The Hillsborough Recorder

A Child Killed by his Father.

A child by about 12 years of age, the son of a man who is in the employ of Mr. Simnot, the gas contractor of Clarkrwell, has fallen a victim to the overpowered passion of his parent, who, on Saturday last, inflicted an injury upon him which has since terminated fatally. The child, ill and apparently, was in the out yard with his father, who had previously been beating him, and then attacked him again a violent blow on the back part of the head with a pint pewter pot, out of which he had just been drinking his tea. The poor boy fell senseless, and it was found that the blow had been so severe as to fracture the skull, and a portion of the brain protruded through the wound. The wretched man, appalled at the mischief he had committed in a moment of passion, carried his son to the hospital, where he died on Thursday. The father is a man between forty and fifty years of age, and is said to have been always remarkable for his violent and irritable disposition. The deceased was his child by the daughter of a fishmonger, living in Somers-town.

London Paper.