The Sun. — 1861-07-04 (London, England)

INFANT.  Ellen Connor alias Ellen Grogan, a washerwoman, residing at 10, Payne-street, Islington, was placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell Police court yesterday, before Mr. Barker, for re examination, charged with attempting to murder her infant, 18 days old, by suffocating it with a piece of a man's shirt. I Mr. Inspector Judge, N division, attended to 1 watch the case on behalf of the Commissioners of I Police, and Mr. Wakeling for defendant. IThe evidence taken on the former examination, • and which has already appeared in this journal, L I having been read over by Mr. Alexander, the second  clerk, Mrs. Manley added to her former deposition the fact that when she turned the bed clothes down she did not at first see the prisoner's child. When she found it it was in the middle of the bed, its eyes projecting, as if starting from its head, and its face was nearly black. She found the child lying on its face, and when she took it up she found a piece of a man's shirt twisted up and pushed into its mouth, the lips being stretched each way. Witness gave the child to another woman, who pressed the unfortunate child's eves in, and afterwards wiped away a skim of corruption which had collected over the eyes. The child was very thin and dirty, and when the woman who took the child from witness gave it her breast it sucked very ravenously, and appeared half starved. Mrs. M. Gannon said she lodged in the same house as the prisoner, in fact the prisoner was her lodger, and occupied the back parlour. The prisoner resided there with a man who passed for her husband. On Monday morning, about a quarter past 11, the previous witness spoke to her, and told her that she had heard a strange noise in the Pd.Boner's room. The previous witness got into the room first and she followed. She saw the child found in the bed. It was about half-way down the bed, the clothes were closely tucked at the bottom and sides, and the sheets were over the pillows. When the child was picked up it had a rag in its mouth, and it fell over its face. She (witness) thought that the child, from its appearance, would die in Mrs. Manley's hands, and she therefore fetched a person who was suckling to give the child some milk. The prisoner did not return home until about half-past one, when she was at once taken into custody. Mr. Wilson, surgeon, of 22, Brunswick-place, Barnshury-road, said—About two o'clock on Monday last he went to the police station and examined the priseuer's child. He found it in a very emaciated and exhausted state, evidently from want of nourishment. It was also very dirty, and there was a large sore forming in the right groin. It was suffering from inflammation of the eyelids from neglect, and discharging a great amount of matter. From the convulsed state of the body, he should say that the infant was suffering from want of breath, and that respiration had been suspended. There was a certain amount of lividity about the face and body. He had examined the bed, and found it on the floor, so that there was no occasion possible for the child to d in. sitsit to i‘tiarc.kßtharekeehri_l have put the rag mouth, as described by the i lsen—lt would _b.e quite impossible. witnessesmr. Nv Mr. J3Arker—lf the °bald had been left lYing