The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-02 00:00:00

A SON nottritNo 1115 EITHER

NGrion, a well-dressed young man, well known to the
officers as a bad character. two of whose companions are now suf-
fering transportation, sas fully cnintnitted for trial at the Old
Bail! .y, for stealing a cramp and a taw tram his father's workslop
last Thursday.
The alinpmen of Mr. Aldous and Mr. Claroneau, pawnbrokers,
produced the tools which the prisoner had pledged in fictitious
names. _ _

The father, a respectable carrtcnter, No. 11, Cornaby-st:tzt.
raluLtd the tools at 205., but saki the trump was worth thrice as

The p, isoner's mother Was present ; but on hearing his commit-
ment made out, her tecr. so overcome that the officers svere
obliged to lead her nut of th office.
The ptisttocr made no defence.
Webb. the oilict.tr, found him carousing al Friday night at the
Luke's head in Little Pone:lcy-. utter.
PARENTAL CRUELTY.

M A IWILEBONE.—iY(Witai r anti II clora Enielism his wife,
were brought up on S iturd.ty, from the '4.t. Marylebone watchhouse,
charged with cruelty to their female infant child.
‘Vhert placed at the bar, the female plisuner utterad repeated
convulsive sobs; but Walt r, with a fur cap and gold band in one
hand, and a roll of music in the other, appeared to stand with the
utmost indifference.
In addition to the evidence we ha 1..., idready given, it was stated
that Mrs. Walters never took the child with her when she went out,
which coupled with the most singular circumstance, that it was never
heard to cry in her absence, created a suspicion in the mind of Mr.
Norris of he hastily knew what, ard as he hail a key which would
open the room door, he entered in eisnpany with Aim Kent, and
saw the poor infant sitting completely naked, in a little chair !
under a table. ‘Vhen they first entered the room i, startled,
but soon assumed a dejected posture and appearance. Mrs.
Kent afters arils questioned the other children. They said
their father would not let them love their little sister; their father
called it a devil, and never let it go to bed ; he put it in the
cupboard, and it te vet went to sleep. That thir mother beat her
with a cane, a;al their father slapped her face with his foot.
During the examination, the woman, who is in an advanced
state of pregnancy, was accommodated with a chair; and the man,
having unrolled his music, took occasional voles of the evidence
upon the back of it. He conducted himself with much levity ;
and Mr. liroughton told him he was the only person in court that
could laugh. After this reprimand, he said he was exhausted,
and asked for a glass of water. In Ids defence he pleaded poverty,
and ,aid his occupation prevented his being much at home. He
knew nothing of the lacerations upon the limbs of the child, for he
never looked further than its face, and he could not tell how the
bruises came there. Ile said it was a curious child, of very stub-
born temper; it likes to be by itself, and does not cry when left
alone. His wife wan obliged to leave it as she had done, because
she stands in Totteitharn-court.road to sell glasses; and as to put-
Cull it in the cupboard, when he was at home, there was no toom
for all the children in bed.
Mrs. Walter said the child had dirtied its clothes, and she hail
no others to put on, and no wood or coals to dry them with. She
therefore put the child between the blankets of the bad, and told it
to lie still; she was shunt until half-past five, and when she came
home, she round her doot burst open, and the dreadful charge made
against her. The scratches upon its limbs were given by a pin in
the night-gown, with which she wiped the child ; she did not know
it was there until she saw the blood ; the bruises in its face she did
not attempt to account for.
Mr. BROUGHTON said, no distress upon earth can be taken as
an excuse for cruelty. To talk of the child's stubborn temper, and
telling it to be quiet, is all nonsense. No poverty, nor any other
circumstance, can be an excuse for the most abominable acts of
cruelty which have been fully proved against you ; all the feelings

of nature seem to be stifled within you. I shall hold you to bail,'
and the parish will prosecute you.
The child was brought to the office by a nurse frmn the work-
house; it is a line li%le girl, between two end tl.rce years old, with
a very fine cfmnteonncc. and so far from appearing stubborn. it
submitted to the examination without struggling or showing the
least impatience.