Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-02
A Child Murdered,

The child alluded to, yesterday, as having
been SO brutally abused by its mothers hus.
band, a DIan named Hyland, died on Monday
night at about 10 o'clock. The body was
brought into the City Hail. yesterday morn
ing, by the Coroner, and an inquest held
upon it. The testimony of the witnesses
will be found in another column, and shows
a clear case Of murder. The mother of the
child was present during portion Of the ex-
animation, and exhibited anything but the
state of feeling which a mother should have
displayed on such an occasion, although there
was some little excuse for her, in that she was
partly drunk. Her principal anxiety seemed
to be to shield her brute of a husband from
the effect of the evidence against him. She
would constantly interrupt the witnesses by
spitefully disputing their word, and finally
became so obstreperous in her observations
and interruptions that the Coroner ordered
her to be taken out. She is young and
tolerably good looking woman, of Irish birth
we believe but belonging to the very ignor-
ant class of that people who are not associa-
ted with by the majority of the Irish of this
city, who are of more intelligent and refined
character. She seems to have lived in great
dread of her husband, who is as ignorant as
herself aud of a thoroughly brutal nature
He has frequently beaten and abused her as
well as the child. She is left, by the impris-
onment of her scoundrelly husband, in abso.
lutely needy circumstances.
large crowd was in attendance during
the examination of the witnesses, and mani
tested deep indignation at the recital of the
iniqutous actions of the brutal villain.
The body of the child was shown to the
jury, and it was sight appalling to behold.
Its face was bruised and bloody-blood was
dried in its ears-one ear badly torn-an
arm gashed for about au inch and half in
length-its limbs swollen from apparent beat
ngs, and the entire length and breadth of
its hips and back, blue, black and purple with
bruises The wounds and bruises upon the
body sufficiently told the tale of its suiferings
and revealed the cause of its death, without
any evidence from witnessed 1t was plain
that the poor little innocent had been muir
dered by inches
The black-hearted perpetrator of this
deed is now closely imprisoned in an iron
cell in the station house, and the City Mar
shal pronounces it Impossible for him to es
cape. 1t is to be hoped that the witnesses
in this case will be on hand upon his trial
before the Court of Sessions for murder, and |
that the hell-deserving scoundrel may be |
sent, at an early day, to answer before God
for the crimes which man would not pardon,
if he could.
The wretched woman has still another
child only three months old, which was lying
neglected by its mother, yesterday, while
she was around town drunk. 1t was very |
kindly taken care of by Mr. A. ]. Snyder, at
whose house it will remain until the Mayor
can give further orders respecting it. This
child has been usually very well cared for
both by the father and the mother, and would |
be still by the latter, were she sober, and by
the former were he out Of prison. 1t was
against the poor dead child that tho malice
of the hnman fiend was directed