The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-19 00:00:00

MURDER OF AN INFANT.

Yesterday Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, and
a jury held a lengthened inquiry at the Park Tavern,
Merton-road, Wandsworth, on the body of a newly-
born male infant.

Mr. Otto Goldschmidt stated that he resided at
Argyll Lodge, Wandsworth-common. On Monday
morning, in consequence of a communication from
his wife, he accompanied her to a servant's bed-
room, where he found his kitehenmaid Susan lying
in bed ill. He told her that he had sent for a doc-
tor, notwithstanding that she had declined to have
any medical assistance. He accused her with having
given birth to a child, and she afterwards admitted
that she had, and that it cried. She pointed to a
box in the room, and offered him a bunch of keys
to open it. He refused to unlock the box, and re-
quested her to give him the key. She took the key
off the bunch and handed it to him, and he removed
the box to his study. On the arrival of Dr. Willis
the box was opened, and the dead body of a male
infant was found inside, wrapped in an article of
dress.
Eliza Emma Chapman said she was housemaid
in Mr. Goldschmidt's service. There were eight
servants in the establishment. Susan Arter, the kit-
chen maid, slept in the same room with her, but in
another bed. Susan Arter had been in Mr. Gold-
schmidt's employ about nine months. About four
o'clock on Monday morning last witness was awoke
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the service. The observation arose from her com-
plaining of the hard work, and witness remarked
that she got stout over it.
Inspector Ayre, of the V division, said he saw
Mr. Goldschmidt at the station on Tuesday, and he
accompanied him to his house. He searched Susan
Arter's boxes, but could not find anything for a
baby. On Thursday he removed her under a medi-
cal certificate, to the infirmary of the Wandsworth
and Clapham Union, where she still remained.
Dr. Willes, of Barnes, gave evidence tending to
show that death had been caused by violence.
This being all the evidence, the coroner summed
up the case, after which the jury consulted, and re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Susan
Arter, and the witnesses were bound over to prose-
cute at the assizes.

EXCAVATIONS AT POMPEII.—A Berlin paper
publishesthe following extract from letters received
by Pro-
fessor Zahn from Naples and Pompeii :--4, The organisa-
tion of the Naples Museum is being very much in:l:4'l°3V:
The gallery
of antique frescoes is newly arranged' m
order, beginning with Jupitenbe begun upon.
already completed, and the other is about to
wed an under
thological
In Pompeii the excavations are zealously
The old accumulation of
One-half is
a new Piedmontese contractor.
rnd the town in
volcanic ashes, which had been thrown
removed, and sent by
the direction of the sea, is now being.dethe town beyond the
the little railway to the field
"t:alvations in a house in the
Amphitheatre. In the latest:
of Signor dell'Aquilla, a
immediate vicinity of the
Casino
richly decorated walls and
beautiful triclinium,
wiTisteovered. The first of these pie -
three fine pictures,
was
sbuilding of Troy by Neptune and
tures represents the building
drunken Hercules with numerous
Apollo, the second.
reed him, and surrounded by seve-
he have (Wier
Cupids, w
ral Fauns and Bacchantes, and in a third picturetVulear.
shows Thetis the arms of Apollo, among them a shield
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on which -,, m.e s
represented the Zodiac, Apollo, and the niYA
with the drunken Hercules,
The second picture,
Muses.
is sal
'd to be, as regards both drawing and colouring,
one of
the
finest:ancient frescoes yet known. Next to this trieli-
Di= is another chamber, the ground of the walls of
which is black, with embellishments in the Egyptian style
and a number of small pictures. On the floor at the en-
trance of'this house is the inscription, ' Sake Luero: The
next building is a tavern, with an inscription, and a
painted elephant on the outer wall as a sign—the ElePttant
Inn. Opposite to this is a large place of amusement,, with
many paintings of a voluptuous character and interesting
descriptions, and where there also have been found nume-
rous objects in gold, silver, bro4ze, and glass."