Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1878-07-26 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

PAM.) stases the caviiy. Thir cla i•y was externally 2} inches in length byl inches in breadth, so that he could put tee whole of the lips of hie thumb ane four fingers into the opening. Nearly half of, the right parietal bone was missing alt-gether. From the appr :trance of the wonud and brain, thee were inclined to infer that the injury wall ceased during life. The I ft eye was comel-telyelestroyed, the orbit be rag rxpoeed, end the diaorg inised eye resting in the bottom of the cavity. The nose was smashed and the lower jaw knocked off, and hanging only by the right side, the bone bring exposed throughout The head was newly severed from the body, m :rely hanging by the skin of the right side. The cervical vertebrae were fractured and exposed before and behind. The general appearance of the head, neck, and shoulders would lend them to suppose that they had been repeatedly 'truck with some blunt instrument with great force. On opening the chest they found the lunge were contracted and of a congested appearance. On being removed and placed in water they floated and crepitated distinctly on being preaaed between the thumb and finger. On applying the hydrostatic test, which is to cut the lungs up in pieces and put them into water, they floated, and on applying forcible pressure to the pieces of lungs on immersion they still floated. From these tests they were of opinion that there was a strong presumption that respiration had taken place, and that the child had had a separate existence for a short time. Mr. Edward Monro Sponner, another surgeon of Bland. ford, said be assisted the last witness in making the post trnortees examination of the body of the child, and he entirely agreed with and corroborated everything he had said. At this stage of the proceedings the enquiry was adjourned. The adjourned inquest was held at the same place on Tuesday evening, and the first witness called was P.C. Andr .we who stetted that on the previous Friday he accompanied Supt Underwood to biewish-house, the residence, of Mr. K. G. Farquharson. By the direction of the Superintendent he tore up the woodwork of the privy there and gat down into the vault and found the body of a female child wrapped up in some brown paper lying on the night soil. He took it up and brought it to the Superintendent. He produced a candlestick which he received from the witness Spencer, it appeared to be recently cleaned, but on examining it closely he detected marks apparently of blood and flesh near the handle and socket, Supt. Underwood stated that in consequence of information he received from Mr Edward George Farquharson he went to the houseof a man named Litman, in Blandford, on Friday night He saw the daughter, Emma Litznan in the yard standing at the door. He went and told her she met consider herself in custody for the murder of her child. She eat down in a chair and burst mit crying but did not say anything. He told her mother to take her to bed and sent at once for Mr. Danielle the doctor, and also for a nurse. He left a policeman in charge of her. I He afterwards went to 'lowish house, in the parish of , Winterburne Yetstone., where Mr. Farquharson lives. He' was there shown a privy by Mrs. Henrietta Cook. By I putting &candle down through the mat he could see the head of a child on the soil in the vault. By his direction P.C. Andrews took off the top of the seat and got down the vault and found a female .child wrapped up in 80raa paper. He observed that the head had been beaten in and was nearly off. They took thedoody and put it into a box and carried it to the Red Lion Inn and locked it up in a corn bin. The next morning in the presence of the Coroner, be event again to Bearish House and examined the bedroom formerly occupied by Emma Litman. Adelaide Ffiackmore, head none at He wish-houre, said Emma Litman was the howremaid. From her appearance she and the rest of the servants suspected her condition and joked her about it, but they never asked her distinctly. She never admitted or denied her state. Litman was sent borne on Friday last Before she left she asked her where she was confined, and she said it was .upstairs in her bedroom. This was the whole of the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Emma lAtman, who was committed by the coroner to take her trial at the next assizes at Winchester.  An