From The Times ( London, England ), Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1883; pg.5; Issue 30899.  CHARGE OF MURDER. An inquest was held at Ipswich yesterday on the body of Lilian Alice Lyons MEEK , the little girl who was murdered the previous evening in that town. Mary Caroline WOODGATE , wife of a labourer, proved that the deceased was her child before her marriage, and that the prisoner Thomas Lyons DAY was its father.  For several days DAY had been loitering near her house, and on Monday he asked her to let him come and see the child.  He said he wanted to say goodbye to it, as he was going away.  She gave him leave to come when her husband was at home, and in the evening he came.  He took the little girl on his knee, talked to her, and kissed her, and then put his hand to her throat and cut it.  Her  husband struggled with DAY , by whom he was stabbed under the right ear.  William WOODGATE , the wounded man, confirmed his wife's evidence, and said that the prisoner asked the child who was her father, and when she said WOODGATE was, he told her she should not call him father again.  The jury found a verdict of  "Wilful murder " against Thomas Lyon DAY.