The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-06-27 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BOILING AN INFANT.—FRIGHTIML BA1111•2117. Every fresh case discloses some new horror in tlre Sad growing crime of infanticide. On Tbaraday, Clbse &sties found in the Exeter canal, about 100 feet trom the Welcome Inn, the dead body of • male infant. Pt was naked, but had upon it some ut,tatua marks of foul treatment. The body was liai ded over to the care of P.C. Peters, of the county constsbulary, and on Friday,' an inquest was held thereon at the above inn, before R. It Crosse, Esq., the county coroner. Mr. Mark ?arrant., surgeon, wits examined. It appeared that immedistelyr on the child been found the officer called Mr. Pa-rant, who attended and saw the child directly it was Mime out of the water—an important fact, as it ultimately. proved. The body WWI quite free from decomposition,. although it had probably been in the water 49 hours.. The trunk, arms, and face were cowed with blisters. From the appearance of the vesication it was evident that it was not produced after death, but that it was caused by the child being put in scalding water while This indeed was the cause of death. Had the surgeon not seen the body promptly, or until the next day, when decomposition had rapidly net in, the true nature of the blisters might not have been determined with such positive certainty. As it was, the surgeon had no doubt at all that the child was killed in the rod way des ribed, and then thrown into the panel. On the I day of the inquest Mr. Farrant Mtade a poet-martens examination of ihe body. Tbe umbilical cord was net tied ; the lungs were fully expoided, old the child war evidently born alive, and within a few bouts of its' birth met with its pitifol fate. This atrocimui deed outdoes, for its hard-I carted barbarity, all the horrid cl lid murders this wicked sge has committed. There is no clue to the murderer—no suspicion as to the monster who done it. The veidct was " WHIM murder" agaiiist some person or persons unknown,. 'l' ere is a horrible popular notion that if a child be scalded to death in bot water and thee cast into the. river, the mode of drath cannot be determined. The Nets of this sad case prove the falacy of this bratal Idea.  THE JZWELLERT Fonyontrite.—Sinee the realist loner roberies in London, 15 of the principal firms in Cott:dial, including jewellers and watchmakers. have joined together in availing themselves of the services of member' of the Corps of Commiseionaires for the protection of their slope Led henries at nights and on Sundays, and a number of picked men have been assigned to that particular duty. Two go upon dory at seven o'clock every evening, and remain until night, when they are reieved by two fresh men, oho keep watch and ward until six in the morning. At uncertain times in the night a superior ofileer goes the. round assigned to the men to see that they are wider awake ; and as an additional guarantee for vigilance. hell Mlj clocks, similar to those is use in the lobbies or the Houses of Parlimeont, are about to be adopted to show that the Commissionaires sppoiet,d d^tl patrol their beat a given number of times during the night. or any lapse in that respect. The district aa yet