The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-08 00:00:00

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH AT WLNDLE.

An unmarried female, named Jane Young, was charged
with concealing the birth of her child, under the following
eireninstances the 21st September, in the panel. et
Pocket.nook, near Windle, the feet of al child were qb,seTve4
on the top of the water. It was taken out, and a piece of
tape was found to be tied round the child's neck, to the end
of which was a bag containing stones. There was also a rag
over the child's mouth. The prisoner was perceived to be
'pregnant about that time, and it was supposed she had se-
cretly delivered herself.
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Mr, Stilox, for the prosecution, endeavoured to make a
connection between the prismier and the offence.
His Loitnsmi :considered that there was an insuperable
difficulty in bringing the connection to the prisoner.
A verdict of not guilty was returned.
BRUTAL ASAULT AT Mnicryv
Denis Dena and John 14 latterty were indicted for violently
assaulting John Colley. It appeared as the prosecutor, ac-
companied by a friend, was proceeding home to Mossley, a
village about three miles lion}Asliten7uncler;l4y-ne, 'they
went into a public-house called the " Heroes of Waterloo,'
to get some drink, and there met with the prisoners. The
prisonerDenee was quarrelling with a person about the militia,
and the prosecutor Colley interfered, and was most brutally
set upon and assaulted by the prisoners, Denee using a belt
and Flaherty n poker. The prosecutor was an 41.11, rernoyed
in a state of insensibility, l!tith several' severe" ants on his
head, one penetrating to the bone, and a broken arm.
WHEELER prosecuted.
His LORDSHIP remarked that it was one of the most
ntrocious assaults ever brought into a court of justice,
The jury after a short' eensultationi xetiirned a verdiet of
guilty of intent to do some grieVous bodily harm. His
lordship said, that as there were so many cases of that
serious character, Baron Alderson would sentence all ; and
he could tell them there would be a heavy punishment.
CHARGE OF MURDER.

Pi4,l4etA Cunit was charged with the murder of her
dauglater, .4.liee Hannah Outilifre, ht Rairelistall, neo'r Burn-
ley. 'The surgeon of the Kirkdale gaid, Mr. Chaloner, and
a surgeon from Rawenstall, considered she was in an unsound
state of mind.
His LORDSHIP said the unhappy person would be kept in
custod until her Majesty's pleasure shall be known.
In f e course of the day's proceedings, his lordship cora,
mente ilP(11 thelriSiiffleient arrangement for bringing pri-
soners froM Itirkdare gaol with dispatch, as were it other-
wise, the buSines of the court might have been closed to-day.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till nine o'clock this
morning.

Lynn is constituted a Port, and obtains all the privileges
attached to it.
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY. —There is a great in-
crease in hardware and cutlery as exported. The value of
such articles exported between January and November was
22,991,636.
ArrEmprEn SUICIDE.—On the afternoon of Saturday
last, two sisters and their mother quarrelled. when the poi*
wee called in; While the of was advising he
dispu-
tants to agree amongst themselves, ones of thefemales named
Catherine Sutherland or Wilson, who was very much the
worse of liquor at the time, seized upon a razor and in-
flicted a wound on her throat. She was about to inflict a
second wound, when the constable arrested her hand, and
I with some difficulty got the razor out of her grasp.—N. .8.
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