Show YOUNG MOTHER IS I CHARGED WITH MURDER LONDON DON May 28 A 28 A demonstration tion in court during the hearing of a murder charge charse against a young factory fac fae- tory tOli hand Bridget Tucker at Bootle led to the clearing of the court by the magistrates magistrate's order The woman who I is 24 years of age aSe was charged with the murder of her newly born infant Margaret Lynch with whom prisoner had lodged for about a year deposed I that she had repeatedly questioned prisoner as ass to her condition On February February February Feb Feb- 21 prisoner returned from her work in the forenoon and for the first time had a fire in her bedroom The next day witness noticed a great change chanse in prisoners prisoner's appearance Witness Witness Wit Wit- ness called in Dr Pearson and kept prisoner under observation Prisoner returned to work on March 8 and on March 21 witness found the head of an infant in prisoners prisoner's locked trunk the rest of the body having been disposed of presumably by fire In opening his cross examination of the witness Mr Wall Vall suggested that out of s sympathy for the prisoner who had done some some sewing for her witness might have given prisoner a fire in her bedroom when she complained of being ill and cold without ch charging her a shilling This comment evoked applause from the women with whom the court gallery gallery gal gal- r lery was crowded gal I I MAGISTRATES MAGISTRATE'S REBUKE The bench at once ordered the court I to be cleared and the chairman Aldernan Aldernan Aldernan Alder- Alder nan Barbour said Before you women I leave I 1 wish to say that as the pr presiding pre pre- siding magistrate I am ant deeply grieved to see the court packed with bootle bootIe women One would have thought their own self-respect self and their personal sympathy with the accused in the trying trying try try- ing ins circumstances in which she is placed would have kept them at home instead of making such a display of ot their feelings in a court of justice a display really unpardonable After standing in silence during this reproof the women were piloted quietlY out o of court by th the police ponce When they had vanished the hearing was resumed Detective Archibald said prisoner adI admitted admitted ad ad- to him that the child lived and I that she destroyed the body save the head by burning She named the father I Dr Pearson who examined prisoner said he told her there could be bo no I 1 doubt about a recent birth but pris- pris I over ner would admit nothing All he could i I Infer was that the child had been born I 1 Detective Sergeant Wilson said prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner in reply to the formal charge said I did not know if there was life Mr Wall Wan submitted there was no evidence evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence on which to commit the prisoner prisoner pris prisoner pris- pris oner for trial for forr murder The coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coro coro- ners ner's jury had refused to sand prisoner to the assizes Now that grand juries were In suspense the magistrates had hadan hadan hadan an added responsibility As to the minor charge the prisoner had not at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to conceal the birth which she had virtually admitted but her at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt was to conceal her shame All AH her statements were made when she was in a dazed condition |