The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

THE ROAD MYSTERY,

large share of tiA attoun I§.ol4titil.hVeoctiiaryti.
to' theMyst%Hails at Road, and tinteh ingennit
e*ereised in. order, if possible, to account for .the o
rence upon some plausible ground. The following
attempt to weigh the probabilities of one theory „Da
the improbabilities of another, has been furnished' by a.
correspondent:
Probabilities in favour of the theory that the child
died from a fit, or from .suffocation by' getting its Nee
down upon the pillow
Ist. The Chilli had l Piirgative administered
to it hefrnit going, 0 bed, Probably be rendered
uneasy in the bo*.els, and turn itself oVei., With the face
downwatd Upon the pillq*, *hien, owing to the nairot-
liesa o'f the Cot, Woitld most likely. N &Meal* thiii
reudering snitodatide dificalt
Itp ffdeielatdd, awcohltilltdi
of its Cspetidliy Ai it Mks fat and heavy.
ma The nurse, on finding the child
naturally be much alarmed ; be sure she 'Would be
charged with great neglect; he turned out of her place,
and not be likely ever to get another in that capeeity,
3rd,, To avoid this, she resorts, tO, the eipedierit
n
trying to make it appear that the u has been carried
off, and martleita,-ratting its.throat—after'death--with
that View, Knowing she has inflicted no punishment
upon the child, she is enabled to maintain her composure
*Mkt the importation of murder.
4th. The improbability that she Would cult the throat
of a dead child to avoid blanie, is not greatiai thali the
improbability that she slionitt a liVe child to
avoid sha.rne--,or bt decessory to its murder with this
View,
.improbabilities of the theory that the father suffocated
the child, unintentionally or wilfully, while hi the
nurse's room :-
Ist:This assumes an improper intimacy, for Whieh
there has' yet been no shadow of prod giren.
2nd. It assumes that the father left his wife's bed,
and was absent some time, without her.knowledge of it.
3rd. It assumes that the child, which was in the cot;
just awoke at the time the father—whom We mist sup-
pose would proceed stealthilV—was in the rooms •
4th. It assumes, whether 'dark or light, that tlic child
saw him, to do which it mast have risen up to look over
the side of the not.
It assumes that the father, who had entered the;
room with no evil intention; towards the child, -could
instantly become so unnatural as (to secure concealment)
to stop its month so long as to end in suffocation.
6th.. It assumes that two persons should thus become
guilty of a murder-4hich was not at all contemplated
before—and both of them instantly become so hardened
as to exhibit. no signs of remorse or confession.
7th. It assumes that he had nothing to do with the
after-death throat-cutting, and the opening the sitting-
room window, although when the latter took place it
would appear from the evidence of the wife that he was
in bed, as she heard the window move,:and attributed it
to " the servants being astir."

•
THE MUNICIPAL REVISION.—The revising barrister
resumed his duties at St. George's Hall on Saturday
morning, and proceeded with the Liverpool list, from
the.letter Pto Z, when the court rose. The following
is the result of the revision : Conservative made objec-
tions, 227; struck off, 154, withdrawn, 30. Radicals
made objectiens, 68 ; struck off, 46 ; withdrawn, 10.
Conservative majority, 159..
The new steel gun (rifled) invented by Mr. Lynet
Thomas, recently forwarded to Woolwich Arsenal, from
the Mersey Steel Works, for experiments at Shoebury-
ness, has been ,fired in the long range, the result of
which is as follows :—The gun, charged with 281 b. of
powder and a shot weighing 1601 b., obtained a flight of
10.000 yards, or 51 miles. Arrangements are being
made to carry out a course of trials and experiments
with the gun, in the presence of the Select Committee
of Woolwich Arsenal.
BALLINASLOE noun.. FAIR.—The supply of horses
was large, but perhaps rather less than last year. First
class hunters were in good demand at,high figures; but
prices of second class rate of animals had a downward
tendency, having been sold at from £lOO to £6O;
chargers, £BO to- ; untrained colts, £6O to L3O;
and horses for agricultural purposes, £3O and down-
wards. it9rseh for military purroses were not in
demand. .