The Sun. — 1868-07-17 (London, England)

HORRIBLE CHILD MURDERS AND MUTILATION.-7HE POLICE AND THE CORONER.  Last evening Dr. Lankester held three inquests at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pancras, relative to murdered and exposed children. The first case was one of a horrible character, and had been adjourned for the attendance of the alleged mother. The surgeon, however, yesterday gave a certificate that the suspected woman could be removed, which the police took advantage of, and she was placed before the magistrate, and sent to the House of Detention under remand, thereby frustrating the view of the coroner's jury Charlotte Dalton, the alleged mother of the deceased, was in service at Belitha.Villas, Barnsbury Park, but left there on the 30th ult., going to a Mrs. Barber's, at No. 30, Thanet-street, St. Pancras. She asked Mrs. Barber to throw some water down the water-closet, when the latter saw a child there. She tried to get it out of the pan. She accused the woman Dalton of being the mother of the child and having deposited it there. Dalton said it was born on the Sunday night. She said it was born dead, and she did not like to tell anybody about it. She said she was quite alone at the time of the birth, and the child fell on the floor. She also said she had thrown the placenta down the closet.  Dr. J. T. Paul was called in, and examined the dead child. He found a piece of merino over the bead, tied tightly round the neck, with two separate ligatures. It was a very fine child, and was fuily developed, the lungs floating freely iu water. The cause of death was fracture of the skull and other injuries.  The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." The second case was on the body of a child found near Bedford-square Chapel. It was wrapped up in a parcel, and the cause of death was effusion of blood on the brain. Verdict, " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."  A third case was that of a packed-up child which was found in Dean's-place, Somers Town, in the front garden of a dwelling-house. This child had not fully lived, and therefore a verdict of "Stillborn" was returned.  Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, held an inquest the previous evening at the Sessions-house, Broad Sanctuary, on the body of the illegitimate male chill of Mary Jane Heath, a general servant at Storey's Gate Tavern. The mother of the child was confined in the water-closet, and she wrapped up her offspring in her apron and placed it in the coal cellar. She denied till the last that she had been delivered, but the child was found alive, and so continued for four hours. The skull was fractured after birth, and there was effusion of blood at the base of the skull. There was also a jagged cut near the temple, over the left orbit. The cause of death was exhaustion from the pressure of extravasated blood on the brain, produced by fracture of the skull.  Verdict—" Death from fracture of the skull, but how caused there was not sufficient evidence to show."  All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Horniman's Pure Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists in the provinces—oupply Lfornimait's Tea only in Packets.