The Blackpool Herald. — 1893-10-27 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE INQUEST.—" WILFUL MURDER." The inquest was held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the St. Aimee Hotel. Mr. W. H. Hargreaves was the foreman of the jury. Superintendent Cross watched the case on behalf of the police. William Henry Howarth, of Richmond road, teetifled to the discovery of the body on the sandhills at the time and under the circumstances stated above.  Dr. Frederick Booth, of Sb. Annes, next described the result of his post mortem examination of the body. It was, he said, a female child, newly-born. He considered that it was born about five days previous to Saturday. It was a fully-developed child. There were no marks of violence on the body,beyond a small abrasion on thelback of the left ankle joint, which seemed to have been caused after death by the bite of a dog. Upon opening the chest he found the lunge partly inflated, and there were appearances that respiration had taken place. —The Coroner: From all appearances was the child born alive? Dr. Booth: Most decidedly.—The Coroner: Did the lungs float? Dr. Booth: Yee, both lungs floated. I opened the pedicardion, and found there a quantity of fluid. Both the right and left cavities were filled with dark venue. There was DO appearance of violence on the skull.—The Coroner :In your opinion, what has been the cause of death? Dr. Booth: The child has probably been either suffocated or strangled.—The Coroner: Was there any mark round the throat? Dr. Booth: No, none at all. It is quite possible that a hand may have been put over the mouth. The child could be suffocated in that manner without a park being left,—Superintendent Cross: Have you any idea as to how long the child lived after birth? Dr. Booth About five minutes.—Superintendent Cross From the appearance of everything, you I concluded there was no one present with the mother at the birth? Dr. Booth: I could not I say definitely. I should rather imagine Mere ' Seas someone present. It is quite possible the mother was alone at birth, but it is not probable. The pry returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or perpone unknown."  The St. Annes police have not yet succeeded in discovering any clue that might lead to the discovery of the mother of the child. They at first entertained the ides, owing to the cloth in which the body was wrapped being marked with the letter "T," that the mother of the child was a local domestic servant, and that the table cloth belonged to her mistress. Sergeant Smith accordingly made a diligent inquiry in the town, but his efforts were fruitless. Further examination of the cloth, however, led the police to the conclusion that it is one of the sort generally used in the lower class of lodging houses, and they then leaned to the belief that the dead body of the child had been brought here and concealed. The opinion given at the inquest by Dr. Booth that a second person was present at the confinement induced the police to extend their enquiries, and on Tuesday and Wednesday the medical men in Blackpool were visited, but no information that would afford any clue to the mother could be obtained. Enquiries made at Lytham have also been equally unsuccessful.  HAVE YOU ASTHMA? Any sufferer esa get a Free Trial Package of fitchiffmann's Asthma Cure, which gives instant relief r tee worst cases and cures where others fail, of E. FLBTCHEB, Chemist, 29, Talbot-road Blackpool, or address Or. 3 Liftman, 68, High Holborn, London. £2O --To TOBAOMNISM 001111kNoINO.— See Illustrated Guide (259 page., post fret). How to open a Cigar Store respectably 1629 to ft1,000.—T0B•00024. lave Ocrevirknio 0011PLNY (Req.), 186, Sutton-road, London. Mansger, 113 v. livens. Established 1866. ries • 61s. "