March 2, 1858.
September 1, 1856.
On the night of September 1st 1856 new born twins where found bundled in a bloodstained chemise and petticoat " in the front garden of a house at Pentridge Villas, Notting Hill". The casue of death was sufficationan and exposure to the elements. The mother of the twins was never discovered. This case compared to the knowledge we have a margaret garner may be slim in detail but there is a stark contrst between the two that fact aside. Margaret Garner commited the attempted murder of her children and then waited for her capturers. This fact alone tells us that her intentions where that a mother who so strongly believed death was a better alternative to life as a slave she subjected her own children death, and then waited to see the shocked faces of those who found them. She stayed with her children, becasuse despite it all she loved them.
On March 2nd of the year 1856 a "burned, foul smelling bundle" was found wrapped in the apron of a maids bedroom. She was treied and convicted of infantcide and her defense as to why she commited the crime was she could not afford the baby, and as the baby was a "bastard" it had no chance in life. This was dismissed due to the state of brutality in which the infant was murdered: burned and asyphixiated.