The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-12-07 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER FOCKING OUTRAGE  AT ISMICGTON.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND MUTILATION  OF A CHILD.  THE BOY GAMBLE AGAIN ARRESTED. The youth Alfred Gamble, who wee in October last arrested on suspicion of causing the death Of Sidney Victor Dowling, at Lling ton, London, but afterward,s acquitted, was on Tuesday evening at about 7.30 apprehended on a charge of the attempted murder of a child three years of age, named Cattell, the son of Richard Cettell,of Sidney Grove, Sidney Street, Islington. At 6.45 on Tuesday evening a carriage proprietor named Thompson, living at 30, Sidney Grove, heard moans in stable at No. 18, in the occupation of Mrs. Burgess, a greengrocer, of 40, Park field Street, in whose employ Gamble was at the time of his arrest on the charge of murdering the child Dowling,and still is. Thompson obtained the as,istanco of a man named Snowfien, who eetß as caretaker of some of the stables in Siduey Grove, and helped by a coster monger, William Sharp, the steble, door, which was locked from the outside, wcs burst open. Snowden and Sharp entered, and having struck a light, found that the noise proceeded from beneath a number of baskets of the kind usually employed in the greengrocery business. The baskets were piled up One on the top of the other, and the two men proceeded to take them down Underneath they discovered a sack from which the cries and moans proceeded. Sharp at once cut open the sack, inside which was the unfortunate infant, Cattell. The child was covered with blood and presented a ghastly spectacle. It had apparently been thrust headforemost into the sack, the mouth of which was tightly tied by means of a cord. The child continued to moan piteously as they extricated it from its position. They then found that the boy had been stabbed in the lower part of the back and the abdomen, and that the lower part of the body had been cut and frightfully mutilated. The child was immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it remains in a most precarious state. After the child had been taken to the Hospktal,Sharp gave information of the occurrence to the police at Old Street Police Station. Accompanied. by Detective-Sergeants Small and Selby, Sharp proceeded to Chapel-street, Islington, where Gamble, who has charge of the greengrocery stall owned by Mrs_ Burgess, was pointed out to the officers by Sharp as having been seen by him leaving the atable in Sidney Grove some two hours previously to the child being discovered. Gamble was immediately arrested and made a statement to the officers. He was then conveyed to Old Street Police Station, where he was charged. The unfortunate child, William Cattell, can hardly recover. Its injuries are of a most serious character. On its arrival at St. Bartholomew's Hospital it was at once admitted and attended to. The injuries consisted of a slight incised wound on the back, probably the result of a severe fall, the wound being just above the left hip. In the neighbourhood of the umbilical region there was a clean cut, as though the child had been cut with a pocket knife. The lower part of the body was shockingly mutilated,rand according to the statement of one of the surgeons at the hospital, it can hardly be expected to survive these injuries alone. A horrible ingenuity seems to have been exercised in inflicting the wounds, which must have caused the little sufferer the most intense agony. The doctor was of opinion that though the wounds were of a very serious nature, so far as danger to life was concerned, no large amount of force would be required to inflict them. When admit. ted to the hospital the child watt covered with blood, chaff, and mud, but the doctor was of opinion that there had been no attempt at strangulation. The chaff and mud had evidently been adhering to the bag when the child was thrnst into it. — -MR.