The Sun. — 1851-10-23 (London, England)

SINGULAR CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT WAKEFIELD.  At an early hour on Monday morning last, the lahabitants of Wakefield were greatly excited by the report that a child bed baen found, with its throat cut from ear to ear, at the station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. The rumour unfortunately proved too true ; and in the course of the day an inquest on the body was held at the Royal Otk Inn, before Mr. Thomas Lee, coroner, when the following particulate; transpired : Shortly after five o'clock on Monday morning, one of the company's porters named H. Jackson, went to the station as usual, for the purpose of seeing the Government train dispatched, which leaves Wakefield at helf-past five. To ere was another railway servant also on the premises, a young man belongeng to the telegraph-office, named Mahalane Park, who booked four persons to go by the train, namely, two males and two females. Immediately on the departure of the train, the porter Jackson went into the passage where the booking-office is situate, for the purpose of taking out a ladder, ietendiog to extinguish the gas lights. Having discharged this duty, and been absent only about five minutes, on his return he found in the passage a common blue hat-box, corded in rather a clumsy manner, lying on the ground. On taking it into the telegraphic office, and thinking there was something strange in the weight and appearance of the box, the two servants decided upon opening it, when., to their horror and surprise, they found it contained a male child, with its throat out in a shocking manner, and quite dead. From the medical testimoey of Mr. Francis Ilorsrall, surgeon, it would oppear that the child could only hive bQen born a few hours before its life was destroyed. As to the pare ies implicated in th prepetration of this diabolical deed, a curious chain o f circumstantial evidence has already been developedt appears that, about ten minutes after the departure of the train for Manchester, a man and a woman came to the booking-office window, and inqeired if the train had gone to Thornhill. On learning that it bad gone, and that there was no other train until half past eleven o clock, they departed, and within a few minutes afterwards the hat-box was discovered, containing the murdered infant. A railway go up Kirkgeta to the police-office, officer, while gng saw a female. tstanding. at yard, speedily decamped the end of a ; who,bu on catching si,,h f him, t she was subsequen,ly taken into custody in company with a man who is supposed to have been with_ her at the railway station. The telegraphic clerk, Park, positively swears to the woman being the person who cars® to the window to make trains are known to inquiries respecting the to Thornhill. The two prisoners have been associated together for a long time, and were met in the streets at various points during Sunday night and Monday • and, from the confused and uni • morning ; . atisfactor account they give of their movements and bi* Y • • taints of their im inees, strong suspicions tian. The medical ication in this mysteriou3 transacare en terfemale prisoner, andFentlernan has examined the. not henelf the givesrw,thr it as his opinion that she is turned a verdict of ~ of the child. The jury reperson or persons unknown:, ' murder against some afternoon, the two prisoners, whose On Monday names are Ann Smith and james-jy c o°Yle, were brought tuh:t-house, and on before the rosgistratea at the of me. aielaonaai, or fucrhtiheefrceoxnasuitaibulae., the request they were remanded for a wee l, f tion.—Manchester Guardian.  RAILWAY IS ET WPLN GARSTON AND LIVIt 0 Company are surveyingEP()i " tie The Garston Do .k Railway ground between Garston and Liverpool, with the intention, we applying to Parliament next session for powers presume, powers to enable them to construct a line of railway between the two points. The terminus, it is expected, will be near the Custom-house. It is scarcely. necessary for us to point out to the residents of Garston, Aigburth, and Toxteth-park, the advantages of such a rapid communication. The company are also malting some excellent roads in the neighbourhood of Garston and Aigburth.—Lirerpool Albion. FALmouTB, (icr. 29.—Wind rariable.—Arrd. Swift, Xugo, and Ascension, for London, leaky. ,51d. Neptune, ydney, New South `Vales.