The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1880-04-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING MURDER OF A GIRL.  A murder of a very shocking and atrocious character was perpetrated at Derby on Monday morning. Two little girls, named Eliza and Elizabeth Wilkinson, were sent by their father to hawk combs of his own manufacture. In the course of their rounds they entered Green Street, Eliza, who was only nine years of age, taking the courts, and her elder sister the front houses in the thoroughfare. Eliza called at the house of a man named John Wakefield, who lived with his mother in the court, and was in the habit of idling about, and it is supposed that he decoyed her into the house, his mother being out. This was the last time she was seen alive, and her elder sister could not imagine what had become of her. But this did not long remain a mystery, for between twelve and one o'clock Wakefield entered the police station, and enquired for the superintehdent. That official was transacting business in the Magistrates' Court, but he was sent for, and on his arrival Wakefield said, in the coolest manner possible, that he had come to surrender himself for the murder of a little girl, and that if the police would go to his house they would find her lying on the floor quite dead. The chief constable was then sent for, and he proceeded to the spot, and found that the statement of the prisoner was correct. The little girl lay on the floor in a pool of blood, her throat being cut in a most frightful manner, while near her there also lay a table knife covered with blood. Mr. Sharpe, surgeon, was called in, and on examining the body be found a piece of rag stuffed in the murdered girl's mouth, which showed that the brutal fellow had stifled her cries, and led to the belief that she had been subject to gross treatment before her life was taken away. This accounted for the neighbours not knowing anything of the mutder, for the house in which the act was perpetrated was surrounded by others, and the occupants would have heard the girl if she had screamed. When the chief-constable returned to the lock-up he charged the prisoner with murdering the girl, which he admitted, and was then placed in the cell, exhibiting the greatest calmness and self-possession. No motive whatever can be assigned for the murder. It was presumed that prisoner had first violated the girl, and then taken away her life, but the medical evidence will not, it is understood, bear out that theory. The body was removed during the day from the scene of the murder to the deadhouse, where a post mortem examination would be made. The prisoner is a labourer, 28 years of age, but has been living on the earnings of his mother, and has once been convicted of an indecent assault.  The Paris correspondent of the Cologne Gazette professes to have learned from a good source that the Comte de Cha.mbord wishes to contract a loan of 20,000,000 f.  EVTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND ROBBLItY.  At the Marlborough Street Police Court, London, Monday, Daniel de ti rand, a Frenchman, described as of no fixed residence or occupation, was charged bofore Mr. Newton, with assaulting Dr. Dean Baptiste! Martinole, physician, of No. -25, Brewer St!! et, Golden Square, and with stealing from Lima gob] chain, locket, and seal of the value of £7. The wecutor, who gave his evidence in a rather want.iligible manner, stated that on the 21st inst., at tee in the morning, the prisoner, who had formerly lodged in the same house, Caine into his room, and struck him on the head with his fist (but he believed he had a small pair of scissors in his hand), and afterwards struck him several times saying he meant to kill him. The prisoner then seized him by the waistcoat, and snatched his chain, locket, and medal away, the value of them being about Xi'. He communicated with the police at Scotland Yard, and on Monday saw the prisoner in custody. Chief Inspector George Greenharn, of Scotland Yard, said that at three o'clock the previous afternoon he, along with Inspector Swanston, went to a public-house in Long Acre, and saw prisoner. (The prisoner in an excited manner, here snatched a steel pen from the assistant gaoler Vine, but it was at once taken from him.) On telling the prisoner the charge, he said hehad a right to do as he had done, as the prosecutor owed him money, and the primmer then bolted out of the house, but was recaptured. At the Vine Street station some of the articles missed by the prosecutor were found...4lx. Newtonitmanded the prisoner for feweek. `'"•