Elizabeth Fris

1846 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Elizabeth Fris
  Born	CA 1846	Of, West Montrose, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Crime	1866
  	murdered her child
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-204026
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I204026	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

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  FRIS - The village of Montrose, Woolwich, C.W., has during the past week been the scene of considerable excitement in consequence of a rumour which unhappily has proved to be well-founded that an infant child had been murdered by its mother. The facts are as follows: A servant girl living in the employ of Mrs. Hasenllug was suspected by her mistress to be 'enceinte'. She, however, stoutly denied it, and the suspicions of the employer were for a time allayed. On Monday last, however, blood was discovered upon the door of the porch, and spots of blood were traced from thence to the cellar where a petticoat, completely saturated with blood, was found. The servant girl, whose name is Elizabeth Fris, was then taxed with having given birth to a child, and finding it impossible to conceal her shame, she admitted that early in the morning, she had been delivered of a stillborn child. The coroner was immediately communicated with, and an inquest was held last Tuesday before Dr. Whiting and a respectable jury of which Mr. James Scroggie was foreman. A strict search for the child proved fruitless, and the jury was compelled to adjourn till the following Thursday. Hamilton Spectator 5 Mar 1866 ______________ FRIS - On Thursday, the inquest upon the body of the child of Elizabeth Fris re-assembled pursuant to adjournment. The child in the meantime had been found buried beneath the floor of the cellar. It was a fine healthy-looking child, and medical testimony clearly proved it had been born alive. There were deep cuts on the left temple and one on the side of the neck, either of which was sufficient to cause death. The wound had been inflicted apparently by an old horse-shoe which was found clotted with gore in the porch where the girl was delivered. The girl adhered to her statement that the child had been born dead, but the jury by direction of the coroner returned a verdict that the child was born alive and was killed by its mother. Hamilton Spectator 5 Mar 1866

  
  

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  Born - CA 1846 - Of, West Montrose, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth