Weekly News. — 1890-08-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRIPLE MURDER BY A MOTHER.  At the Liverpool Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice Vaughan-Williams, Leah Charlton, 28 year. of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of her three cliildren,William Robert Charlton,. years old; Dorothy Bennett Charlton, 3 years old ; and Barbara Bennett Charlton, 11 months old, on the evening the Bth May, at Toxtetli Park, Liverpool. It we. stated that the prisoner, who was the wife of • Customs clerk, resided in Oarmoyle-road, Torteth, having come to that city on account of her husband'. removal from Soot bass to Liverpool. She seemed to feel the change greatly, and deplored the lose of her friends. For some little time she had been in an unsatisfactory condition of health. and suffered from a disease which affected her mind and her nervous system. She got it into her head that her neighbours thought she was a spy and wanted to take her life and the lives of her children. On the date in question, when Mr. Charlton returned home from hilliness, he was horrified to End his wife lying in the lobby with her throat cut. He immediately sent for • doctor and called II some neighbours. They found that prisonirs windpipe wee almost severed, and for come time her life Wee despaired of. The house was searched by the police, and they found the children lying in bed. Their throats were cut,and they were dead. Prisoner was asked what she had done, and, taking up. piece of paper, she wrote that she cut her own throat with • razor and afterwards the children's because she was afraid of the mob who were agaimit them. All witnesses, in the course of moss-examination, admitted that prisoner for scone time had ;toted very foolishly. She always seemed to be fond of her children. The medical officers from the Torteth Hospital, the gaol at Walton, and Rainhill Asylum were called by the prosecution, and gave it as their opinion thst prisoner was of unsound mind when she committed the murder*. —ln reply to his lordship the jury said then Was no need for the counsel for the defence to cell his with 00000 as they had made up their minds. Their verdict was that the prisoner was guilty of the sob, but that she being of unsound mind Was not re• sponsible for her lotions.—His lordship ordered her to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.  Shway Ban is the first Burmese boy who has won a prize in an English school. He received his prizes on Friday. at University College School, from the hands of Mr. Eve, the headmaster.  Dr. Kerr's repoit on the training Colleges of Scotland affords seine interesting examples of budding power in young essayists. Here is a charming passage summarising all that was known to the pupil of the writer of " Paradise Lost " : " John Milton was an elegant poet of the present century, and alse a clear essayist. He spent his lifetime in England, and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. Ifs wrote . The Death of Little Nell ' and also the Qid Curiosity Shop.' Sir Arthur Wesley was a great poet and novelist also, and his works very much resembled Milton."  The latest venture in cheap publishing is the "japan's. Library" of Messrs. Cassell -so-called, apparently, from the designs in water-colour on the covers, which vary fur each vatime. The first peculiarity that strike. the eye is that they are printed on paper so thin as th require to be doubled in order that the ink 'nay not chew through. The result is that the volumes are perfectly limp and may be rolled up and otherwise maltreated without