Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-11-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COUNT MOLTKE'S BIRTHDAY. The celebration of Count Moltkes birthday (which took place in Berlin on Sunday last) virtually began on the previous day, Saturday. Many of the houses In the principal streets of Berlin were decorated, and the academies and schools throughout Germany participated in the commemoration. On Saturday the Field Marshal received, in the Conference Hall, the congratulations of the Emperor, the Imperial family, and official personages. On Sunday the count, after receiving congratulations from various quarter., was visited by the Emperor in the Marble Hall. His Majesty recalled the glorious deeds of the army, which, he said, always owed a debt of gratitude to the celebrated strategist. A gala dinner was given in honour of the Field Marshal in the new palace, i near Potsdam.  Cn Sunday afternoon. post-mortem examination 1 was made of the body of the murdered woman and of her deceased child. The examinations were conducted at the Hampstead Mortuary, New-end, the med-cal men engaged therein on behalf of the police and the coroner being Dr. Bond,of Westminster Hospital, divisional surgeon to the A division ; Dr. Herbert Cooper, divisional surgeon to the Metropolitan Police, S; division; Dr. Poulett Wells and Mr. A. C. Fox, medical student, who were the first to examine the body of the murdered woman when it was found, Dr. Pepper, of St. Mary's Hospital (on behalf of the coroner), and Dr. Biggs, of Child's-hill, who was the medical man called to examine the body of the child found in a field near Finchley - road that morning. Detective-inspector Bannister, S Division, Detective-inspector Miller, Y Division, and Inspector Collis, S Division, were also present, and it is understood that the " weapons " found at the house of Pearsev, the accused woman, ' bearing, as alleged, bloodstains and human hair, 1 were produced for the inspection of the doctors. The proceedings were, of course, conducted in private. The post-mortem examination first made was on the body of the murdered woman, and the conclusion come to was that either the injury to the skull, which made a large and deep wound, or the 1 cutting of the throat, which had only left the head attached to the body by a piece of skin, was more than sufficient to have caused death. The deceased woman had some scratches or cuts on the wrist, which might have been caused in a desperate struggle or in breaking a window to attract attention and assistance. The deceased woman was evidently a strong, healthy, and clean woman, but it is said that her hands were very dirty when her body was first found, as if they had been amongst some coals. The examination of the child's body revealed no marks of violence, th. only mark being a slight one on the aide of its head, which had been against the earth in the field where it was found. The death Of the chfld is believed to have been caused by suffocation, though some peculiar Substances, like berries, with a skin on them, were, it is said, found in its , stomach. The woman in custody has also been , examined by Dr. Bond, and it is said that both her hands bear a number of injuries such as might have been caused in a violent struggle. It is also said that , some of her clothing was blood-stained.