A child of Mrs. Dandy, of Rotherhithe-wall, near Dock-head, being about to be put to bed, and crying vehemently, the servant, Anne Vines, to quell its obstinancy, threatened to put it into the copper, unlens it consented so go quietly to bed.
Persuasion and remonstrance being in vain, the servant suspended the infant (not three years of age), over the place of terror; when it slipped from her arms, and sunk at once to the bottom of the boiling copper. It died immediately, in a most shocking state, the very skin coming off with the clothes, when taken out.
The jury sat the next day, and, after a minute investigation, returned the following verdict: feloniously killing and slaying, by putting the child in the copper, but not with an intent to kill.
Anne Vines has since been tried at the Surry assizes, and found guilty of manslaughter.
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