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The Wingham Times, 1885-08-28, Page 2OONTANQE'E�"N� `.... The Story ora Confessed Murderess said to be Related to the ti we'll, The ether day the cable brought an item of news which revives the memory of one of the moat remarkable crimes recorded in the history of English trials. The item ran to the effect that Constance iteet, convicted twenty-five years ago of the Roade murder, had received a tioket-of-leave, The woman thus briefly mentioned was at the time of the commission of the crime a young girl of 15 or thereabouts, and the victim was her 3 - year -old half-brother, Arthur Kent. The event acquired unusual prominence owing to the relationship all the parties immediately concerned bore to the queen. William Kent, the father of Constance and the murdered child, was a gentleman of private fortune, living at a place called Roade. He was said to be, and the state- ment was never contradicted, an illegitimate son of the duke of gent, fourth son of George III. and father of Queen Victoria, and his private fortune was supposed to have come from his royal source. Mr. Kent was a gentleman of quiet and cultivated tastes, enjoying a life of lettered ease. His first wife,mother of Constance, having died when she, the eldest of his children, was about 10 or 11 years of ego, he employed a lady of education as governess and superintendent of his family. This lady he married, and by her had a son, young Arthur. All seemed happy in the Kent family, though the eldest daughter, Constance, was occasionally sub- ject to fits of moodiness, for which she as- signed- no reason. Early one Sunday morning in summer the nurse girl,whose name is not recalled, alarm- ed the sleeping household with her outcries. She had awakened to find her young charge, little Arthur, who slept in a cot by her bed- side, lying dead, his throat cut from ear to ear, The horror-atr cken parents at once sent for assistance. The police and the cor- oner were promptly on the spot, and inves- tigatlone commenced, It was then noticed that though there were traces of blood on the blanket on which the child lay, there was no saturation such as would have been the case had the murder been committed while he lay sleeping. Forther examination reveled the fact that the child had been taken to a water -closet in the house, and that there the butchery had been performed. A carving -knife, sharpened almost to a razor edge, was also found with traces el blood upon it. Of course, all these circumstances ,tended to fasten suspicion on the unfortunate nurse - girl, for who else could have carried thechild to the scene of the murder without causing him to make some outcry, At the time of the alarm being given it was shown that every one else in the house was sleeping peacefully, including Constance, against whom suspicion was not once directed. An attempt was also made to fasten suspicion on Mr. Kent, the unhappy father, and the whole of England took sides, one in favor of this, the other in favor of that theory. Finally, the testimony clearly exonerated Kent, so there was nothing left but the con- clusion that the servant was the guilty party. It is true that no motive could be shown for the deed ; that she was of a most amiable disposition and a great favorite with all the children, but there were the facts. The con- clusion was irresistible, and the poor girl was arrested and thrown into prison to await her trial, Meantime the Kent household was broken up, the bereaved parents trying to seek le - lief from sorrow in travel. Constance was sent to a sort of conventual school at Brigh- ton, on the south coast. This school was an attachment to a high ritualistic 11 piscopal church, the rector to whioh had established the confessional as a part of his church dis- cipline. The time came nigh for the trial of the imprisoned nurse -girl. Controversy waxed warmer and higher as the day set came nearer. When it arrived the papers were full of correspondence on the subjaot, and all sorts of theories were broached to account for the deed without the interven- tion of the accused. Various arrests wore made, but always without result. Finally the girl was tried and convicted, But the public was not satisfied, and the home seo- rotary was persuaded to grant a respite pend- ing further investigation. The case deemed hopeless, however, until one morning Constance Kent, accompanied by one of the Sisters of a convent school, called on the reciter of the church above spoken of, and the two asked a private audience, Constance had come to confose. She had evidently already told her story to the Sister. She then, calmly and lucidly, as the clergyman afterwards said, told the whole story of the prime. She had deeply resented her father's second marriage, though she had given no outward sigh of her resentment, Her anger was still More heightened when her young half-brother was born, She had studiously eoneealed this feeling. But her jealous hate grew id intensity as he grew front infancy into laughing childhood, Gradually hate mature ed into design, and she determined to de, etroy the little fellow. Providing herself With the sharpened kttife, shortly after dawn idle had slipped into the nursery bed,. room. Stooping over the cot she awoke the child with a kite, and, wrapping hitt in M- �_...� e•.o� • ; 11,r____74,. 1 4 his blanket °elided ihien !whit hitr to, closet. Heim tl`te knife wtis Used in such 'a way that the flowing blood\\vtent ctowl the pipe. When life was extinct'al;d tlzo blood had ceased to flow she gently returned to the nursery, replaopd the little corpse in its cot, wiped and restored the knife to its place in the kitchen, and then wont to bed and to eloep. One can imagine the horror and excitement this awfuloon£eaeion created. Thousands refused to believe it, saying the girl was demented, and pointing to a sup- posed hereditary taint of insanity which had come to her from her grandfather, George III., as an argument. She was, how- ever, tried and not only maintained the truth of her confession, but pointed out corroborating circumstances which had es- caped the notice of the police, Of course, she was convicted, and the other poor girl pardoned for the crime, she had never com- mitted. Then Constance was sentenced to death, but interests were made in favor of a commutation, Her youth and beauty pleaded strongly for her; so did a certain feeling that, while oonfeesion was clearly proven not to have resulted from inherited insanity, the deed itself might have done. Her sentence was commuted to penal servi- tude for life, and good behavior brought the ticket -of -leave mentioned, A niece in blood, though not by marriage, of the queen, she has epent all the boat years of her life in a convict prison. Put such a story in a novel, and what critic would not scout at is too absurd for anything? Elegant Hands. A pretty hand can no more be unfashion- able than a pretty face, but just now, we aro told, it is particularly "the fashion" to dis- play a pretty hand, That elaborate box of nonsense, the nail - came, made of plush or satinwood and filled with attractive little implements never used, is in more than usual request. Girls spend an hour at a time polishing away with pink powder and a bit of chamois leather, or carefully pushing back with an instrument for the purpose the slight film of akin that obscures the white crescent at the base of the nail. A freckle on the back of the hand fills them with dismay, and causes an instant demand for lemon juice. A red band sets the owner to searching domestic recipes for the proper composition of almond -paste. A tendency to knobbiness of wrist or knuckles plunges the victim into despair. There is good in all this, but the thing may be carried too far. A young lady's halide should always be well -cared for and rpleasing to beholds, but there are some blemishes possible upon its beauty which no one should become unwilling to incur, Such is that roughness of the forefinger which is apt to follow much use of the needle. Such also is the puckered appearance of the hand of a young lady who has recently waehed dishes, or the stained fingers of the preserve -maker ; and who would not regard the row of blisters along a rosy palm that has not disdained to grasp a flat -iron as honorable scare, no more to be considered a disfigurement than the sword -cut on the forehead of a soldier ? The prettier your hands the better, young Iadies, until they become too pretty to be useful. The white, emooth hand with a rirg upon it is a charming thing, but the hand that is redder and rougher, and does good work, has the first claim upon our admiration. A eves Hedenstrom. One of the best known among English philanthropic institutions is the Scandina- vian Temperance Sailors' Home in London, and one of the most interesting biographies of the century would be that of its foundress, Agnes Hedenstrom. Left an orphan when quite a young child, she was brought up in the house of wealthy relatives in Upsala. Here she was petted 'find indulged to the lastdegree. t, Let the child have her own way 1" said ho friends, "She has no parents, poor thing! All her pranks were overlooked, and she grew up animated largely by the desire to enjoy herself and have her own way, Still a aenso of diseatisfaction would make itself felt in het life. She was not quite happy, though she could have given no reason f -r her despondency. One day, however, she listened to an em- inent Swedish preacher, and then, for the first time, became conscious of the religious element lacking in her own life, and of the fact that she rely needed to fill her idle hours with thought and labor for others. She began preaching to her countrymen in the North, where no woman had been allow- ed to speak in public, first addressing small meetings, and finally vast assemblages. For some years she continued this work, becoming at last persuaded that it was her duty to go as a misalenary to India, But while in London, awaiting an opportunity to engage in work abroad, she was impras, sed with the great need of laborers among the poor in East London, She began preach- ing to them in the streets, and it was there that the sound of her own language broke on her oar, half -smothered or inarticulate, There homeless, drunken Scandinavian sailors were ensnared by the hundred, ha horrible pitfalls of evil. For two years she worked among the tail- ors, preaching and persuading, She still ehnddera at the ineol)reotio1q't?P her first address to some of her ctluntrytlieb,' at a place called the Strangers' Rest, Twenty drunken sailors had been collected in this room, and, alone and trembling, their country woman addressed hem, while they ehrioked and blasphemed. One after another, they beoame quiet, uq- til the whole company was finally subdued. Next evening they came, bringing some com- rades with them, and it was not long before a Scandinavian leeturo-roozu was permanent- ly established. It was.tome ye rs before Mies Hedenetrom could raise sufficient funds for a larger ea- tablishment, but in 1880 the Home was founded. Of this bliss Hedenet om is sole manager. She corresponds with the member* of her company, when they are abroad on voyage*, receives and invests their money, and aide many a captain in picking out his crew. Beyond all this, she superintends the Home and entertains the " boys " who are tempor- arily on shore. For their benefit, bedrooms aro kept in order, meals are served in a large dining -room, and plenty of space is provided for them to pass their leisure hours amid book* and newspapers. In short, the Home is an immense boarding-house, though of course it cannot be entirely self-supporting, some of its patrons being quite destitute, Mies Hedenstrom says of her chargee : " I have never yet had a aailor among the five thousand that have been in this home, who has returned from it to his former haunts; and, thank God 1 there are at present a good many decent dressed men among the Scandi- navian sailors in London, whereas, when I began my work, there was not a single one of all that came under my notice who did not look ragged or slipshod. I can do little ' o raise funds ; but never yet have I asked anythir g in vain from my Heavenly Father." It requires strong character for a work like this. Bat this woman seems to possess - it, and to owe to it her fitness for her calling. : Legends of the Stlawberry, The people of Bohemia are the oldest dwellers in Europe, and retain many of the most curious superstitions. Some are unique and are scarcely to be traced elsewhere. For nstance, certain fruits have curious fancies connected with them. The strawberry is especially revoreneed. When the first crops are gathered in the first handful is set aside for the poor, and placed upon a tree or stump or convenient spot in the open air, whence they can be fetched away. If a mother has lost her child during the previous year, she must gather no strawberries before St, John's d.ty, for if she does her child will not be per- mitted to join the blessed children when they go with the Virg'n to pick strawberries in the fields of Heaven. Another version o the same superstition says that the child may have a few, but not so many as others whose mothers have refrained from Dating. The Virgin will say to her.: " See, darling, your share is email, because your mother has eat. en them." In a valley at Tetechen there i a crag which the villagers say is in the form of a human bust, and which is called the Stone Strawberry Lass, because a legend as- serts that on St. John's day, in 1614, a cer- tain willful maiden persisted in dancing and eating atrawberrios instead of going to mass, and added to her sins by laughing at her grandmother when she chid her. Thereup- on the old lady said, " I wish thou wort a stone," and the lively maiden became trans- formed, The legend further asserts that she will returnto flesh and blood whenever a pure and pious youth is found,who has never neg- lected his church from his seventh year, nor looked at a maiden during service, who will strike the btone three times while high mass is being said. However, the flesh is weak, we know, and the youth is yet to be found who has kept his eyes in his prayer - book from his seventh year, so the meiden remains petrified. A Boy's Wish. I do wish I was a clock -got a face and don't have to wash it -got hands and don't have to keep them clean, and just gets to be looked up to by everybody -just runs all the time, and dad never once says, "now don't run the legs off of you, boy," Reckon its a boy, ser ms to be pretty good on the strike, or may be its a mill -hand -anyhow its a pretty nice thing to be ; of course it can't eat! No good fried "taters" for you (deckle! No licorice water, either. You've got hands that might shake it, but no mouth for to drink with. Neither can you go bare- foot. Oh I'd hate that. But then you don't have to wear an overcoat, or mittens on your hands, I hate that, too 1 One of your hands is smaller than the other, I wouldn't like that -wouldn't like to be "unformed,'' 'twould be such a plague -all the boys would find it out. Tick 1 Tick 1 Tick 1 Tick 1 My .what a runner you are ! I bet if you was running on a tura dollar pair of shoes that dad had to pay for you'd be stopped mighty quick. My dad aitt't a bad man, but there is some. thbtg about hint that I do not like, and its his name, and I don't know why either, Only the big boys at school asked me, ono day, what my father's name was, I said, ?fr, Sehott ; then they said I was only " half shot," and laughed so, ti ^',, it I "S41190$ rOilY t $ Ole inktifjrt Was the way it appeaired in the proof -slip. The argue eyed pros f •reader, however, knew the quotation intended and changed it to read ; "Shoot Folly as she flies," -Pope. 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