Runcorn Examiner. — 1893-04-08 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

RESTORER.  It is nrt a obut acts dirt-ctly CD the roots of The hair,. giving thin the 'laurel nouris.lnunt required.  TELE SHOCK (j ID VERY liN A. 'WIDNES UOThLI  Mr. S. Brighoustt, the eoute y coroner, onWednes. day held an inquest at the Widnes Police Court, on the body of a newly-born female child, which WLS found concealed in the lumber room of the Commercial Hotel, Appleton) on the 23rd ult. Mary Sweeney, a native of Tralee, County Kerry, the mother of the infant, was present in custody,. and she was- represented by Nir.J. W. tinowles. Inspector Pattinson conducted the proceedings on behalf of the police.—Dr.J. MMacLennan deposed that he had made &poet-marten: examination, and he described the body as well nourished and tully-developed. Ile was of opinion that the child had had a separate existence from the mot lier,and that death was due to asphyxia,caused by forcible obstruction oh the breathing. In reply to the Coroner, witness. said: he put aside any accidental suffocation during birth, when he said violence had h-en used. Considerable violence must have been used to have caused the clots on the brain. --I"Saint.e.,l Hurst, licensed vietualler, Commercial Hotel, said the prisoner came to hia 'house on the 20th ult., she was engaged itedomestie servant. On the 23rd his suspicioes- were aroused, and he went to the prisoner's bedside, and she admitted that she had, given birth to a chill. She told him where she had put it, and the police found the body. at the place indicated. The cbi/d was wrapped in a cloth, and outside this there was astring round the child's neck. The string was not tied.—Beatrice Hurst, daughter of last witness, said she awoke at six o'clock ou.Wednesday morning, and she saw Mary Sweeney dressed and kneeling on the floor. Witness thought she heard a child cry. Mary Sweeney asked her to get up and light the fire as she did not feel we11.,--The Coroner, after consulting his books, directed the jury that the child hal had a separate existen.ce.—P.S. McGregor deposed to finding the body.—Tne prisoner volunteered to give evidence on oath, and after being cautioned, she stated that was a married woman, the wife of Patrick Sweeney. Her husband. was the father of the The child was born on the 22nd, and when she first saw it,,it was dead. Shedid not hear it cry. Sh wrapped the body up and put 'it in the lumber room intending to have it buried. Sae did not know what she was doing. Her husband left her on the 22nd August last to go to America, and she supposed he was there now. It was not true she had been living with a man named Peter Murray. She had been married seven years. The Coroner, in summing up.. said the verdict must be one of either wilful murder or ,an open verdict. After a quarter of an hour's considera-1 tion in private, the jury returned an open verdict.  KAY'S COMPOUND, a demulcent anodyne expectorant for Coughs and Colds, 90., 130. Of all Chemists.—Advt.  On Monday a serious accident occurred on the Hay. dock section of the Liverpool, St. Helens, and South Lancashire Railway. An engine was taking a train of empty wagons along the line to the steam navvy, when Thomas Wilson, twenty-two, a labourer of Golborne, who was travelling in the same direction, attempted to get on the engine. He missed the step and both his feet were caught by the connecting rod and severely crushed. The engine was immediately stopped, and Wilson extracted. He was taken to the Haydock Cottage Hospital about 100 yards away,and attended by Dr. Hayward. Both feet were very badly crushed.