Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-02

AT nan past CLOCK, Dr. Lorenzo huD-
bard, attended by Doctors Teed, Geller, Lasi
vigne, Webster and Hathwell, made a post
nlortem examination of the child-found the
body much bruised-the viscera compara-
lively healthy, but the limbs swollen Upon
taking out a piece of the spine, it was found
seriously injured-the marrow wasted and
evidence offs evere injury, as if from a wrench
resulting from persons taking the child by
the legs and swinging it violently from the
ground or floor This injury was evidently
the immediate cause of its death.
Just before the post mortem examination,
Hyland was brought up from his cell and
asked if he recognized the child. as it
lay before him. He replied that he did, that
it was his wifes child, but not his He ap
peared to be stricken with fear and his voice
was husky.
After the examination the jury reassembled
in the City Hall, and the following witnesses
were examined;
DR.. G. A. Hathwell, sworn-T was called at
request of the mother to attend to the child at
about o'clock in the afternoon, Saturday. from
the description of the case, | requested DIR. Web
ster to go with me- and we made a slight exam
inaton on the second day we made a sull closer
examination; l found the ear badly torn, as
though the child had been lifted up; | also found
the lett cheek very much bruised and swollen, as
though it had received blow there all around
the mouth, it had been scratched as if with nails;
| asked her what caused that, and she said the
cat had scratched it; found it also bruised on
the left ankle; also bruised on the back and
round black spot left found the outer skin peal
ing off; we found the lower extremities of the
child paralyzed, so that it could not stand at ALL
the child bod @S1 involuntary 1sscc.a.argos dick ;.ciI
the bowels, as though it had some internal injury,
and moaned very badly; | told Mrs. Hyland |
thought the child would die; she asked me if
anything could be done and asked me TO do some
thing for it | declined doing So informing her
that it was useless she stated that her husband
had abused the child great deal, on account of
his thinking that it was not his, it having been
born in three months after marriage.
Marshal Barkley swOrn-I saw the child last
on Sunday night; it was then alive a man
brought complaint to me on Saturday night
but didn't get it till Sunday night; she showed
me the child and remarked it was swollen she
told me that it had the dropsy, that DIR. Hathwel
told her so [ asked Hathwel about it afterwards
and, after some hesitation, he told me the child
had been badly bruised.
DR.. Lorenzo Hubbard read the following
deposition, signed by himself:
|, Lorenzo Hubbard, being duly sworn, depose
and say that | am resident of this city and
county, and at the request of the Coroner have
held past niOrteDI examination on the body Of
the child of Mrs Hyland, and find that it has in
my opinion suffered violence sufficient to cause
its death The injuries inflicted on the lower por-
fi,t of tnLi into ha
numerous contusions on the body, face and head,
is quite sufficient to account for the death of the
child.
LORENZO HUBBARD,
County Physician
The jury retired at about half past four
o'clock and shortly after returned with the
following verdict:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
YuBA COUNTY,
An Inquisition taken for the people of the State
of California, at the City Hall, in said county of
Yuba and city of Marysville, on the 1st day of
February, A. d. 1859, before me, L. Hamilton,
Coroner of Yuba county upon the body of an
infant named Willie 0Neal then and there lying
dead about the age Of eightheen months) upon
the oaths of j. w. Moore, A. Walker, A. j. Lucas,
H. c. Elliott, Adam Faris, j. E. Galloway, j. M.
McCune. j. w Keller, Albert Parsons, G. G.
Horley, d. Holland, and John Snyder, good and
lawful men of said county, who being duly sworn
to inquire into all the existing circumstances con-
nected with the death of the said child, and when
and where and by whom the death of the said
child was produced do, as upon their oaths, say,
that the child, Willie O'Neal came to his death
at the hands of David Hyland, on the 3lst day OF
January, A. d. 1859, at his residence IN this city
of Marysvlle, by continued violence and cruel
treatment upon the body of the child for long
| time by the said David Hyland.