The perambulator was lying on its side under the bushes. The missing nurse was found not far from the scene, was arrested by Supt. Page, and brought to Chipping Norton.
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