CHILD MURDER.

     The acting district coroner, Dr. Neild, held an inquest at the Morgue yesterday concerning the death of a newly-born female child which was found in the ladies' waiting-room at the Richmond railway station on Wednesday morning.

     Dr. G. Howitt, who had made a post-mortem examination of the body, said the child was fully developed. It had lived and had apparently been strangled by a piece of braid, which was tied tightly twice round the throat.

     The Coroner, in addressing the jury, said the death of the child was undoubtedly due to murder. Child murder was of frequent occurrence, and it was simple of accomplishment. In this case the deed had been clumsily done, and there was tangible evidence of it, so that there need be no hesitation in returning a verdict of murder against some person unknown.

     The jury agreed with the coroner, and a verdict of wilful murder was recorded.

     Constable Robertson, of South Richmond, is at present in charge of the investigation of this case, but it is not unlikely, in view of its importance, infanticide having become so alarmingly prevalent, that a member of the Criminal Investigation department will be told off to endeavour to bring the murderer to justice.