The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-27 00:00:00

IIiTIMIS OPA MILD AND SUIOIDS OP THE
MOTHER.

Testsiday an inquisition before the county coroner
Le this district (Kr. W. S. Butter) dircloeod the puticulsre
el the murder of a child by its mother, end then her own

self-destructioo, under circumstances of • melancholy cha-
racter. The sad event took place In the small village of
aollyburst, fa the township of Palldngtca, between Whitt/-
Yid end itaidUie, about az WWI north-west of Manche/-
Mr. TM deceased, Sarah Kay, aged tweety.two year., livid
with her Intabeed, Samosa Kay, in one of a row of four ar
live mess cottages. Sloe had been previously married to a
men named Smith, • Memos, who went to the Salt Lake
Valley, end died then. After his death, and about eighteen
mouths ago, she was married to Kay, • young man, who tea
power-loom tackler, and both he and the deceased worked
id the cotton factory of Mr. Buckley, about fire minutes
walk from the cottage. She had • little girl (by her former
husband) named Mary Alice Smith, • little under fire years
of age, and both appear to have been food of the child,
which lived with them,and went to school while ten labouM
at the mill. Three weeks ago on Sunday the husband was
away from home until ten o'clock at night, and some report
we otticiouely spread, which re whed the w.fe the following
day, to the elect that her lumbered had best Improperly iu
the company of her cousin. This led to • quarrel between
hie wile and himself. he deoying that thereweethe least truth
le the revert.. The deceased appears to have beret a mash
awe disposition, and was not Waded with her husbands
eaplansaioe. The otrurreece preyed upon her mind, and,
unfortucately, on Monday lest, at noire, the unpleasantness
was revived. Ail they were leaving the factory for dinner,
they mot • woman who complained of the deceased having
spoken disrespectfully of the person alluded to. No sooner
had they entered the cottage than the decemed begat to
'screech her husband with sot having kept at home on the
Sunday referred to. Angry words ensued, sod the quarrel
w Meld by a next dour neighbour (Mee. Butterworth),
bet ell she meld distinguish was the hosbeM wiper, " Get
thy dinner, sad go to thy work." The deceased, from her
vote, appeared to be much exasperated. The dinner, pec-
an-nay cooked, had been placed in the oven to warm, and be
rapidly partotek of what he &me, than retarnet the remaitder
to the oven for his wife and child, and went to the mill
aloes. The deceased remained in the home nearly half ea
hour, daring which she appears to have determined upon the
bread traecly of sacrificing her own life and that of bac
child. The pier little creature was innocently rather.
leg flowers in an adjoieing Sold with another girl be
to Mrs. Devoeport, • neighbour. The dressed askadmitisr.
Davenport where the children were, and in tallies her, Mrs.
nevoopoit soured that aid war agitates, that her face was
flushed, and that she spoke in • short end hurried manner.
Having returned with the childien, the unhappy woman
gent her own child to Mrs. Butterworth's to borrow • razor.
Hearing the direction given to the child, and having owe
before lent the ineirnment to the deceased for the per.
pose of cutting her c TDB, Mrs. Butterworth gave the little
unniniec/Ing victim what roved to be the Instrument
of it. own and its mother's deetripctka. The little girl
followed her mother into the house with the reser
and the door was closed and locked. The cotter;
has two bedrooms, one of them very small, and to this the
frenz,ed mother took the child, and perpetrated the fearful
deed. The bodies lay side by side, within half • yard of
each other, the mother's face being towards that of the
child, and their blood conoteg:ing in one pool between
them, in which l.y the open rater. The frightful gash In
the throat of each showed the excited energy with which
the weapon hal been use I; and there con be little doubt,
from the position of the holies. and the blood not being
apurb d in any dinctioa, that both were in • 'darn( posture
up in the fl Kir when the mother despatched the child (which
was to the left aide of her). and then, se It fell backward,
repeating the fatal stroke upon herself, let drop the rwor
between them.

Nothing wee known of what had ocean, d. even by the
immediate neighbours, who supposed Shot, notwithsta=
the quarrel, he decease I had gone to her work as
Shortly afar ma o'clock the husband came home, and
keg the door hat, knocked loudly. Mrs. Butterworth teld
him that his wife had nut come from the factory yet. Be
replied that she had not been there since noon. A fearful
thought immediately dashed upon her mind, and she es-
claimed—. Oh, deer ! the chili fetched a razor from ens."
The husband anticipated the dread remit. A neighbour,
HIM:,
_Hayea, primer. d a ladder, and on looking through
the bAro-.m window, announced that both moth r and
daughter were lying dead. Shortly afterwards another
mart John lloward, got through the window, and going
dowlitaire anlockel the door, and a surgeon went upstairs
and raw the bodies, which were then cold.
• Tbo isqueat was held at the Bay Bone, Chapelleld, yes-
terday afternoon, when the facts above narrated were
adduced in evidence. The husband, wo regret to state,
solaced even leas concern in the matter than any of the
wftsemis. He admitted that jraloney on the pert of his
tub bed led to whet had happened, bet averred that there
was no griumd for it. Ile raid that if ever a quarrel oc-
curred she originated it, that bar temper was irritable ;
that nine mouths ago, after IMO words with her brother,
she went to a lodge of water with the httentke (as she otter-
wards etoted) of drowoieg leenelt, but wee prevonted by
teriog a man sitting %Tel the batik.
The jury, after a brief deliborstion, returned a wadi* on-
e.rniag the death of the child of " Wilful murder," thy being
the offence f e whiedo the mother would bare been tried had
the teen lir*. The v edict upon the mother war "De-
stroyed hermit whil.t labouring under temporary inaseity ;"
sad the jury espitemet their reprobation of the c mdoce of the
plums who bed "reed the soendalou. report by which the
poor woman had keen darzered.—Yeerheaer lizasnimer.

Tnt LINRICK ELICTION RIOT.—VERDICT 07
Matest.atmarsa.—At Liewrick, on Wedcesday, the Mooed
which hos ben Mr mem Ham giving on the bodies of the
men killed at the riel darns the late election for thee city
as. brought to a ooedada. The jury returned a rordict
of saseelmsbiter noised Meant U. Bell, 8.M., and 26
plumes who weapon! the Isis party.

ORTIVILL PALA SHILLING Div....
TM t ItIDAT, MAT 26 --Ada:dream Olk parenill, 3,964;
assom Ilisto. 603. Tn4A .44itms. 4 467.

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SHARE L 182.1-7.111.7 DA}.

TWO o'CWOZ.
The railway share market to-day is again
my firm, and although the best prices of lei
the morning have scarcely been supported up
.to
the present hour, several of the leading stocks, in- We
chiding Midland, South Eastern, and Caledonian,
are quoted / to lj per cent. better than Con
at four o'clock yesterday. Great Northern k
stock is in demand, and has risen to 991 to 1001.
London and North Western stook s now 1 i
noted
s 871 to 88; Great Western, 621 to
; Midland, 96 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Ito 88; Cakdontan, 761 to 1; South Eastern, ice
181 to 19 per share; Berwick, 841 to 861 ; York and
North Midland, 691 to j ; North British, 611 to too
62; Eastern Counties, 63 to 1; and London and ro
South Western, 87 to 88.
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Lombardo-Venetiaa Railway shares are rather flat,
the old being quoted 21 to 21 dia., and the New IS
3} to 21 die. Grand Trunk of Canada stock has res
again advanced. East Indian Railway stock con- jr
tipper in fair demand. There are more enquiries iss
for Pernambuco Railway shares. tee
tee
TEN MINUTES PAST Two.
Within the last quarter of an hoar the market for 10)
British railway stocks has become slightly weaker, u
in sympathy with the reaction in Consols. fD
ORDIVAIT MARIS AND cram.
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