The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

in the bag, and the paper in a basket which I had taken
with me, and brought them all to Dolgelly. Edward Bar-
row went with me. It was the body viewed by the jury
and yourself, sir. There was a post-mortem examination
made by Mr. William Williams and Mr. Edward Jones,
surgeons, and I was present. The newspaper produced,
with a name and initials written on it in pencil, is the same
that was in the box. It is part of the Manchester Examiner
and Times of the 12th September. The bag produced is
the one I found round the body of the child. I did not
observe any marks of blood on the newspaper.
Edward Jones said—l am landlord of the Royal Ship
Hotel, Dolgelly, and I know a Mr. Griffin. lam not cer-
Ain as to his Christian name. I have known him for some
years, as being in the habit of coming to my house. Ho
came there I believe on the night of Friday, the 22d of
September. He arrived between half-past 7 and 8. It
was not dark. I think he remained until the following
Tuesday.

Anna Evans was recalled, and said—My little sister
picked up a parcel from the Mawddach last Saturday
week. I saw the parcel in her possession. I did not take
any paper out of the bag. There was a newspaper about
the bag.

William Williams said—l am a surgeon in practice at
Dolgelly. With Mr. Edward Jones I examined a child
brought to Dolgelly by Serjeant Jones of the county police.
I made a careful post-mortem examination of the body last
Monday week. I cannot state the cause of the child's
death. I can state that she breathed. There were no
signs of blows. The lungs wore fully inflated. There were
finger marks on the throat just above the collar-bone.
The outward marks did not show quite sufficient pressure
to cause death. The injury to the head I should say was
sufficient to have caused death. Supposing the woman
who gave birth to the child was not attended by a medi-
cal man or a midwife those injuries might have been
caused accidentally.
At this stage of the proceedings,

The Coroner, addressing the jury, said there was
another witness, the man Lewis Jones, who knew some-
thing about the paper, as he was the man who picked it
up. If the jury thought it necessary he should be called;
but he (the coroner) must remind them that their single
duty was to inquire into the cause how the child came by
its death, and it would be for them to consider whether,
after the medical witnesses, the further eTidence as to the
paper was necessary.

An adjournment of two hours was then determined on,
and on the coroner and jury again assembling,
Lewis Jones said—l live a c Dolgelly, but work at Boulddu
as a blacksmith. I recollect seeing a parcel which a child
had brought up to the house of Evans where I lodged. I
was then having my dinner. The child was in a piece of
linen. I cannot say if I should know that piece of linen
again if I saw it. Elizabeth Evans pointed out a paper on
the shingle. I wont there to fetch it to see if there was
anything iu it. I went to the spot and picked up the paper
myself. Ebenezer Evans was with me.

The Coroner—You mean you picked .up the paper at the
side of the river ?
Witness—Yes.
Did you look at the paper—the print ?—Yes. It was a
paper of the 12th of last month. I noticed some blacklead
pencil marks upon it, but I did not notico any blood upon
it.

The Coroner, to Mr. Motteram—That is all the evidence
that Captain Clough has to offer on the part of the Crown.
Will you call any witnesses ?
Mr. Motteraui—No, sir ; I am quite content to leave the
matter to the jury under your directions.

The Coroner then proceeded to carefully sum up the evi-
dence. He said the body had been examined by two medi-
cal men, who said the child had breathed, but they could
not specify the exact cause of death, except that the child
might have died from the fracture of the skull, and it might
have died from suffocation. The jury would consider in
the first place was the child born alive. That was the
great question in the case—that is, was it produced into
the world as an independent being freed from its mother,
and if so, was it destroyed by any and what person. The
law required that the proof should be clear and distinct to
justify a verdict of murder.
The Jury then retired for nearly an hour, and then re-
turned the following verdict :—•1 Wo find that the body of
a child was found dead on the banks of the River Mawd-
dach, in the parish of Llanabar, but how the said death was
occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to show."
The verdict having been recorded,

Mr. Motteram addressed the Coroner—l may now, sir,
that the verdict has been delivered, be perhaps permitted
to.say that as so much has gone forth in the papers, I
should, had it been necessary, have beenprepared to prove
that my client was absent from home at the time, indeed
two or three days before the birth of this child, and that he
never heard of the birth of it until at the same instant he
was informed of its death.

The inquiry then terminated, having lasted nearly six
hours.