The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-10 00:00:00

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Guilty.
Thu Recorder, in poising watesee, referred to the serious
nature of the offence, and said it was necessary that • met
severe example should be wade when such malicious injury
wee dose, and he should mark the sense he took of the pri-
soner's conduct by a wstes= whisk he mute.: would deter
others from 'Wailer behaviour.
H. was then seutewood to 89.11111 years' transportation.
Tao prisoner, s respectable looking young man, who It
was stated had a wile and fatally, wowed surprised at the
seateatte.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONIL—YassesDAY.
BUONO MI. BOMA= ADWII. AND • WMPI OP MAGLITIA
CRUIL TII!•11!INT OF • CHILD.

Ellen Archer was indicted foe having assaulted Harriet
Archer, a little girl about fin years of ant
The circumstances of the case did not fully transpire, in
roast quence of the child bevies drown such ignorance us to the
nature of an oath, and what might be the consequences of
telling untruths after taking the oath, that the court refused
to allow her to he sworn. It appeared, however, that the
child w:s found in the street by a person, who having ob
served the condition she was Is, comenunica'sd with the
police, and the child was conveyed to the Linsehouse work-
' hone, when she was examined by a surgeon named Swain.,
who found that she had ben so severely and unmercifully
beaten, that there was not one each of ber body but was
bruised end discoloured. Inquiries were then instituted by
the police, and the prisoner was taken from her home in
Norte.- error, Jubilee-street, S:epney, to the workhouse,
where the child, in her presence, said she had beaten her.
and made the cuts and bruises with a sti k. The surgeon
stated that the injuries billeted upon the child's person
were such, that had her life been endangered in consequence
he would not have been surprised.
The pitmen, in her defence, said she wan the second wife
of the father of this child. He had other children by his
former wife, and ever since her marriage to him, the
drrn had been greatly addicted to lying and thievieg, and
she had never beaten them, but with the olject of curing
rot mof these propensities. If she sent this grl out to buy
anything for the family, she spent the money, and went end
stole the things she was rent for. She certainly did beat her
with a strap, hut ►t was with the best and purest of motives,
and for the child's own welfare.
A policeman (27 K) rail the prisoner had lived in his
hone with her husband and the children, and he never saw
or heard anything to the prejudice of any of the °baleen.
Mr. Witham, in the ab.rnee et Mr. S ;leant Adams, sum-
med up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty.
It was then shown that on the 29th of Oerober, ISO, the
prisoner was sent to prison for two mont►s, by Mr. Bailin-
tine, the magistrate, for having cruelly beaten another of
the children, who since then had died.
The prisoner, crying, said she felt conscious that, in beat-
ing the children as she had done, she had discharged her duty
to God.
Mr. Witham sail the prisoner's conduct had been cruel
and reprehensible in the extreme, and aetitmeed her to six
moults' imprisoament in the House of Correction.
Dreoviho s, Cnan.

turrah Thorn, 19, was indicted for feloniously and mali-
ciously decoying away llannah Sarah Dean, a child under
the age of 10 years, with intent to deprive Joseph Dean, and
Sarah Dean, the parents of the said child, of the possession
of such child, and with intent to steal certain clothing then
upon the person of the said child.
Tee evidence in Oa case was very short and very clear.
The prisoner enticed the child. which was not quite five
years old, from a court in Bt. Peter'e-lane, St. John street,
by telling her she would buy her a ribbon if she would go
with her to a shop. Toe child was restored to its parents
the next day, but not deprived of any of its clothing, and
though it was evident that the prisoner had decoyed away
the child to take its clothing, It was equally apparent that
she had afterwards abandoned that purpose.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and Mr. Witham
ordered her to be remanded to allow t inquiries being made
as to her former character and pars-Auk
The smut then adjourned.

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