The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN,

charged with obtaining portraits and miniatures of
the community at large, and dishonestly disposing of I
them, underwent another examination before Mr.
Arnold.
The former charges against the prisoner having
failed, through the defective state of the law with re-
spect to such offences, the business to-day commenced
with a continuation of the case of Mr. J. B. Mayan,
the American daguerreotype artist, 433, West Strand,
who charged the prisoner with " disposing" of Mr.
N. M. Power, m.y. , in his usual unceremonious
manner. The prisoner had applied to Mr. Mayall, as
an artist of celebrity, to take sitters for his " national
work," with an understanding that they should be
paid for in a certain time, but Mr. Mayall finding
that he did not keep faith with him, directed that the
clerks should not let him have any more portraits
without the money. Prisoner obtained the likeness
of Mr. Power by representing that he would return it
in a short time or pay for it, and the letter containing
that promise concluded with the following disap-
pointment of the prisoner's hopes :
" Mr. Collins tried for the Nepaulese Ambassador,
but was just too late when he arrived from the north,
as his excellency sat elsewhere."
The picture was obtained from Mr. May
in 1848;
and pawned, as he believed, on the same day.
Mr. Binns requested permission Of the magistrate
to cross-examine Mr. Mayall, and did so with a view
of showing that a bill bad been made out and sent to
prisoner for the portrait
in question, but failed in
doing so, Mr. Mayall declaring that such was not the
case, and adding that although he had taken many
poeteaite,prisoner had not paid for one of them.
Mr. William Smith, jun., pawnbroker, Clark's-
place, Islington, produced the likeness in question,
:IbCuettlni do t trace
precisely•tlle
of exactthia
one,
which was pawned either on the 20 or 25th of June,
1848, for 21. 2s.
been long out, sent to auction, and re-
turnedfour others pawned, date of
by the prisoner,
pledges uhnaysoinldg. They were•pawned
who went by the name of.Celeman.
Sergeant Smith, of the detective police, produced
the pawnbroker's ticket of the pledge, which-he took
from the prisoner. It was indorsed "Powet, M.P.,
Mayor of Dublin, by Mayall," in
(as witness believed)
prisoner's handwriting.-xae
Mr.
mined the officer, who proved
B ina aoroaa
that he had seen prisoner write, had received
letters
from hira,"and knew his handwriting well. The
officer let out that his former business with the pri-
soner was on the subject of a lady's picture.
Mr.
against
tLtnhe apsrkiseodoeirf
,there was any other case
readyl
,"t..31r. Cumming, '
. -claim Mrs. an i inspector of the B division,
Eliza Batoer, who is engaged at 'M.
I Claudet's
some , Regent-street. Prisoner "went, there in
1850,represented
himself as an artist, and wanted
patterns of eminent navalofficers,
he couldget
be and inquired if
gentlemen. to sit whitper centage would
allowed—the likenesses,of .
course,being for his
work. He subsequently borrowed, about April or
MAy, - four portraits of ladies to show as specimens,
as:hermante,d.-some ladies to si .*
, but never returned
them.

Smith produced the ticket of the ladies, who had
been in safe keeping at Mr. Wood's, a pawnbroker.
They were pawned on the 22d of May, 1851.
A_person who had been in Mr. Wood's employ-
ment was called, but stated that he did not take in
the pledge.
Mr. CUMMi• said that Mr. Wood was out of
town, but it w. Id prollably be deemed necessary to
furthcx re f ! the cask, as Lord Sandys' portrait
had been,So.ll, pay/nod,. and it was a mystery how it
had bi.•4'obtirined. His Lordship had expressed his
determination to come forward and prosecute the
prisotiec, in whose possession the duplicate had been
'found.

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Op an examination of the ticket of the " four
ladifts," the following endorsement was found i❑
tha, prisoner's hand-writing : " Specimens of
Claudet's."

Mr. ARNOLD said he should remand the prisoner
till Fridsy.
Mr. Binns wished to know whether he had came
to any determination with respect to the cases he had
heard ?

Mr. ARNOLD said he should send Mr. liayall's case
for trial as a larceny, and if in the second case it was
satisfactorily shown that he obtained and pawned in
May, that also. He, of course, coald not say what
would,be done in the other case mentioned by the
police.
Prisoner was then remanded.

INFANTICIDE AT HASTINGS.
About mid-day on Sunday, one of those tragical
events which are now, unfortunately, of frequent on-.
currence, took place within the borough of flaseingi.
The particulars will be found in the sullinined evi-
dence, taken at the inquest. Mr. PmAn, a most
respectable person, and tenant ocee r: I,Utta Rack
Brewery, has, for some two months',-had in-111a Ortihc,
a male, named Sarah Judge, only seventeen years'
oflp. At nine o'clock on Sunday morning she be-
came unable to do her work, and went upstairs to her
bedroam. Shortly after twelve o'clock the unfortu-
nate girl became exceedingly ill, and, it appears, de-
livers herself of a female child. When seen by Mrs.
Pag she was undressed. Mrs. Pagden called in
a nei hour and sent for Mr. W. Duke, surgeon,
both o whom found the body of -a female child, at
the footof the'b'ed, with a flannel petticoat covered'
over it.= On examination the throat was found to be
cut, the whole of the vessels in front of the spine being
severed. On being questioned the girl said it was
done with a pair of scissors, and pointed out where
they might be found, and a pair of scissors were
discovered.
The inquest was held on the body at the Welling._
ton Inn yesterday, at two o'clock, before Mr. J.
Phillips, deputy coronerßurchell was foreman. ,
and a jury, of whom Mr. R.
After proceeding to view the
body, the subjoined evidence was taken :
Harriet, wife of Mr. P. Pagden, was the first wit-
ness called, who, from recent, indispositien, 'setae eve:
companied by Mr. Pagden kid a female attendanC
She deposed—l have a servant nerved Sarah Judge,l
who has been with me two months. She is quite
young, but Ido not know her age. She came to me'
from her mother's house, but she had been arevionsly
for nine months living with the late Captain Strode.
I had an excellent character with her. She had left
. Captain. Strode's seriice.aloout six weeks before she
•came to mine. It ad not a suspicion that she was in
the family-way. At first for a week or"ten days I
had aiiiiht suspicion ; from the respectability of her'
parkitS, from her general good behaviour, and. from'
the'-excellent character I had received, that suspicioht
aid' nlt last. I did not mention the suspicion to
SarA Judge or her mother. Oa Saturday she went
about he work P. 9 1151.1i1. I noticed nothing in
her. She worked up to nine o'clock on Sunday
morning, when another servant came and said the cook
was ill, and inquired if she bad not better stay at home
from church and do her work. I replied in the
affirmative. I was not well at the time and was in
bed. After I got up, about' half-past eleven, I sent
ni, y.daughter up to see how Sarah was. She came
down and said she was lying on the bed asleep, and
been taken by
apparently very comfortable. I had sent her up some
went upstairs
medicine, and at about ten minutes past twelve I sent
Polladelplala King upstairs to see if this medicine had
afterwards. Sarah Judge. From what she said, I
w
ing the door Is
myself; this was about half an hour
I was alone and went to the bedroom
door,
the door s not fastened. I believe on open.
it ; she wa, undressed'. Sarah Judge standing close behind
the room in toausea.sedo • I saw blood on the floor, and
her on the floor: IV 3
Mary (we bell her Materw up
there was a flannel lying near
ropeeaxticl aimed,
anything -wicked, have my hands and said, " Oh,
s'), you have not committed
that my trouble. deou? I hope you will not,
ng
ea very
threw up her hands and "Godsaid, y
twice. I went down stairs and
abtloess you, ma'am,"
" What have I
done ?" and on 'my
observation, she
. up to the girl's
told Philadelphia
roespectable person.
since.
sloalsh sent
King to go for Mrs. Mig
She came, and I begged her to
I have not seen Sarah
assistance.
for Mr. Walter Duke, and he came very
Frances, wife of Robert Hazel, deeeeedetayg
morning, between a quarter and une
day twelve,
I Sarah Judge. She'wsa Edon. ,_ on
I was sent for by Mrs. Pagden. I went up stairs
arriving, and
I went in=she opened the door herself. alearjpaa"
said,
door. ' I saw sufficient to-show
Mary, open the
den's other servant rapped at the door and.. F.
me that a child bad been born, and said, " Good
gracious, what is all this--you vou have had a baby."
person in her Ell 118.1(M. I
She replied, " Yes." I then put her to bed,l and did
what was necessary for a
then said, She pointed to
a piece or on the floor at the foot of the
flannel
baby r,
bed. I touched it, and saw it was a child with the
back cf its head upwards. It appeared to me as
though it had been laid down, and the flannel—l
I
think it was a flannel—petticoat thrown over t. I
asked her if it was born dead, and she said " No." I
then asked her when it happened, and she replied
" just before her mistress carae in." She was going to
say something more, but I told her not to, and I
I would ask her no questions,
'vl
until Mr, Duke I haie
the doctor
been with
her would
slots,
there presently. Sne said nothing be
more. I sat down
1),I sLeehas givecnamme. eno more particulars. When
Duke came and turned the child u
wards asked
hweollarnsdatrnabit s throat. On discovering this, I did not
la I noticed a
with,
was scissore."
Judge say anything. Mr. Duke after-
and
Sarahwhere the knife was that it was
Mr. Duke, who said, "It was not a knife, but it
done
was present in the room, here con-
tradicted the
urat came
on the latter point.
Witness--Ma n 7,
found a pair of scissioerseh
Pniladelphia King...... 1
Have lived with her for afterwards, and ha
amt servant to Mrs. Pagden.
came there about two months years. Sarah Judge
We hd the same
:at)*
sleeping room.-I had not ,
silotestaknow
ledge
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