The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

CHILD M URDER.

Monday afternoon an inquest was held in the borough
gaol, Windsor, before Thomas Marlin, Fsq , -the Coro-
ner for Windsor, and a, respectable jury, on the.body of
a new-born male infant, which was found dead in the
privy attached to. the residence of Mr. Charles Alder, in
Spring-gardens, on Friday last. The servant of Mr. Alder.
a young girl, named Susan Douglas, between twenty and
twentyone years of age, wbo had given birth to the in-
fant, tvas in custody of the gaoler, but too ill, from the
weak state she was in, to be present during the inquiry,
which lasted nearly four hours. Mr. Geoffrey Pearl,
surgeon, deposed that he was sent for by Mr. Alder on
Friday last, in consequence, as Mr. Alder stated, of a sus-
piCious circumstance having taken place with reference
to his female servant. When he went there the girl was
out upon an errand. Mrs. Alder told him she thought
the girl had been delivered of a child. When the girl
returned he told her of the suspicions entertained, but
she denied that she had been delivered. Upon examin-
ing her in the presence of Mrs. Alder, he found that she
had borne a child, and very recently • he told her so,
and that she had better say at once what had become of
it. She then told him that she had been taken ill while
in the privy She looked pale, but not particularly ill.
The next day he made a post mortem examination of
the child, by the desire of the Mayor. It was a lull-
grown male infant ; there were no appearances of any
external marks of violence to account for its death,
and he had no doubt it was born alive. The
umbilical cord was not tied. ire had attended the mother
of the deceased in the prison since Friday. Mrs.
Jail°. Alder stated that. Susan Douglas had lived with
her .as servant for upwards of four years, and during
that time had been particularly steady and honest.
Witness was not aware she was in the family way.
Witness, in consequence of the girl appearing very ill
on Friday last, sent for Mr. Pearl. Mr. Charles Alder,
the husband of lust witness, said that upon Mr. Pearl
discovering that his servant had given birth to a
child, he immediately ordered the privy to be
opened, when the body of a new-born male child
was found by the police near the mouth of
the drain ,leading into the cesspool. James Dobson,
police-sergeant, deposed to searching the privy, and find-
ing the infant lying on its back on the surface of the
soil, quite dead. This being the whole of the evidence, the
room in which the inquest was held was ordered to be
cleared. After the jury had been in deliberation for
half-an-hour, Mr. and Mrs. Alder were again called in
and privately examined, and the jury then remained in
deliberation for upwards of an hour, and ultimately re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Susan
Douglas." The prisoner will be removed to the county
gaol at Reading, to take her trial at the next Berkshire
assizes, as soon as she -is in a fit, state to undertake the
journey. The girl, whp is a native of Wokingham, states
the father of the unfortunate infant to be an old man
named Day, who died at Windsor, where he was well
known,' about three weeks since, at the advanced age of
between seventy and eighty.

THE CONDEMNED AT EXETER.—When the tiilings
of their respite was communicated to the prisoners, they all
received it with gratitude and delight except the imperturb-
able Serva. This man (the captain of the Echo, a schooner
of seventy tons only, with 434 slaves stowed and packed in it)
has shied alike unmoved by the terrors of this world and the
world to come. For three days, though smitten with a foul
and loathsome disease, he underwent the ordeal of the trial
without manifesting the slightest sign of uneasiness. He re-
ceived the doom of death without emotion, and he has since
rejected the consolations of religion and the holy offices of the
priest, with a cold and bitter sneer. He says his own heart is
the depository of its own secrets, and no mortal man shall
wrest them from him. He received unmoved the merciful de-
claration of the high sheriff, and turned away with as much
apathy as if the message of. prolonged life and rekindling hope
had been the most, ordinary matter which a heedless man could
impart to an indifferent one. ,
. . . _

by a private letter which has reached us from
Gibraltar, we are informed, upon good authority, that 20,000
slave shackles, for men, women, and children—in all, fourteen
cart-loads—have been fished up from the wreck of the
American war-steamer, lately burnt at that port !—Ship-
ping Gazette.
THE _RECENT MAGISTERIAL FRACAS AT Rt)-
CHESTER.—In consequence of the painful scene which took
place between the magistrates on the bench at the County
Police Court on Monday, the 21st ult., William Henry
Bodkin, one of the Members of the city and borough, has been
called upon by some friends to intercede between the parties,
and that Learned Gentleman, after some considerable pains,
has brought the Rev. George Davies and the Rev. Mr. Formby
to an amicable understanding. It is, however, stated that
another obstacle has since exhibited itself, which is that Captain
Baker and Mr. James Smith feel that an apology is due from
the Rev. Mr. Formby to them, as they constituted a portion of
the bench on the occasion when the insult was offered, which
Mr. Formby declines doing. Several special meetings of the
magistrates of this division have been held on the subject,
which have been private. It is, however, reported that the
matter has been laid helore the Secretary of State. The cir-
cumstance creates considerable public interest, and the-wonder
is how matters are to end.

A SERIES OF MunDEus.— AWFUL DEEDS OF BLOOD.
—A gentleman who arrived in Cincinnati lately gave the editor
of the Commercial the following particulars of dreadful deeds of
blood committed on the Wachitta • river, in Louisiana a few
days since. He .stated that two planters, living' on adjoining
plantations, had a difficulty. An unruly horse belonging to
one jumped into a lot belonging to the other, and was shot.
Soon after, a negro, belonging to the owner of the horse, went
over to the said plantation, and he too was shot. The same
evening the planter, who owned the horse and negro, took his
gun, and went over to the planter's house who had shot his
horse and negro, and, as he stood in his yard, deliberately shot
him dead. The son of the dead planter, hearing the report,
came out of the house, when he was commanded to stand. As
soon as the gun was reloaded the son was shot and immediately
expired. The daughter of the planter then came to the door,
when the monster took his bowie-knife and cut her throat from
ear to ear, and then fled. The slaves on the plantation raised
the alarm, and the fiend was pursued and taken, and committed
to the nearest gaol to await a trial. , These awful terrific details
are-Said to be from a reliable source, but we feel inclined to
doubt them.—American paper.
DEATH FROM DRINKING THE CONTEN/S Or A
GINGEK-BEER BOTTLE.—On Saturday an inquest was held
in Liverpool, before the Coroner, on view of the body of
Ruth Goldsmith, a child of two years of age, who met her
death under the following singular circumstances —Thomas
Holclsmith deposed that he was a joiner,„ and kept a beer-
house in Craven-street. The deceased was his daughter.
On Thursday afternoon last he went into his cellar for the
purpose of shilling a quantity of empty ginger-beer bottles
out of his way, and, finding a full one among them, he
opened it to see if it were good, as it had been seven or eight
months in the house. He took a little himself, and gave
same to his wife, which she tasted. Several other persons
partook of it, and deceased had two drinks. In about five or
ten minutes after, all those who had partaken of the contents
of the bottle became sick and vomited. The deceased kept
getting better and worse until about nine o'clock the same night,
awwaaskginigventhseomfoelloZ.rnitg
,oriwiinhgichshsehecahllaeddhafodrbaefdorrien.k,
sanhed
when she fell asleep and appeared to be somewhat better. Oa
tema
kept getting worse from that time until about four o'clock,
when a surgeon was sent for, but befere his arrival she breathed
her last. The contents of the bottle, so far as taste
and appearance went, appeared to be ginger beer,
which he (witness) had purchased from Messrs.
Evans and Matthews, ginger-beer manufacturers, of Queen
Anne-street. The cork in the bottle was secured in the usual
manner by a wire, but whether it was iron or copper wire it
was impossible to say. When the wire was taken off the cork
flew out,. When the bottle was opened witness poured its
contents into a tumbler glass, out of which the parties drank,
and when they had all drank of it a white sediment was' Ob.
served in the bottom of the glass.. The glass was quite clean
before the contents of the bottle were put into it. Other wit-
nesses confirmed the statement of this witness. The surgeon '
could not state the cause of death, and the inquest was ad.
ourned that the contented the stomach might be analysed.

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