The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-12-04 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE CASE OF CHILD MURDER IN WOLVERHAMPTON.  • The borough coroner (W. H. Phillips, Esq.') held an Inquest, on Saturday morning in the Grand Jury Room, at the Town Hall, upon the body of a female infant child, which was found on the previous morning, under circumstances detailed in the subjoined evifience. —James Roberts, of Ash-street, plasterer, stated that about seven o'clock on the morning in question, when going across the wooden bridge at the end of Alexandra-passage, leading over Mr. Ironmonger's rope-walk, he saw a bag tied up with a string lying on the footpath against the bridge. He picked up the bag, untied the string, and found that it conta'ased the body of a female child. A man came up at the time, and witness sent him for a police offieer. Mrs. Moran, wife of pollee-sergeant Moran. who lives near, took charge of the body, and subsequently handed it over to Police-constable Garbett, by whom it was removed to the Police Station.—Police-constable Gar.' bett said the bag in which the child was wrapped was a black one. The body was wrapped up in a napkin ; inside the bag, and it was in a doubled-up position, There %TA a small quantity of blood upon the nap- . kin.—Mr. J. H. Love. police Surgeon, said he had examined the body. and was of opinion that it was that of a child that had been born at least two days. The body was partially decomposed. Externally, there was a mark round the neck, especially on the right side, apparently resulting from the pressure of a haul. The umbilical cord was torn at the length of about an inch from the body. The tongue was in the bottom of the month. This morning witness had made an internal examination of the body, and found that the child had lived and breathed. The lungs floated wholly in water. and itlso with the heart and glands. which satisfied him this': the child had had a separate existence from the :sat her. The stomach contained two clots of blood. and the usual natural brown fluid, but the child had sot been fed in any way. All the blood • were compressed. There was an effusion of iier,oa alai, the skin of the neck, which proved that the child wi injured after it breathed. The brain eongcsted. The actual cause of death was strangnlathm. whi di could not have resulted from injuries can.,l ;it thj.: ~,,,,,, He considered the child had lived • tv-, mit -lour horn, after birth. The right eye pr..tri: led. -The vees,l of the heart. which is open in I,efo, birth. was completely clo,ed. and could not hvt been so unloss tho child had lived • Ii air- after birth. The child was well nourished. and weigh-ed. between shy and seven pounds, which average v.a.ight of a new-born child. It was -ar inches in length, snd had curly is. of a ' The napkin in which. the child ordinary (-diameter. and was cc. It bore so umri; which any tine as to o,norship. The bag. which le f black calico. ‘li.l not appear to have been land he could n..t _ ~,it it had been -A verdict was return,' of Wilf al murder -sou er persons uuknown. :1 in the 11,1,21 way  Conid  AT mail tt, t. :tz,,lithAinl.t.m on Aon•1:::. vins ex 1 on the night of the anti mornin!sof the 2tih. thirty mil, east of IT: ihraltar. a  . s+cirm—thanle7. ty.:rents ot To . At Ii r 9 !zreat d 1111:le W 8,14,11 e. all a Several ,st through the falii of hone s an,l flooding ot Disa,ter in tho Straits are ror,ortea : C. 1., Particulars were not klown when the Atte