The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A CRIPPLE BEGGING COMPANY.—Five men, named Bar-
ton, Hilt, Carr, Dunbar, calling themselves colliers, and
Johnson, calling himself a stonemason, were charged before
Mr Knox. with begging. _ _ _

The prisoners presented a rather singular appearance in
the dock, all being supported by crutches, Holt, Dunbar,
and Carr each having lost a leg, and Barton and Johnson
being also lame.
Woddup, one of the Mendicity Society's officers, proved
seeing the prisoners going about Park-street, Grosvenor-
square, all forming one company and begging. Two of the
prisoners were acting as spokesman, and telling a pitiful
tale of a sad accident which had befallen them in a col-
liery, while the others were collecting alms, but the
whole of the prisoners begged in turn. The prisoners then
surrounded a carriage ar_d begged of the occupants, as
Woddup then took them into custody.
In answer to Mr Knox, Woddup said Dunbar had been
convicted at the Bow street Police Court, and the others
frequently warned by him. _ _ _

Worraker, another officer of the Society, said he knew
Johnson as a practical beggar.
Mr Knox committed Dunbar and Johnson for a month
each, and the others for seven days each.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,
Market quiet, but steady. Sales probably 6,000
bales.

WEEKLY REPORT.

There has been a very strong market all week.
Sales 46,390; week's spec, 7.340; export, 8,990.
actual stock, 15,225. Quotations middling. Or-
leane, 31.1 ; Mobile, 314 ; Uplands, 311; estimated
fair Egyptian, 301; Dbollerah, 234; Surate, 10,
274. Week's imports, 13,008. F4stimated stock,
192,400.

Extraordinary Charge Against a Married

Woman,

Yesterday Mr John Humphreys, Middlesex coro-
ner, resumed an enquiry, at the Three Cups Tavern,
High-street, Bow, respecting the death of a newly-
born female child, which had been thrcwn away by
order of the mother, a married woman,
The facts of the case are as follows :—Last Fri-
day, some boys playing at the Canal Wharf, Mite
End, found • a box labelled " Borwick'd Baking
Powder," and in it the body of the deceased child,
which they threw under the roadway. They then
carried the box to Mrs Stuart, the wife of a com-
mercial traveller, residing at Canai Wharf, and
showei her the child. She recognised a pair of
drawers in which it was w rapped as the property of
a Mrs Goldsworthy, the wife of a painter and glezier
living at No 45, Stepney-green. Mrs Goldsworthy
had been recently confined, and had a few days pre-
viously said to Mrs Stuart that Dr Hance, of the
Mile-end road, had advised her to dig a hole, two
feet deep, in th© garden, and put the child in it, as
a certificate was not necessary,and she had done so.
On the night before the boys found the deceased
child in the b3x a Mrs Donohue, who had attended
Mrs Goldsworthy, called at Mrs Stuart's house, and
she must have passed by the spot where the child
was found in the morning. Mrs Stuart put the lid
of the box in her pocket, and called en Mrs Golds.
worthy and. said, "I had a dream last night that
you put the child in a box." The mother started
up in bed, and said in a frantic manner, "So help
me God you are right, It is true— but it was buried
in the garden." Mrs Stuart pulled the lid of the
box out of her pocket, and said, "No, it was not.
Look here." Mrs Goldsworthy said, " Oh, my
God ! a religious brother of Mrs Donohue,
took it away.' Mrs Stuart then went to Mrs,
Donohue, who admitted that on last Thursday
❑ight she walked about the streets with the box
in her arms, waiting for an opportunity to
slip it into some corner. She at last got tired
and anxious, and she went to the Globe Bridge,
over the Regent's Canal, but she was afraid the
splash of the box in the water would excite the
suspicion of the paseerseby, and she did not know
what to do. Ultimately she threw it behind a shed
near the bridge. When the deceased child was
shown to Dr C. Garman he said that it might have
lived for a short time, but he could not speak posi-
tively of the fact, It appeared to have been a six
or seven months' child.

Dr Henry Hance said that on last Sunday week
he was called in to attend ;Ars Goldsworthy. She
was delivered of a female child of between five and
six months. The child was born dead. No corti-
ficato was asked for. The mother asked witness,
" What is to be done with this ?" Witness said,
"This is a miscarriage. Ido not suppose a certifi-
caw is necessary. Dig a hole two feet deep in the
garden," Witness did not think it was wrong to
make such a remark to the mother. It was a com-
mon practice for medical men to let the budies of
stilt-born children be buried in back gardens.
The Coroner said that the practice was a most
dangerous one. If the bodies of still-born children
were allowed to be buried in the back gardens of
the houses in the metropolis great facilities would
be given for the commission Of the crime of infan-
ticide.

Al .-02. Donohue was then called, and having been
cr..utioned by the Coroner, deposed that het real
name was Charlotte Harvey, end that she resided
at No. 5, Thomas-street, Stepney. She was a per-
son living on her means. She was not a nurse. She
attended Mrs Goldsworthy as a friend. The de-
ceased was at first buried in the, garden. On the
Tuesday the rats came about the garden, and the
landlord of the house in which Mrs Goldsworthy
lived said that the body " must be dug up." The
body was taken up on the following Thursday. A
consultation was held in order to ascertain what was
to be done with the body. Mrs Goldsworthy
said to withess, " Drop it, into the canal." Witness
had never done such a thing before, but she did not
think that it was wrong, " as it was a substance
that never was human." Witness was afraid to
drop it in the canal. She deposited the box on the
path by the side of the canal, in order that the body
might be washed away by the morning tide. There
was nothing wrong in that.
A Juror—Nothing wrong I Perhaps not in
Calcatta, but it certainly is in England.
The Coroner said that the coroner's court could
not prosecute in such a case. That was a duty for
the police. _

Dr. Hance said that the medical profession wished
particularly to know if still-box n children required
certificates.

The Coroner having summed up,
The Jury returned the following verdict t--That
the deceased child was found dead in a certain box,
and the jurors say that the said child was still-
born; and the said jurors further say that in their
opinion great blame attaches to the medical man in
this case, as owing to his not having given a certi-
ficate the whole of this unfortunate occurrence is
due. _ _ _

Dr. Hance said that aft©r that verdict the medica'
profession would know what to do in the case o]
still-born children.

The proceedings then terminated.
As Mrs. Harvey was leaving the court she was
arrested on the charge of illegally exposing the
dead body. She was instantly removed to the
Bow police•station, where she was charged with
the above offence.

The prisoner was brought before the magistrate
bis morning, at the Themes Police Court, and
after hearing the evidence given above she was
discharged,