The Sun. — 1845-10-03 (London, England)

CORONER—The fracture of the skull was the result of violence—of a blow. All the injuries were simultaneously inflicted by some hard substance. Nothing but a blow or a fall from a great height could have caused them, I never knew such injuries caused by a slight fall. One severe blow would have caused them.  Sarah Swantoon, maternal grandmother of deceased, said she was with her daughter about eleven o'clock on Saturday night last, and left her near her home. Witness went about her own affairs, and did not return to her own home for half an hour, when she was told of deceased's death, and went to see the mother. She found two other women with her. The husband came in soon afterwards, and appeared much agitated, and asked if the child was dead. The witness then corroborated the evidence of the mother of the child relative to the threats and cruelty of her husband towards it, and his constantly expressing a wish that it was dead. Chatherine Shephard said she was called in to see the dead child, and found the mother greatly distressed. She saw the lumps on the child's head, and accused the prisoner of being the murderer. He made no answer. A week before the child's death she heard the accused wish " the little (horrible epithet) was dead." He wished so more than once. The mother was kind to deceased.  By the prisoner—When you spoke about the infant you were out of temper. I never saw you ill-use it. Mary Foll, of 15, Somers-street, said she saw the child in its mother's arms, in a pawnbroker's shop, half an hour before its death. It was then awake, and looked remarkably well. On Monday week the accused used expressions against the child too gross to repeat. He frequently wished the child was dead, and said that at night he used to stretch his arm over his wife and strike the child on the head.  ➢lr. Whitfield, the surgeon, re-examined The child's death might have been instantaneous. It might have lived half an hour after the reception of the injuries described. Theprisoner here said that a person told him that a man named Hurley had said that he often saw the child fall .from the girl's arms that used to nurse it, and that he wondered it had not died before. The prisoner wished to have him called.  A man named Clair corroborated the statement of the pri. soner.  The prisoner here addressed the Court, and said that it was true he had in his passion often threatened the child. He had not seen it for an hour previous to its death. If he had killed the child he had plenty of time to escape; but his conscience told him he was innocent, and he therefore remained to abide the result of the coroner's inquiry, which he knew would take place.  The man Hurley here entered the room, and said he often saw the child fall from a girl's arms, or rather slip out of her lap, as she sat nursing it on the steps of the door. He did not consider the falls serious. He did not see the child fall on Saturday last, but he saw it in the girl's arms, who was rubbing its head, whilst it was crying as if from pain in the head.  The jury finally, without more than a moment's deliberation, returned a, v;-erdict of " Wilful murder against William Hill."  QIJARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY,  Flag Officers—Vice-Admiral George J. Shirley, Rear• Admiral James H. Tait.  Captains—Robert Maunsell, Edmund Waller, Sir Williar S. Wiseman, Bart. _ _ _  Commanders—Charles Haultain, William Minchin, Adam C. Duncan, Edward C. Earle, John Lodwiek, Robert Palk, Robert Fricker, Samuel Cuming, W. S. Oliver, Charles Tilley, Samuel Mottley. Lieutenants—John K. Tudor, Charles J. Cater, Robert Darke, Joseph Lowe, James Newton, Stephen R. Walsh, Charles Dangertield,liam Pinhorn, Christopher Smith, Robert Inman, Isaac Avarne, Robert Brown, Sydenham Wylde, Daniel Woodruffe, Frederick Hermah,William W. Wilson, Sir Francis Freeing, Bart., Robert G. Campbell. Masters—Robert Tyrrell, James Pearn, William White, (A), Walter Ramsay, Thomas Baseley, Edward M. Chaffers. Second Master—Thomas Walker.  Medical Officers—Surgeon John H. Swann, Surgeon George Walker, Surgeon James Farrell, Surgeon Patrick Brenan, Assistant-Surgeon Thomas F. Wolrige (Act.) Paymasters and Pursers—William Tuckfield, John Sullivan, Jcsse Slogett, Silas E. Stretton, James Gregory. Roy Ar.