The New Hampshire Gazette

HOMER. (CORT. CO.) AUG. 4.

Infanticide.—On the 29th ult. a young woman by the name of Betsey Bennet, of this town, was suspected of having, the night before become the mother and murderer of an illegitimate child. Search was made, and the child found dead, in a hollow stump, near the house of Mr. George Baker, on lot 96, where the said Betsey resided. A Coroner's inquest was called. The suspected mother of the child, who before denied the whole, now owned that the child was hers, and that she had put it where it was found: but said that it was not alive when born. The Jury of inquest, on examining the body of the child, found marks of violence on the forehead and throat; the former apparently by a stone, the latter evidently by a hand the impression of the fingers being visible. A verdict was returned by the Jury of Wilful Murder by the said Betsey Bennet. She was immediately ordered into custody by the Coroner; and awaits her trial at the next term of the Circuit Court, in this county, which will probably be in the month of June next.