The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1849.

new direeton for the Great Western Railway Company.
We have great confidence in oar peewit chairman, but must
declare our conviction that up, to the time of his scansion to
that oldie our director, as a body, were too moth under the
inflames of the Great Western Itsilway Company, sad we
dosed 'member an instance is which any of than supported
theeharebeideniaopposing she investasestoftlisir pecperty in
echelon foreign to the originally proposed undertakimi.
" We do not Immilee that mere ma Ins say question
between the Great Western Company and ourselves as to
the separate payment of the inter. et cm the cams &doused
ne subscriptions to the Irish and Welch limo, for which
they became • absolute rafientens; but proposals for lush
advances ought a to have been listened to by our direc-
tors, who we cemeive would have beet consulted the inter-
ests of their constituents by condaing themselves to the
completion of Ito original engagement with the Crest
Western Company; and we now recommend that the sub-
ject of the inter. et on the sums 'speeded on these linm
mein the imam into atk ntion of our directors, and that a
clear sad separate account be kept of these transactions.
" elethough we do not &prebend in this or in any other
matter immediately before us the necessity for legal proceed-
imp, it is skundantly evident that our interests and the
policy adopted by the Great Western Company may became
no longer co . petible ; end, consequently, that eke period
may sot be fur distant when the emploT ment of legal
' advisers, wholly unconnected with that company, will be
absolute!, mammy.
R. MACRACIRTILN, C. MORZIIION. C. 8. MORTIMER,
A. K. Boxes, PATRICK Stun
d " 449, West 8 rand, L ndon, Dee.ls, 1819."

THE LATE UNNATURAL MURDER IN

HARLBY•S fILERT.

On Saturday, long before the usual period for nom.
nearing business at the Marylebone police-curt, some ban-
deau of persons congregated in the v.einity in he hope of
obtaining • view of the women Sarah Drake, who was a-
mended on Friday, the 7th lust., upon the heiletus charge of
baring murdered her thdd, Lewis peek., aged two years.
At belt-past 12 the prisoner was plead at the bar, and, upon
the application of Mr. Herring, abe was allowed to be vated
during the inquiry. She held her hendkerehief to her face.
end scarcely any one in the court cou!d, fri m the con.menc,
meat to the close of the investigation, obtain a sight of her
features.
The particulars of what previously transpired in reference to
the horrid effete have already been mate public; and is
will be remembered that a box containing the dead body of
the child was seat cif by the prisoner from her master'.
(Mr. Hulk's) house, N s 33, Upper Harley-street, editressed
to Mr. Theopoilus Burt.io, her brother-in-law, a black
smith, residing at North Levert in, Notts, and that
from the appearaut es which the body presented no doubt
could 'shit co to the chill having been brutally murdered.
Ao eqnest was held by the coroner, and adjourned for the
panel.* of gnarling the officers to get up the eviderce.
Mr. Pnillips, the elerk, read over, by direction of the
magic rate, the whole of the depositions tak a down by him
on the 7th inst. At infervals the prisorer sobbed intensely,
and it was quire spienent that she felt acutely the atria.
situation in which, from the confession of her guilt that she
had made to the sere' er, abs was placed.
The additional evidence taken was as follows :
Sarah Powell ezaroined.—l am keesemeid to Mr. Huth,
of 33. U..ptr Ilarley-street, and I remember Wednesday,
the 28th of November. About a quaver to eleven th d
morning a frit nd cams loses me, and, wishing to teke her
into the housekeeper's room, I went to the door of It, ant
foetid it locked. I called out "Never mind" to the pri-
soner, who, I believe, was inside, and I did not bear her
::newer anything. did not see her go into or out of her
room. I saw the door open in the course of an hour or two
afterwards.
Mrs. .1.11711 Johnson was neat examined.—She stated the,
she was the wits of a policeman. residing at Shirley-coin
,cos, Croydon. In the month of Jazusey, 1848, she was de-
sirous of having a child to nurse, and she applied to a Miss
ilairington, who teen lived at Chelsea, to do all in her
power to recommend her. Shortly after this prisoner was
introcuced to her by Mild Harrington, and she took the
child, which was three nionttui old, with as understanding
that she was to bring it tip by hand as if it were her own,
and she was to receive Gee. per week for its supgrat. For the
first three months witness was paid by the prisoner, and in
the course of visits which were ad interim made site under
rood from the prisoner that the father of the child wee •
Roma& cstnolie, and she knew the child by no other
name that, that of Lewis. She was not then in posse Mon of
tks prisoner's name. In June the chill became very ill, ad
she bed it baptised in the name of Lcwu. The payment.
ceased in Apia of last year, and in February witness
saw Mrs. Drake at Shirley.commoo, where she (willies.)
nail removed from Peckham.
Mr. Long—What passed between you and ha thee ?
Witness—She then add she would take away the child
seed get it into an institution established at Boul Sae
pee me a soareign, and said she would pay the rest as
sees es eke could. She took the child away thee, and 1 aid
sot expect to have it returned to me again. I saw her again
melt day between eleven and twelve at night. I was in bed
when she returned. I got up end took the baby, and the
pismire told me that, ohs had toc. a toe doctor, who tun h. r
W child had go• the water on the h. al, and that it would
not live long, cud that one led better bring it tuck to where
the child had always bee, brought up. See slit she would
mot take it away eta more, and that she would do the beet for
the thilldg I would but keep him again. I dtdir.t say anything
to leer then, se at any other time, about her having taken di(-
react nevus. I took the child back again. She then paid
ins Ifs. more, in liquidation of the old debt,rend I told her
then I would keep the child for 61. a week from that time.
did not ace her aft rwards until I received a layer on the
27th of last moth, which was dated the 26:11., and whieh
caused me to g n
to flarlerstseet oar the 28:11. Last August
I received from her 101., and she lad sent me 21. previously
to that, which did not pay the whole of the debt. Ido Lot
r. collect the amount of the debt then.
The lest letter referred to was then put in and read, and
was to the following effect.
Mrs. Johroon—lt hi webs trembling band andbroken heart I write
the utter to you. You will bc
to
to Mac that I hare bete obliged
to at thc chief fart of my clothes to pay nay Clitorises. lam a Rene
ervature very weak end ill, and when walking in the park us
Words/ for the benefit of the Mr. I accidentally met with Mrs. —,
whom knew wben I was lining in a family at klatebester, and
Onto:el use she would take me with her to unfold. I hope to tee you
Wars I go. I dull not write to you, for they ere an stations to me
bin. Ong lig main& them tokeow my addreaa. You my Lim not
Una Millehifd. I hope pm will sever have the trouble I have hod
about Mo. I have wined greatly on his account, and Ido not wish
you to get mere for klin than I could pay for. It will take me some
time to leap what i already owe. My wages ere act ill. a year, sal I
am not auto brim Mtn up respectably. It is not la my power to etis
mythic more for him than 1 kite dime. I whit him to go to the
puiala, and If 1 return 1 will do all I can for kite. If I die, an my
things shall be Ps d, sod the mosey sent to mu, but you num pay
woe money 1 hammed from you, fur, If doe truth was known, my
Pir"l,6 w.Uld curse is moor ve. If I had not done thia
have
we vaginae, lleged to go to tipain:, I murk have
been starved tit death. If I am spared you shall bear from me in a
few months; It may be Mx or twelve months before I return to
engpe yoland. If 1 leave. It will be about six o'clock this evening. 1
hou are all well. God Diem you.
Yours sincerely, 8. Dose&
The witness Johnson said the letter was dated "22.
Edward-street. D vett-square, Nov. 26, 1849."
Mr. Long—When did you receive it ?
Witness —The nest day, the 27th, and I went on it to 2?,
Edward-street, and from information I got there I went to
Upper Harley.street, but dia not know the number of the
house. I went to Nos. 24 and 25, and several other house.,
but did act find lire. Drake that night. On the nest day,
Nov. 28 - [this is the day on which the child is supposed to
have been murdered], I went again, and found the prisoner
at No. 33, Upper Harierstrat. I saw ker there, and had
the child with me.
Mr. Long—l wish you to tell me, as distinctly as you can
recoller, all that then pus, d.
Witness—l taw her in her room, and there was no one
present but ourselves. She said ehe did not know when the
was going *bread, sad that the Write had put it off unti:
April or May neat. I said, " Mrs. Drake, do not say that ;
fur you lea 1 sever any intention of going to Spain." She
then asked me if I would have anything to eat, and I told
her no ; arid she then said she thought the child was very
much bettr than when she last saw him. I and he was
quite welled
nd a hearty little fellow. I told her I must not
take him hoes, any more, for it was the second time she had
deceived me ; for when she went into the connery she said
she was going to the Isle of Man, when in reality she was
going into Nottinghamshire. She then asked me to take
the child beck fete week or so, until she could get some one
to take mire of him. I told her no, that my husband said 1
was to leave the child with her and not bring him back
again. The sum of 91. 10s. was due to me at this time. I went
down last Saturday morning to North Leverton, and saw the
child there, dead. I am sure it was the child I had been
bringing up.
The witness then identified the clothes found in the box
as those worn by the child when living.
Evidence was nest given as to the receipt of the box by
prisoner's brother-in-law, Mr. T. Burton (before referred
to); the said box was fully and completely sworn to as being
that which was sent from Mr. Huth's house by the prisoner
for conveyance Vito the country by the London and North
Western Railway.
Mr. Francis 131agg, examined—l am a surgeon, and reside
at South Lennon, and have been in practice since the year
1830. 1 was celled in to examine the body of the child, and
I was examined as a whams at the coroner's inquest held on
it at the Royal Oak, North Leverton, en the 3rd inst. It
was the body of a snide ehhd, from 18 months to two years
&A, as I judged from its appearance. It seems 1 to have
been dead only a very short time ; not longer than a week,
perhaps not so long.
Mr. Long—Can you from examination of the child's body
form a judgment as to the cause of ifs death ?
?dr. Blagg—l can. Oa viewing the child I observed great
redness, amounting to lividness, of the face and forehead, sod
particularly of the eyelids, which were swollen. The
tongue was compressed b tween the teeth, the banes
clenched, and the mils blue. I observed a bruise on the
left side of the forehead, and there was also a brute on the
lower part of the left ear. By the direction of Mr. Falkner,
the coroner, I opened the head, and on turning back the
teelp, I discover.ot extensive bruises correspond:ng with
those I had observed osi the outside of the left pert of the
Lead.
Mr. Long—Were they such bruises as might have been
inflicted by blown or violence ?
Mr. Blage—Yes, by a blunt instrument. —I should say by
something obtuse. Oa removing the scull, I discovered cor-
responding marks on the membranes of the brain ; and on
turning back the doom seates.l found a considerable quen.itv
of extravasated blood on the left hemisphere of the brain.
I also found extravariated blood in the ventricles of the brain,
and at the hese of the skull. The bride generally was cos-
geided. I then opened the body Red toek out the stomach, and
found in it about half a pint of thud resembliag gruel.
I also found several poeticise of undigested meat. It ap-
peared to have been cured or salt meat. The Emmert:l was
parimily healthy, as were all the abdominal Ti.cera. 1 then

opened the chest, and found the right lung completely col-
lapsed. The left lung, with the exception of the lower part,
wm in the same state, end I found there a very sm. II quan-
tit y of air. I ought to have said that there was a handler-
'
'hie( th d twice round the neck of the child. A pert ot the
handkerchief appeared to be tight. There tea • mirk round '
the neck, and 'braised skin by the a de of it, and she, consi-
derable ecchymosis in the situation of the mark. Violence
would have produced the eff-cts I discovered in the brain,
sad in my opinion they could not be produced me+ pt by
external violence, end such violence, in my judgment, was
sufficient to cause death ; and I also say that those appear-
ances could not hays been produced after death.
Mr. Long—Did the appearance of the neck indicate such
a degree of presents on it as must have produced death ?
Mr. Blegg—Yes, sir, and led me to suppose that the child
had been hanged or strangled in addition to receiving the
Wows. I am of opinion that death wee caused by one or the
other of them. or by both together.
Sergeant Whitish*? said that as the 6th inst., accompanied
by Supetintende at Kistler, he went to Harley-tree, end on
searching the boom issued three white linen aprons, marked
" 8. Drake," in black ink, and numbered " 11.13, IS, 24."
He bed compered them with the :pion found in the hex by
constable Smith, &W.:they esrreeponded in name, make, and
texture. He had received • bunch of keys from the pri-
soner, one of which unlocked the box in which the deed
child had been found.
Mary Ann Wignell identified the box as the one abs had
brought down. It was the only one the prisoner had un-
packed when she came to her place. This witness also iden
tified the wrapper.
Mr. Herring, who, in the present stage of the proceedings,
deemed it unnecessary to put many questions to either ot
the witnesses, applied for • remand, principally with the
view of having en opportunil cf perusing the wit le of the
letters to which alluston had boon made.
Mr. Ling sow no objection to this course, and reminded
the prisoner till Saturday next. She was then removed by
the gaoler to one of the cells, acid, in the *owes of the after-
noon, wasoonveyed away in the prison van.
The examination lasted upwards of three hours and shelf.

on 80. The verdict was received with symptoms of
applause in the court, and has given a great deal of
satisfaction out of doors. _ _

The Freeman's Journal of this morning contains
the following account of a very melancholy catastro-
phe, briefly snnounoid by a correspondent :
Kilsmsb, December 13,1819.—A most hurt-rending scene
occurred within two miles of this town about four o'clock
yesterday. The ferry-boat at Commogue, on Moyssts Bay,
in craff, was upset with 41 persons on board, five of
whom were taken up alias by another bast and are likely to
recover; thirty-one bodies were found on the strand this
morning, and five are still missing. Those persons were all
returning from Karma market with provision for their
fa illes.
Daring the early part of last night it blew &terrific
gale from the S.W.

THE lltlBll STOCY-FaCIIANGE.—The Government
Commission of Inquiry into the mode of conducting the Irish
Stock-Exchange, recommend that without raving an
apprenticeship my respectable person should be licensed by
the Lord Lieutenant to act as a stockbroker on an entrance
lee of ton gainess.—Sawnders.
Itzatorranos.—We understand that Mr. Corinne,
Q.C., has resigned being a comm 'norm of national educa-
tion, and Mrs being &commissioner of the board of charitable
M questa.— Saunders.