The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

THE 211U1?DER OF A CHILI) BY TWO

BOYS.

A child of two and a half years old, named George
Burgess, whose parents reside in Baguley-street,
Higher Hillgate, Stockport, has been murdered by
suffocation in a brook of running water, by two
boys, one named Peter Barratt, aged eight, and the
other of the name of James Bradley, about the same
age, residing in Middle Hillgate. It appeared that
the deceased was playing on some vacant land near
his own house early in the afternoon, when the two
boys, without any previous acquaintance, took him
away with them about half a mile, towards the
suburbs of the borough, to a place called Hamp-
shaw-lane, and thence into a footway to a brook of
water at a secluded part of some fields behind the
barracks. They were seen to drag the child along
the place naked, but the circumstance did not
attract more than a passing notice. One of the boys
got a thorn out of the hedge and beat this poor little
fellow on the back and legs in a merciless manner
until they got to the water, where, having deposited
the clothes higher up the stream, they absolutely
forced him into the brook head foremost, and beat
him about the head and body until he was dead,
and left the body there. The next day (Friday) at
noon the body was discovered, but there was no
evidence forthcoming to show how or by what
means it came there. Two boys had been seen
with the deceased in the neighbourhood in the
afternoon, but the deed could not then be fixed
upon any particular individual.
A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday, and,
after receiving some preliminary evidence, it stood
adjourned till yesterday evening (Tuesday). In the
meantime the two boys, Barratt and Bradley, were
apprehended.
The coroner's jury reassembled at the White
Horse, Hampshaw, last evening.
Police-constable Morley said he went to the house
of the prisoner Bradley, in company with Barratt,
on Saturday evening, and charged them, in the
presence of Bradley's father, with being in com-
pany with a little boy, in Hampshaw-lane, on
Thursday, and they said they were. Bradley then
said, in answer to the question where they went to,
" That they went on down Love-lane till we got to
a hole with some water in ; that they both un-
dressed the child—that Peter pushed it into the
water—and then they commenced beating it on the
back and head until it was dead ; and they did not
leave it until it was dead." No threats or promises
were made to induce either of them to confess to
the crime; and, on comparing the clogs of Bradley
and the shoes of Barratt with marks in the soil,
near the brook, they exactly corresponded.
The evidence of the surgeon (Mr. Massey) was to
the effect, that the wound at the top of the head
had produced congestion of the brain and conse-
quent insensibility. The immediate cause of death
was of course " death from suffocation" by immer-
sion in the water.

Neither the parents nor the prisoners, who
appeared very indifferent to their awful situation,
asked the witnesses any questions.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
against Peter Barratt and James Bradley, and they
were committed for trial at the next Cheshire
assizes.—Manchester .Fxanziner.

When our artist came to depict the fair sex in
China, he must indeed have been sorely tried. At first we
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treated the subject with a certain degree of artistic license,
but a little study convinced us of the contrary, though we
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points of detail liable to be called into question. Thus, the
lady in walking costume is drawn with a long sword
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net which we have not yet arrived at, her dress may be con-
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with white; whilst the skirt is a pale blue, with a golden
zone. It seems doubtful whether what she holds in her left
hand is a spy-glass or a book. We must leave our readers
to decide this important question. We rather like the way
she wears her hair, and are half inclined to call her pretty,
though we could wish that her chin had not terminated in
such a decided point.—Once a Week.

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