The Sun. — 1844-11-26 (London, England)

THE INFANTICIDE AT WOLVER HAMPTON.  The prisoners, Miss Railton, Mr. Sheriff, and Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth, were again brought before the coroner's inquest on Thursday, but no further evidence of any importance was adduced, and the inquest was again adjourned until Tuesday next. On Friday the prisoners were placed at the bar of the public office before Mr. Hill, Mr. Barker, Mr. Dehane, and Mr. Briscoe, magistrates of the county. The only additional witness called was John Titley, a cowman, who deposed that he found the body of a female infant it the nightsoil in Mr. Quinton's outhouse. The prisoners declining to say anything in their defence were each committed to Stafford. Miss Railton for concealing the birth of her child, and the other prisoners as accessories. The magistrates intimated that they would take bail; themselves in 801., and two securities for each prisoner in 401. Mr. Hill said he would wish to ask Miss Railton one or two questions upon oath, but she need not say anything which would criminate herself. Miss Railton was then sworn, and stated that she had recently been in the family way. Mr. Sheriff attended her with instruments last Sunday month. He had attended her with instruments within the previous week; that she had no labour pains previously to his performing an operation on Sunday month, and that some hours afterwards she was delivered of a child. The evidence affecting Sheriff given on the previous days, and deemed necessary to fix the offence of attempting to procure abortion against that individual, was then repeated by Colonel Hogg, Mr. Quinton. Mr. Ombler, and Inspector Casey, and the prisoner (Sheriff) was then committed to take his trial for felony at the ensuing assizes.  ------ SUICIDE AT TAB RESIDENCE Ole LADY GEORGIANA FAso.—On Saturday night Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Malpe.s Arms, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Joseph Keinch, aged forty, a servant oat of place. John Wigmore, helper to Lady G. Fane's coachman, said that on Saturday morning, at seven o'clock, he opened the door of the stable at the back of her Ladyship's mansion in Upper Grosvenor-Fituare, when, though it was hardly light, he saw something black in the water tub. Upon approaching it he found the deceased with his head and shoulders in the water, and his legs hanging over the side of the tub. Deceased was then quite dead, and had evidently been so for some time. The door leading to the back yard where the deceased was found was sometimes left open all night, and it was without doubt by that means that he got to the tub. The tub was only about two feet in height, and had deceased fallen in by accident, ho could with case have got out again. James Field said the deceased lived at No. 8, Shepherd's-court, and had been out of a situation for the last four months, with the exception of three weeks. On Wednesday last deceased had a severe ;it, from which he was with difficulty restored. rue next day, though better, he was by turns ratio:Aal and delirious ; and as witness feared from his manner that he would lay violent hands upon hinaself, son, a youth, to watch him close; -he advised his On Friday deceased went out, followed by hi:, k, son, and went to Oxfordstreet, where he wale- so fast, and, as the boy said, dodged about so." ttat he lost him. Nothing more was heard of hit' until his body was found at the rear of Lady Fan"...) a house. Undoubtedly, for the last two or three d"-.ys of his life, he was of unsound mind. Verdiß:{:" Temporary insanity." SUICIDE Or A DESPERATE CHARACTER IN A STATioN•HoirsE.—On Sunday morning a most determined act of suicide was committed in one of the cells of the station-house of the B division of police in the New-way, Westminster, by one of the most degraded characters, Sarah Colley, living in the purlieus of the Almonry, a locality most notorious. It appears that, at half•past eleven o'clock on Saturday night, she and another woman were creating a great disturbance near the Nag's Head, in Tothill-street, and Colley was at last given into charge, and taken to the station-house, where she was placed in a separate cell. She was visited every quarter of an hour by the man on duty, up to twelve o'clock. A very few minutes after an odd " bumping noise" was heard against the cell, and on the policeman going in he found her suspended by her apron to the door. She was immediately released, and it seemed that having tied tightly one er.d round her neck, she had then got upon a bench and listened the other to a small bar across a sort of ventilator ; she had then leaped from the form, and being a heavy woman this was no doubt the cause of the noise. Although she could have been hanging but a very short time, scarcely a minute or two, and was instantly conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, it was found she was quite dead on her arrival there. This woman h as, in her time, been one of the most notorious in the la.3ality in which she resided, it is said, for the last quweter of a century—desperate in her encounters with VI who opposed her, and a pest wherever She went.