C. Fortescue) opened the inquiry at the Litchfield Arms Inn on Wednesday evening, with a jury of which Mr. Frederick Peachey was foreman.
Annie Carlotto Horsfall said she! lived at Halifax, in Yorkshire, and} had been staying of Enstone since} June 2, She identified the body of the deceased baby. which was her; grandchild. The name was Susanne: Alathea Hay-Bolton, and she was! born in August last.
The parens' A of the child, Dr. and Mrs. rman Hay-Bolton, went away from Enstone on Monday last. leaving the child in witness's charge. There re two nurses, one for the little boy, who is three years of age, and the other, the Japanese nurse, who} spoke very little English. The-nurse had been with the deceased since the child was two or three weeks old. On Tuesday morning the nurse complained of toothache, and witness took her into Chipping Norton, to Mr. Pearce, a dentist. They returned to Enstone about 11.30, and the nurse said she felt much easier, and, having had dinner, went out with the baby about 1.30. Witness saw them start. The child then was well and happy, and was particularly fond of the nurse. When she went out witness was certain there was no mark on the child's neck. It was not the custom of the nurse to take the baby out at this time, as she then usually slept, but on this! occasion the nurse said: "Take Susanne a little walk. No sleep. Back in few minutes." She also complained of her aead being Witnesa said she would and get her an Asperin, but she made the Japanese remark for "Doesn't matter," and before witness returned with the Asperin she was gone. She did not return at 3.36, the time for the baby to have a meal. and') they at once made a search and reported the matter to the police. Subsequently the police made a statement to her, and the parents were communicated with, Witness said that, as she was taking "Amah," the name by which the Japanese nurse was usually known, to Chipping Norton, she made a remark passing the police station. This was probably because she had pri got there for re, Thomas Edward Bennett, woodman, in Capt. Brassey's employ, and' residing at Enstone Lodge, said) ko was working near the carriage drive leading from En-stone to the mansion on Tuesday afternoon. About 5.30 the undernurse called at his house asking if he had seen anything of the y and the nurse.. He—said Later in the evening, while witness was on his allotment, Mrs. Horsfall came running and seemed very upset, and asked witness again if he had seen anything of the nurse and the baby. After what Mrs. Horsfall said witness: made up his mind to walk ong the brook which runs up the park, in some places parallel with the drive. About three hundred yards up the stream from his lodge, he found the deceased lying face downwards in the middle of the brook, which was ten er eleven inches deep ay this point, the width being seven or eight feet. He took the child out and laid her on the bank. She was quite dead.
Young man named Trinder came along soon after, and witness asked him to inform the police and the relatives. From the drive io the spot where he found the body would be ten or eleven yards. and down a sloping hank. Witness noticed the boot of a grown-up Person en the bank about five or six yards further up the stream. There was also a narambulator turned over on its side. Later on 549
IP. C. Darrell and himself went back and found another boot, which, with the one he found on. the bank, made a: pair. They wore women's boots.
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Dr. Alfred O. Bolton, Medical practitioner, of Leighton Buzzard, cousin of the father of the deceased, id ohe arrived Enstone on Tues eyening on a visit to his father. Mr. Edward Bolton. He heard that the nurse and child were missing, and, having been told that the bal had been found in the brook, he at once went down. This was a little after eight o'clock. He saw the child on the bank, and examined the body, having been taken to the spot by Bennett, The baby was fully dressed, and the only derangement of the clothes was that the string of the bonnet was pushed up over the face. Life Was extinct, and to all appearance had been for some hours, He had since examined the body again, and found a small wound under the chin about' half an inch in length and half an inch in depth, which appeared to have been caused by some sharp instrument. This, however, was quite insufficient to cause any vital injury. There were also some small scratches on the neck and chin, two of them radiating out from the wound referred to.
The Coroner. Can you form any opinion as to how they were caused 7—Dr. Bolton: They could well caused by a sharp instrument. The actual cause of death was drown. ing.
You could nov tell whether the child's struggling might have the marks They were too severe to be caused by the child's nails. Quite considerable force must have been used to cause the main wound. Dr. Bolton added that he was present when the Japanese nurse was apprehended by the police, and heard what she said.
The Coroner said ho thought thes had better reserve that until the further hearing. The nurse should have an opportunity to be present if she wished to. The police were making further investigations, which they hoped to complete shortly. He therefore proposed to adjourn the inquiry until Mionday evening at the same hour.
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The. adjourned inquest was held at the "Lichfield Arms," on Monday evening.
The first evidence taken was that of Thomas Edward Bennett, who Was recalled. He said he was not working on the afternoon of June 21, near the spot where the body was found, although he did pass near during the afternoon. Several people went up or down the drive, notice of them. but he did not take any particular Oliver Frank Thompsitt, an employee on the Heythrop estate, stated that about 1.30 on June 21 he was having his dinner on Mr. Bennett's lawn at the lodge house, close to the drive road, when he suv the Japanese nurse come
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