... cane or a slipper. Mrs. O'Neil, giving evidence in her defence, said she was told the child was untruthful and disobedient. She beat the child for disobedience. The child only laughed, and she then beat her harder to make her cry. She beat her only three ...

... CHILD'S SHOCKING DEATH. Mr. H. A. Pearson held an inquest on Monday, at Slough Cottages. Brownhills, on the body of John Willett (3), of the same address, who was killed last Saturday.—John Willett, the father, a haulier, gave evidence that be went to ...

... room at twelve o'clock she saw the cat lying on the child's face. She drove the animal away, and then noticed that the child's face was livid, and that it was apparently dead. Dr. Baker said the child had been suffocated by the cat lying across its face ...

... had been used to keep a curtain in position. The child had evidently pulled this and caused the image to fall. There was a wound on the child's head, and as it became much swollen witness took the child to a doctor, who ordered it to the infirmary. There ...

... KILLED BY A SPARK. On the 14th ult. Mrs. Pedder, wife of a Fleetwood labourer, was washing her daughter, seven weeks' old, in front of the fire, when a spark flew out and touched the child's heel. No ill effects were noticed until ten days later, when ...

... he o aed the child and she made no objection, but also kissed him. He strongly denied that I.e had lawn nifty of any Ind*. ent behaviour towards ber.—The ,igistraie convicted of common assault, believin4 hat the iefendant kissed the child against her will ...

... road. The child got into the roadway in front of an electric car which was travelling down the bill in the direction of Etruria, and she was knocked down before the car could be stopped. The child was pushed some yards along the tramway, and sustained ...

... irons. In the evening one of the search party, a collier named Davies, found the body of the child lying in a gully at the base of a coal tip. The poor little child had evidently strayed to this spot on the mountain, half a mile from home, and then lain down ...

... KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. The chcapitated body of a man, apparently about thirty years of age, was found on Monday morning on the North London Railway, between Hampstead Heath and Gospel Oak Stations. In one of the man's pockets was found a third class season ...

... chauffeur, caught her. The witnesses agreed that the driver of the car did all he could to avoid the child, who was hurrying across the road. The child, however, suddenly stopped in the middle of the street, and the car, which was travelling at a moderate ...

... TRAGEDIES OF CHILD LIFE. MAGISTE ATE ON THE TEMPTATION OF INSURANCE. For neglect of their children, Frederick and Dorothy A. Simpson were at Durham sentenced to six months' hard labour. The children, it appeared, were insured, and this fact formed the ...

... to extract it were made without avail, and the child was taken to the hospital, where the obstruction was located by means of the X-rays. An operation performed on Thursday proved successful. but the child sank and died on Saturday morning. ARRESTED THREE ...