The Sun. — 1838-09-01 (London, England)

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.— This morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as two persons, named Alexander Wilkinson and James Charnock, were proceeding in a cab at rather a rapid rate along the Edgeware-road, the horse slipped and fell, and they were thrown out with such violence that Wilkinson received a frightful fracture of the skull, and bad his right arm broken above the elbow. Charnock was dangerously injured in the spine, and had his shoulder dislocated. The cabman did not receive the slightest injury, although thrown to a considerable distance.—Courier of last night. [Our contemporay has been imposed upon. This paragraph was sent to us at least two days ago, but we declined inserting it, believing it to be a mere invention of one of those purveyors of news who draw upon their imaginations for their facts, and tend to bring into discredit the more scrupulous members of the body to which they belong. We notice the circumstance now to put our contemporary on his guard against being imposed upon again by the same party.] —Morning Post. The following case of infanticide will be tried shortly before the tribunal of Konigsberg :—A young woman, deprived of all support by the sudden death of her husband, and having a child about two years of age, engaged herself as servant to a farmer at Saalfeld. In a day or two the farmer ordered the young woman to quit his service, or to place her child elsewhere, as it was a useless burden, and took her from her work. Without friends, without protection, the unfortunate woman absented serself for a day, and then returned, stating that she had left her child with some relations. A short time afterwards, one of the farmer's dogs was observed to be gnawing a human bone; he was immediately locked up, and kept for two days without food, and, when let out, was seen to take to the woods. He was followed, and there were found in the forest the mangled remains of the child of the young woman in question, who, it appeared, had murdered it in despair at the idea of losing her place.— Galignani's Messenger.  Yesterday morning some workmen employed in excarafng the ground for the foundation of an addition to the London Gas Works in the Vauxhall-road, turned up a human skull at the depth of five feet from the surface. On examination it proved to be that of a young female. Rumour is, of course, busy in conjecturing how the relic came into that spot, which it appears was at one time a brick-field. It is said that about twenty years ago a female was missed from the neighbourhood, who, it was conjectured, had been murdered. A n inquest was held yesterday at the village of Great Baden, in Essex, on the body of Mr. Fitch, a farmer in the neighbourhood, who committed suicide by cutting his throat. It appeared in evidence that deceased had been ill in bed, complained much of pain in the head, and that taking advantage of the temporary absence of his attendant he had cut his throat with a razor as he stood before the looking-glass. He lingered from Monday till Thursday. Verdict—" Temporary derangement." Last evening, about five o'clock, a middle-aged man, in the employment of Mr. Brystone, of King's Arms publichouse, Whiteeross-street, was knocked down in the neighbourhood of Finsbury by a gig. The vehicle did not pass over the man, but struck him on the shculder, and he fell. He ent up Epparently not the least hurt, and walked to Iris b d,, oneo from the spc,t, CUMpl;;ined of a sli g bad tpain i n beenth in b ebead, ande askedmnnt minutes before e rm. sSi w as o nt o lie down. He found to be a corpse.