The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-07-13 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

HILO-STARVING CASE AT HEDNEsrosp. Waterloo to Whitechurch, has attempted to commit Wm. Ferris. on bail, was indioted for the us suicide by firings pistol at the side of Lis head, near to slaughter of John Ferris. his son, on the 13th Aii the temple. The shot canned considerable alarm to the last, at Hednesford. Mr. Bonghey appeared fort passengers, and, on the train being stopped, it was prosecution, and Mr. Underhill defended.-91t found that the unfortunate man was in as iusenedle Ann Gibbs said she lived in Uxbridge-street, 111 condition. Be was conveyed to his home, and Lee . . . . -. : nestorci, next door to the prisoner. Since the cla in a precarious condition. ; of the prisoner's wife she had several times beer! In opening the Monaghan Assizes, the Chief Justice ! prisoner's house. On one occasion she went in timber. said he might cougratnlate the grand jury on the state -about six weeks after the mother died, when a ,of the county, as although there were on the calendar : child was in a very filthy state. Its head was fdi : some cases in which pereous had loot their lives, there : , vermin. On its feet were two sores—one was a be; I was not one of an aggrarian or party character. The • : and the other an open wound. She called in Is most important charge is that against a man named i Clewe, a neighbour, and they got some oilcloth oi all'Coll, who is accused of having murdered hie wife by , : stopping her mouth with earth. A true b ill has been bound its foot up. She was also in the home ; i Monday before the child died, when the child east found against him. , the same filthy state, and sitting on the floor. 3 An extraordinary crime is reported from Oral., In , saw the child again on the Wednesday, and it i Savoy. A young man named Deymonaz has been fouud ; the same clothes on then as it had on is in his cottage suspended from a beam, head downward., i manda a—na prisoner's wife died of to with Isle helms attached behind him, and a heavy weight I y. ; gumption. . There had been a v....me, ..ai tied to them. He had been twente-four hours in that ! Ann Clewery in the back premises doing a Isa position, and although alive when ffiecovered and taken , ~,„,e , work for the prisoner. She knew that Willa down, he expired shortly afeerwarde. of this act have sot yet bees traced:ll'llllr motive I Ferris a boy 15 years old, was left in charge of ae remains a mystery. , child—Mrs. -Donning said she had been in the hoe 1 several times both before and after the death of be A daring eucape from prison has just been made by a ; child's mother. The child died about eight vein French woman, named Fad'-line Coulyn, twenty-seven I after its mother. She had seen plenty of food,ush years. She was confiuoi in the house of detains. at : 1 as meat, bread, and butter, and lard, and Cheats. in Ballad (Nord), on a charge of smuggling. A few nights : i prisoner's house, and she had also seen milk Ma back she tied her sheets together, and having secured , from the milkman regularly. On the 13th she asked them to the bare, managed to descend from the first 1 floor, a height of twelve metres. Before her flight was ' him how the baby was, and he said it was no War. discovered she had probably gaiued the Belgian She then asked him if he would let her see it. He (testier,seed " Yes," and conducted her upstairs. She bat& it on a perfectly clean bed. She lifted it up to lent , A young man named Walter Hutchings has been corn- it, and found it woo dead. She then asked Min)! del sainted for trial by the Rent inagietratua under the fel- should wash it, and he said he would be very gledif 1 lowing circumstances. A few days ago the prisoner left she would. She accordingly washed it, and fowl its: two horses and a wagon on the railway between Grove ; head was very dirty and full of vermin. The child; Ferry and Minster, while he went to drive some cattle , he meantime ties Loudon ex- was two years and five months old.—Mr. Blakenei: through s gateway. In t press to Rennet° came up, and although the driver : surgeon, said he had made a post morteol examinsOor blew his whistle and tned to pull up he faded to do sio, I of the body, and found no organic dioceses, and 0 the horses being killed aud the wagon smashed. For- I death he attributed to lon'these ar g privation on eser g tanately no damage was done to the train. j —the absence of fat about the heart, the kinderI the lunge, also emaciation of all parts of the tele The jury acquitted the prisoner.  There is still no solution of what is appropriately called 'The Merienetimhire'mystely." At far hack as Lb. 4th of June a tingle woman named Sarah Hughes, thirty-six years of age, who lived at a village called Coedbach, some five miles Dolgelly, left the latter place It nine o'clock in the evening, apparently with the intention of returning home. She was seen sows after- , wards a short distance from t:,e rows, Lott Las never been seen since, and her fate is ,lircivied is the deepest