The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

DEMERARA.

The traffic receipts on this company's line for the
fortnight ending Sept. 2 amounted to $3,720, and
for the corresponding period of 1864 to 433,674,
showing an increase of $46.

Serious Charge against a Magistrate's Son

a Stafford.

DOLGELLY, Monday.

Mr. G. l',Griffin, draper, of Stafford, in partnership with
his father, who is one of the borough magistrates, was
arrested last week on the charge of aiding and abetting
Thirz Tunstall, his father's housekeeper, to conceal the
birth of her female child, of which he is alleged to be the
father.

Thirza Tunstall, is a young woman, about 25 years of
ago, who for the last five or six years had lived in Mr. J.
Griffin's service as housekeeper.
About noon on Saturday, the 23d ult., some children who
were playing on the banks of the river Mawddycb, about
three miles from Dolgelly, observed a parcel floating on the
water, and called a man who got it out. On the parcel
being opened it was found to contain the body of a newly-
born female child, wrapped in the Manchester Examiner and
Times, of the 16th September, on which was written in
pencil, " Mr. G. F. Griffin." The outside wrapper was a
piece of black cloth, like that generally used in drapers'
shops.
An inquest on the body was opened and adjourned till to-
day. A post-mortem examination showed that the child
had breathed, and marks of violence were found on the
throat and skull.

Upon Captain Clough making inquiries he found that
Mr. G. F. Griffin was well-known at the Ship Hotel, where
he had stayed on several occasions. He, was also well
known at the post office, where he had called for letters
on his visits to Wales. Further inquiries showed that
Mr. G. F. griffin went to the railway station at Stafford
and took with him a portmanteau about half-past twelve,
on Friday week, and took a return ticket for Dolgelly,
and the circumstance was especially noted as being the
first through ticket issued at the station. About two
miles from Dolgelly the railway passes close to the river
Mawddych, and it is supposed that while passing this spot
Mr. G. F. Griffin throw the bundle containing the dead
body of the child into the water, and the tide must have
carried the bundle down across the river to the place where
it was found. It was further ascertained that Mr. Griffin
arrived at the Ship Hotel about half-past seven on Friday
evening, ostensibly with the view of seeing algentleman
from Manchester on some mining business, it appearing
that he holds some shares in an adjacent mine, and has re-
peatedly visited the district. He remained at the Ship
Hotel until after the adjournment of the inquest, and on
Wednesday Captain Clough proceeded to Stafford, and
having put himself in communication with Colonel Hogg,
the chief of the Staffordshire county constabulary, that
officer directed Mr. Superintendent Oswell to take the
necessary steps in the matter, and the result was the appre-
hension of Mr. G. F. Griffin and a domestic servant or
housekeeper, named Thirza Tunstall. The woman ad-
mitted that she had given birth to a child on Thursday,
the 21st ult.

This morning tho jury reassembled, but no further
evidence was taken, it being understood that both the
accused parties would be present on a future day, and the
hearing was therefore adjourned.
STAFFORD, Monday Night.

The extraordinary excitement consequent on the disco-
very of tho immoral delinquency of Mr. G. F. Griffin, ono
of the sons of perhaps the most respected magistrate in
the town, has not been by any means lessened as the facts
are mere clearly made known. It has not been previously
stated that Superintendent Oswell went on Thursday last
to the Shushions Farm, between Little Own and Wheaton
Aston, where Mr. G. F. Griffin was shooting with some
friends, and took him into custody. The woman Tunstall
was also arrested, and on Friday morning they were taken
before Mr. E. Moulsey (the mayor) and a bench of magis-
trates (Messrs. Jonas Pilling, Wm. Jones, Edward Lloyd,
John Talbot, and W. Sylvester), and remanded on the
charge of concealing the birth of the child. Mr. G.F.Griffin
was admitted to bail, himself in £5OO, and two others in
£250 each, Mr. T. Turner and Mr. J. Brookfield becoming
his sureties ; and in the course of the afternoon the woman
was also bailed, herself in £2OO and two sureties of £lOO.
each, Mr. John Cooper (the managing man for Mr. Griffin's
business) and Mr. E. Lloyd (the son of one of the magis-
trates) being responsible for her.
This morning, Mr. Nevitt, clerk to Mr. J. W. Hand, soli-
citor, applied for an enlargement of the bail, to the sitting
magistrates, to some future day, on the ground that the par-
ties implicated would not be able to attend before the
coroner in Wales and also before the bench. Mr. Bowen,
solicitor, on behalf of the prosecution, did not raise any
objection, and the application was granted.