The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS.

weer was brought ht, is the custody of a constable awned
!lead, and was charged by a man named Alfred Sneed.
with whom she :rad cohabited, with having some time pre-
viously nurdweed an infant, of which she was the mother.
The primal": than said, " I waat to @peek the truth, I have
nothing to hide, and I throw myself on your mercy. I was
delivered of a female child on the 13th of April lest, at
Eintitreet. Regent•stret. It sues ill from Its birth. On
the 27th of May, between twelve and one o'clock, it ap-
peared to be dying, sad I took it to Mr. Harding., the sur-
ges., of Sher-street, °olden-square, and he rid it would
not live seamy hears. I was then advised by Ellen Davie
to place it near snow gentleman's house, where it would be
found, and, rit erilit set live, be decently buried. Act.
ing on that suggestion, I went to Hampstead, and placed
the child near • • • • Well walk, and left it there.
It was alive ahem I left It but I don't know anything of it
since." Site gilded that she site, sometime after she left
the child, a bill in a baker's shop relating to a child found,
aid she silted the man she lived with to give her leave to
find out, if she could, if it referred to her's • but be refused
to allow her to do so. The priuner was dtleined, and an
officer went to Hampstead workhouse and fetched some
child's clothes (produced), which, on being shown to he:,
she at IMP recognised se those her child had on when she
left it, end when told that the child wu living she cried
Oh, thanks; shall I have it again." After that she said
she and Ellen Davis bought two pennyworths of soothing
syrup at ..ifferent shops cud gave the child, and also that
she had on the day after the desertion represented to Mr.
ilardinge, the surgeon, that the child was dead, and ob
tared from him a certificate to that effect.
The constable, 199 deposed that on the morning in
question he wascalled to St. Anne's court, where he found
the man Stroud, holding the prisoner. Stroud said "I give
her Into custody for the wilful murder of her infant
The prisoner fell down, fainting, and when she recovered,
Stroud said, She gave the child two pennyworth of some-
thing and took it up to Hampstead Heath." Slur said,
" Oh, Alfred, how can you do this ?" He took her to the
station, and heard her =the the statement deposed to by
Mr. Lester. _ _ _

~lnepeotor Lester said the prisoner had supported Stroud
by prostitution, and they had lived together in the meet
wretched and miserable way. He had acted with • great
deal of brutality to her, and when she was brought to the
station she had bees beaten black and blue. When she did
not provide his with sufficient money the fellow told her
she could get more if she pleased, and that she spent part
of what she did pet with other men.
Ellen Davis, single woman, No. 1, Stephisnatreet, Rath-
bone-place, said she was apprehended on this charge after
the statement made by the prisoner, but was afterwards dis-
charged by the magutrate. She went with the prisoner
to Kr. Hardinge'a and said (as the prisoner told her) that
the child was dead, and one of them, she could not recollect
which, asked for the certificate. The primmer told her that
the child was dead, at her mother's, at Hampstead. When
the prisoner took the child to Hampstead she west with
her, the prisoner representing that she was going to take it
to her mother's, where she had another child four or five
years old. Prisoner left her for about twenty minutes, and
when she returned she had not the child with her. That
was about twelve o'clock in the day.
Mr. Hardinge, surgeon, of Ssekvilleotreet, said he had
a surgery in Silver street, Golden-square. In April last he
attended the prisoner in her confinement in &kitchen in the
house 62, King-street, Golden-square. Three days atter
birth the child shiowed symptoms of gonorrhces ophthalmia,
and became nearly blind. The mother herself was suffer-
ing under a certain disease. The child drooped and got
worse every day, and on the morning of the 27th of Mae
Davis and the mother brought it to his surgery, and he said
he did not think it could live many hours. The mother
then, as he understood, said she should take it to her mo-
ther's at Edmonton. Next day Davis came and asked him
for s certificate, saying the child had died. He could not
say whether the mother was then with her. He certified
that the child had died of a certain disease. "During the
whole time," deposed Mr. Harding', " I attended the mo•
they she appeared to take every care of the child, as far as
she could: it was scantily dressed, but I belies that was not
her fault. A child in the state in which that was would be
likely to suffer from ezpoonro ; if it had remained r!tt the
mother it mast have died, considering her condition and the
Mal absence of all necessaries and comforts."

Pram the other evidence givenit appeared the the poor
child was found by • young man who, with a dozen others,
were playing at cncktt on ilampstead.heath about six
o'clock in the evening of the Bth of May. The ball was
struck through a fence, and Butterthwaite, the witness, got
through into • paddock after it. He saw a parcel lying
near a hush. It was lying where no one could have seen
it but by accident, and on going to it he found it to be an
infant alive. lie sent fee an (Meer who took it to the
workhouse, lwhere, finding it nearly exhausted, in tact
scarcely alive, remedies were resorted to by Mr. Lord, the
surgeon, and the workhouse master, which eventually re-
stored it, and at the present time it is well and in good
health. It was in court, under the are of a nurse, and
the prisoner who throughout the ease cried piteously,
looked at it from the dock evideutly with all a mother's
anxiety.
Mr. Payne addressed the jury for the defence.
The jury, after a slight consultation, found her Not
A feeling of compulsion and sympathy for the prisoner
was manifested throughout the came, and is she left the
dock a small sum, subscribed by jurors and others, was
handed to her, and it was understood that one or two in-
dividuals had resolved to make en effort to prevent her re-
turniGg to the life of infamy she had led. The child wee
taken back to the workhouse for the, present. It has re-
ceived the name of Mary Heath, from the fact of its having
beta found on lianwitesd•hostb.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOURS. •
CH•k011 01 MUILDIUL.

livery Itiorkr, a wretched looking man, in a state of in-
tozicvion, was brought before nidenson Finis and Cope-
land, upon the sharp of having males wito's throat with a
razor. The prisoner is a josmasymasi abssmaker.
In cousequence of dr osedir i whidi the prisoner was
yes being placed at the bow. the Arra directed test
no Chief Clerk should re war rdre than wee no.
farary to justify • o mar.
Jr Bra (66 City Polio') mil—At 10 o'clock this
1111Isiag, Vmmosquenco of infantilism which I received, I
rut to the bre Kw 711, Bomar*, Bishopegate, the attic
st writ har is sasurd by the grew. I saw Mrs.
Begets, she is re raw of dr prow's wile, and the
gram, in the pars rem te tbs rot. She said to
r that she bad sera ha bre drght• r. to take her
bra with her t• Bath, tad sits sar get no informa-
tion when her daughter was, sad that she
had boss up stairs and sued Is her daughter
"As" trial tiar bat MOWS* so answer. I
asked the pram why bs did sot tall dr mother when
the daughter was ?It's all ; I t ith
her last night." I asked Chs prior, Ifdght she warn ep
inw the
house. He made no reply I. this quern. Th. mother
thus said, Yea villain, yet bane murdered my daugh-
ter." Ms made me Isftvsmil I dr ask him to the eta-
tion-liseso. He was rah at that tr. I searched the
r, and found sr bim NO abaft sad three E far-
a,
a shoemaker's bilk sad ; bat them were no
ular marks yr his rm. Ira ladirbaiim=
et the rotisseries. ami marl wilb
Brain is Mr hew, cad no rat up Stirs, rte Ms
attic, white sisspard by Its Isr. Agar& the ratirm
was a bedroll, ad I Ural dawn the aramerpra is the
Maned saw the deli bob ti a kris, with her threat
imply cut, ad the 'Midge strad. I 161111M1111 blood
=ths bad aad bolerta. MA ranted
Mr. I re dr der, and
stardwil the pro. sad la • es the Mg of tho bed-
stead I howl the tor gssdetsd. (Herr rases, the Mode
of whisk was dr!' with bird, was produced.) The razor
sortwas skst "Is Ildburn. barn tbs rid= was eland.. It was a
Ed
ntaliitesec Emu suarking which was tot quits
in about the laterrose of his wife's .stet be,
tweom aad the elsord.
drama Firs and Copeland advised the miasrable
rash l• maks so ramisd him for
further so
earati
It was stated amok the strairums sf the prisoner
and his wife that they had bur mrstmatly quarrelling
autos their marriage, about II mar. @gm

WORSE I P-Writhlfli.
• harsh-feattired elderly man, maned Thorase Watford,
daseribed as a pluterer, was charged with assaulting and
wounding his wife, Eliza Watford, whereby her life had
been serious) endangered.
It ap , from the evident* of two inerried wanes,
named • and Webb, midi." nest door to the gobease,
in Niehol-serest, Bothealiprege, that between seversad
eight o'clock ea the main et Saturday lam they err
soddenly abused by a lewd ateempeabod hymning
of murder, he the delendenVe Mw, end imeedietely after-
wards a Ueda lid rubel mat late the West sod implored
their intactness* to pets* her mere *ea the violins*
et he: haw, who wee la the eat et imuraLbeer. la
am esopemes et doe tiameente the weir et the er they
wen amid Se teem the bemobasjoili irea,al. so through
the ufradom t they new him We Mb Is
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terrible blew ea the leek et the bemd with the inewderous
!implement whist' Motehed her semseless on the Mir. Oa
reommatios with his epos bit brutal osmium Me per
some theneumed to MITTS the 'thrum in a dweller unmoor
it thug to interfere, end after =aft, • Mew
the window with the please( iron at COO et their
hada aught up his wife in lie um, and m. her out
tate Om Ones with the meimelles that "be aged he
W deem for her at last, *ad that she might die as a dung-
bill." The poor weenie was MOM km the melted by a
pabsegnaa, whe had ham intruded by the disturbenee, and
memped to a sumpoth to the neighbourhood, who directed
her bemedlate remesal M the beepitaL
Pass Ommealie Deee, H 192, stated that am maim
the met be Speed the leered woman lying se the pave-
ment ad bleedimg grollinashr hose a dreadtal ereirml ea the
bask M the beadoriti bath her ayes aimed op, and her
ire to sheeldeoly mallieted with mate mad hrelem *Si She
amid met lima easegalsed by bre meereet relatives.
Mar asemeybi he to the Merkel, he reamed book to
the home sad attempted te men the pelisme, who mode
a sisepente misuses, mil theemesed is ley hie heed apes
with a piker if he motored to approach him het with the
Mehmeme of mother 01111111112610 he was shims* dimmed,
lasi she. iWOIIIIIIIII7. . Oa their way to ti•salmeilarbasee
pnisour the alarming entadtties
1 yr*, 1.141".= Idea
he immured, with ea oath, that he wee