The Commonwealth. — 1866-08-11 (London, England)

DEATH OF A CHILD FROM STARVATION  AND NEGLECT.  Mr. C. J. Carttar, one of the coroners for Kent, held a lengthened inquiry, at the Crown public-houses Greenwich, on the body of Edmund Sagrae, a child six years of age, who died .under shocking circumstances. It appeared that the father of the deceased is in regular employ, earning from 24s to 30s. per week wages. Six weeks ago his wife and a, daughter aged 13 were convicted at the Kent Quarter Sessions of felony, and the former was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and the latter to a short imprisonment and to be detained in a reformatory for four years. There were four other children besides the deceased, and the father was given to habits of intemperance. On Saturday an application was made to the relieving officer for an order for surgical attendance on the deceased and granted; but from a ropFesentation subsequently made to him, the relieving offieer four rt ottohera ohhioldusreen n lyingG -court nrreastrtlylU a state of nudity, Church.streeti Greenwich, and there found the deceased and on the bare floor with only .0 rag covering. The father at this time was drank in the streets. The relieving officer had the deceased conveyed to the unioh, where on examination by Mr. Stnrton, the house surgeon, he was found in an emaciated state, almost in pulseless and literally covered with vermin. Every attention was paid to the unfortunate little thing, but he bad been too far neglected to rally, and expired on Wedden,easididayil A post-mortem examination had been ma showed that although deceased had suf. neglect and want of proper food. The• Coroner observed that in the course of a ftehrreo du fire pleuritis, death had been accelerated lepgtheued experience he had never met with a more shocking case, and it would scarcely be credited that any human being could be found to have acted in so disgraceful a manner as the father appeared to have done. He was certainly no advocate for the use of the lash, but if flogging was sanctioned he thought it should be applied in a case such as that before the Jury. The inquest room was then cleared, and after deliberating half-an•hour the Coroner announced that the jary had determined upon adjourning the inquiry for a week, and he at the same time considered it his dnty to order the father of the deceased into custody, and to be charged before the magistrate with neglecting the deceased and accelerating his death. Police-constable Winter, the coroner's summoning officer, then took the father, Bartholomew Sagrue, into custody, and the next morning he was taken before Mr. Traill, at the Greenwich police-court, and remanded.  occurred on authorities have of the water from each jetY to ha ',formation is added as to _ Two fatal cases of cholera havingsoo' iweth.aetei: ca Friday in the Inner Temple, the caused the three pumps belonging to the chained up; a notice being fixed oo the PuraPs stating thheatresnonlvrotfe ar irsepnedrimngitatendavt:r drawn froln them till has been ascertained. timewhereb be obtainedsupplies of i 1 Nl'i,ehwe for the w!s.3 awaiting gaOme Secretary was received in Lanoaster on TaesdaY announcing that John .Banks, who murder of Ann Oilllgan, a's Presto; in june last, had , been respited during ii. yr ; r —a,,,esty'pleasar.. .A oommunicatio:BflrlnoemPr his extillitiotnhe mean.