The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-11-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE  CHILD MURDER NEAR LANCASTER. 'HORRIBLE OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN. On Tuesday, an inquest was opened at Lancaster, At Lambeth, on Monday, Charles €loare, 25, a upon the body of a female child, about I I months determined-looking fellow, de,cribed no a labourer old, which had bent found drown. d!11 a pend_at. I •no home, was charged before Mr. Chance  - having no home. kiacliffe, near Lancastvr, under circumstances with violently assaulting 'Maly Ann Barns, and which leave no doubt that a most cruel murder hits biting her nose off. Mr. Moore attended from the been committed. From the dress and general tip- , AssOciate Institute for the Protection of Women*. pearance of the chill, it is believed to have beOn Saturday night, about twe.ve o'clock. police'kluged to parents of respectability. The evidence constable 182 W was in' the Clapham-road, and on went to stow that on Friday afternoon last, a goo l- .nearing the Hanover Arms Tavern saw the prise. looking young woman, about 2.t years of age, :aid ' .7r strike a w.suan in such a violent manner as to wearing a brown cloth jacket trimmed with dogI catue her to tall. The pris,mer threw himself upon skin, a black hat, black veil, and a green pl.it.l her, and then witness heard loud screams for help. skirt, was iieen going in the direction of Altlniffe, He ran up, and on getting prisoner away from the and she asked the way to the place of a person woman, the latter, whew face was Ftreaming with whom she met. At that time she was carrying a blood, said he had bitten her 1111S0 off. The prisoner child ans.wering the description of the deceased ; said, "Yes, I know I have." She was so much in. and not long afterwards she was seen ramming jutted that he bad to convey her to the hospital, without the child. In the-couree of Saturday in- where she new remains. The p,isoner upon being formation reached the police which led to two told the charge at the station again admitted biting ponds being dragged, and the result was the find- the woman's nose if—Prisoner nail in answer to ing in one of them, on Sunday evening, the body the charge, that the woman hadistruck him with a in question. The woman is supposed to have pewter pot, and he hit her; but As for biting her arrived from Preston on Friday afternoon and to nose off, he denied it, as he had ton much resp c' th have returned e same evening, she baring been for ber.-31r. Chance: Yon have already admitted it, seen on the platform of the Ca4le Railway station, and I can scat cely conceive such horrible conduct. Dr. Moore, of L ineaster, who made the P'• It is more like the action of a wild betas. I shall remortem examinatnal, stated that there were two inn nd you, in order tnsee how the woman prog,resseA. depressed bruised lines around Vie front and sides —Prisoner: Will, if I did it, I don't know any. the neck of the child. In his opinion, those thing about it.—A remand wartor,lered, the woman lines had ',rashly been caused by a pieei of tape being, it was stated, ins very weak and dangerous having been tightly dra,n twice round the neck, condition. and held at the back during Ile; it was. possib!e that partial insensibility had boon proineed by that means. The immedute ravine of_ death was  GREAT FIRE IN .LONDON  suffocation, probably from ~row. inc. The inquest was adjourned, the Coroner remarking that the police entertained the hope of soon arresting the woman suspected of the minder.