The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-06-20 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE ALLEGED CHILD MURDER AT BILSTON.— The inquiry as to the cause of death of the male chili of a young woman named Maria Hodder was resumed at the Victori4 Inn, Coseley, on Tuesday.- -G. H. MacEiwyn, booking-clerk at the Great Western Sta. tion, Soho, saw a woman (whom he believed to be the person now lying ill in the house) on Thursday, about twelve o'clock. She asked what time the next train went to Bradley and Moxley. He told her there would be a train about one o'clock. About four o'clock, she again came to the station and asked about the train. She ultimately took a ticket to Bilston about four o'clock, remarking that she could walk from thence to Bradley. He issued but one ticket to Bilston by that train, anti did not notice whether the young woman had any parcel. He subsequently examined the water-closet at the station, awl found marks of blood on the skirting.—Police-constable Parsons apprehended the prisoner on Thursday evening. There were marks of blood on her bands and arms.—Mr. S. Gillett Gilbert, sumgeon, said he made a post-mortem examinAtion of the body of the deceased. The child had lived after birth, brit had only partially respired. Death was not . .  the result of drow:ning, but arose either from the pressure on the neck, or its being wrapped in the parcel on its way to Soho station. There was nothing to lead him to suppose that the child had died by violent wilful means.—The Coroner briefly summed up, and the Jury immediately found "that this male child being the son of Maria Hodder, was found (wad in the parish of Sedgley, on the 11th June, 1874, that he had only partially respired, and died from suffocation, but whether such hail resulted from his birth or otherwise, the jury could not say." IMPORTANT TO TRADES' UsioNs.—Mr. Russell, Q.C., judge of the Salford County Court, had before him, on Tuesday, a case of some interest to trades unionists. Alexander M'Queeu sued William Quirk, the secretary of the National Association of Plasterers for the Manchester district, for £5, for sick allowance. The allowance was claimed under one of the bye-laws of the society, which bye-laws had been registered by Mr. William Stevenson, the registrar of trade unions. The merits of the case had not been gone into, the objection taken on behalf of the society being that, under the provisions of the Trade Union Act of 1871, neither that nor any other court had power to deal with the question. The Judge said that Inasmuch as section 5 prohibited auy Court from enter. taining a suit, the object of which WM either to enforce such an agreement or to recover damager for the breach of it, it :ippeared to him that that disabling section completely took it out of the power of that or any other Court to enforce such agreement. The purpose of the statute was answered by removing the previous disabilities, and by extending the benefits of legislation, so as to make those societies legal to a certain extent, and to protect their funds but it was not the intention of the statute to give the membets any status before any Court of Justice for the purpose of enforcing an agreement comets between themselves, the object of which, amongst others, was to provide benefits for any members of the society. He was clearly of opinion that he had no jurisdiction to deal with the case, and it must therefore be struck Out, but he would strike it ont without costs.