29 MARCH 1851, Page 10
George Baldry was yesterday tried at Norwich for the murder
of the child. Caroline Warns, at Thurlton, in August last. This was the singular case in which a labourer went into the bedroom of a little girl, the daughter of another labourer in whose house he lived, and, without apparent motive, beat the child on the head with a hammer so as to cause her death soon after : when he had beaten her, he carried her in his arms to her mother. Evidence showed that the prisoner was of a weak mind, yet quite cognizant of moral obligations : at the trial he was evidently confused and overwhelmed with a sense of his position. He was found guilty.