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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On March 8 in Pittsfield, Miss Dorothy Goss, after giving birth to her second illegitimate child, tried to smother it and handed it to her mother, who burned it in the fire. Stung by conscience, Goss fled but was apprehended with her mother, who confessed. Goss is in custody awaiting commitment to jail.
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We hear that the following melancholy and inhuman affair happened the 8th inst. at Pittsfield. Miss Dorothy Goss being delivered of an illegitimate child (although the 2d in number) and being apprehensive that her character would suffer among her acquaintance, endeavoured to effect its death, by smothering it with the clothes, while in bed, which appeared by substantial evidence--but whether she suffocated it or not we cannot vouch--but in the course of the evening handed the infant to her mother, who raked open the coals and gently laid it under the forestick. The mother of the child, sensible of the inhuman act, and stung with horror of conscience, ran in the extreme cold four miles, and hid herself in a barn. She was immediately apprehended, together with her mother, who confessed that they had burnt the child. The girl is now in custody, and will be committed to jail as soon as her health will admit.
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Pittsfield
Event Date
8th Inst.
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infant child burnt to death; miss dorothy goss and her mother apprehended; mother confessed; girl in custody awaiting jail.
Event Details
Miss Dorothy Goss gave birth to illegitimate child, attempted to smother it, handed to mother who placed it in fire to burn; fled four miles to barn but immediately apprehended with mother who confessed.