Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1886-10-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PARK.  aiming, after which he left Glossop 7.10 a.m, train to report the result of his the police authorities at Middlesbrough. Lime morning Brennan was taken by the m. train to linutsford, where he will be rated for fourteen days, after which, ills ated, he will be apprehended by the Mid. lugh police on a charge of murder. The a., who has a wild look, and gives the Ilion that he is demented, is a man of height and build, though apparently ling a great deal of strength.  be details of the murder will be fresh in the 8O( many of our readers. About a quarter ire on Monday afternoon, June 23, 1884, d two little boys, named William Cousins Herbert Whitfield, were playing on the el Found at the Park, one of them ran into . .  ...._ .-_, _ elnibbery which runs northward from the Mount, and among a clump of young trees 1,,, the lifeless body of the little girl. boy at once drew the attention of his cornon to the dreadful spectacle, and the two I then ran off to inform two nurses who 1 in the vicinity of the spot. 1 sad intelligence was promptly conto the gardener's house, and ee-constable Morrison, who was pereutly located in the Park, was informed of matter as speedily as possible. The body /found stretched upon the ground in an atti-which seemed to indicate that the child /re death had been violently handled, and 1 she had struggled severely with her assailHer throat had been gashed across the 't side, as though with a blunt pocket knife. , blood from the wound had completely sated the whole of the back part of her clothand the ground around the spot where lay yea also bespattered. In her Land she clutched a quantity of grass, as igh she had pulled it up in a frantic effort ' rise. Her left hand firmly grasped e long blades of grass, showing bea a doubt that a severe struggle had Med whilst the child was upon the ground. bon as the painful discovery was made P.C. /risen despatched a messenger for Chief Conic Saggerson, who, accompanied by Superinlent Thorpe and Inspector Knowlson, pro. led with all haste to the scene of the murder. /body of the child was then conveyed to the esueeeetteofrtshesearrrentas, Estate, and,Wserleoso-rmoade , re 3, conceived, the family were plungedYinto eepest grief by the dreadful calamity that befedlen them. The poor mother was away home at the time. She had been at Stock. day trying to get some trace of the miss. mid, and the Snit intimation she received of °eking news was through a conversation she d us the tramcar whilst coming from rt to Middlesbrough about twenty minutes on Monday night. The father is a seaengineer, and was at the time of the g discovery on board the as. Gwendoline voyage from St. Maio to Middlesbrough. leteased was the youngest but one of five , and the family, who are highly rele people, are connected with the terian Church in Newport-road. As M the Rev. G. Strang, the minister .e church, heard what a terrible tY had overtaken the family he Ott to the house to render any little that might be possible under the ing circumstances. The deceatted was a little creature, with Wit wavy hair, and of very winning icillOdish ways. She the Fleetham-street I3oard School, and general favourite among her infantile t.liox 412 e bodi badloom ochuvey44 .., . . . .