The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-03 00:00:00

DEATII OF AN INFANT.

On Sitio-day Mr. W. If. Atkinson, coroner, kohl' sat
bilgert at the 'kit Inn, in the hody ,4 the infa4 r.
Li I I of
Hester Kingsbury, siegle woman, who died Mo. peeceling
Kiegsltory said the deceased wag the
on of her sister, heater Kingsbury. and was born the
previous Wednesday evening. She wits present at the
birth, and fetchot Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Cud, who
attended to the titer and the deceased. Witness lost
saw the chill :dive on Friday it touter time in bed with
it. itither. Front the time the child was born it ruesnett
and cried and seemed to hare a rattling In the chest The
mother tried to sorkle the child, but he would not take
1t,., breast at all. Witnesi tried to give it some arrowroot
on Thursday rooming, also on Thursday night and Friday
morning, led he would Pitt tike it Ott Friday night
when she came home from work her sister was crying.
and the ebild was dead by shle. She said it hail been
deed about three planers .4 an hour. Her sister wag not
married. She had one child before, now nearly dye years
41. She was about to be married to a in.. named John
Mullett, of Si uriiii.ter Marshall, atel the banns were
published in clitireh about last March, but be went away
and left her and the neighbourhood altogether. The
child refused food from its birth. She could not
say if it was born at its proper time. Her sister had
made preparations for the child's birth, but she had
lint engaged a iiddwife nor a doctor. When witness
got home on Friday her sister said she hail been to alee
and woke up with a pain in her side, and she turned round
and saw the child, which gave a sort of "sough," and then
died directly. Witness had no idea what caused the
death except that the child would tuke nothing from its
birth. It wax sick a.s soon as anything wax put into its
tttttt th. S,PPIlia Jane Morris stated she wax called when
the chili was born awl atten led to the liaby. It was very
dark :about the feet, hands, and mood the month goats
purple. tVitimix and those with her left the mother and
chili goodortably in le•tL The child wax very weakly, as
it never cried when it was washed and ilnewed. She did
Ott see it afterwards till it was dent. At thin stake et the
enquiry the coroner adjourned the inquest for a pea
modem examination to be made.

Cg Ii E.V.—Mr. ChulesJames Cecil Rawlins, has been
gazAted as • stilslieutenant to this corps,
Pow': COURT. Monday.— Before Sir E. Greathed,
K C It., and the Rev. G. V. Garland—frowns and
Brirannk Jame., of Ktnson, who were apprehended n a
warrant were charged with committing an assault upon
Mary Ann James, also of Ki ... o. The evidence was very
clear ant, the defendants were lined se. each, 6i. ed. terh
caste, and to find one surety each of .1.5 to be of good
behavircir for sit calendar months.
Os Sunday. two sermons were preached in the Wesleyan
Chsied,A.y the !ter. Samuel Wesley, of Poole, on behalf
of the Wesleyan school. The attendance WM Ten' 'Mod
and apitroprtste hymns were sung. On Wednesday, the
annual tea war hell in the lecture rout°, and afterward' a
public meeting wet hell, when addremes were delivered
by the Revd.. M. (inter, J. Chapple, and J. Keynes, and
Mr. Jackson. of Stourpaine.