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It got bruited about the town that the prisoner was to be brought up at the Police court on Wednesday afternoon and an anxious crowd hung about the station. Late in the afternoon, however, the following evidence was taken – Sarah HOLLIDAY, of Beeford, deposed, “I have had the care of her daughter, Mary Beacon HOLLIDAY. She was nine years old last January. I had her seven years. About five weeks ago her mother came and took her away; it was on a Tuesday after tea. She said something about taking her away and that she was going to Leeds to a situation, and they set off to walk. A week afterwards, I went to Foston where the prisoner was living, expecting to bring the child back. The mother said that they were going to take her and bring her up. She said she was not coming back, that she had taken her to Hull and that two Miss COOKS had taken her there. The clothes now shown to me were hers, also the boots and stockings which were my own hand knitting.” The prisoner was taken to Hull gaol on Thursday morning.
April 21, 1888
Mary HOLLIDAY of Foston, charged with the wilful murder of her daughter, Mary Beacon HOLLIDAY, aged 9 years, was brought up on remand at the Driffield Police Court on Wednesday. She is about 30 years of age, and manifested very little concern in the proceedings. She wore a fringe low down on her forehead and a black hat with black feathers and tight-fitting jacket, with black fur trimmings. Evidence was heard from a number of witnesses, among whom, the two men who found her body. T.C. SEDMAN: I am a grocer at Driffield. I remember Good Friday last. I went fishing on that day at Snakeholme Lock, Wansford. Shortly after I noticed something in the water. I called the attention of my brother to it. After a time we brought to view the boot of a child. Whilst we were trying to get it out a vessel came up and I borrowed a boat of the captain. A young man named WAITES got in with me. We tried to get the body with a boat-hook. I then came to Driffield and gave information to the police. The body was laid on its back. I did not recognise the features. Henry Coverdale SEDMAN: I am a bill-poster at Driffield. I was with my brother fishing. I noticed something in the water and afterwards saw it was the leg of a human being. The body was not in any way interfered with. I did not see any hat. Adjourned until Saturday morning next at ten o’clock.
May 5, 1888
At Leeds, Mary HOLLIDAY, of Foston, was found Guilty with a recommendation to mercy on account of insanity in the family. The prisoner was then sentenced to death. The date of execution being set for Tuesday, the 22nd inst.
Feb 9, 1889
Mary HOLLIDAY, apprehended April 21st 1888 for the murder of her illegitimate male child, has had her death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. At the time of her arrest, she had been living as housekeeper to Richard Collier BRADLEY, joiner of Foston, whilst the child had been in the care of its’ grandmother. Many hundreds had signed a petition praying the Home Secretary for a respite. An infant child was born to her whilst in prison, named Rosetta Collier Bradley HOLLIDAY, and it has now been removed to the Driffield workhouse.