FULL
TEXT: The Aiken Journal and Review of the 27th instant: Jane Walker, a little
colored girl, about ten years of age, was committed to the County Jail last
week by Trial Justice E. A. Eubanks, of Millbrook Township [S. C.], on a charge
of murder. From what we can gather it seems that Jane was required by her
parents to mind the child of a near relative, and becoming tired of her charge
administered concentrated lye to it, which caused its death. Jane upon being
arrested denied the charge, but admitted that her mother had often warned her
that concentrated lye would kill anyone who swallowed it.
[“A
Ten-Year-Old Murderess.” The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, S. C.), Jun. 3, 1886,
p. 1]
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