The Daily Times. — 1860-08-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER BY A BOY FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.  (fur readers will recollect thai in an issue or two ago of the Planet, we gave an account of a mysterious and sudden death of a little boy aged about six years, son of a Mr. Howard, of Romney—how the little fellow went in company with some other children to look for the cows—how he was missed, and how on the following day his remains were found under the 1)Tmillwooq of .a free top, with his forehe4dsnlailhcld in, in such a manner as tq lead the juty who sat in fruitiest on the body to declare that it "met its death at the hands of some person—or from some other causes unknown." The truth concerning the matter seems now to be fully revealed, and lays bare a most shocking murder of the little innocent. It seems that suspicion rather rested on a lad named Alfred Lot, about fifteen years of age, and 40.11 9f a TeSpecta§lQ farmer in the vicinity. Indeed ao strongwas tbi snsiiiCion't4at be was brought ap helore the jury, but was not very closely questioned, and shortly after the verdict was rendered he left the vicinity. This last circnmstance, together with other facts that came to light, tended to strengthen the suspicions already resting upon the lad, and he was immediately arrested and brought before Caleb Goatsworth, Esq., where sufficient testimony was given to warrant the justice of the peace in committing the accused to  the county gaol in this town; for trial at the next court of assize. 4ince his cotnznittal, we understand" young lof has confessed to haYing nitirde44 the little boy Howard, The facts as detailed t$ us • are attlAstan, ti.illy these :—lt seems that Lat went to the pas? tine to look for the news, and William Howard followed him, at which Lot became offended and tat him not to follow him any longer. At this tame Lot was sitting on the fence. The little fellow did not heed what Lot had told him, and got over or throovb the fence, and coqiqqecl to follow Lot. They bad not gone tax vtien I.ot picked up a hiCkory grnb, as it is ternied—:a good sized stick—and with one blow struck the little fellow to the ground. This was the only blow that was given, but it was sufficient to crack . the skull, and completely break in the left side of his forehead over the eye, so that the doctor was readily able to pick oat of the brain several pieces of bone that had been 'driven in upon it. of course, death was iosinstantaneousfor, as it 'was narrated.to ps, the bey fell oo his hack, and did not move. After the murder it seems that Lot left his victim in the field; but in a short time came back, and dragged or carried the body some distance, and deposited it under the tree top and brush where it was subsequently found. Between the spot where a clot of blood was found, and where the murder was committed, • and where the body was deposited, were two high log!, over which the body musthaye gone, and it was this fact which settled the conviction firmly on the minds of the jury, that little Howard could 4ot have been kicked by a horse and afterwards have crawled to the brushwood, and that a murder had been committed, and that the murderer had removed the body of the child after death had ensued. Young Lot, as we said before, is about fifteen years old, and very strongly built. What reasons, beyond those above stated, led him to perpetrate the awful crinie of murder --that induced him to take the life of a little boy only five 'Or sir. years of age, 7e, cannot coneeiye. from all accounts it seems to have been a most unprovoked and wanton act. Indeed it is seldom that such a wicked Sacrifice of humau life oegtirs, 40 we hype that it may be a long, long time ere such a melancholy event comes within our province as a journalist to • chronicle.— Chatham Planet, June 26.  Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who has recently returned from a European tour, is at Andover. She is engaged in the preparation of a new work, on which: it Is stated, she /vans to rest her reputation as an atithore4s.