The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-21 00:00:00

THIRD COURT.

1100&11 SZE 110:11DII.
anniiiey, 33, mottled. and Patrick Ho
44,111ft1Pois indicted for neglecting to properly=leXe
with oafsioatnmsa, drink, and clothing their infant child,
Peter litimasaay.
Mr. 11.jned to support the pecoseation, which
bad bees lobby the City aulgerities.
The seldom. spiels the female mimer wag taken first
mum • separate indielmes" against bor.
1164 it appealed, Wed with the male prisoner, who
is her husband. Mentegme-osurt, Bishopegato. He
carried ea the hainese a jobbing tailor, the
female prisms Mobcap ell thee% he mending them
and the raft them spirt in the Patti/Jost-lane Mottle
Nfort. Beth yelennees were of most dissipated habits, par-
:7ntie women, who, it appeared, got all the money
d y the heabMid, 'WM wag said to be quite eaough
to support them eamd i My. but their joint prestige was to
work a few Mpg Is the week, and get drank the remainder.
They had tete Millree, ono the subject of this indictment,
and another, 12 years of age, who used to help his father in
his trade. Their brutal neglect of their children had been
always the *WM el somplaint, and one had already died,
it was ellesel. Ms west of proper food and care. Poe the
last elibi weehe they had lived in the above
NM, egemels, I garret, and the frequent cries
see Inn 111" gem caused the other lodgers and
the tslihum M all upon the landlord of the house to
invest/gate the Meese k and he, upon the 22nd of last
gam* matapseil opened the room occupied by prisoners.
He laud the teem empty, excepting a stool, and what
messed to him a beadle of dirty rags upon the floor. Hear-
ing a failt cry premed from beneath it, the landlord relied
up the rag souffles, and there beneath it, upon about a
banditti of dirty straw, lay the child is question—es Want,
about two yearsand a half old; it was quite naked, end
almost reduced to a skeleton. Lte body me a mug of sores,
and it lay es encrusted and embedded in filth, that upon
its being raised from the floor a portion of its
face was es cemented down that it tore away,
and remained sticking to the ground. It could not see out
of its eyes. It could scarcely move its head, and could not
eat sem food which the neighbours gave it. When the
male prisoner came home, and was questioned about it, he
said it had been without food that day, and the previous
ono be said his wife was oat drinking, and he had nothing
to give them. The poer little thing was all over gores, some
of them open and the straw sticking in them. Carter, a
police-constable, was then called in, and the child taken to
Mr. Luster, surgeoe, who advised its removal to the work-
house, and the pricier* taken in custody.
Mr. Clark, surgeon to the union at Homerton, whore it
had been removed to, said it was better now, but he did not
upset it would live, and if it did, it would be crippled for
life. Ho had never seen such an object in his life. It was
brought to him wrapped up in a cloth; it was a mass of
sores, some bleeding ; its eyes wore closed, and kept up a
continuous discharge of water. Dirt, want of food, and
proper light had been the cause of its horrible state. Dv
belly was hard and swollen most unnaturally, whilst its
limbs were almost fleshless.

Th• jury found ill;ton sr Guilty.
Her husband wet tried upon the nue facts, and
also found Guilty, but recommended to mercy, thinking the
moths: was the more guilty party.
It was Mated that no one had am seen the poor infant
in gessiben mum its birth. About thus years ago the
primer had left the child who died, and another, in au
empty rem Rewee's-eourt, and when the neighbours
broke ipso theism, they found the poor little things with-
out clothes, sad head one lying antler the empty grate,
sad the other with its bands in it, they baring mewled that.
for warmth.

Titatemiedee, is passing salaam, said it was not perhaps
a proper somas Sew a fudge to esmplain of a sufficient want
of power, but be ith that the matinee he was about pawing
upon the *ea*, might be *might inadequate to the
heisioseasse of *seism elm bed limn minced of. It
fell hat liMb *lra of Parr awl lei the child died, both
primmer, would be* hem Ivied be this officio. He sot-
' tensed the we to the utmost limit of paneling*
I slowed him by law, measly, two Jean' imprisonment, sad
the man to one.
This ended the buboes of the session.