Alleged Murder in Wanganui.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 6 June 1891, Page 2

Alleged Murder in Wanganui.

Caroline Peyman, wife- of Benjamin Peyman,, of Bell-street, : was rested at 5.30 on Thursday afte^npon by Sergeant-Major Anderson, "on. a charge of unlawfully and felbriously performing an operation, on a young woman, named Emily Kate* Spicer, with intent to cause a miscarriage. Since the arrest the young woman has died, and the charge. against the woman Peyman » ill be altered to the more serious one of murder. The unfortunate girl Spicer, who has met with such an untimely end, was 22 years of age, strong and healthy, and for the last six or eight months had been engaged as domestic servant in the family of A. J. Parsons. Esq., of St John's hill. She gave every satisfaction in her situation, and Mrs Parsons, on the return of Mr Parsons and herself from Melbourne some ten days or so ago, was very sorry to hear from the girl that she had made up her mind to leave her place. She was however, paid her wages up to the day of leaving, Sunday, May 24th. On the same day she visited Mrs Peyman, when it was alleged the offence was , committed. On the following Suriclay, May 81st, Dr Innes received a/ message from Mrs Peyman,' asking 'him to attend a married woman 1 at 'ncr house, who was suffering from diarrhoea, and whose husband 1 was at Waverley. The doctor found I that his patient was the young * woman Spicer and that she had had a miscarriage, and he was suspicious that it had been procured by. i]legal means. As the days went by the ■

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patient got worse, and Dr Innes called in Drs Earle, Tripe and Connolly, to consult With them on the case. Dr Earle, who had had his suspicions aroused in previous cases of miscarriage, with which the ac cused had to do, reported the matter to Sergeant Anderson yesterday afternoon. As the day advanced it became apparent to all the medical men that the unfortunate young woman was nearing her end, and, at her own request, between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, she made her dying declaration, which was taken down by Dr 'Jripe, J.P., and thereupon the woman Peyman was arrested by Sergent Major Anderson on the criminal charge. The young woman got rapidly worse, and at about a quarter past eight o'clock last night she brc-athed her lastThe medical gentleman who were attending the patient placed a married couple (\!r and Mrs Foster) in charge, upon the arrest of Mrs Peyman, and two Mrs Foster the poor girl spoke her last words, expressive of her hope that God would have mercy upon her and forgive her Bin. The mother and stepfather of the deceased, we understand, reside near Marton, and a telegram was sent to them last night apprising them of the sad occurrence. Sergt-Major Anderson visited the Peyman residence a second time, a few minutes after the girl died, and took possession of sundry books, papers, and appliances, which will probably be produced in evidence as showing the trade the woman Peyman was carrying on. A pout mortem examination of deceased will probably be conducted this morning, and the inquest follow later in the day. The prisoner Peymau will be brought up at 10 80 o'clock this morning on the charge on which she was arrested — that of abortion — and the charge will then be altered to the more serious one of murder. — Wanganui Chronicle.

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