Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

ATTE)IP FED MURDER OF AN INFANT.

On Tuesday, Bridget Kavanagh, a milk-carrier, residing
at No. 32, Fitzroy-market, was brought before Mr. Beadon,
at Marlborough-street P lice-court, charged with attempt-
ing to murder her infant child, by administering to it
some kind of narcotic p ison. Mr. William Boyd Blushed,
surgeon, University Hospital, deposed that yesterday
afternoon, about three o'clock, the prisoner at the bar was
brought to him at the h,npital with a child in her arms, by
a man. Mr. 13,2ai0n : What was the age of the child?
Mr. Mushed : About fur or five month ' old Mr.
Beadon : In what state was the child? Mr. Blushed :
The child appeared to be suffering from some narcotic
poison. Mr. Beaton : Had you any conversation with the
prisoner? Mr. Blushed : Yes, I asked her the particulars,
to sae if I eauld gather anything from her as to the symp-
toms, but she gave me no answer. The man who was
with her gave me the bottle produced, which smelt very
strongly or laudanum. The prisoner then said she
had purchased a pennyworth of ainseed at a public house.
in Tottenham-court-road, which she had given to the child..
I then directed the child to be removed to one of the wards,.
and the usual remedies were at once applied to restore-
animation, but with very little success, as the child was
just alive, and that was ail. Mr. Beadon : What were
the symptoms ? Mr. alushed : The symptoms were com-
patible with these of a child poisoned by opium, or some
narcotic poison. The pupils of the eyes were ck ntraetecl,
and the features pale and emaciated. The child was of so
tender an ago that it was impossible for it to recover. The
child was no doubt dead by this tiato John Maynard,
No. 31, Fitzroy-market,-said : Yesterday afternoon I was
in my a orkshop, when I heard the noise of a woman
crying proceed from No. 32. I wont to the spot, but
seeing the doors and, windows closed I returned to my
shop. In about five minutes afterwards I saw my next
door neighbour go into the house, and I heard her say
o" Shut the child's mouth." I went into the house and saw
the child lying on the chair. Prisoner was there. I asked
her what was the mater with the child, and told her it
appeared to be dying, and recommended her to take it to
the hospital. I then took up the child and carried it as
far as the hospital, followed by the prisoner, to whom, on
her arrival, I gave it up. The bottle produced was given
tome by a parson named Ward as I was returning from
the hospital, and I gave it to the surgeon. Jane Hart
said : I live with the prisoner, at No 32, Fitzroyamarket.
and slept in the same room with her and the baby. The
latter was in good health up to Sunday last, when it
was taken unwell, so that food wculd not stay on its
stomach. The prisoner gave it something out of a tea-
cup, which it immediately threw up. I advised her to give
it the breast. She refused to do- so, and seemed much
troubled in consequence of having to nurse it. On
Sunday nigh', prisoner went out, and on her return
brought in something in the bottle produced, which she
administered to the child. The prisoner had previously
aske me what could be gat at a doctor's to sleep a child.
I told her I did not know. The prisoner subsequently
gave something to the child which was ejected frcm its
stomach. The prisoner then placed her hand over the
infant's mouth and wished it was deal. The child all at
once became livid ; its eyes fixed, and to all appearance
dead. She refused to take it to a doctor. Mr. Maynard
then came in and took the child himself to the hospital.
The bottle produced is the same she caw given to the
surgeon by Mrs. Ward. This being all the evidence, the
prisoner was remanded.

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