Her father was John Swain and mother Cathern Swain with siblings, John, Ellen and Jesse. Piecing all these articles together here is what I know.įlorence Swain, the white girl in the article, is listed as 6 years old in the 1880 Pasquotank Co Census living in the Salem Providence Township with her parents and siblings. Many newspapers picked up the story and reported on every aspect of the case.
No court records were available in Pasquotank Co for this case so I gathered most of my facts from the internet and from. Jackson was for Mary Louisa (Morgan) Jackson wife of William Servidis Jackson who was the brother of my great grandfather, William Lemuel Jackson, Sr.īeing inquisitive as I am known to be, I decided to do a little research on this story to figure out first WHY the clipping was in a Jackson family Bible and second what was the story all about. Knowing it was from a Jackson Bible and seeing the note by the clipping that was a recipe for making mouth water involving tree root, grape vine root, sage, and other stuff mixed with honey and signed M.L Jackson I knew that was my first clue.
There was no mention of anyone with the surname White, Jackson, Davis or Sawyer. I read the newspaper clipping to see if any of my known relatives was in it. It seems that the most logical place for someone to keep something important or something that is relevant to the family was put in the Bible for safe keeping.Ī newspaper clipping, a handwritten note and a recipe for mouthwash was found in one of my ancestor’s Bible and after reading these papers I started wondering why it was in the Jackson Family Bible. If we are lucky enough some of us still have those old Bibles with our genealogy in them. This is where not only scripture could be found but the Bible also was where our ancestors would record births, deaths and marriages. “This is a case where the prosecution in the court below set out fully the facts of this case in detail in two notes, and their submission with regard to both categorisation and the aggravating and mitigating features.Bibles are always a source for inspirational information and almost every household has a family Bible. The tragic facts of this case were fully considered and reflected by her. She said: “The exercise of the judgment by Mrs Justice Cutts should not be interfered with. Rebecca Upton, for Banks – who attended the hearing via videolink from HMP Dartmoor – said the sentencing judge was right to give the sentence she did. “The fact that it was the father should count,” he concluded. “The aggravating features here outweigh the mitigating features rather than the converse,” the barrister said. Mr Little said the relationship between Banks and Leo should be taken into account as aggravating his crime. The court was told Banks, previously from Chichester, West Sussex, had shaken Leo during the night while the boy’s mother slept, later claiming the baby had been crying “hysterically”. “That is a conclusion that the judge should have been driven to by those facts.”
A forceful shaking of a four-week-old baby involves an unlawful act which carried a high risk of really serious harm which ought to have been obvious to the offender. Tom Little KC, for the Solicitor General, told the hearing: “This was a forceful shaking of a four-week-old baby by his father.
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