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London, England, 1824-10-06 00:00:00

INFANTICIDE.

(From the Shevi,orne Mereary.l
It was noticed in our paper of Lsst week. that on Friday, the
17th inst. 4 female infant, supposed to have been strangled. cis
found in the church-yard or Irvine Intrinsic', in dere manta.
Early on the morning of the 17th the C ironer cornmenivd
Inquest; and as no suspicion whatever tall on any indtriiidi of
that small parleh,conjecture was tutted at a loss tin the payetrams
of thewpposed crime.
Mr. Teener, of Sherburne, and Mr. Shetland. of Yeovil.
surgeons, opened the body, the inelection of which full satisfied
them that the infant must hare been bore. alive. The fines c.-
peered perfectly healthy, arid dusted in water. The neck hod been
violently ontibzieseed by the strings of a dimity genie-oat, in maat, of
the which ems wrapped when found, and was the mutable
muse of the be ant% death. On removing the scalps leg quart-
tits dextransatsd blood appeared.
In the course of the investigation, several respectable persons de-
tesas to the apparent pregnagey of a young woman, named
raed lte, and of the sudden alteration in her appearance. She was
residing with her mother and her stepfather, at a cottage in Hera.
let, in the pariah of Yetniinater, wherein a young rran of the
name of Sansom resided as a lodger. It was recollected that
this young man paned throngli Itvme not unfrequently„ in his
way to Load-hridge, with the wacirou of bin employer, Mr. An.
brat., of Hamlet, to fetch rultn aid Cot la ; and that be did actually
pass that way the night on which the body was supposed to have
been deposited, was proved by a woman, a resident at Byrne, who
hearing a waggon stop at a 14:c neat her home 'imagined that
some persons were about to rob her pear-tree, which stands hear the
road. She called her son ; acd on going into the garden, they
ascertained that it was namely, with his master's waggon; an
overheard a conversation between hint and a boy respecting a hoe
which he was about to carry with him.
The Coroner issued his warrant, and the mother, daughter, and
Sanann, were apprehended. The examination of the yelling woe
man's person by the medical gentlemen added strength to the ex-
lilting suspicion, but the deposition of sr, intelligent Intl who went
with Sansom and the waggon to Load-bridge, proved to he very he.
portant, and amounted in substance to this:—That the waggon!driven hy him (Stumm riding in it) deported front the premises of
Mr. Andrews between ten and eleven on Friday nioht—that
it
passed by Kamen Farm, through Common-lane (a lane seldom
passed over by waggons) came to the back of Byrne village, era
stopped at a stile below the pound, Omni which a foot-path leads to
the church-yard, distant about ILO yards--that he (the boy) stood
at the near side of the team ; that hansom gut nut of the waggon!'
the off side, near the stile, taking something with him, and anvil
he was going to carry a box to Benjamin Harrefire-that be Iris ab-
sent about a quarter of an hour, and then returned to the waggon.
bringing nothing back--and that they then pursued their journey
to Load-bridge. On being shown the box in which the infant had
been enclosed, he identified i% very aidisfactorily—it was, liehnd,
a box that he had seen on the premises at Hamlet, ;n which a pigeon
had been kept, though now a little todueed in size, a small Pali
appearing to have been reeen•iy cut elf.
The Jury, late on Monday night, returned a verdict of—" Wil-
ful Murder against the daughter, her mother, and Sansone," 1r1:1
were committed, on the Coroner's RAMO t, to Dorchester gaol.

BIRTH.
On the lit instant, the lady of Mr. Sergeant Fare, Muter et
Downing College, of a daughter, at Downing Lodge, Catubridg:l.

MARRIED.
Oh Friday last, at Banbury, .Ibel Peyton. Esq. of Birming-
ham, to Elisabeth, youngest daughter tit Tituuthy Cobb, Esq.
of Banbury.
Oa the 40th ultimo, at St. Michael's Church. Bristol, Menials°
OrottaneW, Professor of Met:icine in the Imperial and Royal Uni-
versity of Siena, to Slaty Ann, daughter of the lets Umtata
Rowe, Epp .•

NEB.
On let"ndaY, at his Lordship's resiLlence, in 11i11-street,
countess Templetown.
tin Thursday, at an advanced age, Mr. Job Jeffery's, of Glass'
of astir
acesntliell'irtti°lorti the
,laintethlii7c.otinrt.yjolr ieFl':Lreesniteran.yldlyeahnia,
other charitable bequests, he has left 3001. 3 per cent consols, b
trust to the (imams and l'hurchwardens of the Vigil of St' 11"
chaers, Gloucester, the imeicst of which is to be I out is coals,
and distributed every Candlemas l)ay amongst thirty pone bon*
keepers of that parish, not receiving parochial relief.
On Monday last, at lior.iughbritl?e, nn her way to the lakes,
decline, in the Huth year of hic age. Sophia, the lady of S. S. ltyr:!-
Esq. of Searbormigh, and daughter of tile late Edward Lowe, la
of Lowiille, in the county of Galway, Ireland, anti randlaa;lco
of the late Admiral Kendall, of Se urbmuugh, having besz
only four days.
On the Yid ultimo, at Ilarrowqate, after an illness of twif
days, Majcr Henry Bishop, lit Provisior.al Battalion Militias I.fr
of the CHI Itegiment of Font.
On the 40th ultimo. at l)undre, Mr. beaky, teaches of &awl*
aged about ninety years. In the earlier part of his life he sass,.
opera-dancer at the London theatres, an travelled the contin(o4
and resided at different foreign Courts in that rapacity. Ilalw7'
formed on the same beards with Garrick. and danced a mintto:
thecelebrated Nancy Gawnin. 1^ the wart of Owe", the S-10:4
lie was married to a apart rof the oeletratad I>r. rod, of Lilt'
burgh, who en direly oen-led the " Colossus of Literature," I,''
Johnson, on his visit to the Scottish capital, by offering to pay tui,
a-crown for the sight of the " wild boo." Mr. Seeley maintsci
ed a most respeetable chara.:ter, sn i has lived in retirement duel,:
the last eight or ten years. H' was ranarlutblv neat and
his appearance ; and such woo nicety in Meta, that Its chsiT...
every article of his out-cif-doors apparel, iticluding his very sliw.•
immediately on entering the brine. Even his shoc-ties were wn
drawn, carefully evened, wraitind up in a piece of paper, and or!f
replaced when he had oc..asiou :a go out.

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