The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-02-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED MURDERS.  Some wild humours were in circulation in Kidderminster on Tuesday night, with regard to the alleged murder and mutilation of a child. So far as the more sensational parts of these rumours were concerned there was no ground ler what was stated; but a child's body had been discovered during the day, and the cirumstances, so far as at present known, point to a crime having been committed. The body of a male child was found about twelve at noon in an ashpit belonging to some houses in Bromsgrove Street. Thomas Carter, a little boy of eight years, saw a bundle in the ashes, and his juvenile curiosity being aroused he opened it, and found it contained a child's body. The police received information of the affair, and the -body was removed to the mortuary, and Dr. Gibson there examined it. The child had been dead a week or more, but there is no question it had been but a short time in the ashpit where Carter found it. Though this place belongs to houses in Bromsgrove Street, there is an opening into it from Lion Square as well. A white bodice and piece of black skirting were round the body, and it had been placed in a pillow-case. The police are making all the enquiry they can into the affair, and information regarding the discovery has been forwarded to the coroner. There is said to be no doubt that the child lived after birth, and how it came by its death is of course a matter for strict investigation.—An inquest was held, on Tuesday, on the body of an unfortunate named Louisa Smith, lately living at a common lodging-house in Deptford, in the south of London. The deceased was found in an insensible condition lying on the footway on Sunday morning, the 10th inst. She was removed to the workhouse infirmary, where she remained unconscious till her death. The doctor's evidence showed that death was due to an extensive fracture of the skull occasioned, without doubt, by a blow from some heavy instrument, probably a hammer. The deceased was known to have been in company with a man between eleven and twelve on the night of the 10th inst.—The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against some person or persons unknown.—Au inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Marylebone Coroner's Court, London, concerning the death of William Robinson, alias Johnson, 30, said to be kuown to the police as "Brummagem Bill," who was shot in Oxford Street on Tuesday night in last week.—The evidence showed that the deceased had been drinking at the Horse Shoe Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, and left about midnight with a young woman. Outside the Oxford Music Hall a cab drove up with two gentlemen inside, one of whom, Luke Emmerson, shot the deceased after some altercation. Emmerson was said to be intoxicated, and ran away,but was afterwards caught—A vei diet was returned of "Wilful murders" against Emmerson.—The body of a eh ild was found on Tuesday in the Sheffield Canal. The mother three weeks ago quarrelled with her husband, and after wards disappeared, leaving behind a letter stating she intended destroying herself and child.