The Atherstone Times. — 1879-09-27 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

RAID ON A BRITISH CONVOY.  THE GUARD KILLED. SRIITAWARDAN, Sap. 22, 7.10 p.m.  Four miles east of Shutargardan a body of Mongols waylaid a returning convoy and looted eighty•fonr mules. They killed the guard, numbering nine Sepoys, and also sixteen muleteers. This is the first raid that has been made. Slams, Sept. 22, 5.51 pin.  General Stewart bivi telegraphed that the abundant harvest in Afghanistan will only render it neee,•sary to import a small quantity of grain for the use of the troops. Telegraphic communication with the Shutar• garden Pass is now open.  ANTICIPATED BRITISH ATTACK ON  Enma, Sept. 2t. It is anticipated that Kusiai will be attacked by General Baker this morning. Resistance is expected. The forets under General Roberts have been completely furnished with the requisite means of transport for an advance on Cabul. Major• General Bright's advance will 2ornmenee immediately. Details received here respectit.g the attack on the British convoy near the Shutargardan Pats on the 22nd inst. show that b. party of Ilangsl4 and serui•indepeudent Ghilzais joined the convoy, which was conveying supplies for the telegraph department, in a friendly manner, but afterwards treacherously attacked the British, killing eight Sepoys and eighteen mulet,ers, and capturing' a large number of mules. A detachment of the 72nd Highlanders weet in pursuit of the raarauders, who, however, succeeded in effecting their escape.  child, hut ultimately £lO wan paid, and the child was taken over, the prisoner saying that it would be brought tip in a religious mariner. The impression on witness's mind, after a talk with the prisoner, was that her husband woe a mtrohant in Liverpool. , The Coroner remarked that it seemed to be a moat unnatural thing for a man or a woman to \dispose of his or her child for £lO, and be absolved from all responsibility. Witness replied that the woman said she took the child as a matter of affection, and not for the money. The C3roner, in summing up, said it would be for 1 the jury, after listening in detail to the case, to I consider what were the iotentiong of . the two _ . .... I pi' i hr  _ tisoners with regard to the children. They mast iaTe seen long before the discovery of those children that they were ill. They were under the prisoners' care, and they were aa much responsible for the treatment of those children as if they had been under the care of their own fathers and mothers. They had arragged to receive the children under the most false circumstances. Did the prisoners intend to preserve the lives of the children? Ho thought not, and his own  prisoners' f  —.— idea wav based upon the evidence before him —that if the children had cat been rescued they would have been dead, buried, and never known of except by a very few, and in all probability replaced by another little trio, who might have shared the same fate. A ease cf so serious a nature be had never before investigated in that country. The jury, after a consultation lasting about half an hour. returned a verdict of " Wilful murder ' against the two priioners, John and Catherine Barnes. The Coroner expressed his concurrence in the verdict, and said it was one of the worst cases he had ever dealt with.  At the Liverpool Police Court, on Thursday, John and Catherine 13,rnea were charged with the matinee of two children who had been entrusted. to theta care and keeping. Mr. Moere prosecuted for the rreasury. The prisoners were defended by Mr. rush. Mr. Moore said the police had discovered that the prisoners had fullowed the Course which had now become notorious. Enquirits had been made no sixteen or seventeen cases. The pri:mners had received large l'unis Of money for taking children. The enquiry was adjourned.