The Daily Times. — 1860-06-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHILD BY BURYING IT ALIVE.  At the County Magistrates Court yesterday (before /flessrs. Wm. Rathbone and Thcs. Brocklebank), a case Tag heard which divulged a most singular and extrardinary attempt to murder a child, by its mother btarying it alive. The mother of the child is named kun Murphy, and up to the 11th of this mouth she was ft inmate of the West Derby Workhouse, where the .0 bild was born on the 31st of May. On Monday last $ he discharged herself from the Workhouse, taking the I dant with her. On the evening of the following day, Mr. Thomas Harris, a gardener in the service of evemiah Chaffers, Esq., was proceeding along Anfield toad, Cabbage-hall, he heard cries, apparently those of a kild buried beneath the ground. -Upon searching in ' tl ke direction from which the cries appeared to proceed,  k e discovered beneath some earth and sods in an  Ljoining shrubbery a little girl about a week old, • tked, and nearly dead from suffocation. He immecli ately gave information to the police, and in company • ith James Money, police•constable 579, took the child to the West Derby Workhouse, where it was identified by' some of the inmates as being the daughter of Ann M tqphy, the pauper who left the house on Monday. stl le officer went to the residence of Ann Murphy in ti ?per Beau-street, Liverpool, and on seeing her asked for • tile- child. The woman replied that she had sent it t p Glasgow. She was then, after being cautioned, eht trgtd by Mr. Gough with concealing and exposing het: child with intent to murder it. The prisoner let ated very much surprised at this, but after several itradictory statements admitted that she had left the ehi ad in the place named. She afterwards said, " I 'do' et believe it would have died because I bad not bapsd it." At the hearing of the case yesterday Mr. zgh, the governor of the Workhouse, was first called. •said—" This woman, Anne Murphy, was admitted into -the West Derby Workhouse on the 12th of May last. On the 31st of that month she was delivered of a fermi', child, which was christened Susan. The child Was a very peculiar looking one ; I don't recollect ever Seeing one like it before : it had two teeth marks. On Monday last the prisoner and her child left the Workhouse, :and on_the following day police-officer 579 and Mr. Thomas Harris brought the child to the Workhouse, saying they had found it buried beneath some 'sods Anfield-road. I admitted the child, and soon Merits stamission some of the paupers recognised it as the one which was born on Monday. I also saw the teeth marks and identified the child. The officer and Myself proceeded to the residence of Ann Murphy, in *Upper Beau-street, and upon. telling her with what she Was charged she *said, " I don't think it Would have 'died, because it had not been baptised." The officer took her into custody. • James Money was then called. He said, I received information at 8-30 last night that a child had been 'found beneath some sods in Anfield Road. From information gathered froMthe books of the workhouse Gough and myself went to Beau-street and saw the IPrisauer. I cautioned her before she said anything and %he admitted leaving a child there, but said it would sot die because it wasn't baptised. I then took her into custody. As Mr. Harris who found the child could not give 'evidence yesterday the case was remanded until he can appear. The child is still suffering from the effects of its Irutal treatment, and its recovery is extremely doubtful. lariat praise is due to Mr. Gough and to Mr. J. Money for -their exertions in the discovery of the woman ; but fee them she would probably have escaped.