Ann Barnes, an elderly woman, recently residing with her married son at Purl's Bridge, a village near Ely, has been arrested on suspicion of a wholesale poisoning of children. Barnes had been in the habit of nursing infants while their parents were engaged in field-labour. A number of these children were taken ill while in the woman's charge, and four died after great suffering.
The parents of the children exhibited the most brutal indifference, and attended the inquest in a state of intoxication.
The bodies were disinterred, and, upon examination, the fact of their deaths having been caused by arsenic was placed beyond doubt.
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