The Daily Times. — 1861-01-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HORRIBLE CASE OF CHILD MURDER.  On Friday, Mr. William Carter, the coroner for the eastern division of the county of Surrey, held an inquiry at the County Terrace Tavern, New Kent-road, respecting the murder and mutilation of a female child, found in Trinity churchyard, Newington. Samuel Simmonds deposed that he was a conductor belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from .Tire, and on Tuesday morning he went with his fellow-servant (Hall) to place his escape in the churchyard. Having done so; he bid his mate " good morning," when saw a parcel wrapped in paper lying oA the stonework to which the iron railings are attached. He saw the foot of a child protruding from the parcel, and steam coming out of it. He at. once communicated with Mr. Inspector Read, and an officer of the M division was sent for, and he immediately attended. The parcel was opened, and was found to contain the dead body of a child, which was quite warm. Alfred Gyford, police constable, No. 83, of the M. division, said that his attention was called, on the morning of Tuesday last, by fire-eScapenian Hall. He went and saw the body of a child in the parcel, with the head, one arm, and both legs severed from the trunk. The remains wore taken to the station, and afterwards he handed it over to Mr. Cook, the officer of the parish. The learned Coroner, at this stage of the proceedings, went to view the remains of the child.  Mr. Thomas Cook, the summoning officer of the parish of Newington and St. George the Martyr, Southwark, said that he was sent for on the morning in question and took charge of the mangled remains. From two to three inches of the skull were broken in, and one-half of the brain exposed. Ile had been unable to find out who were the parents of the child, or who had committed the act.  Mr. Thomas Joseph William Marsh said that ho was a surgeon practising at No. 1, Rockingham-row, New sent-road; and on Tuesday morning he was shown the body of the deceased child. The entrails were cut completely through, allowing the contents to escape. There was a cut oh the left side through the base of the skull, and which extended through the left. eye. That qpeared to have been one sweeping cut which had gone backwards as far as the lower edges of the side of the head, and that had penetrated through the brain. There was another cut on the right side of the head, which had not gone through the bone. The stomach was exposed, but not injured, and die chest was whole. The heart and lungs were healthy. The lungs were fully developed. He examined the lungs, and found that they bad been charged with air, and he tried them in water. The learned coroner summed up at great length, and remarked that he thought there was only one course the jury could adopt, to return a wilful murder against some person or persons unknown ; but if the jury thought that an adjournment would do any good be would willingly consent to it.  The enquiry was eventually adjourned to January 25.  FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE CLARENCE Door.—On Saturday five men were'engaged in repairing the pier at. the Clarence 'Dock, when the stage on which they were standing gave way, and two of the workmen were precipitated into the water. One of them was •saved by catching hold of a rope flung to him from the pier, but the other poot fellow was drowned: His body was not recovered till low water.