Unknown Gender History: Russian 14-year-old Child Care Provider Murdered 17 Children

FULL TEXT: A terrible confession has been made by a 14-year-old nurse girl at Novgorod, in Russia, one revealing quite a phenomenal and cold-blooded development of a passion to murder on the part of a mere child. The girl was arrested on suspicion of having caused the death of a baby she was nursing, and confessed to the police that she had killed seventeen children, “because they bothered her, and she disliked the trouble of attending to them.” The murders were carried out with great cunning, the girl not exciting the least suspicion, until the death occurred for which she was arrested, although her path from house to house was marked by the hand of death, and infant after infant placed in her charge sickened and died.

[Untitled, The North Eastern Ensign (Benalla, Victoria, Australia), Dec. 25, 1894, p. 2]

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FULL TEXT: Petersburg, 21 December. (Orig. Telegram) In Novgorod governorate, a fourteen-year-old girl was arrested for murdering her employer's child. The girl confessed to having perpetrated sixteen similar murders of children committed to her care of by their mothers.

[Pester Lloyd (Budapest, Hungary), 22. Dezbr. 1894. p. 3]

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Wikipedia: Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with a population of 1,250,619 (2015) the fifth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky (Горький), after the writer Maxim Gorky, who was born there. The city is an important economic, transportation and cultural center of Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region. It is located about 400 km east of Moscow.

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FULL TEXT: Petersburg, 21 Dezember. (Orig. – Telegr.) Im Gouvernement Novgorod wurde ein vierzehnjähriges Mädchen wegen Ermordung des Kindes ihrer Dienstgeber verhastet. Das Mädchen gestand schon,sechzehn änliche Morde an Kindern, welche der Pflege seiner Mutter übergeben waren, verübt zu haben.

[Pester Lloyd (Budapest, Hungary), 22. Dezbr. 1894. p. 3]

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