The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-20 00:00:00

was not aware she was so near her time, and that;
it had been her intention on receiving her quarter s
wages to proceed to her friends hi Gloucestershire,
where she had plenty of things for its use, and be
confined there.
Mr. John W. Wakem, surgeon, of West-square,
said that on Tuesday, Oct. 21 last, he was called to
the house of Mrs. Davidson, in Weot-square, and.
e
there saw the body of a full-grown mait child. 11
examined it, and observed the head yen'
bruised, particularly on each side, just o.V.fn. each
ear. The navel string was torn about four or live
inches from the navel, and left untied. He after-
wards made a post-mortem examination, and on
a
dividing the scalp found a large quantity of blood'
effused on each side of the head. He also found the
much
bones of the skull on each side fractured, both the
parietal bones and the temporal bone of the right
side. On removing the bones there was an effusion
of blood between the bones and the membrane ot
the brain. He examined the chest and found thee
lungs perfectly tnflited and presenting the usual
appearances that infants' lungs usually present
when they have breathed. He also found the lunge
floated in water, showing that the child nad breathed
after having been born, and it was his opinion that
the child had breathed. The other organs of the
child were perfectly healthy, and he believed that
the child's death was caused by the violence to the
head.
Mr. Elliott—Do you not think the injuries were
of such a nature that a fall on a hard substance, in
the act of giving it birth, had caused them ?
Mr. Wakem—l do not. If injuries had been re-
ceived in that way they must have been on the top
of the head and not at each side of the ears. I have
attended several cues where women have been de-
livered suddenly whit,' in an upright position, and
the child has fallen, and never saw any injury to
the child. The bones are BO elastic, and the navel
string usually acts as a check, and prevents any
injury to the child. I should say
considerable vio-
lence was necessary to produce the injuries I found,
but there was no abrasion nor mark of any instru-
ment on the skin.
Mr. Elliott—Do you think such injuries would
have been produced by the hands in the course of
delivery ?
Mr. Wakem—l think not ; and the only thing I
can suggest to produce such injuries would be the,
the woman might have fallen on the child after it
was born.
Mr. Elliott—ls it your opinion that the violence
took place before or after death ?
Mr. Wakem—Before death certainly, or there
would not have been extravasated blood on the parts
injured.
Sergeant Coxhead merely deposed to having taken
the prisoner into custody, and said the coroner's ver-
met was, that its death had been caused by injuries,
but how, or by whom such injuries were inflicted
there was no evidence before the coroner and jail
to show.
The prisoner, who declined offering anything is
defence, was fully committed to the Central Crimina
Court to take her trial on a charge of wilful murder.l

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