The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTIE.—EIIen Fisher, a domestic
servant, was charged with concealing the birth of her
illegitimate female child on the 10th of September, at 25,
Hill-street, Knightsbridge, where she was in service.
Police-constable Samuel Belchamber, 35 B, proved that
he attended an inquest on the 13th September on the body
of a female child at the Prince of Orange, Artillery-row,
Westminster. The jury returned a verdict of death by
suffocation, whether wilful or not there was no evidence to
show. Prioner was not present.

Miss Balm Goaden, a schoolmistress, of 25, Hill-street,
Knightsbridge, said that the prisoner was in her service,
and on the morning of the 10th ult. she was called up at
4 o'clock by the prisoner, who was lying on her bed ap•
parently in groat pain. Witness sent for her mother slur
attending to her.

Mrs Fanny Gosden said that at a quarter to nine on the
morning in question she arrived at the hoase and found
prisoner as described. After questioning her as to how she
felt, prisoner said she had got the diarrLce I, and felt very
bad. Witness sent for her medical gentleman, and about

11 o'clock be arrived. Just before ho came witness went
to a table drawer, and as the doctor knocked at the door she
saw something like flash in the drawer, and on taking out
a bundle found it to contain a female child. Witness was
much frightened, and said, " Oh, Ellen, you wicked girl,
what have you done P" Witness never had the slightest
notion that she was going to be confined. She had known
her for a long time, and she had been in the service of an
other daughter. Witness found no preparation of baby
linen, &c., and when charged with being the mother she
denied it, and said she knew nothing about it. The medical
gentleman asked for the body, and she fetched it.
Mrs Harvey Sewell said that she lodged in the same
house, and had noticed for some time past the prisoner's
appearance, but did not venture to speak of it for fear of a
mistake. She did not speak to the prisoner about it. Wit-
ness saw the dead body of the child.

Dr Matthew Baines, surgeon,
of 54, Thurloe-square, said
that he was fetched to the prisoner, and found her in great
pain. The after-birth had not been removed, and that was
the cause of her pain. She denied the parentage of the
child, and witness examined her, He asked to see the child,
and found it to be the body of a full-grown female child.
Witness could not account for the cause of death. A
medical gentleman gave evidence at the inquest, but witness
was not present. He looked at the child and examined it
when brought to him in the house, and found the umbili-
cal cord snapped off. There were no marks of violence on
the child. Witness was not prepared to answer any ques-
tions as to whether the child was born alive or not, and wag
not summoned to the inquest. It might have been killed
by the manner in which the cloth was tied which contained
the body.

Prisoner had no questions to ask, and she was remanded
for the attendance of Mr Davis, of Warwick-square, the
surgeon who was at the inquest,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ALLEGED STABIUNG.—The two German bakers, named
Webber and Wiener, charged with stabbing a female named
Jane Humphreys, the wife of a tailor living at 9, Iteevee-
mews, Grosvenor-square, were again brought before. Mr
Tyrwhitt for final examination.
Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlboronah-street, appeared
for the prisoners.
The evidence taken on the last occasion went to show
that the prosecutrix was asked by one of the men where
there was a coffee-shop. She told them she did not know,
and then one of them knocked her down, after abusing her,
and both fell on her, and when she got up she found the
back of her head saturated with blood, and believed she
had been stabbed.

Mr White, surgeon, Middlesex Hospital, said that the
injury the prosecutrix had received could not have bean
done with a knife as supposed, there being no cut in the
bonnet, but most probably with the prosecutrix's head com-
ing in contact with the kerb of the pavement.
Mr Lewis addressed the magistrate at some length, and
cllled several witnesses, one of whom, a licensed victualler,
said that on the night in question the prosecutrix, who had
been drinking, came into his house and complained that a
female had knocked her down and hurt her head. Some of
the other witnesses stated that the prisoners were not the
men who knocked the prosecutrix down.
➢lr Tyrwhitt said he could not decide the case himself,
and should send it to the sessions.

The prisoners were then committed for trial ; Mr Tyr
whitt, on the application of Mr Lewis, consenting to take
bail in £5O for each prisoner.