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Show INDIAN NURSE SEES VISIONS Of Baby She Killed, and Is Believed to Be Insane, Cries Out in Her Prison Cell. - 4 .. . K NEW YORK, Oct. 6.--Cowerin in her cell in the 'Wbite Plains jail. Jennie Birch, the . fourteenyear'lcl Indian nurse girl, who killed two-year-old Wilbur- Washington Winship, only son of Hebert Wijjship, a rich cattle buyer of Brewster, X. Y with a poisoned peach, cries out constantly that the spirit of the child is haunting her. Often Of-ten she stretches out her arms to an invisible form, cooing is baby language and begging the baby to come to ner. By many it is believed that the wild-'. wild-'. eyed girl is insane. She is to have an examination by expert alienists to determine de-termine the degree of mentality she possesses. It is now said the girl used strychnine instead of Iodine to poison' the peach she fed to the child. The strychnine had been purchased to kill a "doff. The removal of the girl to White Plains from Pullman county jail was to insure her safety, as tbe en-- en-- raged residents of Brewster had threatened threat-ened to lynch her. To District Attorney Attor-ney Weeks, of Putnam county, she has told every detail of her murder of tbe -bild and of burning tbe barn on tbe Winship place. It nas been reduced . to writing. |