The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-05-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHILD STARVED TO DEATH BY ITS FATHER.— ded from his duty, without pay, for the period of months he had opened chambers in the Potteries, On Tuesday evening, a shocking case of culpable twenty-eight days, the order being afterwards altered and resided at Hanley, where he spent a large in. starvation on the part of a father was investigated to a suspension of twenty-one days. The "offence" come in riotous living, and refused to pay his debts, before Mr. Dews, coroner cr the Coventry district. of which Mr. Roffey had been guilty, which merited although he had given a written guarantee to do se. The inquiry was held upon the body of Matilda what is considered to be a very arbitrary punish- The Judge said he was sorry to know there was Green, aged four years, daughter of William (*men, went, was that of having written direct to the Ad- every reason to believe the plaintiff's statement was i labourer, Sherborne-street. Green is a wimiralty, instead of forwarding his communication quite true. It was, therefore, his (the Judge's) ! dewer, with seven children, whose ages range through the head of his department, and for this painful duly to ,ommit :dr. Rh:herds..rn to piitaLii fur , :roar 19 years downward.s. His eldest daughter, ' neglect of duty" he has been punished in the way fourteen days. An order of commitment was made 1 Mary Ann, was supposed to have kept house for stated. accordingly. ! him, but she was almost habitually absent on her ed own pleasure, and left the house and her younger D. van Nostrand, of Now York, has published We hear of the success, at Constance, of a cow brothers and sisters to take e f h o t emselves. Plattner's "Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative opens, "The Tourists," by llerr Theodore Stanfer,e i Blowe father was equally neglectful, and was often Analysis with the pp: edited Prof.ro. . the Conductor of the Opera-house. d bPf Thdrunk. The family earnings amounted to 27s per Richter, of the Royal Saxon Mining Academy, and Miss Neilson has been playing with marked Luc. translated by Henry B. Cornwall, of the Columbia week, and these were almost entirely absorbed for cells at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool, in Dr. College School of Mines, his own purposes, leaving his family to the charity Weslland Marston's play " Life for Life." 'of the neighbours. The evidence showed that the A new farce, by Mr. Desmond L. Ryan, entitled child who was the subject of the in t had ques ~been 'Researches on the Action of the Blast Furnace,' "One Too Many," was reduced on Monday night s slowly starved to death. The Post niortent examinaby Charles Saint, has been translat e Princess's by William at the • 's P rincessTheatre. It deals with the often- tion disclosed that there was not a particle of fat 11. Maw and Muller, Morita 1 upon any part of the frame, and that even the M. Henri D.ldeville, Secretary of the Freneh love, when it stands "upon the choice of friends,' muscular fibre had been almost entirely absorbed. Legation at Turin in 18:,9, lies published in that and puts them in a sufficiently humorous light. I The stomach was quite empty and much contracted, city a volume, entitled, 'Journal d'un Diplomat° en In the Photographic News, Lieut. Abney directs and the total weight of the body, which was fearItalic, 1859-62: attention to the remarkable fact, that in the carbon fully emaciated, was only sixteen pounds. 'rho M. Charles Clement has finlAe,l a tow wor7t, printing process, the influence of the solar rays Coroner, in sununing up, suggested that a verdict entitled, , Prod'hon, sa Vie, ses (I:JAMS et :.;: ( V- beMg once established, the action is continued inthe of wilful murder against the father would be in respondence,' which forms a companion VOIIIII:l. : . dark. After a few moment's exposure the transfers accordance hoth with the law and the facts; but the same author's .Gorbault,' pi lii -.liel ~...nie y...; , is inked, and in a few hours a perfect result is the jury took a more lenient view and returned a ago. I yielded. , verdict of" Manslaughter."