The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

BOW-STREET.

Mr. Rankle the reis.;ingo-fil;;; of the pariah of St.
Giles-la-the-irleit waited on the sitting magistrate', Mr.
Jardine, to alit ed ce under the following cireametanom :
Mr. Rankin stated that a girl about to years of age, now
In court, was brought to the workhouse that alternate', by a
'
who had found her beggingbegging in Holborn. tale had
In her arms a wretchedly anadatod and appereatly dying
child, about sir mouths old, but not larger or beerier than
an ordinary Want of one month. The gentleman stateegthat
when he first oho/eyed the child It appeared to be already
dead. At the workhouse food we given to the child, who
ate ravenously, but It was reduced by starvation to ea
wretched a coadition that It was very doubtful whether it
would live. His object in bringing the case under the notice
of the magistrate wee to take some means of bringing the
mother to account for her cruelty In sending a child in inch a
state into the streets to beg.
The girl, a loanyy-looking, half-naked, dirty little crea-
ture' with hers feet, wee hen questioned by the magistrate,
and stated that ohs wee mat oat to bag daily by the mother,
and always with the baby. Bba NU her some was Really
Farm/art

Jading desired one of the onnunesteg °Moen, Tick.
: rag% lo in search of the mother at the addrems
by the girl, in Foirroeort, end to bring her be-
ige his.

tome the close of the afternoon the 0111•XT returned with
Ihe mother who was placed la the dock. She was se dirty
hera bet more warmly clod, and better fed. She
W a look, and 111141111.1 is be at that time rather
Oho wen liquor. She had
with biz two children, kW,
MSr.rs6ll Upon her uppeiremes, the daughter
Mini her lase, gemelleg ea dr of st*Mty,
net to understand questions sad awning imp
M AA mother, In search of eons look or
embers sum as a Mat tot her replies. It was with MB-
catty =Weil& froes her that the prisoner wee her mother,
nod wee else the mother of the child. She saidthe child
wee net ,her deter sad when further questioned en the point
Imbed impudently, end then rel. reed tato bellow rapparent
stapidity. She said she had never bean to chapel, did not
net know who God was though she bad heard that name
beano, and did not uaerstand what wee meant by " telling
a lie."

- Mr. Jardine said it was impossible to take the evidence
of this child, who had clearly no notion of religion.
The baby wee now produced by the workhouse nurse. The
pear aemears we frightfully emaciated, its diminutive frame
mathisting strangely with the awfully precocious expremitm
of tea ghastly little countenance.
the Aker, said that he found the prisoner at the
address mentioned by the child, in Fox'.-court. She was
condo; away without the child she now earned in her arms,
which she would have locked into the room leaving it to
take its thence of her return. lie made her go back for it.
As they left the house some of the neighbours called out,
"Then V the s romdicity' after old Farmer, and serve her
right, wading that poor baby out in the streets •
Seemed them sold that she had a husband, " • fiboseggilogw,
who had Mweye plenty of money to spend with them."
Them templet however, were all of the class by whom the
mart is either inhabitad—prostitutee and thieves. On the
way Ms the emit the peisemer said she did not know where
her tutobomd was, but she afterwards admitted that be cams
be
• sow night.
The Witmer who wee crying, or pretending to al,
throughout the elimination, said that she did not send the
girl out to beg. " I should be very sorry to send my children
out. I was cleaning the boards, and I went out to buy a
farden'orth of soda, and left her to mind the baby, and when
I come back she was gone, and I have not seen her since."
Mr. Jardine add it would be impoesible to make anything
of the evidence of the child, but if say further evidence could
be obtained, he would be glad to do all in his power to do
justices in the ore. The beet course would to to send the
child to St. Andrew's, Holborn, and request the authorities
of that perish to take the matter up. If they could get any
farther evidence they might give the woman In charge spin,
1 and lovelier brought either before him or before the magi,-
' taste sitting at Clerkenwell, whichever might be most ma-
veldent to themselves. For the present she moat be die-
s there was not sufficient evidence to justify her
detention.