The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07 00:00:00

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perfumed Mir dressing milled The Madman Ed
Renewer," now being sold by most sml
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ordered to Itad two good INIMIIIII In MO, to keep the
pesos for three months.
STIILITIO MUTTON.—M•I7 Cole well Charefi with

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stealing some mutton on _. sth tint, the p;operty of men at 3a fid per bottle, is fast superseding all “ Psi,.
Benjamin Beckley, butcher, of Penanett. Prosecutor Restorers "—for it Ind! po#tiveig restore se map met
said that the prisoner came to his shop, and took two Grey or White hair to its original odour, by lir=
pieces of mutton off the shop board, and put it under cations, without dyeing it, or leaving the
her shawl. Before witness got into the shop prisoner smell of most " Restorers." It makes Me Mar *hens*
went away. Witness followed her into her sister's house, ingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth is held
and accused her of stealing the mutton. Prisoner denied spots, where the hair glandsare sot deeemid. Certilloste
it. The mutton was worth 21 3d. The case was not from Dr. Versmann on every bottls, with full penholder*.
pressed, and defendant was remanded for a week. Ask for " Tan Maness Haul Ragawss," prepared by
CHARGE UNDER THE FACTORY ACT.—Benjamin Levi, H. C. GALLUP, 493 Oxford-street, Loathes.
glass cutter, of Brettell Lane, was summoned for that Froanagn I For the Tin% and BIZATIL A haw
he did, on the 21st, employ a certain boy named Lifted &apt of the jd.ermes Moraine on • wet tooth bush pm.
Rider, to work after the hour of one o'clock. Mr. Addi- duces • delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth boss
son defended. Janice Alfred Jones, Inspector, said that all impurities, strengthens and hardens ate gums, pre.
on the above date he visited the defendant's [shop, and yenta tartar, and arrests the progress of beep. Is Male
found Alfred Rider at work. Alfred Rider was called, to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whams's, and In.
and said that he went to work at half .past six o'clock, parts • delightful Intonee to the breath. It ressetes ea
and worked until one o'clock. He afterwards worked in unpleasant odour arising from dowel Teaks dicer.
the afternoon. Had often worked in the afternoon in. dared stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Pregvarg
stead of going to school. When he worked the defend- Floriline is purely vegetable, and equally Martel to old
ant gave him a penny. Fined £2 and costa.—Edward and young. It is the greatest Toilet dieeovery of Yew.
Rider was then charged with neglecting to send his son Sold at is 6d by all Chemists and Perfamen. Prepared
Alfred Rider, to school three hours after the time of only by H. C. eard.ov, 493, Oxford-street, Leaders Ms
eight in the morning, and before six in the evening. The , word .. pioriiirw, ~ is a "Trade Mark."
defendant said that Mr. Levi promised him to send his
son to school. Fined Is and costa, and cautioned. ELECIIIO-GENZRATING ss. Minn', Bugs, RA —Re.
PROPERTY Saa.a.—A sale was held at the Golden Eagle, P.tilvermacher, ever anxious to diffuse ailpaist the all.
Brierley Hill. on Wednesday last, of properties situate lions the great boon of his Medico galvanic System, lisa
at Brockmoor, Brierley Hill, Penanett, Wordsley, and happily succeeded by his new mechanical prams of
attendance and spirited biddings for three of the princi. Belt, &c., of toll-•B.lliziinit 84108. Wag* Lamarrag the
Mourn Pleasant,plingswinford. There was an excellent manufacture in establishing • ss. Knotra-diffeems *.al,
pal lots, which realised the sum of £695. Mr. Hawkins greatest efficacy in the speedy rec.olligtooo Rheims-
waa the auctioneer, who conducted the sale, and Mr. rim, Gout, Sciatica, Lumbago., N *an
Homer, of Brierley Hill, was the solicitor to the ven- Plaint'', hai9,Bl", Spasm. 6ro.olP.llwarise SPUMY.
dors. Nervous Debility,l'unctional Disorders, , in. Mese
appliances combine cheapness with the almost ease, sad
- greater comfort of application by Wog geed is a day
THE ALLEGED CHILD MURDER AT state. Henceforth Patients of small mesas sad URNS&
constitution may advantageously wad 08 thg
KIN VER. truly marvellous efficacy of Galvanic Electriely as&
application, an efUsaSY unrivalled by any morn wilkuig.
Tease Bands, &c., are forwarded, poet free, as nesept el
post office order, or stamps, with fall partieslan, is ep..
ideation to J. L. PoLvmairsomin, 168, Baisal-ilsesk,
London, W.
: Sr THERE Ass ANE LADLics who have sot yet used the
GLIINVIELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to
I give it a Unit and carefully follow out the directions
printed on every package, and if this is dose. they will
' sitYlike the Queen's Laundress, it is the dean Stara
they ever used. When you ask for Gl.kiiirintv, Stamm
see that you get it, as inferior kinds axe Olga sabstitalidi
for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of apse.
iota imitations.

At the Staffordseire Assizes on Thursday, before Mr.
Justice Denman, Ann Edwards (2)), charwoman, was
indicted for the wilful murder of her infant female child,
on the 4th August, at the parish of Kinver. The Hon.
Evelyn Ashley conducsed the prosecution, and, by the
direction of the Judge, the prisoner wee defended by Mr.

Pigott.
The first witness called was Mrs. Sarah Fletcher, who
said that the accused was her niece, and was a single wo-
man. On the 4th of August she was living with witness !
as a domestic servant. having been in her employ three I
years. On the day named the prisoner °complained of !
being unwell, and shortly before five o'clock went out of !
the house without saying where she was going. Some
little time afterwards, hearing her own daughter calling,
she went to a closet in the garden, and there she saw a
child's foot protruding from the soil. Witness then
fetched a pair of tongs and removed the body, which,
with the head, was embedded in the refuse. She observed
several cuts upon the body of the child. As soon as she
had recovered from the shock of finding the child she
removed it to the house. Two hours afterwards she saw
the prisoner in the house, and noticed that her clothes
were soiled, and witness said to her, "Are you not sorry
for what you have done?" to which she replied, " Take it
away; I don't want it." Witness gave the child seine
nourishment before it died, which happened in about ten
hours after it was discovered. She sent for a neighbour
named Hughes soon after the affair happened.
By Mr. Pigott: She only made one attempt to raise
the child with the tonga. It was her neighbour who
wrapped up the child ins shawl. Did not notice any cut
except the one across the chest until after the doctor had
been She did not think the accused bad all her faculties,
and some people called her " Soft Ann." Prisoner could
never learn the Lord's Prayer; but was of a kind dispo-
sition.

several

By the Judge: The foot of the child was moving when
witness first saw it, and she thereupon knew that it was a
living child. Prisoner went to school when a girl, but
she was turned away because she made the other child.
ren laugh. She was always peaceable about the house,
but was unable to speak or express herself in a proper .
manner. A spade was kept outside the closet which was
used for cleansing purposes.
Evidence was then given of the death of the daughter
of the last witness to account for her non-appearance in
support of the prosecution.
Mr. B. Ilollingworth, assistant clerk to the Magistrates
at Stourbridge, who had taken the depositions of the
deceased, next gave evidence, and the depositions were
put in and read. From them it appeared that the de.
ceased had seen the prisoner in the closet on the day
named. and observing the blood upon the floor she asked
her where it came from, and the prisoner said that it came
from her stomach. There was also blood on the seat,

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and the accused was in the to,t of pulling a spade from
the boil in the closet. She then called her mother.
Margaret Hughes said she was sent for by the first wit.
ClOss on the 4th August. She went into the garden, and
there saw a child on the ground. It was very dirty, and
had several wounds on the body. She picked it up, and,
having wrapped it in a cloth, she took it into the house
and gave it some warm milk, Afterwards she found the
spade near the closet. When she saw the prisoner at
Mts. Fletcher's, she appeared to be quite unconcerned.
Subsequently she saw the accused in bed, and noticing
that her hands were very dirty,;witness said, "Ann, those
nmghty hands have done murder ;" on which she replied,
" Don't bother."

Cross-examined : When she said, "Those naughty
hands have committed murder,' the child was still alive.
Others made the same remark, but witness could not ex-
plain why.
By the Judge: Had known prisoner six or seven years.
Children called her .• Soft Annie," and she was different
from other people in her ways.
Mr. Thomas floboake, surgeon, said that on the day
named he was called into Mrs. Fletcher's at about eight
o'clock. He then saws child, which had apparently been
b,rn only a few hours. It was, seven months' child.
There were four incised wounds on the right side of the
head and several other contused wounds in various parts
of the body, the most serious one being behind the ear.
He was of opinion that the injuries had been caused by
some instrument both blunt and sharp. He ordered the
child to have nourishment, and Galled the next day, when
he found that the child was dead. He saw Ann Edwards,
the accused, and she admitted that the child was hers.
Cross-examined: He had no idea that any of the in.
fant's bones were broken until the post ',torten examina-
tion took place. The bone of the skulll was pressed to-
wards the brain. They might take it that the death of
the child could have been caused by that depression, but
he did not think the child would have died without the
immersion of the body in the soil of the closet.

.—iiter other evidence had been given,
Mr. Pigott addressed the Jury for the prisoner, after
whinh, .

The Judge summed up. He said this was • ease of
some nicety, because from the evidence given Ulm pos-
sible that the Jury might find the prisoner guilty of wil-
ful murder, or they might acquit her on the ground of
insanity, so that it would require a great deal of care in
dealing with it. He then pointed out that it would not
be competent for the Jury to find a verdict of conceal-
men of birth only, inasmuch as the law only provided
for such a verdict being returned in this sort of • case
when the child was dead when found. In the present
ease the child was clearly born alive, and lived after its
discovery. The question would be whether the prisoner
was to be found guilty of murder, acquitted, or acquitted
on the ground of insanity. The case was one of rare
character, and in his own experience he had never met
with one like it. Certain facts were beyond dispute, such
as that the child was born alive, that it did not die from
• fall on the piece of rock, but from the use of some wea-
pon. He then pointed out to the Jury such grounds as
in the eye of the 12w would warrant them in returning •
verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity. Such •
verdict could only be given when it was proved that,
though the prisoner did the act with which she was
charged wilfully, the offender, at the time the act was
committed, was in such a state of mind as precluded the
possibility of distinguishing the nature of the offence
she was committing. In the course of his address, the
learned Judge referred to the fact that the surgeon who
had first seen the child, and the condition of the closet,
had not be n called by the prosecution, and said it was a
most scandalous thing that the surgeon who was first
there was not present to give evidence. He repeated, it
was a scandalous outrage on the administration of justice
that that person was not tnere, and whoever ought to take
the blame had not done his duty. Justice had been over
and over again defeated through the sinister motives of
some persons, either from a want of • love of truth, or
from some other motive. If ever such things occurred
again, and he could find out who was to bison., that per-
son would suffer. His Lordship, having concluded his

address _ _,
The Jury, after a short deliberation, tetanied a verdict
of acquittal on the ground of the prisoner's insanity.

Notices of Births, Marrieds., and Deaths, when properly
authenticated, will be inserted in the " Observer," free of
charge.

DIED.
81X1111.—On the SOth alt, aged i, Elisabeth Yapese.
second daughter of Hems Simms, Musical Professor,
of Stourbridge.

" A Voir TO Errs's Cocoe MANCIACTORT.-Inrongh
the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had an oppor-
tunity of seeing the many complicated and varied pro.
ceases the Cacao bean passes through ere it is mold for
public use, and, being both interested and highly pleased
with what I saw during my visit to the manufactory, I
thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way It is
manufactured by Messrs. Epps, to flt it for a wholesome
and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the
readers of " Lend and 'Water.' "—See Article in" Land
and Water," October 14.

COOOI.—GRAYNOWI. AND CON-
FORTING.—" By • tnorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations of digestion and nu-
trition, and by a careful application of the fine properties
of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our break.
fast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which
may save us irsny heavy doctors' bills."— &rcite
Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Each
packet is labelled—" huts Errs & Co., Homeopathic
Chemists, London." Also, makers of Epps's Caesoine,
• thin, refreshing beverage for evening use.
MANVIACTORI Or COCOA, CACAOINN, AND CNOCOLATN,
—" We will now give an account of the process adopted
by Meurs. James Epps & Co., manufacturers of dietetic
articles, at their works in the Eastonroad, London."—
See Article in Part 19 of Cassell's HouseAold Guide.
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