Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1871 — Murder as a Passion. [ARTICLE]

Murder as a Passion.

Mn. William Beer is a dealer in unredeemed pledges at 58 Newington butts, London. He had a servant in his employ named Annes Norman, aged 15 years. On Good Friday Beer and his wife went out to spend the evening, leaving their three young children in the care of the servant. Ou returning home, they found one of the babies on the floor by its liedside undressed, and another dead between the bedstead and the wall. It had evidently died from suffocation. The theory of the parents was that the servant girl had killed it, and they introduced evidence at the coroner’s inquest to support their the ory, which they had gathered subsequent to the death of their child, from those in whose employ the servant girl had previously been. While at one place a friend of the mistn ss came there with her baby to make a visit, put the child on the bed, and soon after it was found dead. At the same place, three dogs, a cat, a parrot, anumber of gold-fish, aiid nearly a dozen fancy birds were found dead at different times without apparent cause. At another place she brought home a child she had been taking out on the street, in a state of insensibility, and said that it had fallen out of her arms. The infant recovered, but in a few weeks she brought it back from another airing dead. In another family a a boy of seven yc.irs awoke with a choking sensation, and afterward told his father the girl had placed her hand over his mouth, and then given him money not to say anything about it; and in the same family several domestic animals died suddenly. In another situation, a child in her care was found insensible in bed, and ■when it recovered evinced great terror at the sjght of the girl. Again, in her <ale<H. she locked a child up in a wardrobe, took it out and put it to bed, and soou after it was found dead.— Pall Mall (London) Gazette.