This, at length, excited suspicion, and information was
given to the police, who caused the prisoner to be taken
into custody. In the course of the inquest, the various
visits of Mr. and Mrs. Slater were deposed to, as well as
the results which had usually followed. On the first
occasion, when they both went together, they desired
the baby to be sent up to them, which was done. Mrs.
Searle, the lodging-house keeper, went up afterwards,
and heard the prisoner say to Mr. Slater, who was near
her, "Shall I, or will you?"  Mr. Slater said, "I don't
care which." After they left, the child was very sick
and had diarrhœa; it shrieked and kicked about very
much. Similar symptoms followed the various visits.
On one occasion when the prisoner called, and Mrs. Searle
left the baby with her for a few minutes, on her return
the baby was on the sofa, putting out its tongue and
licking its lips; the eyes were closed. It vomited
shortly afterwards. Mrs. Searle went to get a cloth to
wipe it, but the prisoner said "never mind," and wiped
the vomit up herself with her pocket-handkerchief.
Mr. Herapath, the chemist, deposed to the result of
his analysis of the contents of the stomach, which was
to the effect that the liver and intestines contained
in them small but undoubted traces of arsenic; he
had no doubt that death was caused by arsenic; and,
from the eruptions, supposed that death was a slow one,
from the poison having been administered in small
quantities. Mr. Lawrence, a surgeon, described the
child's condition, down to the time of its death,
and gave it as his opinion that the death was
produced by arsenic. He added that in his opinion the
poisoning by arsenic, in small quantities, had been going
on for some weeks.—Inspector Norris, of the Bath
police, deposed, that on the 7th of October, he went to
Mr. Searle's house; the prisoner came there about two
and a-half hours after his arrival. As soon as he heard
that she had arrived, he sent to the station-house for
the female searchers. He then went to the prisoner, and
said he must take her into custody on suspicion of
having administered something to her baby. She
inquired who gave him that information? She said she
had done nothing, and wished him to wait for the
arrival of Mr. Slater, whom she then expected by the
3 o'clock train. Mr. Slater proved to be Mr. Crosby,
solicitor, of St. John's-bridge, Bristol. During the
proceedings before the coroner, Mr. Crosby attended, and
took notes. On the last day he was sworn as a witness,
and his examination commenced, but the jury objected
to the examination, and it was not proceeded with.
The jury returned the following verdict:—"We find
that the child died from the effects of poison by arsenic,
administered by the mother, and we also find that the
father was an accessory to the act." The coroner
informed them that they must name the parties; and they
then found a verdict of wilful murder against Catherine
Elizabeth Lewis and Thomas Crosby. Mr. Crosby was
consequently taken into custody, and both were
committed for trial.

A lad named Charles Wilding was brought before
Mr. Yardley, at the Thames police court, on the 18th,
on remand, charged with Furiously Driving a horse and
cart, and running over a little boy named John Santry.
On the 9th inst. the prisoner, who was in the service of
Mr. Lee, a master butcher in Leadenhall-market, was
driving his horse and cart along High-street, Shadwell
—a very crowded thoroughfare—at a furious pace. The
boy Santry, who was standing opposite a grocer's shop
with an announcement board, was knocked down, his
collar-bone was fractured, and he sustained other and
most serious injuries. He was removed to the London
Hospital, and was not restored to consciousness till the
following day. He came into court in a very weakly
condition, and will probably be affected by the accident
for the remainder of his life. The prisoner, in defence,
said the horse was a young one, and very spirited. It
went very freely, and completely overpowered him.
He was unable to stop the animal, which, he supposed,
was frightened by the glare of the gas-lights. This
statement was confirmed by a policeman. The prisoner
added he had been in prison eight days. He had not a
friend in the world, and his master had never made the
least inquiry about him. The magistrate expressed his
surprise at this statement. He never meant the prisoner
to be in gaol at all. He had expressed his intention of
taking one bail for him, and thought his master would
have been his security. The gaoler said there were
three other persons in the cart when the accident
happened, and not one of them came near the prisoner,
who was kept in the cell till the very last moment, to
give his master an opportunity of bailing him. Mr.
Yardley said that Mr. Lee ought to be ashamed of
himself. He had intrusted his lad with a young, free-going
horse, which he was unable to control, and when he
met with an accident had left him to his fate and made
no inquiry about him. He asked if Mr. Lee had made
the poor boy who was injured any compensation? The
mother of the boy replied in the negative, and said she
was a poor widow with five children, and one of them,
a baby in arms, had died since the accident to her son,
in consequence of the fright affecting her milk. Mr.
Yardley said the only course left open to the poor
woman was to bring an action against Mr. Lee, of
Leadenhall-market. He directed a police-officer to
wait on Mr. Lee, and state his (the magistrate's) opinion
that he ought to compensate the mother of the injured
boy, and do something for his servant, who had been in
gaol eight days through his master's neglect. He then
discharged the prisoner, and gave the poor widow 5s.
from the poor-box towards paying the expenses of
burying her child.

Another dreadful case of Child-murder has been
discovered at Wakefield. About 5 o'clock on the morning
of the 20th inst. one of the porters, named Jackson,
employed at the railway station of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company, went to his work as usual, for the
purpose of seeing the government train despatched to
Manchester. A young man named Park, employed as
a clerk in the telegraph office, was also in attendance,
and booked four persons to go by the train, two men
and two females. On the departure of the train, Jackson,
as was his usual custom, went into the passage
leading from the railway yard on to the platform, where
passengers were booked to go by the trains, and
proceeded to extinguish the gas-lights. The passage at
this time was perfectly clear; but when he returned,
after an absence of a few minutes, he found a common
blue band-box, rather clumsily tied with cord, lying in
the passage. He took up the box and carried it into
the booking-office to show it to the other clerk, and
their curiosity or suspicion being aroused by the weight
and appearance of the band-box, they opened it, when
they found it contained a child, wrapped up in a white
cloth, with its throat cut from ear to ear, the head being
almost severed from the body. It appears from the
statement of the booking clerk that about ten minutes
after the departure of the train a man and woman came
to the booking-office window, and requested to know if
the train had gone to Thornhill. On learning that it
had, and that there was no other train until half-past
eleven, they went away, and he saw nothing more of
them until they were afterwards taken into custody,
when he positively identified the woman as the person
who made inquiries respecting the trains at the booking-
office window. The man and woman were also identified
by a porter, who met them in the railway yard, on their
way from the station, as he was going on duty, about
twenty minutes before six o'clock. The man and woman,
whose names are James Doyle and Ann Smith, were taken
into custody about 7 o'clock the same morning. They
were brought before the magistrates at the Court-house,
and remanded for a week, to give the police an
opportunity of obtaining further evidence.

At the Surrey Sessions, on the 20th, two young men,
named Collier and Tovey, were indicted for Attempting
to Break into the House of Sarah Willis, at Chertsey.
Mrs. Willis, an old lady of seventy-two, stated that she
lived alone in a cottage, near the Addlestone railway
station. She was in receipt of an annuity, but as soon
as she received it from the Bank of England she placed
the money in a lady's hand for safety. On Saturday
night, the 20th of September, she went to bed about
nine o'clock, and about three hours afterwards she was
alarmed by hearing some glass break in her windows. She
had fastened the house up prior to retiring to rest. As
soon as she heard the noise she got out of bed and
struck a light, and went to the windows. She there