Widnes Examiner. — 1888-10-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CHILD MURDER AT  A.YDOCK. OF THE ACCUSED. Warrington Occasional Court,ion, a single woman, aged 30, e Mr. Ziba Armitage charged ng feloniously and maliciously leorge Albert Harrison, three ay, the 23rd September. Mr. .ed for the Public Prosecutor, (St. Helens) represented the case opened, Mr. Riley said ere reasons why, if possible, d be assisted by a col- , , such as it was, against ready been investigated by ; who gave a verdict with I ;aid he entirely agreed.—Mr. iley had no right to enclea-1 e mind of the magistrate.-Mr. Jenkins said Mr. Riley had s worship's mind by anything ie Coroner's court. His worship I've heard anything, but to deal muld be laid before him and be should lay them before him disthe very serious • nature of the rhaps you will wait and hear ; if this is the spirit in which this gated, then I think the woman ,ed at once.—The Magistrates' ' ion is in my opinion, highly h ought not to have been made. as lam personally concerned, the responsibility of any deciwith another magistrate. At the I that is no reason why the case it of the Clerk not being able to —The Clerk said one justice was , with the case, and it was the :ard an application of the kind in link there ought to have been te.—The Clerk was at this point emark to the magistrate which ,resentatives of the Press, where objected most strongly to the o talking to the Press. He pronage, and said he would not have habit of doing such things, but ms were 'thrown a little more terial proceedings it would be a Ir. Jenkins then opened the on And afterwards called a ;. The evidence, which was mgth—the hearing occupying LS already been given in our is of the inquest, held last week, ng of the case by magistrates. on the afternoon of the 23rd ult. went to Ashton-in-Makerfield. at night she returned to Hayand bringing with her the dead formation of the matter was Constable Brian, who is stationed house of prisoner's parents to iw prisoner, who made a statethat as she was returning home two men came up and asked re answered the question, and rif she had any money. She and went on her way. The Ind. When near the Queen's n came up to her, one of them r, and both she and the child le water in the pit. She screamed baby," when the men took it to scramble out of the water Id home in her arms. The men, reared. This statement was to el by a collier named Montgomt 10 30 o'clock on the night in the brow of the pit, when He and; a companion looked Ise of the scream, but could defence Mr. Riley contended .e absence of any motive on wto murder her child. It was illegitmitte one, but, as' often o which the prisoner belonged, n as a disgrace, and these people ischarge of their duty bo theiroffad of her child almost to a. degree clothes which, for a person in Ito be rich ones. He submitted er gaveof what befell her on the econcilable with common sense. oboration of her story was found gemery, who heard her cry. Ile t she gave was a reasonable one. terious about he absence of the ed to be the real guilty parties, ikely to get out of the way. He the coroner's inquiry into the resulted man openverdict being 1 that two men had been seen direction of the pit jut about outrage was committed. The ;onsultation with the clerk, and ' it, after an absence of a quarter , lave given this case my careful ions to do what is in every way led to dismiss the case.—The ace you are not sa isfied that a 1 '—Mr. Armitage: That is so.— ugly discharged.