Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

CONFESSION OF MURDER AND ROBBERY.

On Tuesday, Emma Middleton, alias Hannah Bourg,
sullen looking woman, about 25 years of age, 40
been in custody a month, and who has given such trouble
to the magistrates of Thames police. court, to the police, -to
the warders of Clerkenwell Prison, and to several chari-
table institutions, was brought tip on remand before Mr.
Selfe, charged on her own confeseicn, with the murder of
an il'egitimate child about eight months ego, at Brighton,
and also with stealing property of the value of £4O and
upwards from the Magdalen Hospital, Blackfriarseroad,
of which she was formerly an inmate. The particulars
of the me which have transpired on the seve-
ral examinations of the prisoner, have already been
fully reported. To-day, the prisoner was again arraigned,
chareecl, on har own confession, with the crime of wilful
murder, and on the inspector stating that he had no more
evidence to offer, she was discharged, and again taken into
custody immediately afterwards, on a charge of plundering
the asylum. Mrs Elizabeth Donne, the as istant matron
of the Magdalen Hospital, Biackfriars-road, said the
prisoner was admitted as an inmate on the 2nd of April
last, and absconded on the 12th August. Witness had
been away from the hospital on the 2ail of August,
and on her return ie the evening found the prisoner
had absconded with two other inmates. On
the same night she missed from her bedroom three
silk dresses, eleven petticoats, f )er shawls, one cloth
cloak, three bonnets, three pairs of boots, thirteen pocket
handkerchiefs, one silver watch, two gold chains and
ring, two coral bracelets, one gold neck chain, and
£7 in gold. The whole of the property, including the
money, was worth £4O Mr. Selfe : How was your
bedroom entered? Mrs. Denne : I left the door locked,
and the prisoner and her companions broke a pane of
glass and unlocked the door, broke open my drawers
and boxes, and took aeay everything of any value.
The witness then identified a black potticoat and silk
dress, taken from the prisoner when she was appre-
hended at the Asylum for Fallen Females in
Whittchapal. Mr. Seife : Have you heard anything of
the prieoner's two companion.? Mrs. Deane : I have not,
sir. The prisoner went by the name of Hannah Bowran.
She applied on admission day, and was admitted without
any recommendation. Mrs. Jane Engel., matron of the
Magdalen Hospital, c nToborated the above evidence. The
prisoner, who was very sullen, said she had no d: fence to
make and on being asked if she had any Taestions to ask
of the witnesees, petulantly answered, "No, none at all."
The depositi us having been completel by Mr. Bowden,
the junior clerk, Mr. Selfe fully committed the prisoner
for trial.

INDIA.N MUTINY RELIEF FUND.

The following communi ation has been received.
by the committee :

Alexardlia, October 8, 1857.

At a public meeting of Britieh subjects, duly convened
and held this day, at her 214je3ty's CJaculate, presided
over by John Green, E q., her .llajesty's acting agent and
Consul-General, the folio wing resolutions were un
adopted :-
1. That deeply impressed by the sufferings occasioned
to co many of our follow-subjects in India, and by the
horrors inflicted upon delicate women and children, in
consequence of the mutiny of the Bengal troops, this
meeting desires to be permitted to contribute, in however
small a degree, to the fund which is -being rained is
England for their relief _ _ _ .

2 Tao Bank of Egypt having been appointed by the
Lord Mayor of London to collect subscriptions in .egypt
for the relief of the sufterers by the mutiny in India,
Resolved, that the sums collected be paid into the Bank of
Egypt, with a view to their being transmitted with the
least possible delay to the Lord Mayor of London together
with a copy of the resolutions pared at this meeting.
(Signed) JOHN GREET.
_ _ _ _ _

The result of this movement has been the re-
miEranee from Alexandria to the central committee
of 4291. 10s. Tho committ2e hay., also recently
received from British resident,: abroad, . the
following suns :—From Cairo, 1921. is 31 ; St.
Petersburg. 3121. its 8.1 ; Lisbon, 2001, ; and
Corfu 1511 12s 5.1.

MURDEROUS AESAULT IN CLERKENWELL

PRISON.

• Mr, Corrie, in the course of Tuesday, went to the Rome
of Correction, Colebath.fields, accompan'ed by Mr.
Mould, the chief clerk, and Mr. Bayliss, the u,.,her, to hear
a case againsz, Joh,l CJlbraith, one of the prisoners, who is
charged with committing a murderous assault upon Charles
A.ldo W 5, a sub warder in the above prison. It' appeared
from the evidence, that last Wednesday morning, about a
quarter to seven, the complainant was standing near the
ant of one of the passages to see the prsoners pass down
and that they had no communication with each other,
t.Ati, tom a em Ali
but heavy tab, bound with Iron. When he passcd the
complainant he turilea round and struck him with the tub
on the front part of the head, inflicting a very serious
wound, which bled a great deal. The wound was
about two and a-half inches in length, and about an
eighth of an inch in depth. Had he not had his cap
at the time, Mr. Wakefield, the surgeon of the prison,
stated that the wound would h .ve been much more severe,
and was likely to have pro,ucod concussion of the brain
or fracture of the skull. The complainant had had no
quarrel with the prisoner, but had rep vte'd him to the
governor for continuous talking in the yard. The prisoner
had been several times in custody for felony, and was now
undergoing an imprisonment for six calendar months.
The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said that the
complainant had reported him for no cause whatever. He
bad more to say, but would reserve it for his trial. Mr.
Currie committed the prisoner to Newg ate for trial for
inflicting grievous bodily harm on the prosecutor.

RE-CASTING OF THE WESTML.ISTEE. BELT. —'Phis bell is
to be re-cast, and for this VUTO3C it will have to be broken
up on the spot. The debris of metal will then b removed
to the foundry, where the re-casting process, it is calculated,
wll occupy ahout months. It is understo that the
same shape and dimensions will be adhered to, and that
early next year thit• bell iwy be in its place.

INFORMATION AGAINST A BAKER F3R, SELLING BREAD On
EMltrAY.—liefore the Exeter magistrates, on Saturday last,
a baker of Exeter, named Stone, was summoteed byn man
named Soutlicett, formerly in thei defendant's employ, for
selling bead durino the prescribed hours on the nrevions
Sunday. The information was laid under 6 and 7 Wm. IV.,
sec. 37, c. 14. The facts were ri,,t diseuted, but the
cemplainente in crest-examination by Itr. Toby, admitted
that, in the previous week, he was in the employ of the
defendan', and summoned him for wages, but thet the case
was dismi-sect. Mr. Toby : Did you
,send the woman to
get the bread ? Complainant : Mr. Toby : And
you gave her the money ? Complainant : Yes ; she bought
the bread for we, and gave it to me when she came out of
the shop, (Hisses.) Mr. Toby then contended that no
conviction e.:uld he sustained, as the Act prrvidid that
the conviction rf the defendant must be' within six days
of the commission of the offence," and es in law there was
no frectionel part of a &y, the day o'a which the offence
was committed Inuit be reckoned as one day, and conse-
quently tae conviction could not take place " within six
days," The Bench were divided in opinion 011 the point
raised, three being far a conviction, and three against, upon
which the Mayor announced that ne conviction would be
made, and the summons was accordingly di, missed amidst
tee appl.use of a crowded court.
HEALIII or Loeneer.—ln the week that ended on
Saturday (November 14th), the total number of deaths
registered in London was 1,161, which approximates very
closely to the number in the previous week. In the ten
years 1847-56, the enerage number of deaths in the weeks .
elrresp-,ndiq with last week was 1.088; and 'a the present
population, which has received en inerease,•the same rate
of mortality would produce 1,175 deaths. The difference,
therefore, between the actual number of deaths and the
number as estimated is inconsiderable. But the returns
show that there has been a decided increase of deaths in the
last two weeks ; for the weekly number itt October was only
about a thousand. Old Perseus appear to have suffered
from the weather that has lately prevai:ed ; for whereas in
the List week of October' the number of persons who died
between he ages of 60 and 80 years was 152; last week it
was 207 ; and though of tle.sa who had attained the
age of 80 years and tiewarcls, ttlere were in the former
period only .32 deaths, the number last week was 50.
Diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis
and !tenpin; caugh) which in August were fatal to 70 or 80
cases weekly and in the last week of October in 190 cases
rose last week to 291. Of the number last mentioned, 152
deaths were referred to bronchitis, 108 to pneumonia, or
inflammation of the lunes, 19 to asthma. At this time,
when influenza is common, only s.x cass . arc returned
under this specific designation in the medical certificates.
phthisis attests to some exec nt the presence of the same
atmospheric influence, the deaths under this head having
risen from about 130 to 151. There were only 19 deaths
last week from diarrhoea ;an it is satisfactory to find that
no deaths from cho'era were reported. Scarletina is pre-
vnlent in the west districts, and in that part of London it
was fatal in 22 cases ; the number returned in all the
metropolitan districts is 56. Typhus (including under this
head common fever) carried off .54 persons. Five nonage
narians are returned as having died in the week; th
oldest of these had arrived at the great age of 99 years e
he had been formerly a farmer, and he'died at 3 Brewer..
street North, Clerkenwell. Last• week tbe,births of 907
boys and 830 girls, in all 1,737 children, were registered
in London. In the ten corresponding wetks of the years
[ 1847-56 the average number was 1,445.