BEAUTY FAINTS IN DOCK
CHARGE OF MURDER DEATH OF BABY LONDON, June 1. Twenty-nine-year-old Mrs. Margueriter Eastwood, of .Coulsdon road, Caterham, Surrey, fainted and had to be carried from South-Western Police Court yesterday when she was remanded to Holloway gao! for eight days, charged with murdering a mon'th-old baby who was found on the Southern Railway 'between Putney and Barnes. Mrs. Eastwood, a beautiful fairhaired Woman, had sobbed all through the proceedings. She wore a pale blue coatee over a flowered summer frock and had no hat.
It was alleged that she threw the child —believed to be Peter Joseph Ranmpton—'from a carriage of a train. Detective-Inspector Reynolds said that .Mrs. Eastwood told him: “I left the 'baby in a shop doorway just off Edgeware road. ... I left a note inside his blankets, which said: ‘Destitute. Nowhere to go. I don’t know what to do with the baby. Would the finder be good to it?’” Later she said: “I want to tell you all about 'how it happened. I have had no sleep since. lam pleased it’s over.” She then made a statement. When the charge was read to her she said, "No, no, I can’t; it’s too awful,”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 26 July 1938, Page 5
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