The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-06 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

CHAROI Or CRUELTY AGAINST A SCNOOLYIPTIMS.—
Ann Baldwin, anverataa of a French R man catholie school
an Orsvel-lane, Southwark, wee brought before Mr. A' Beckett
'or inflicting severe chastisement on William Rolland, a child
five years of age.
Evidence in support of the charge having been heard,
Tee Magistroe said that the defendant had exercised a
degree of violence towards a child of only five years, and who
could seemly be expected to know right from wrong, wh ch
nothing could justify ; that she certainly received a cha
ratter tor humanity and kindness in fulfilling the duties of
tier situation from the parents of several children placed
under her care, but notwithstanding all that had been
asserted in her favour, it was apparent that she had inflicted
a degree of punishment on • child of such tender years as
nothing could justify, and therefore he should inflict a pe-
nal:y of 20s. on the defendant. besides adjudging her to
enter into her recognisances to keep the peace.

A CIIILD STARVED TO DEATH.—Oa Tuesday last,
and two days of the previous week, an inquest was held
before J. Barnett, Esq., on the body of Maria Hook, a little
child about four years of age, who bad been, for the last two
years, the victim of revolting cruelty on the part of the
father and a woman who is the sister of his deceased wife.
Toe case was brought before the coroner's notice by the;Rev.
George Charles Hall, the rector of the parish, who, from cir-
cumstances which had come to his knowledge, refused to
perform the buriol service over the body until an inquest had
been holden. The father of the deceased, Richard Rook,
is a woodcutter, and liens at the village of Birdwood, abut
six miles from Gloucester, on the Ross road. He hu fur
years rented • cottage en the estate of Richard Hodges
Carter, Beg., barrieter, of Gloucester, and being • grid
workman, hes for many years bees in constant employ-
ment, earning, with two of ma children, from 18s. to 21s.
per week. About two yeses ago his wi!e died, leay.ng
him with five children, the youngest of whom was the sub-
of the present investigation. Almon immediately after
his wife 'a death, he took her sister, a Mrs . Buhl), to live
with him. Mrs. Bubb was herself a widow, with three or
fear children, and from the moment of her coming to
manage the house, the neighbours observed a marked dif-
knew between her treatments), her own chi:dren and those
of heit illneemmal deter. To the former she afforded every
ladalaguie mud an abundance of food, while the latter were
ill-treated a.d neglected, and kept on a hen allowance of
dry breed. The youngest of the Hooks, in particular, was
ill-treated worse than either of the others ; it was kept with
only a bundle of rags tied about it, and constantly crying for
food. In such • wretched condition did it crawl about,
COURT OF BANILRUPTCY.—YwriaDAY. that the neighbours, who frequently supplied it with food,
BOOM MIL CON:101111106111 RUM called it by the name of the living ;skeleton, and
Ise in Loa, Baum; Ben.aaa—Juoomatrr.
it died es the morning rf the 24th ult. On the body
•
Hie Honour to-day gave judgment upon • point which had being viewed by the coroner and jury the most distress-
ing spectacle presented itself. The body, it body it could
been ordered to stand over for tionsideration. He said that
be called, was literally nothing but a bundle of bones,
this war as application by a creditor under cap. 257 of the
new act, by which it wee provided that each creditor who which were in many places protruding through the akin,
proved ander • heekruptey should be deemed a judgment aid yet this spatted' of starvation moaned in a house in
creditor. ar.d Mien applicatioa should ham a certificate of which two flitches of bacon wen hanging at the time, and
where an abundant* of the necessaries of life was every.
the feet from the spurt; upon which certificate he might ob-
where to be found. On being examined by the surgeon,
min from the proper efileer of one of the superior courts at IX: Baffle— ---h—e—re-- toted the court if he might contribute the body of this child, four years of age, was found to be
Westminster the OoMmein writ of sepias, under amount wee for to the poor box, st Be. Bd.
which he might imprison the bankrupt if thatbarely albs. in weight, the average weight of a healthy
Mr. Ca. the chief clerk, said that many met lamentable child, at the moment of birth, being 81be. and a quarter.
court refused to protect him. The. clause was one eases of distress were daily before the court, and that he On making the internal examinatioa the surgeon fuund
of 25 clauses in ith• new. act constdatiag • code of would cheerfully receive it, and would take this opportunity similar evidences of starvation—the lungs, heart, and vim.
commercial offences and punishments. They were all ern-
of observing that charity would not be abased in this court. cera were llthy, but there was • total absence of nourish-
headed,braced in the 39th sub-dirnice at the act, and were all
" And with respect to offenc.• against the law re- . ._ mut in the intestines, on which also there was not a particle
lating to bankrupts, be it mewed, &c." Hems it was cep -
. of fatty matter ;and the unhesitating opinion or the medical
parent that the object of that clause was not to enema m the THE POLICE COURTS officer wee that the child had died of starvation, aceompa-
payment of a debt, which, gemull "'Aim was the object ----- Died and preceded by long-untinsed neglect and ill-treat-
of the writ of *spies ad ea us, but to inflict mark WORSHIP-STREIT. sent. A number of witnesses were examined, of whose
remarked Twit Annan TO PLIIirDIR THI HAMLNIT Pon- evidence the foregoing
of statement Is a summary. The jury
sent upon fraudulent debtors. His Hearer having
upon the state of the bankrupt law tram Henry VIII. to the OTTICIL—Jsuses Roach, alias Brown, a returned tramp," returned
and Elisabeth
." Manslaughter" against. Richard
Hook ano itzabeth Bubb. who were committed under
present period, said that our of the advantages derived by and Philip Morgan, who stood charged with having 646-
Mo resent alteration is the law was, Met no debtor could niously enter d the dwelling-how of Mr. Edward Hogg, the coroner's warrant to Olouceeter Gaol. They were ro-
be punished by the comesimiour without the aid postmaster and money order offlee keeper for the Hackney moved ia custody, without manifesting the least Digs of
et the ' Gee or • ',editor, nor by • (Mil- districe, with intent to rob the premises, and violently ore. feeling. The other otiddien were, b 7 the direction of the
ese without the omensvence of the eiontraissioner. multina cue of his tamale servants, were placed at the bor coroner, immediately taken charge by the parish aulhe'-
aie int t, therelera, maid not madame • longer for final examination. rides.
Period my impartial person should des necessary for Mr. Peacock, the Postoilles solicitor, attended to *indeed THE UNTRIED PREVENTIVE TO CRIII6,—We have
the sake of sample. Cap,. 267 made the assignee and each the prosecution, tried every shade of system hut the dant. Ingenuity hes
creditor judgment creditors, and points d out how they Tee particulars of the former examination have already been on the reek to invent every son of reformatory, from
should be (marled to arrest the bankrupt; and cap. 269 pro. appeared in this paper, and the following Important addi- the iron rule of Millbank, to the affeetionate fattening at
tided that the bankrupt should not be released under one Lionel evidence was now gone iato. Pentonville—empt one; and that happeas SO be the right
year's haprieonesest, mess by seder of the wart. To apply Jeseph Myers, die approver, and pretended moomplioe of one. Punishment has occupied all our thoughts—traiiiiag,
those clauses to the ems beim the court, Lee bad acted very the prisoners, and whose timely information of the contest- nose. We condemn young criminals for not knowing m-
ill towards his gleams I. many nerds, and had hems plated burglary enabled the police to Insetrate their designs Min moralities which we have not taught them, and—by
guilty of one of the offenses specified us cap. 266, namely, and effect their rpprshension, was sow placed In the wit. herding them with aosemplithed professors of dishonesty in
frall:: • •••elikor to expense by misatimsly der ase-box, and stated that he was aa ell aid roloarman, but transit jails—punish them for immoralities whit& have been
as 'Mina. Re (the r) therefore felt bound hade been fur • emaiderahla time owl et employeavat, and there tatted them. , • • These, mad a thousand other
=losallam promotion; aad, Mho belted tfvea his justameas, she had been lately living at • low lodging-house fa the neigh- facts too obvious for the 00111111011 lease id our readers to be
app
wit* had blied Ur end , under cap. 2t7. the bmorbood of Whi I. He filet bemuse acquaktoil with troubled with, indult uto recommend one other "grut
Ice exposes te greet a Wdrollerie wee tualis=rty°s*ald a creditor a i'lle, W I'll*" the bankrupt. the finivair 110.1011 *an "Ili dam, wins he set experiment" which has never yet been tried. It hes the een wantonly pat his as a bows Ia Waatwerth-etrest, end who told kW nee edvitatege of being. a preventive as well as a taro—it is,
sertilleate. To this it wee alter they became humps to ouch other that he knew where compared with all the penal systems sew is prorate*, is-
eideptad that de • esetileate had bees granted to the mid- he meld lay has hands upset 1001. ag 2001. The wittier,* measembil sithr. mom hulaaal‘ card if c=.
tree., ems emit asp be greeted I. as individual creditor. that he Amid like to obtain melt a Mae, he The " experiment" ere pro
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Idiot Lillis then deposed to having paid Miu Warren. for
Mr. Mead, and having most poltmely sworn to filiu
Warren's Identity, related some particulars eorrob, naive of
Mr. Batllia's statement

Mr. Roberta eliei:ed from the witness that although she
tubed for a stamped receipt, she could not say if the one
given her was stamped, or could she remember what was
written upon the receipt.
George Newman, Gorge Greenwood,and Sarah Hanahard,
In the serrlce of the defendant, severally deposed to Miss
Warren having called upon their young mistress at the
time mentioned, and confirmed the statement of Mies and
Mr. Sainte.

Mr. Roberts then called Catharine Warren to rebut the
testimony of the defendant and his witnesses. Had been
five pan with Mr. Mead. During that time she had never
applied, nor had she received any instructions to apply, for
money owls, to her employer. Could positively swear that
she had seen Miss Billie only upon the one occasion
when Mn. Mead took her to Relgravesiquare to confront the
young lady. As to what the servants had stated, they were
positive and wicked falsehoods.
Mr Mead, ezattin.-d by Mr. Roberts—Ni ver gave in-
struction, to Miss Warm to apply for payment, and such
was his confidence In her integrity that he had offered to
give 101. to any charity if Mr. Baillie could produce the
receipt, and furthermore, he would make the most scale
apology. As a tradesmen, carrying on badness with the
higheit class of the community, ft was essential that he
dined conduct it in an upright manner. And he felt assured
that the mistake was on the side of the defendant, and that
he was only claiming what he was legally entitled to.
The learned judge said that the plaindff's counsel had
mainly rested his argument upon the non-production of the re-
etipt. Without some strong combotati's testimony he would
have hesitated to give a verdict for the defendant without
that essential instrument. Here, however, it was sworn that
the receipt could not be found, that the mosey had been
paid, sod the balance of testimony was so strongly in favour
of the defendant, that he had no hesitation in giving a ver-
dict for thedelendaue