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The Sun. — 1862-07-19 (London, England)

MURDER OF AN INFANT.  Yesterday Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, and a jury held a lengthened inquiry at the Park Tavern, Merton-road, Wandsworth, on the body of a newlyborn male infant. Mr. Otto Goldschmidt stated that he resided at Argyll Lodge, Wandsworth-common. On Monday morning, in consequence of a communication from his wife, he accompanied her to a servant's bedroom, where he found his kitchenmaid Susan lying in bed ill. He told her that he had sent for a doctor, notwithstanding that she had declined to have any medical assistance. He accused her with having given birth to a child, and she afterwards admitted that she had, and that it cried. She pointed gaysa box in the room, and offered him a bunch of _ to open it. He refused to unlock the bog, and requested her to give him the key. She took removed the key off the bunch and handed it to him, and he Dr. a Wi the box to his study. On the arrival of Dr. l malelis the box was opened, and the dead body infant was found inside, wrapped in anhaorutsiecmleaioaf dress. Eliza Emma Chapman said sliTehewrase were eight in Mr. Goldschmidt's service• servants in the establishment. m e rdoSo mubseawenniAtihnr thehn but in maid, slept in the same another bed. Susan Arter had r.iine_month. s. About four Goldschmidt's orning last witness was awoke o'clock on Monday in by hearing in her bedroom. She looked, Arter sitting. upon a chair by the emaprlioyis:bou.t Sinushaenr night dress, in a fainting state. She andwin dsoaww, got out of bed and bathed her temples with water. When she recovered she told her that she had been downstairs, where she was taken very ill. Witness made her some tea, and left her. At eight o'clock in the morning Susan came downstairs dressed, and as she still appeared very ill, she persuaded her to go to bed again. The witness added that she found certain appearances in a closet on the ground-floor, showing that Susan had been there. She had no suspicion at the time, nor did she perceive in the bedroom anything unusual having taken place. Some months ago she had suspicions, and told Susan that she was much stouter than when she entered the service. The observation arose from her complaining of the hard work and witness remarked that she got stout over it. Inspector Ayre, of the V division, said he saw Mr. Goldschmidt at the station on Tuesday, and he accompanied him to his house. He searched Susan Arter's boxes, but could not find anything for a baby. On Thursday he removed her under a medical certificate, to the infirmary of the Wandsworth and Clapham Union, where she still remained. Dr. Willes, of Barnes, gave evidence tending to show that death had been caused by violence. This being all the evidence, the coroner summed up the case, after which the jury consulted, and returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Susan Arter, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute at the assizes.  A Berlin Paper
The Sun. — 1862-07-19 (London, England)

MURDER OF AN INFANT.  Yesterday Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, and a jury held a lengthened inquiry at the Park Tavern, Merton-road, Wandsworth, on the body of a newlyborn male infant.  Mr. Otto Goldschmidt stated that he resided at Argyll Lodge, Wandsworth-common. On Monday morning, in consequence of a communication from his wife, he accompanied her to a servant's bedroom, where he found his kitehenmaid Susan lying in bed ill. He told her that he had sent for a doctor, notwithstanding that she had declined to have any medical assistance. He accused her with having given birth to a child, and she afterwards admitted that she had, and that it cried. She pointed to a box in the room, and offered him a bunch of keys to open it. He refused to unlock the box, and requested her to give him the key. She took the key off the bunch and handed it to him, and he removed the box to his study. On the arrival of Dr. Willis the box was opened, and the dead body of a male infant was found inside, wrapped in an article of dress. Eliza Emma Chapman said she was housemaid in Mr. Goldschmidt's service. There were eight servants in the establishment. Susan Arter, the kitchen maid, slept in the same room with her, but in another bed. Susan Arter had been in Mr. Goldschmidt's employ about nine months. About four o'clock on Monday morning last witness was awoke ba nydhseaawr i nsga saa n Anoiserte irn s it hera bear g pooonm .a hair lboyo ktehd, e window, in her night dress, in a fainting state. She got out of bed and bathed her temples with water. When she recoveredtea, Susan a ns chaae toldeeftdhokheweer n.rn downstairs thAaai At eight s es dressed, gre he had sa eoda, been aonc ka downstairs, where she ,was_tn very ill. Witness ie made thes ..t,oh eb e dht morningril alegca eared very ill, she persuaded her to 2PiPen. The witness added that she found appearances in a closet on the ground-floor., g o that Susan had been there. avinv sehe suspicionr°tlva ii certain ga t the time, nor did she erScehiev e hadin then th anythinga ago she uhnauds suspicions, p oions, a nt adkteonl d splace.asan tSbheodamtreosohnimeon was much stouter than when she entered the service. The observation arose from her complaining of the hard work, and witness remarked that she got stout over it. Inspector Ayre, of the V division, said he saw Mr. Goldschmidt at the station on Tuesday, and he accompanied him to his house. He searched Susan Arter's boxes, but could not find anything for a baby. On Thursday he removed her under a medical certificate, to the infirmary of the Wandsworth and Clapham Union, where she still remained. Dr. Willes, of Barnes, gave evidence tending to show that death had been caused by violence. This being all the evidence, the coroner summed up the case, after which the jury consulted, and returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Susan Arter, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute at the assizes.
The Sun. — 1862-09-09 (London, England)

ATTACK ON A CON-STABLE AND HIS Wire. —David Crowley, James Lyons, and Jane Grady were charged with bursting open a window and assaulting Jas. Davey, 66 C, and his wife, Ann Davey, living at 20, Silverstreet. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Groat Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence. James Davey, 66 C, said—At a quarter past two this morning I was in bed, and hearing a great noise of singing in the next room, I opened my door and asked my fellowlodger in the next room to have a little more compassion on his neighbours. The lodger said, " Oh, you're a policeman. What's it to do with you. I shall do as I like. Who cares for a policeman," I then returned to bed, and heard the persons outside say, "Let's have the out, and immediately after the door was burst open, and the female rushed into the room, followed by the two prisoners. The female struck me on the face just as I zot out of bed. The men then used me very roughly to get me into the passage. They got me as far as the door post, and I then got back into my room to get on nay trousers. The two men then seized my wife and dragged her into the passage, and the woman tore her night-dress from the top to the bottom before all the men, there being about eight or ten persons altogether in the prisoners' party. By Mr. Lewis--A young man lodging on the same floor saw it all. I heard several persons come in about twelve. Mr. Tyrwhitt--They began the evening at half-past twelve.  In answer to Mr. Lewis, Davey said be had thrown no water on any of the persons, and gave them no provocation.  Mrs. Ann Davey, wife of the first witness, confirmed her husband, and said—They called my husband a peeler. The woman tore her night dress off before the men, and then struck her in the face. The woman was drunk. James Black, a lodger in the house, confirmed the other witnesses, and said that but for the interposition of the police he believed murder would have been committed. In answer to Mr. Lewis, the witness said the only thing Davey had done was to ask the persons, who made a great noise, to be quiet.  Two witnesses were called for the defence. A third also got into the box, but was not examined, being drunk, and the witnesses said there was water thrown on the prisoners, and that one of the prisoners' party, a female, was struck with a staff, but this was denied.  Mr. Tyrwhitt said he thought the 'witnesses for the prosecution more worthy of beliof than those for the defence, as they were in bed and sober while the others were drinking and drunk. He did not believe that Davey struck any one. It was altogether a brutal thing for the prisoners to do, and the tearing the complainant's wife's clothes off before the men was atrocious. As there was a little doubt about the woman's conduct, whether it was her that pulled out Mrs. Davey or the men, he should discharge her, but the men would be Mad 205., or 14 days each.
The Sun. — 1862-08-15 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED WICIDEIN TEJE CITY-ROAD.  Yesterday morning Mr. I. Humphreys, the coroner for the eastern district of Middlesex, resumed the inquiry at the Queen's liea d Tavern, Pitfieldstreet, Hoxton, into the cause of the death of Chas. Coole, aged 15 months, the infant son of Mr. Mark Coole, of 18, Brunswick-place, City-road, cabinetmaker, who was murdered by his 'mother, Adelaide Coole, cutting its throat with a car ving knife, and afterwards attempting to destroy h"lr own life, on the afternoon of Thursday week. The unfortunate lady, Mrs. Coole, Although in custody of the police, owing to the severe injuries she inflicted on herself, and the danger that would be attendant on her removal, had been permitted to remain confined to her bed in her own house, under. the care of her medical attendant, Mr. Sohn F. Rogers, and up to the present time she is in such a state as to prevent her removal. Mr. Inspector Webster, of the N &vision, attended to watch the proceedings on behalf o f the Crown. Mr. Thos. W. Rogers, jun., solicitor ! of 70, Fenchurch-street, attended on the part cf Mrs. Coole. On the reassembling of the jury, Mr. John Frederick Rogers was re called, and, in answer to questions put by the Corover, said he had been in constant attendance on Mrs. Coo le since the unfortunate occurrence. He ha d visited her that morning, and found her in such a state that it would be highly dangerous to remove her. She was wholly unfit and unable to attend, a nd be was of opinion it would be at least a week before she would be able to do so. The Coroner said that being the case, it would be better to at once adjourn the case for another we eh• as was desirable the accused should have an or portuni!y of being present and hearing the evidence against her. The jury acquiesced in the suggestion. The Coroner asked the officer if he had any far' ther material evidence, and was informed there was not any. The Coroner then, addressing Mr. Inspector 'Webster, said, if Mrs. Cole was in a fit state to be removed, he must bring her before the jury at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning. Inspector Webster said as soon as she was in a fit state to be removed he should 'take her before the magistrate at the police-court, but he did not knout what he should do about bringing her to that court. The Coroner—Let us understand each other, se that there is no mistake, and thereby prevent a great deal of trouble and inconvenience, and avoid the necessity of any application to the. Secretary ef State. You will bring the prisoner here, if she is a fit state to be removed, at 10 o'clock on Thursday next, and I will undertake that you shall be allowed to remove her in time for examination at the policecourt. Inspector Webster said he would comply with the wish of the coroner as far as he was concerned. The inquiry was accordingly adjourned to Thure' , day next at 10 o'clock.
The Sun. — 1862-12-02 (London, England)

HEARTLESS MURDER IN DUBZIN.  This day a woman named Catherine Gavan was brought` up at Capel-street police-office, charged with the murder of her male infant child, by drowning it in a y°xld. near the " mound" in the Phoenix-park. The prison who was in custody of Acting-inspectors Smith and Kings. of the G division, appears to be about 25 years of age, Oct of dark complexion ; her eyes are black and deeply set, her brows seem to protrude more than they really do owing to her low narrow forehead receding. Her mouth is large, heavy, and sensuous, and her nose is sharp and slightly hooked. The general expression of her face is sinister' to the extreme. She was decently dressed, and did not alp' pear to be in indigent circumstances. It will be reuterty wilful bered that a few days since the body of a male in was found drowned in a pool sear the mound in the park. Mr. Davis, county coroner, held au inquest, when it trans' pired in evidence that a woman was seen near the P 1 °° where the body was found with a child in 130" arms under very suspicious circumstances. On the medical testimonY it was proved that the infant had been drowned, end rth: jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some Pe t' ~ or persons unknown. The clothes which had been on body of the infant were returned by the police, and were taken' by Smith and King to the several lying-in hospitals in the city and to the North and South Union Workhouses. •E' Catile the North Union Workhouse they discovered that ale rine Gavan had been there and had been delivered of e tided ra„ infant about two months before this day they proceed sella• the North-wall where the accused was in the habit of l 3 ing fruit. They told her that they were policemen el6' that they wanted to know what she done with the fine h re° child of which she had been confined in the hospital of te ee North Union Workhouse. She replied that her child Ws° dead and buried, and that it died in her arms in the strt. They then took her into custody and conveyed her to the detective office where the clothes which were found en ? deceased child were shown to her. These clothes consistee of too flannel petticoats, a portion of a plaid shawl, and shirt. She was cautioned not to say any thing that would criminate herself, as it would be used a trial. She then said—" There is no use in denying ,thilee truth—the clothes are mine." During the time' that ''r foregoing facts were being given in evidence the pritO7tiet remained quite unmoved, and seemed to treat the lea e gaizet her on ller charge preferred against her with the greatest indifferelleShe n: She is not married and retitled in Meath-street. the trived to earn a comfortable support by selling fruit at steamers and at the shops on the North-wall. The presi,(ll:g' i magistrate (Mr. Sttonge) said that he would remand case to Monday. It is supposed by the police that the accused is the 00T who who was seen with the child at the park on the evening ng the murder was committed. She was taken up too Gra 10°',,. pram prison in close custody, after leaving the a mg quite unconcerned.  COUNTRY DIAI4ALab•
The Sun. — 1858-01-08 (London, England)

WORSHIP STREET. Joseph Reynolds, a respectably-dressed man, described as a greengrocer in Oak-place, Hackney, was charged before Mr. Hammill with the following aggravated outrage. Mrs. Jane Archer, the wife of a bootmaker, who was in a state of great suffering and deb lity from the ill-usage to which she had bcea subjected, stated,—l and the prisoner live next door to each other, and we inhabit two of five houses to which there is a gate common to all of us, and through which I must go to reach my own doorway. At 10 o'clock this morning I went out on an errand, and on returning in a few minutes, finding this gate locked I knocked at it for admission. The prisoner came out, and I asked him to let me in, but he refused to do so, and made use of the most digustint language. I turned round, intending to go through another person's premises, when he rushed out at the gate, and lifting up the lid of a well close to the gate, exclaimed, " You wretch, I'll now put you down this well." At that moment, however, his wife came up and dragged him away, but he broke away from her, and she instantly closed the lid of the well. I then got inside the gate, but he overtook me, and, exclaiming, "I have long wanted to make a public exposure of you," seized me by the wrist and leg, turned me completely over, with my head downwards, and my petticoats over my head, so that I could not see. I screamed "Murder !" and " Police !" which brought the neighbour3 to my assistance, who begged him to stop his violence, but, instead of that, he lifted me up by main fore?, and flung me over a fence into an adjoining garden, i,ito which I fell, and my head came violently against a wooden post. While he was holding me up by the leg and ta t andexposing threatenedmvier isss I tohave much my struck me about the head and shoulders with his described, he repeatedly knock the life out of me. iured, I feel eat d bled v, ry much, my cheek klvbere cut and bruisedan- d .N. one is very mirli brit's, and i . extreme paid in the shoulders and all back, and, having jest recovered from au illness, I feel very only y. In answer win to the magiitraie's que,tions about the wounds witness said the prisoner, when irst attacked her, had a nzor in his hand, but whether she the wouuda were inflicted with that or not cooruld not say. At the close of her evidence the poor came s'>faiut and ill, and was subjected be to serious hcernorrliage, that Mr. Liammill orderTdc her to be immediately supplied with restoratives and taken home in a cab.  A married woman, named Compton, beard the screams of "Murder" and Yolice,"and on looking out saw the prisoner holding the Complainant up by the leg and arm, with 44 head down and her person most shamefully expofed. I abused him for his infamous conduct, and 'he released her for a moment and she fell, but as Eoon as she get up he struck her violently about the head and body. took her up again, assailed her with the most abominable epithets, and pitched her over the palings into the next garden. Harris, 539 was fetched to the prisoneris
The Sun. — 1858-11-25 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN QUEEN-SQUARE.— Aninquestaa was held this day on the body of the unfortunate, 01-tl, Cantry. The witnesses examined were those who gti their evidence at the Clerkenwell police court, and notlll y 1 additional was elicited to that which has already aPPeado in The Sun.. Th The inquiry was adjourned until es of next, in order to make an endeavour for the attendance the prisoner Toomes. it el' It is stated that his Excellency Count mansegge, who has for many years past ably dischaLl'ir the functions of Minister of the Court of Hanover in don, is on the eve of being recalled from his diplongi 1 duties. PROPOSED REFORM MEETING AT EDINBUR""a4 The leaders of the Radical party in Edinburgh have res"" in to hold a public meeting there on the Reform guestin.ed the course of next month, and Mr. Bright has been a 5 die to attend. In reply to the invitation addressed to hio9 hon. gentleman states that he will not be able to attend a:n meeting in Edinburgh before the Manchester uleati,_llgber the 10th, and that he will again communicate asto Avietoe his state of health may permit him to go north. 4.„01 Edinburgh Committee have adopted the London 11%4, Committee's principles of rateable franchise, the lit„'•:,,j approximate equalisation of constituencies, and trien.:-Parliaments, and have added a fifth point to their chaste' namely, additional members for Scotland. The traffic of the London and North- viresterl! Railway continues to recover. - The return published Pre .. sents an increase of £570 compared with that for the 01;`,;,, spending week of last year. The aggregate decrease,,Z9l, the commencement of the current half-year is t the total receipts being £1,293,302 in 1868, agate 41,413,593 at the ccutsmdixtg date ia 1857.  ~~~  MIN  the allied, Balaklava i a week. id, " Well 1 act upon leave to ,n issued; of operarat might a terrible rhaps the d by the ge which  [Bl4 Lord r of Capt• y he had .hters, one 'Baroness not MinisTuscany. Lyons, Of so much  Ir' Christently has he second rho was $ e married ate Capt. to dangly )ec. 24th, 1 Augusta , 1839, W is„Riehd. ttresidell Edmund )hastopol• !nes COw education 7 at the )oard the 3cl in the . In 1801 ;uring the Rkworth.  t, we fillcl in 181' o France,' les afford' er of tte ost ran!: for a fe' Lnd of the r2,ments f co-ope of Mot& Pelop 011" greatiP er he we° Trifle fre t bearing r him the f France' ler of the  lerforniql :nightea, created°'minister Frey! o 1853 als resigned eet ; and  sian Wil,,,,t' mown  emory• .„ e lost wounds however' zehlouslid respectd& terw3r is. 1:11° liar pet,- 4. L accoilolis ' inter'  had been raved r. receptiol as at the h in 'nu. rho 1111'. 01110011 Lerbourg• on' hl ° leserred' try trulii nsible 0, has Wu  st inqtle nate. 1113.11.0 who , ne red Tue. f aPPc:clei udelice  nt lieliseharge4 , r in li°llo iiploniAti
The Sun. — 1858-04-23 (London, England)

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1858.  The proceedings against Dr. BERNARD have terminated, and he is fully and completely exonerated from all the charges preferred against him in con. sequence of the, attempt of the 14th of January last. This is as it should be. This is exhibiting a constitiiti-onal respect for the trial by jury and for the glorious maxim of the criminal law—that no one shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the same offence. Every particle of evidence that  could be adduced on the trial for conspiracy woul,  have been applicable to that which, thanks to an honest and fearless jury, terminated so happily and so justly last week. It would have been an insult to that jury, to Messrs. LEYTON JoHN HEMMENT, AUGUSTUS WELLS, AUSTIN WITHERS, JAMES WHEELER, HENRY CHISLETT, CHARLES STOCKS, JOHN' HENRY POWER, WILLIAM LANG HEED, RAIN MACKEY, JOHN BIaMoRE, JO3EPH B. SPYERS, and GEORGE WHEELER, who had so nobly vindicated .The great palladium of the national liberties, to have sought for an adverse verdi,t  on precisely the same facts that had already bt en considered inadequate to warrant a conviction. We know that such attempts have been made, and that a colour of legality has sometimes been given -to them ; but Sir F. KELLY is not the man to violate. the soh-stance, while he adheres to the letter, of the law. If Dr. BERNARD was guilty of the conspiracy to murder Louis NAPOLEON, Le was Also an accessory before the fact to the murder of NICHOLAS BATTIE, for nothing has been more clearly established than the principle hid down by the Lord Chief Justice, that if one man meets his death in consequence of a criminal attempt spinet the person of another, all persons concerned in that attempt are responsible, although they might have had no express malice against tJe victim, or were not even cognisant of 16,4 existence. The lesser crime, therefore, merged in the greater, and it would have been a solemn eioekery to have placed a man on his trial for a  • misdemeanour, who, if guilty, should have 'wen convicted of felony, and that of the most serious character known to the law. As a corollary to • this proposition, it naturally follows that if th,) deed were innocent of the murder of NICHOLAS itarrn,-he could not be guilty of Pao conspiracy to intr4ei.the EMPEROR, and should not, therefore, *subjected to all the annoyance and (x-pease of a second trial, which could only be instituted in,servile deference to the wishes of a Foreign Government—a matter that certainly cannot be objaeted against the present Cabinet. But it has been attempted to cast censure on Sir FITZROY KELLY, because he altered the nature of the charge for which Dr. BERNARD wae tried, froit one of conspiracy to murder, which, under the existing law, is but a misdemeanour, to ti at of a capital felony. And we regret to say that his predecessor has lent himself to the paltry attempt. Had he done otherwise he would have signally failed in his duty to his SOVEREIGN, and to his country, and, in fair play, to thepolitical refu