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EXETER FATALITIES

... EXETER- FATALITIES. I BOY KILLED: CHILD DROWNED. , At the Exeter Police Court this morning Mr. H. W. Hooper (City Coroner) held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Walter Alfred George Sprague, the particulars of which were published ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... returned a verdist of 'T'm- porarylissanity.' Jane Collins,. a girl of seventeen, has mur- dered her. mistress's child, and killed herself, at Mile- end. She was in the employ of Mr. El1iott, a cigar menu- facturer; two children slept with her-an infant ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... road, taking one child with him; while his wife,. with the other child on her back, stepped on to the down line, and stood, apparently bewildered with fear, until engine and train came upon her and knocked, her down. The child was killed upon the spot, ...

THE COUNTY ASSIZE

... serious even than is usually She smw th frund in charges of that description. Although a case of trnadie infsnticide,tlbo child killed was as much asnreerly two years old, drunkaned seed its life was taken unuder circumnstan ces undoubtedly of a money and ...

THE PLYMOUTH MAN SLAUGHTER CASE

... esthe child was being killed by filth ?-A: Yes; V ing sir. f np- Mr. Duke: Does your society spend money cct in prosecution or in working acts of mercy on ted little children ?-A: Both. Lose Mr. luke: Yon have not spent a penny on ! .ng the child, have ...

THE DEVON LAMMAS ASSIZES

... this woman was charged with having killed her child, and killed it in a way that amounted to murder. If' abe killed it by cutting it in any part with a eharp weapon it was mreadnothing esle, The poor innocent child could hae ive oprovocation ...

GENERAL NEWS

... Longlands was struck by lightning and instantaneously killed, while gather- ing bait on the Mussel Scalp, near Fisherrow Links. A mother and child were killed by lightning near Walsall, Another child in the mother's arms escaped hurt. The husband and father ...

KILLED BY CROSSEXAMINATION

... KILLED BY CROSS- EXAMINATION. ?? the Lori'on City Coroner's Court on F Thursday, Ir. Samuel F. Langha-m held an yinquest on Mir. Henry Crosse, 64, a City o merchant, lately residingat Catferd. Albert ,f George I'egartb, a shipping clerk, stated d that ...

CHILD MURDER AT PLYMPTON

... she had broken off the arms and the feet of the child, sad on being warned that witness would have to appear against her before, the Magistrates, she still adhered to her staceesents,'nnd added that the child was born dead. 'A'ges Elizabeth Elliot, ef Plympton ...

THE ALLEGED CHILD MURDER

... wilfully, and of malice aforethought, did kill end murder an intant female child, of wbicb the Eaid Margaret M Ay was then aat1d e there delivered. It will be *etmembered th4t opon thedie- covery of the body of the child a coroner's inqueet, wae held, and the ...

SIDMOUTH CHILD'S DEATH

... she bad noI 1st the means to go to Exeter when her child wsee uhe ill net Thle Clerk:., That has nothing to do with the ?? Defendant : I did not know I was neglecti e ry, my chIld. P wasliefvewksitth child d .Ing nothing. .John ive~nnr, father of the acoosised ...

THE CHILD MURDER IN NORTH DEVON

... then go out, but went about a quarter of an hour after. Prisoner was in deep distress, and said, I've drowned my child; do kill ?? The child was quite deed and she had it in her lap, wrapped in her mantle. Prisoner was a perfect stranger to witness. William ...