The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-14 00:00:00

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niTRAORDINARY'ATTEMPT TO MURDER
A CHILD BY BURYING IT ALIVE.

At the County Magistrates Court yesterday (before
/flessrs. Wm. Rathbone and Thcs. Brocklebank), a case
Tag heard which divulged a most singular and extra-
rdinary attempt to murder a child, by its mother
btarying it alive. The mother of the child is named
kun Murphy, and up to the 11th of this mouth she was
ft inmate of the West Derby Workhouse, where the
.0 bild was born on the 31st of May. On Monday last
$ he discharged herself from the Workhouse, taking the
I dant with her. On the evening of the following day,
Mr. Thomas Harris, a gardener in the service of
evemiah Chaffers, Esq., was proceeding along Anfield
toad, Cabbage-hall, he heard cries, apparently those of a
kild buried beneath the ground. -Upon searching in '
tl ke direction from which the cries appeared to proceed,

k e discovered beneath some earth and sods in an

Ljoining shrubbery a little girl about a week old,
• tked, and nearly dead from suffocation. He imme-
cli ately gave information to the police, and in company
• ith James Money, police•constable 579, took the child
to the West Derby Workhouse, where it was identified
by' some of the inmates as being the daughter of Ann
M tqphy, the pauper who left the house on Monday.
stl le officer went to the residence of Ann Murphy in
ti ?per Beau-street, Liverpool, and on seeing her asked
for • tile- child. The woman replied that she had sent
it t p Glasgow. She was then, after being cautioned,
eht trgtd by Mr. Gough with concealing and exposing
het: child with intent to murder it. The prisoner
let ated very much surprised at this, but after several
itradictory statements admitted that she had left the
ehi ad in the place named. She afterwards said, " I
'do' et believe it would have died because I bad not bap-
sd it." At the hearing of the case yesterday Mr.
zgh, the governor of the Workhouse, was first called.
•said—" This woman, Anne Murphy, was admitted
into -the West Derby Workhouse on the 12th of May
last. On the 31st of that month she was delivered of a
fermi', child, which was christened Susan. The child
Was a very peculiar looking one ; I don't recollect ever
Seeing one like it before : it had two teeth marks. On
Monday last the prisoner and her child left the Work-
house, :and on_the following day police-officer 579 and
Mr. Thomas Harris brought the child to the Work-
house, saying they had found it buried beneath some
'sods Anfield-road. I admitted the child, and soon
Merits stamission some of the paupers recognised it as
the one which was born on Monday. I also saw the
teeth marks and identified the child. The officer and
Myself proceeded to the residence of Ann Murphy, in
*Upper Beau-street, and upon. telling her with what she
Was charged she *said, " I don't think it Would have
'died, because it had not been baptised." The officer
took her into custody. •
James Money was then called. He said, I received
information at 8-30 last night that a child had been
'found beneath some sods in Anfield Road. From
information gathered froMthe books of the workhouse
Gough and myself went to Beau-street and saw the
IPrisauer. I cautioned her before she said anything and
%he admitted leaving a child there, but said it would
sot die because it wasn't baptised. I then took her
into custody.
As Mr. Harris who found the child could not give
'evidence yesterday the case was remanded until he can
appear.
The child is still suffering from the effects of its
Irutal treatment, and its recovery is extremely doubtful.
lariat praise is due to Mr. Gough and to Mr. J. Money
for -their exertions in the discovery of the woman ; but
fee them she would probably have escaped.