The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-30 00:00:00

SHOCKING INHUMANITY TO A CHILD MT

!TS PATlllit.

Yaiterday, at the Dewsbury petty anaions, the
beech win gamed in investigating • charge of shocking bill.
tality to a child by its father. The child, a girl not Mx years
of age, was brought into court by its mother, and it wee
inset to ail that it had se/wed from gross ilhmege for a
agga of time. Tho right arm sad left thigh were
is einempteece of their sot baring be set alb=
brobsa by We Uglier. brutal treatment some time age. Its
face was lined up with hove skithosed the appanage of
the little sufferer was that of a child met throe years old, it
bolas much Masted in growth. The father, Alfred 81t0P101,
labourer of Roberttown, near Dewsbury, was charged with
brutally kickieg it on the face on /Saturday, the pith inst.,
whereby he had-mowed a wooed which had entirely pene-
trated the kft cheek. The evidence showed that ghepley
went home on the afternoon of the day abovetiamed, in a
state of partial iatimication mad sane( the liMle girl play.
the floor of We hitches, deliberately kicked it oo the
fore with his iron-shoal boot. Tba mother, who was la the
basis at the time, hastened to the child, and having
rewind it from her huslased enleaveured to stench the
Mail which gonad copiously from the wound, but being
*Wile to do en, she took it to Use house of Mr. Thomas
lerawaheld. _ _

Mr. Drassgeld deputed that the child, who was the
illegitimate daughter of the prisoner, was brought to him
no Saturday erelong by it. mother. He found its left
cheek eutinsly cut thrmezh, the wound twin rather
ewer two 'lichee in length. Ho applied the proper drew
iega The child Ito knew had been pvisidy all.treatel since
its birth. lon examining its body, he ("nod that both its
right arm sal kit thigh had bees broke., and that they
hid eerier received eirprul stteetioa. The clothes et the
add when A we. brought to him were quite .tiff with
ihriak

Poklepeergaust Stevens said the child was the offspring
of the primmer ...l hi. wife, but it bad been been
helm their marriage. The prisoaer bail often ill-
treated it, end lad roused the Injuries not only to Disarm
sad WO. butto it. cheek, though the former bad been doss
same tame suers. The child did not weigh more than M\
There was pm of to *bow, if nemeserv, the; it had been
MOO Inogisolsori bybit. mother also. no little girl's
mother, Wee behaved in a very dippant end nafeeliog
moms Is snot. was severely censured by the beech ; and
her husband. the primmer. who pleaded guilty to the 'shams
all& &gaud wee sorniaitted to the N'altedleid boom
ef oerrectioo for air calendar months with hard labour.
and ordered et tb.., expiration of that term to find onnotion
Inc hie good behaviour for another six maths. —/fonalimiter
r.

DPITILDIAING Sr —information Of the aticide
at James Massa, miles to Lent Ashburton, of Halh•honer.
Piccadilly. bee been fornanled to 3k. Learshars. &Mil-
ometer fur Weeteliseter. Ost Friday sight lest, at about a
quarterlies& elem., a letter was beaded to the deceased,
.bib he raid by the xmliebt is the lan, and immediately
cashed up-stairs is • very excited stags The funneling
raring, aa be did sot come duns st the awed hour, the
hoewheid became alarmed, asd his Iklelf was broken open,
sal be wee found hanging by his UGH to the bed-post. He
4„.„.. but lit. ea. pine 'staid. Deceased had bens
with LORI Ashburton for nearly twesty•livis years. per-
s..., to which be was is the service of the kW Duke of
ktitiford

A 211111D/LR !PM 11,1,01)VCRIID.-011! leadelll (says
the Nvew.r krpir..o were lately asiqnsinted with the rri•
rusrtshle fad that a skull, besuiog anapioiono lurks about
LI bees discovered at Aldershot, and that people in.
hir..l that a foul murder was eonimitted there army years
4, This isferettee Appeared well founded, for • ear.
I'M is mid to have declared that the skull must
" leen buried for 12 or 14 years at least. It now
'rUS 041, however, that the doctor was quite at fault, aa
a•t, sle. those Pero.... who connected some dreadful Mum
mth dismvery. The former possessor of the skull fell
Loirol ti4lit in the *rimea, and • British soldier brought
it to this country ass trophy. His spouse, however.
4.terlol to the grim ornansest, which wag therefor c°ll.
*weed to the earth, where the workmen noently found it.
hope the doctor will be more cautious is future how
in statures as opinion upon the antiquity of human remains.
7.4' Polite look the matter is bud, me we stated before,
blvi thaUPt which is here mooed*" is the result of their
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