The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1895-08-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MTDW/TIS.  On Tuesday afternoon a little boy was passing by a field close to the Mariner's Home, Egremont, when hie attention was drawn to a brown paper parcel which was resting in • hedge. He enured the parcel and stripped off e_paper, and discovered inside the body of an infant. The pollee were called to the spot, and it was found that the child, • newly born female, wee quite dead. There was absolutely nothing about the little come by wiskds to identify it: or those who had placed it in the hedge. The body was taken to the minium/ at Seacombe. On Wednesday, Mr. Chance held an inquest at the Seacombe Terry Hotel. James Rimmer, a boy living at Little Brighton, said that on Tuesday aftermon, at 240, be noticed • : paper parcel under a hedge in Manor-lane, Liaised, and on opening it found that it contained the body of a child. The wrapping was brown paper and there were no clothes on the body. A woman came along and they went in search of • polies °fame. P.O. Conlife came and took awatistittore hodj. parcel waa tied up with • string.— The body waa first wrapped in an American In answer to a juryman, the lad said he was with another lad at the time, but there mere no other peenzwatt. Bowyec said the road was ace which was not much travelled an. It was jut past the Mariner's Home. P.O. Ounliffe slated that be found the body of the child lying under • hedge in Manor-road. It was laid on a piece of waterproof, than wrapped in brown paper and tied with a string. It we. a fully developed nine months' child, quite fresh, the skin ' wars unbroken, and there were no appearances of injury. He found nothing whatever leading to the identity of the child, which seemed to have been quite recently born. He looked on the ground round amt., but found nothing of a suspicious character, or which would throw any light on the oecarrenos. There had been no bleeding from any part of the ohild's body. Inquiries had been mads by the police, but nothing had yet been ascertained. The Coroner meld it we. quite evident that the child was a fully developed child, but it had been greatly neglected no doubt by either its mother or immune else. Very likely it might have been left there by someone coming over from Li verrja,. ...,_aad it had probably been brought there to be of in some excluded part. Midwives he had known over and over again to bring children over there, and there had been examination after examination but never anything had been brought to light. He did not think they ever bad • conviction. So that in the abuses of personal injury to the child to it seemed him to resolve R eel/into a question of concealment of birth. In that ease it became the special object of the police to make every possible inquiry. If the mother should be found out she might be committed for concealment of birth. There wee nothing to prove that the child had been murdered; there was not even a lichen skin. It was for the jury to say whether under the circumstances it was worth adjourning for a post-mortem, but he ally did not see an_y reason why there shoulger a post-mortem. These cases were innumerable throughout the eonnty of Cheshire. They were constantly taking place, and they never made anything of them. A post-mortem examination and an adjournment involved a large expense to the ratepayers. If it were a case of great easpuncei and there were marks of injury he should be the first to advise • post-mortees, but he did not think this was a case where any good would be done by post-mortem. An open verdict tat "Found dead" was returned, leaving the case in the bands of the police for investigallon.