Hi,
I came across this earlier and thought that it might be of interest to someone.
From The Times, 21st. May, 1878
CHARGE OF MURDER - At Carnarvon, on Saturday, Catherine Jones, the wife of a farmer living
at Llwynycoed, Penygroes, was charged before the county bench with the murder of her
daughter Sarah, a child 18 months old. Since the birth of the child the prisoner has
suffered from puerperal mania and on more than one occasion has attempted the child's
life. On Thursday, the 9th. inst., the father left the two together in the kitchen, and on
his return in a few minutes he found the child dead and bleeding from the nostrils and
ears. The mother at first accounted for death by saying that the child had fallen from a
chair; but she subsequently told one of the servants that she had suffocated it by holding
her hand over its mouth, and asked her whether she was likely to be hanged for what she
had done. She was committed for trial at the assizes. The coroner's jury had found
that she committed the act while temporarily insane.
Regards,
Keith.