The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBLE 18, 1868.

character. It appeared that the prisms was a desesslie
ennui is the piemesitesi et a penes Deer
bvhiff norekt, B• 111•04117.
to be na the fasaily-way, as& es the 11th ear
mistress Mk her is a tab to the Islingtoa Ws*-
boars to lie eardlsed, and bell es, hoer after her ad-
=Mos lb, woe delivered of a male child. On the tad
Nonsibm she was auleisstly recovered to leave, and in
the evesmt of that day she elated that she wee going to
take the chid net to thecountry to mese. (la the follow-
embrit she caned twos Mrs, Deer, Gnat eke lad
takes it Abbas Wise oat ePlown by t Mister&
Railway. Ito as., asemed I. have taken plea, sad
she relonsed to her estpiermst in Mrs. Deer's holm
Os the morning of the 4th November, however,
while a labourer was werikkg on the Roniford-road,
at the mat end of Stratford, he discovered the deed body
of • child, three or four weeks old, lJlng in • ditch. Part
of its bedgnwn appeared to have bemi forced down its
throat, and according to the medical testimony death was
caused by.auffocat ion. Some of the of on the body
was subsequently identified as that which bees sup-
plied to the prisoner by Mts. Deer during her mane-
went. The matter was placed in the hands of the
police, and on the 28th of November Inspector Odell.
of the Y division, called upon Mrs. Deer and
raw the prisoner, and she they stated that the
father of the child, a young man named William
Brett, told her when she tenths workhouse to walk about
all night and the child Would die of the cold, but to be
sure not to lay it down till it was dead. She added that
she took the train to Stratford at 8 o'clock in the morn-
ing. and laid the chill down on a door-step, but had done
nothing to it. The inspector then took her into custody.
Byutt was called as a witness for the prosecution, and
stated that he lodged at 7, Museum-street, Oxford-street,
and was a machinist. On the day that the prisoner left
the workhouse, she called at his lodgings with the child
and sal it was his, which be denied. She then said she
was going to take it out to nurse. Shortly afterwards he
went out with her to find • bed for her, borrowing half-a-
crown for that purpose. They went to • public-house in
the Caledonian-toad, and had a pint of ale. From that
place he sent her to • coffee-house on the opposite side of
the street to and a bed, but she did not succeed, and
when she returned he gave her the balance of the 2s. 6d.
and left her. Next evening, about 7 o'clock, she called
upon him and said she had taken the child 16 miles oat in
the country to nune.
In cross-examination be stated that he had been inti-
mate with the prisoner at Bury. Three years ago he
came to London, and some time afterwards the prisoner
followed him, and for six months was a servant in the
house where he lodged.
Several of the witnesses deposed to the fact that the
prisoner was very fond of the child, and her mistress gave
her an excellent character as a servant.

In reply to Mr. Cooper, it was elicited from the medical
gentleman who made the post mortem examination that
he had known • case where • child bad been suffocated by
sucking in part of its nightcap which had slipped over its
face. In the present come, however, be did not think the
bedgown had been sucked in by the child.
Mr. Cooper made • pathetic address to the jury, and
contended that there was no proof to show that the
prisoner had caused the death of the child.
The learned jndge having summed up, the jury re-
turned a verdict of Nof
A second indictment was preferred against the prisoner
for deserting the child and leaving it without proper
clothing or sustenance, but as no evidence was offer's' she
was likewise -Acquitted on this charge.
Liam Watson, who bad been guilty of doing grievous
bodily harm to her infant child by placing eoals over it,
was brought up to receive judgment, and sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment.

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