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

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WEEKLY REPORT.

:1823;111;dslainrgat.s, Or•
There has been a very strong market all week.
Sales 46,390; week's sire, 7.340 ; export, 8,990.
actual stock,
leans, 311 ; Mobilo, 313; Uplands, 311 ; estimated
fair Egyptian, 301;
15,225.
iosiolteartaiho
271. Week's imports, 13,006. Estimated stock,
192,400.

Extraordinary Charge Against a Married

Woman.

Yesterday Mr John Humphreys, Middlesex coro-
ner, resumed an enquiry, at the Three Caps Tavern,
High-street, Bow, respecting the death of a newly-
born female child, which had been thrown 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, Mile
End, found a box labelled " Borwick's Baking
}-,wder," and in it the body of the deceased child,
which :bey threw under the roadway. They then
carried the box to Mrs Stuart, the wife of a com-
mercial trave,:eri residing at Canal Wharf, and
showed her the gild. She recognised a pair of
drawers in which it w,...is wrapped as the property of
a Mrs Goldsworthy,
the w:fe of a painter and glazier
living at No 45,
stepeey_orbsan. Mrs Goldsworthy
h
had a few days
a
had
to recently
ms confined,
Stuart that
a eatt
Dr Hance, of the
pre-
viouslye
saide
r a
Mile-end road, had advised her to d.irz a hole, two
feet deep, in the garden, and put the ebai'd in it, as
a certificate was not necessary,and she hexdone so.
On the night before the boys found the des. axed
child in the box a Mrs Donohue, who had atteni:sed,
Mrs Goldsworthy, called at Mrs Stuart's house, anu
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 on Mrs Golds-
worthy and. said, "I had a dream last night that
youputthaencdhsiaid in
ldinaabox
frantic
so
helpstarted
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 Mra Donohue,
took it away." Mrs Stuart then went to Mrs.
Donohue, who admitted that on last Thursday
night she walked about the streets with the x
in her arms, waiting for an opportunity to
boat." The r
up in bed,
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 pascersaby, P 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 Mrs Goldsworthy. She
was delivered of a female child of between five and
six mouths.
The child was born dead. No certi-
asked for. T
ficate was The mother asked witness,
" What is to be done with this ?" Wianese said,
"This is a miscarriage. Ido not suppose a cerijfi-
cate 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 e mother. It was a com-
mon practice for medical men to let the betties of
be
stili-born children buried in back gardens.
The Coroner saidthat the practice was a most
• ..,. If the bodies -
dangerous one of still-born children
%,e buried •
were allowed to a ~. in the back gardens of
the houses in the min. °P?lis great facilities would
be given for the commies; of the crime of infan-
ticide.
Mrs Donohue was then called, and having been
cautioned by the Coroner, deposed that her real
name was Charlotte Harvey, and that see resided
at No. 5, Thomas-street, Stepney.
She was a per-
son living on her means. She was not a nurse. Cbe
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 " ra
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 WY- Mrs Goldsworthy
said to withess, ,g Drop it:into the canal." Witness
had never done such a thing before, but she did not
think that it was wronot `.:117.4. it was a substance
that never was human. n.
"these 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 wrong I
wrong
A Juror—Nothing ~., Perhaps not in
Calcutta, but it certainly is in zoigland.
The Coroner said that case the
T corohner's court could
not prosecute in such a • at was a duty for
the police. medical Dr. Hance said that the profession wished
particularly to know if still-boin children required
certificates.
The Coroner having summed up,
The Jury returned the following verdict ;—That
the deceased child was found dead in a certain box,
and the jurors say that the said child was
born;still-
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. i
Dr. Hance said that after that verdict the medical
what to do in the case of
profession would know
still-born children. terminated.
leaving the court she was
instantly
The proceedings then
of illegally
As Mrs. Harvey was
arrested on the charge exposing the
dead body. She was removed to the
Bow police-station, where s was charged with
the above offence. he
The prisoner was brought before the magistrate
this morning, at the Thames Police Court, and
after hearing the evidence given above she was
discharged.