The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH

OF THREE CHILDREN.

An extraordinary sensation was created in Pall Mall
and the locality on Sa urday, in ro-sequence of the death
of three children, named Ellen D iv's, four years of age,
Thomas Wallace aged three, and William Wallace aged
one year, A report got abroad that there was foul play
in the case, but this remains to be ascertained. The case
ia, however, one of mystery at present, but as a searching
investigation will take place, no doubt, it will be
properly solved. The sight presented by the dead bodies
of the little creatures, which lay in a roam up stairs in
house at the entrance to No 8 Court, Pall Mall, was
extraordinary, but wi bout agctnnting any deßeriptielb
we proceed to give the following facts. The hoof"
where the dead bodies of the children lie, is occupied 10
a small shop by an old woman, named Mary Giblin,
who is grandmother of all t'e children —the mother of
the child Davis an•l also of the Wallaces being daughter'
of this woman Giblin. It appears that the mother of
the child Davis lett h'r husband some four years nem
and has been living with a man named Nugent sine"
that time—the( hild residing with its grandmother. The
children Wa,tace also resided with their grandmother;
their father being a roper, but it is not stated whether
he lives with his wife. It appears that when a report
of the case of the death of the three children was made
to Mr. Blake, the cer.)ner's beadle, he made certain le'
quiries n Ilia were not satisfactorily answered, and it
b-came evident that a strict investigation mu,t
A ccord in g y, the coroner summoned a respectable jai*
which met on Saturday to bola
THE INQUEST.

The jury having viewed the bodies, the following st°,
the material facts elicited. The only witness examines
was the old woman, Giblin, and from her statement it
appeared that the three children lived with her. OS,
Tuesday morning the girl, Ellen Davis, took ill, and
complained of sore throat. She continued in a sort 0'
stupor, at intervals, and slept chiefly all the time up t°
Thursday night, when she died. 'he took several drink'
of tea and water, but her stomach did not retain age
The symptoms of the children Wallace were nearly the
same ; one took ill the day alter Christmas day, and
died on Thursday night, and the other was ill only fo°
Thursday morning to that honr the same night;
when it died The witness said that one °'
the children had some medicine from a drat
ship ; it was a powd r and something i°
a bottle. She said another (the young child Wallace)
was brought to a.doctor by its mother, but no doctor Irsi,
called into the house to see the children. the Come'
said, at this portion of the proceedings it would he
impossible to proceed further that day. He had see)
many sights of an appalling description, during 111
twenty-one years in the oflic, of coroner, but he net
hal seen a ino-e shoeking sight than that presented wi
the three children, whose bodies they had viewed. The;
was no chance of their finishing that extraordinary st.
mysterious case that day. The bodies of the childrt
must be opened, and if anything wrong was done, they
was no doubt it would he disc!overed. The invest ~'
then adjourned till half-past one o'clock this day.