The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-12-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

KIN VER. truly marvellous efficacy of Galvanic Electriely as& application, an efUsaSY unrivalled by any morn wilkuig. Tease Bands, &c., are forwarded, poet free, as nesept el post office order, or stamps, with fall partieslan, is ep.. ideation to J. L. PoLvmairsomin, 168, Baisal-ilsesk, London, W. : Sr THERE Ass ANE LADLics who have sot yet used the GLIINVIELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to I give it a Unit and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is dose. they will ' sitYlike the Queen's Laundress, it is the dean Stara they ever used. When you ask for Gl.kiiirintv, Stamm see that you get it, as inferior kinds axe Olga sabstitalidi for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of apse. iota imitations.  At the Staffordseire Assizes on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Denman, Ann Edwards (2)), charwoman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her infant female child, on the 4th August, at the parish of Kinver. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley conducsed the prosecution, and, by the direction of the Judge, the prisoner wee defended by Mr.  Pigott. The first witness called was Mrs. Sarah Fletcher, who said that the accused was her niece, and was a single woman. On the 4th of August she was living with witness ! as a domestic servant. having been in her employ three I years. On the day named the prisoner °complained of ! being unwell, and shortly before five o'clock went out of ! the house without saying where she was going. Some little time afterwards, hearing her own daughter calling, she went to a closet in the garden, and there she saw a child's foot protruding from the soil. Witness then fetched a pair of tongs and removed the body, which, with the head, was embedded in the refuse. She observed several cuts upon the body of the child. As soon as she had recovered from the shock of finding the child she removed it to the house. Two hours afterwards she saw the prisoner in the house, and noticed that her clothes were soiled, and witness said to her, "Are you not sorry for what you have done?" to which she replied, " Take it away; I don't want it." Witness gave the child seine nourishment before it died, which happened in about ten hours after it was discovered. She sent for a neighbour named Hughes soon after the affair happened. By Mr. Pigott: She only made one attempt to raise the child with the tonga. It was her neighbour who wrapped up the child ins shawl. Did not notice any cut except the one across the chest until after the doctor had been She did not think the accused bad all her faculties, and some people called her " Soft Ann." Prisoner could never learn the Lord's Prayer; but was of a kind disposition.  several  By the Judge: The foot of the child was moving when witness first saw it, and she thereupon knew that it was a living child. Prisoner went to school when a girl, but she was turned away because she made the other child. ren laugh. She was always peaceable about the house, but was unable to speak or express herself in a proper . manner. A spade was kept outside the closet which was used for cleansing purposes. Evidence was then given of the death of the daughter of the last witness to account for her non-appearance in support of the prosecution. Mr. B. Ilollingworth, assistant clerk to the Magistrates at Stourbridge, who had taken the depositions of the deceased, next gave evidence, and the depositions were put in and read. From them it appeared that the de. ceased had seen the prisoner in the closet on the day named. and observing the blood upon the floor she asked her where it came from, and the prisoner said that it came from her stomach. There was also blood on the seat,  MOSE CURDS or