FULL TEXT: Sedalia, March 17. – Mary Arnold, colored, and her ten-year-old daughter Geneva, were arrested tonight for murder.
When Mrs. Arnold left home yesterday her daughter says she
told her that she would kill the baby before she returned home. She wanted to
be rid of it because illegitimate. The young girl lost no time in trying to
earn the reward. She placed the baby on a barrel and then pushed it to the
floor three times to break its neck, and because the baby would not die, jumped
on it and kicked it violently in the stomach until it became insensible. She
then became frightened and called in the neighbors, telling them that the child
had fallen off the barrel and hurt itself. After the child died she made a full
confession.
[“A child Murderess – Negro Mother Hires Her Daughter to
Kill the Baby.” The Kansas City Gazette (Ks.), Mar. 18, 1897, p. 1]
[727-1/23/21]
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