The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

SHOCKING DEATH 01 A CHILD.

Last evening Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, resumed and ooscleda at she Commercial Tavern,
Commerciel.street, Spitalfields, es ingstigation into the
circumstance, of the alleged murder of a
child named Joseph
Stack, eged 19 days. The parasite of the damaged were
Edward Stack, • shoemaker' and his wife, Ann Stack, who
resided in • room in a wretched and filthy tenement, at
No. 6, Little Pearl-street, Christ Church, Spitalfielde.
The child was neglected from its birth ; one witness
said that he used to Duties its cry becoming weaker and
mere pitiful day by day ; but no one dared interfere with the
pares* who were drunken and abusive chanicters. On the
previous Monday morning early they west out, telling the
other lodgers that the child was dead. They went about
the neighbourhood drinking. Ia • few hours the father
returned to the room. His eldest son, a miserable looking
boy, deposed that the child cried while his father was
present, but that before he gain left he covered up the
child completely with the bed clothes, and told the boy
that if be took them off, or let any one else do so, be would
mode, him. Towards evening the poor boy ventured to
call • little girl oat of the street, and she let down the bed
clothes end foiled the child still alive beneath them. She
told her father, Patrick Raleigh, who, with great prompti•
tude, called in the police and a surgeon. The door had in
the meantime been locked by the boy, is obedience to his
mother, and the polio§ had to fore* it open. nuttyd wea
(media articulo mortis, and it died in • few m. Wbeo
men by the jury it was literally lathing but skin and boos
Sergeant Gee, H 14, said that he apprehended both permits
oThursday sight. Sleek said; •' It is all through my
wife that lam is this position." He bad a child three
years old in his arms at the time. It was sadly emaciated.
Whoa the pollee were taking it to send it to the workhouse,
the father said, " Let It die if it likes. What is it to as?
What do we care?" They weighed that child, and toned
that Its weight was only 161 b. It can hardly live. Mr.
Allauson, surgeon, said that since the adjournment be had
examined the breasts of the mother. She bad milk, sod
there was nothing to have prevented her suckling the child.
The child may weighed Site.—leser then half the weight of
• new-born child There was no trice of milk or
food in the child's system. Death resulted from want
of food. but was sooderated by the manner in which It bad
been covered up and deprived of air on the Mooday. It
should be stated that the food given to the deceased by his
mother was cake steeped in water, sad • very little milk,
left after the family tea and breakfast The jar', after
long deliberation' returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
ns agait Edward Steak and his wife, Ann Steck, for filo-
measly, wilfully, and of maliee alorethooght, killing awl
mnrderiog Joseph Stack, their haul son, the woman, Aws
Steck, by wilful neglect end by depriving the said idast
child of n food ; and the man, Edward Stack, by
depriving the childof neesmary air." The jury added
that they had viewed the state of the premises at No. 6,
Little Pearl.etreet, with disgust. sad they requested that the
°ironer should aammonatate with the perish authorities,
and urge that they should put the house end neighbouring
honer in a state 6t for hawse habitation. Sergeant Gee said
that the inspector of Delmore bed takes steps in the mat-
ter. The premises belonged to Mr. Henry 'Waring.

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by thy dean of Mr. Fox. the howl alert. The work is lb*
I &mimes of the Master of the Bolls has foe soar tine bon
easy heavy.