The Sun. — 1846-10-14 (London, England)

CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER.  Yesterday, at noon, Mr. C. J. Carttar, Coroner for the Western Division of the county of Kent, held an inquest at the United Service Tavern, Woolwich, on the body of a male infant, aged three weeks. It appears that a woman, named Goldfinch, residing in Taverson-place, New Charlton, was confined about a month ago. On Friday afternoon last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, Mr. Henry Timpson, a medical practitioner, was called in haste to see the child, whom he found to be labouring under the influence of soma narcotic poison. In addition to several other females, a woman named Simcock, who seemed in great trouble, said she had given the infant some stuff out of a bottle, and that although part of the same stuff had killed her own child within a few hours of the time it was given to it, still she thought as there was scarcely any of it left in the bottle, that if' she put a little water to it, and gave the child some, there was still strength enough in it to do the child some good. The mother of the child, who seemed in great distress of mind, said, " I wish you had not recommended me to give it ; oh, that I should have been so foolish as to give it to the child." Mr. Timpson immediately put the child into a warm bath, and administered the usual antimonial and zinc emetics, and for some time  the child seemed to rally, but it ultimately died on Saturday at noon. The bottle contained syrup of poppies. The CORONER then issued his order for the exhumation of the child of the woman Simcock, and directed Watts, the constable, to take the woman into custody on the charge of wilful murder, both as regards her own child and that of the deceased.  The inquiry wag then adjourned to afford time for an analysis of the contents of the stomach.  DEATH OF 1 CHILD ON BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE, DT AN Ox'—On Monday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, an accident of a fatal nature occurred at the foot of Blackfriars Bridge, under the following circumstances :—The 3d Regiment of Buffs, on march for Dublin, passed over the bridge at the time above stated, and when near Chatham-place, the band struck up a lively air. Three oxen, belonging to Mr. Arnold, of Godalming, on their way to the South-Western Railway, were being driven in an opposite direction at the moment, and the sound of the music caused one of them to start off at a furious rate towards the soldiers. One of the soldiers, for self-preservation, held out his fixed bayonet towards the ox, which pierced the nostrils and increased his fury. The bayonet of another struck against the skull of the beast which bent it nearly in two. The animal then made a start towards Chatham-place, when a little girl between nine and ten years of age, crossing the road at the time, was knocked down, the ox treading upon her chest. City policeman Gayley, 348, immediately ran to the child, and carried her in his arms to the house of Mr. Holden, surgeon, New Bridge-stre.et, but that gentleman being from home he proceedsecdarcwealtly haste to Mr. Littlewort's, adjoining, but had reached it when the poor child expired. The body was then conveyed toSt. Bitarastholhoimseowp'isnHioonsptihtaalt, dwehaetrhewthase house surgeon gave caused by a rupture of the vessels of the chest. In carry ing the child the clothes of the policeman were &kmpletely saturated with blood. Up to seven o'clock last evening the body of the child had not been identified. AN OLD TRICK NEWLY REVlVED.—Yesterday two policemen, wh;le on duty in the Blackfriars.road, had their attention drawn to a female apparently in a strong fit and foaming at the mouth. The men obtained some water and sprinkled her face, but she seemed to get worse; so much so that it was deemed absolutely necessary to remove her to the nearest surgeon's, which was accordingly done, when the medical man, after a brief examination, found a large piece of mottled soap in her mouth; and when they searched her pocket they discovered a large quantity of coppers. The officers, at the advice of the surgeon, placed her on a truck and dra2ged her to the station-house, where she was instantly recognised as au old hand at similar tricks, and was locked up. The Court of Common Pleas will exhibit some marked changes next term—a new Lord Chief Justice, a new puism. judge, with a Court open to the whole bar ; the exclusive privileges of sergeants-at-law having been put au t lid to, after an existence of 600 years, by an Act of the last session of Parliament.