The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, N0v.27.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
ATTEMPTED CHILD MURDER.
Elizabeth Welton, 26, was charged with feloni-
ously casting a child, twelve months old, named.
Annie Welton, into the water, with intent to mur-
der her.
Me. Ribton and Mr. Oppenheint conducted the
prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Sleigh.
It appeared by the evidence of a woman, named
Jane Robinson, that on the 30th of October she
was looking out of the back window of her house in
Bacon-street, Bethnal-green, when she saw the pri-
soner and a young man in the back garden of an
adjoining house, and they appeared to be quarrel-
ling, and the man made use of most foul and dis-
gusting language to the prisoner. She had the
child in Tiestion, which was her own child, in her
arms at the time; and while the quarrel was pro-
ceeding she rushed to a water-butt that was in the
yard, and which was nearly full of water, and
threw the child into it. It struggled and got
its hands to the edge of the water-butt, and the
prisoner, according to the evidence, forced them
away and pressed the body of the child into the
water and then left the spot. The young
man who had been quarrelling with the pri-
soner immediately ran up to the water butt and
took the child out, and it appeared to be nearly ex-
hausted, but eventually recovered, and did not sus-
tain any materialinjury. It was stated in the course
of the inquiry that the man who was referred to
was the prisoner's stepson.
Some further evidence was then adduced, but none
of the witnesses were able to prove that the name
of the child was Annie Wilson, as stated in the in-
dictment. _ _

Mr. Sleigh, upon this, submitted that the indict-
ment was bad in point of form.
Mr. Justice Byles said that with such an objec-
tion as the one now taken, which was purely tech-
ideal, he should certainly give the widest latitude to
a statute which was passed expressly for the purpose
of preventing such objections prevailing to defeat
justice, and he should amend the indictment.
The learned Judge then summed up, and the Jury
after deliberating for a few minutes, found the pri-
soner not guilty.
Geo. Robert Kilsby, the late clerk at the West-
minster Bridewell, who was convicted on Wednes-
day of having, in an unfounded fit of jealousy, shot
at and wounded a person named Cook, with intent
to do him grievous bodily injury, was brought up
for judgment.
Mr. Justice Byles, in passing sentence upon the
prisoner, said he had carefully read& statement that
he had forwarded to him, and he felt the deepest
commiseration at his own position and that in which
his family had been placed, but he must protect the
public, and he was responsible to the law for the
sentences he pronounced. If the jury had convicted
him of the intention to murder the prosecutor he
should most certainly have sentenced him to penal
servitude for life. The jury had, however, convicted
him of a much less serious charge ; but the only
point that he saw at all to be regarded favourably
was, that it had not been made out that the pistol
was loaded with buck shot, as was originally sup-
posed, but with small shot only, trait were not cal-
culated to do so much mischief. The prosecutor was
however, very seriously injured, and the surgeon
stated that, although he was at present in tolerable
health, his condition was such that dangerous
symptoms might come on at any moment, and he
must inform him that, if this should be the case,
and he should die within a year and a day, he
would be liable to be tried for murder. He then
sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servi-
tude for five years.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bram well.)
MORE GARROTTE ROBBERIES.
Thomas Redshaw, 20, harness maker, James
Dixon, 20, clerk, and Charlotte Redshaw, 19, spin-
ster, were indicted for feloniously assaulting William
Beamish, and stealing from him part of a watch
chain and 6d. in money.
Mr. Daly conducted the prosecution ; Mr. F. H.
Lewis defended the prisoner Redshaw, and Mr.
Montagu Williams defended the female prisoner.
The prisoner, James Dixon, was undefended by
counsel.
The prosecutor in this case is a young man em-
ployed as a letter-Carrier at the General Post-office,
and was returning home along the City-road about
10 o'clock on the night of the 29th September last,
when he met the female prisoner, whom he had
known before, near the City Arms Tavern, and agreed
to go home with her. She made an excuse to go into
the tavern to get, as she said, the key and soon after
rejoined him,. and they proceeded togetherlbe-w atiilkl,tihnetyo
reached a retithrwehttedn7toahtn,ed
.known
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remained a few seconds in
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. with his woman,
and they immediately seized him by the throat,
while the female attempted to possess herself of his