Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-03-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHILD MURDER AT ORMESBY.  -Annie Elizabith Parker (17), was indicted for the wilful murder of her newly-born female child, at the parish of Ormesby, on the Bth January. Mr Skidmore prosecuted, and went over the circumstances of tho case, which were fully reported by us at the time of the occurrence. Eliza Parker, the mother of the prisoner deposed that when a child was brought into her house she asked her daughter if it were hers, and she admitted it. The chill was a'ive, and she went for a doctor. The child lived twenty minutes after it was brought into the house. Mrs Osborne, a neighbour, deposed that she livxd next door to where the ptisoner resided. She heard a moaning in the ashpit, and she drew the attention of a Mrs Watson to the fact. Mrs Watson took a child out of the ashpit. She showed it to the prisoner and she admitted that the thild wat hers. Elizabeth Watson deposed that she took a baby out of the ash-pit. Tht body was found in a place where the ashes are generally thrown. The child was alive when she took it out. There was blood on the fire side where the prisoner was kneeling. She had the child in her arms, and the prisoner said she had been to the petty, and that the e'iild was hers. She found prisoner was in a very exhausted condition, and she told the prisoner he had better go to bed. Mr John Bland, surgeon, (of ',South Bank, stated that he was called in to examine the child. It was dead. It was fall grown. He found a out on the mouth, and then made a post modem examination. He and his brother found several scra'aibes on the head and other parts of the body, a distinct discolouration on the arm, a fracture on the left arm, a awl:fling on the neck—the tint on the mouth extend. ing three quarters of an inch, and there was a fracture of ti-e jaw. There was a large wound on the  MARCH 16, i 816  back part of the throat internally.—The Judge: How could that be got at—Witness: By the mouth. It was under the palate, and extended from, the one side to the other. The skull was fractured. The witness deposed to other iojuriee, but his evidence was delivered in a low tone, despite Mr Skidmorrog requests for the witness to raise his voice. The learned judge also remarked that really a man of education should' see the necessity of raising his voice so as tie juty might hear him. Witness thought that the cause of death resulted from hernorrage arising from the wounds he had spoken of. The injury to the throat in his opinion had been done by some pointd instrument, aud he did not think a finger nail wontd have done it.: Cress-examined by Mr Lockwood,who appeared for the prisoner : Witness believed that when he gave his evidence before the magistrates he said the wounds had been caused '.ry a blunt instrument. Mr Lockwood then asked the wi flees reconcile the two statements. On asking to define -bat he meant, he said he considered that a pair of scissors was a blunt instrument, and not a cutting instrument. A finger nail was not a sharp cot. ting instrument. A finger nail was not pointed, andwas not a cutting-instrument. .  The jury, after an absence of forty minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prienner was discharged.  MANY AT BROTTCS 'Thomas Fenwick, alias Thomas Wallis (28), was indicted for fehniotuly marrying Elizabeth Wright, his former wife being then alive, at the parish of Brotton, in the North Riding, on the 9,h November, 1874.—Mr Simpson prosecuted.—lt appeared that the prisoner was married abmit ten years ado, under the name of Fenwick, to Eliza Collie, in the parish church at Birbymo,rside, but he had married Elizabeth Wright in Novemimr, 1874, under the name of Wallis, telling herbs was an unmarried man.— The jury found him Guilty,—The prisoner sail he had been five months in prison.—His Lordship sentenced him to imprisonment for twelve months, with hard labour.