Star.
London, England, 1826-01-07 00:00:00

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Thursday afternoon, at three o'clock, an Incriisition
was taken at the llodney's Head public-house, Nargow-
stieet, Limehouse, before J. W. UN A ix, Esq. and a te-
specta'le lir} of the inhabitants, on view of the body of
a new born rna•e infant, supposed to have been num. 1
dered by its mother. The folios% ing was the evidence
given oo the occasion :
Mr. Jdsepli Thompson examined—l reside it N,.21,
St. Anne-street, Lighthouse. • On Friday last, Kitty
Dillon came into my service; she was recommended
by a person who suppli-s us with fi-.11; before this she
resided in t' e neighth u:Lo.,d. On Sunday morning
last, on coiniQg down stairs, I expected to find the fire.
lit, but found that the servant had not then got up; I
called out to her to come down, but was answered by
my little boy, who slept in the same room, that she was
unable, as :he was then very bsd with a stitch in her
side. After this I went as far as Blackwall ; and on
my return, found her seated by the fire. She appeared
extremely ill. I told her that if she was not able to
work she had better go away, as my wife was unable rel
assist her, she he:self being very unit ell. She accord-
ingly left our service in the course of that forenorn
On Tuesday, about one o'clock, I had occasion to go
to the privy, and while there observed something part::.
:cular. I in conseivence got a stick, and on stirring the
soil first saw the infant's hands and then its body. Mr.
Cummings, a medical gentleman,--w-lso is in the habit of
attending. my family, wa,ininiediatAy sent for, and by
his directions information of the occurrence was sent to
the parish officers, who hid the body removed._ ,Nly
wife told me that the bed in sv.ii..h the set vant lay ap-
peared as if a recent delivery had taken place. This,
hoary r, she did not meation until after the infant wa;
founJ, thinking, as she .ai.l, that it might have beet
c ,used by soii.e other constitutional disease. • I. ques-
tioned the children n ho slept in the room with the ,er-
vant, and one of them sa;d that dating Saturday night
i.e heard:V•e cries of an infant.
The Coroner here remarked thrt this evidtzt:ce was very material.
Mr. Thompson said that be was eight years old.
The Cottons:a then directed that he should he sent for, and in a
short time lo: arrived. • Previous, however, to the oath being ad-
ministered, the Coroner put a few questions to him, witls a view to
ascertain is capability of distinguishing tight from wrong. The
boy was eatremely dull and uninformed, and not being able to give
any satisfactory answer, he was not sworn.
The puiport of his statement which, however, was taken down,
was as follows :-1 slept in the same room with the servant, Kitty
Dillon. Oa Saturday night or Sunday morning I beard her groan
or mean very much, and say once or twice, " the Loan relieve me."
In a few moments afterwards, beard the cries of a baby proceed
from the bed where she lay.
Mr. Thomson, in addition to his former evidence' stated that the
*Other of the servant, Kitty Dillon, came to his house, on Tues-
day morning. and apologised to Mrs. Thompson for the state in
which her daughter left the bed. On this Mrs. Thompson ob-
*served that sbe feared something wrong had taken place, to which
she replied, in an anxious manner, that it was no such thing, for,
that her daughter had received a hurt, which subjected her to vio-
lent hemorrhage.
Mr. William Cummings examined—Tuesday, I was called on to
go to Mr. Thompson's, where I saw the deemed infant. I was
present at its dissection : the lungs boated.
Juror—Do you think it was born alive?
Mr. Cummings—lt Is impossible tosay : it's flesh war quite Arm,
and had every appearance of being so. It might have died after
birth for want of proper care.
The Comma was hem about to sum up, and was in the coarse
of remarking, that he thought it a case so,pregnant with suspicion
that it might to go to a Jury, when he was interrupted by
. The July, who expressed a wish for adjournment, in order to
having, previous to recording their verdict, the additional evidence
of some persons who were not then present.
The COROVIR complied with their wishes, and the Inquest was

r:1114• 16:1111kkitOleery of the infant, the inhuman trarebt
2sl4.ll2llllntileiste been heard of.
The inquiry. was yesterday resumed. The parish
surgeon proved, that he examined the body.. f the in-
fant, and Was of opinion that it had been born alive,
and that the mother bad delivered herself.
man, the landlord of the Lord Exmouth public-house,
in Lrinehouiesfields, proved, that in August last Kitty
Dillon lived in his house; and it was then remirked that
she appeared to be pregnant. The Coroner then üb-
set ved, that as the Jury had heard the st hole of the evi-
dence,he was of o; inion that there were sufficient grounds
for sending the prisoner for troll for the murder. She
had provided no clothes for the infant ; she ha i entitely
concealed the birth ; and be therefore thought she had
contempla.ed the destruction of the infant, As soon as
it came into the world. The Jury immediately r..turned
a verdict of Itilfitl Murder against Kitty Dillon, and a
warrant was issued for her apprehunsion.

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