The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

public vehicles bad ao much discernment, as it uould says
much barbarity.
The summons was then dismissed.
THAMES.

William Street, a journeymen cooper, was charged with
cruelly ilbtreatiag a child named Rosetta Carey, hi. ste
daughter, aged nineteen months, end breaking her thigh.
The injured child is now in the London Hospital, in a pre-
cat ions condition.
Louisa Hughes, en intelligent girl, said alas lived with
her parents at No. 70, Back.ehureh lane, Whitechapel, and
the prisoner lived in a cellar in a home in the same street.
On Good Friday morning she had occasion to call upon the
prisoner, and saw the child lying se the Boor in a corner of
the room. It appeared to be in great pain, and she was
Meet to look at it, when the prisoner ordered her not to
Irish it, and threw a lot of clothes over it. Witness then
mat home to her mother and told her what had happened.
Louise Hughes said she was the mother of the last wit-
tier, and that Mrs. Street, the mother of the child, who
was married to the prisoner a few months since, was her
sister. The child was illegitimate, and born previous to
her sister becoming acquainted with the prisoner. Last
Christmas the prisoner barbarously ill-used the child, and
broke its thigh, and she then advised her sister to give the
prisoner into custody, hut she refused to 40 so. The pri
muter un other occasions had beaten and bruised the child,
and it had been brought to her in a dreadful condition. Oa
Friday the prisoner broke the child's thigh again, with
the handle of a knife, in the ab coca of its mother. The
witness added that the mother of the child had also neglected
it, and sho was afraid it would be destroyed if it were not
placed in the charge of other persons.
Police sergeant Kelly, 11 2, said he took the mother into
custody a few months since for abandoning her child in the
Borough, and she was taken before Mr. Combo, at the
Southwark l'ulice Court. Iler defence there was, that the
primmer had often ill-used the child, and that she laboured
under t fear that he would destroy it, and that she
droppei It is the street, and kept within view of it until a
I IMMO *keg it up and carried it to the workhouse, and
ihat hsr mom for abandoning the child was to prevent her
Masud Mug it. Mr. Cumin,, believing the defsnee of
Ills woman, did not call upon the parish to prosecute, and
do was discharged. On Friday he was informed by the
mother of the child that her husband had broken the child's
thigh again ; and ho went to the place where the parties
lived, and found the child in a helpless state, moaning and
usable to more. On telling the prisoner that he should
Inks him into custody for breaking the child's thigh, he
mid, " Can you prove I did it ?" Witness told him it was
dose while his wife was from home, aLd that the child
aeald not have broken its own thigh.
Mrs. Hughes was recalled, and said that her ai.ter was
married to the prisoner on the 9th of November, and that
he entertained a great dislike to the child ; and her sister
was apprehensive that her husband would ill-use it, and
before she left home on Friday implored of him not to
Much it. On her return she found the child's thigh had
been broken, and said, " Bill, you have done this," and ran
to witness with the child, its broken limb hanging help-
lessly by its side. The mother was as much to blame as
her husband. She implored of the magistrate to send the
child to the workhouse it it recovered, and not let the pri
boner see it again.
Mr. Yardley said that would be a matter for consi-
deration hereafter, and remanded the prisoner till Wed-