The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-02-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH.  Before the Northampton magistrates on Satin.. day, Letitia Jackson. aged 20, of prepossessing appearance, a domestic servant to the Emproes of Austria, was charged with concealing the birth of her illegitimate child, in Cottesbrook Hall, near Northampton, which is now ()coupled by the Empress. The prisoner, it appeared, who resided In London, was engaged on the 28th December last as domestio servant at Cottesbrook Hall during the temporary stay there of the Empress 'of Austria Her engagement would expire in six weeks. On the 23rd Jan. Polioe-constable Holmes, who had been sent from Scotland yard to Cottesbrook Hall as a watchman, was passing through the grounds in the precincts of the hall when he discovered a large brown paper parcel in the ashpit. It was opened, and found to con. tam n the body of • child. There were bruises on the head, leading to the belief that the child had been murdered. The body was much decomposed, and the child had apparently been dead over a fortnight. The prisoner was apprehended, but denied the charge. A remand was applied for, which the bench granted.  At St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on Mon. day afternoon, a meeting of delegates was held from the principal Conservative associations in the United Kingdom, and it was unanimously de. cided to supp ,rt the Government by every legiti. mate means, and to prepare for • general election if necessary. A MERRIER SENT TO PRISON FOR THREE MONTHS, —On Monday, at the West Riding Police Court, Wakefield, before Mr. W. H. Leath= and Dr. Holdsworth, a young man named David Duncan, alias David Gill, living on the Be k, at Leeds, was brought up on a charge of having converted to his own use £l. 12s. 6d., of which he was the bailee, and which was the property of two other young men named Benjamin Dean and Joseph Wild. Last month the prisoner obtained employment as a hurrier for the Middleton Estate and Coal Company, and worked on piece along with Dean and Wild. On the 7th Dec. he went to the pay office and drew the wages of himself and two mates, altogether £l. 14s. 6d., of which El. is. 6,1, was due to Dean, 9s. for Wild, and 2s. for him. self. The prisoner then absconded with the whole of the mortey, and was only apprehended last week.—Hay g twice served s month in prison, he was now sentenced to three months' imprisonment. THE BUSINIBB or " Ltsreoz."—A Danbury re. porter went on Sunday evening to see the lady he is ke.-ping company with. She met him at the door with a colourless face. "Oh, Tom!" the cried, in an agitated voice, 'we have had such a scare! Ma was coming down stairs, and she caught her foot in the carpet and went the whole length—" "Hold on!" shouted the excited youth, diving nervously into his hip pocket for his note-book, while he whipped out a pencil from another recess. "Now go on! go on, Matilda! go on, but be calm! For heaven's sake be calm! Kill herr' " Gracious, no 1"—" Break her back? Crush her skull? Be calm, be calm! For the sake of science, be calm!"" Why, Torn," gasped the girl, frightened by his impetuosity, "it wasn't serious. It was—" "Wasn't serious," he gasped in turn. "Do you mean to say she didn't break anything after all that fuss?" "Why, oertainly not. She never hurt herself a bit." "Well," ejaculated the young man, with an expression of disgust on his face, as he sadly restored the book and pencil to their places, "that's all a woman knows about business." Tan