The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--The driver of cab 1,844 appeared
before Mr. Henry upon a summons, which had been
issued at the instance of Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the
Board of Inland Revenue, charging him with having ex-
acted more than his legal fare.
Mr. Wood stated that he took the defendant's cab at
Hampstead on Thursday morning, and desired to be
driven to Oxford-square. He had heard of the mon-
strous sums that were being asked by cabmen on the day
in question, and he was determined to ask no questions
of the driver, but order him to go to his destination,
and then to pay him his legal fare of 2s. 4d. On ar-
riving at Oxford-square, the defendant demanded 3s. 6d.
He tendered him his legal fare, but defendant insisted
upon more. Complainant then allowed him to take the
3s. 6d. Mr. Wood further stated that he had heard of
as much as 455. having been paid to cabmen ou Thurs-
day for going to St. Paul's, and he was determined to
punish the shameful extortions of the men.
Mr. Henry said the public were indebted to Mr.
Wood for the trouble he had taken in the matter.
He then inflicted a penalty of 405., besides the excess
of fare and costs.
The amount was paid,

THAMES.—SamueI Morley, a tall and repulsive-
looking fellow, aged 27, and described as a mason, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with breaking and
entering the Pigot Arms public-house, in the East India-
road, Poplar, and also with assaulting and wounding
William Brooks, a police constable, with intent to mur-
der or do him some grievous bodily harm.
Inspector Holmes, of the K division, put in a certifi-
cate, stating that Brooks was in imminent danger, and
under medical treatment.
Thomas Bowles, 452, a reserve, said—This morn-
ing, at half-past two o'clock, I was in the East India-
road. I heard a faint cry of " Stop thief," and
caught the prisoner running direct from the Pigot
Arms. He was followed by my brother officer,
Brooks, whose face was covered with blood. I
went to the Pigot Arms, and found that the house
had been broken into, but nothing was taken. I found
a life-preserver and part of a waistcoat in the yard. I
took from the prisoner the other part of the waistcoat.
The policeman then produced a life-preserver loaded at
he end with lead.
Mr. Yardley—How was the waistcoat torn ?
Bowles—The prisoner, when he sprung away from

to wounded policeman :Brooks, left part his wais

coat behind him. Brooks had hold of it, and one-ha,
of it was left in his hand. He is most dreadfully beaten
and wounded, and there are four large holes in his
head. There was another man concerned in the bur-
glary, who ran away while Brooks and the prisoner
were struggling, and threw away a "jemmy," or crow-
bar, which I picked up in the street.
Mr. Yardley having read the medical certificate, said
he should remand the prisoner for a week on both
charges,

Elizabeth Durant, a young woman 19 years of age,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar, had nothing on
but her chemise and an old petticoat, borrowed from the
workhouse, having torn all her clothes to tatters when taken
to the station. She had to be brought down in a cab, with her
hands tied behind, and had all the appearance of a maniac.
When she bounded into the dock she cried "Here's
saucy Bet again," and went on to state that she was the
daughter of a shopkeeper, who formerly kept a large
shoe factory in Farringdon-street. She complained
that she had been robbed of two sovereigns at a house
where she had three bottles of wine, but she did not care
for that.

Mr. Yardley—l must send you to prison for a month.
Prisoner—Why not send me to the House of Deten-
tion for a month ? I tell you what, Mr. Yardley, I
shall go in the van stark naked, as I will make ribands
of every stitch upon me.
She was then locked up.

MARYLEBONE.—John Dogiterty was charged with
having stabbed Constable Crittall, 239 D. The wounds
inflicted on the officer were of so serious a nature that,
although given on the morning of the 10th inst., he was
not able to give his evidence until Saturday, having
been a patient in St. Mary's Hospital ever since.
The complainant met the prisoner and another person
in the Harrow-road, at 2 o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing. They were talking so loud that he requested them
to lower their voices, as they were disturbing the neigh
bourhood. The prisoner said he should speak as he liked,
and complainant walked after him- with the view of in
d

liming him to keep quiet. The prisoner, thereupon, said
hat if the complainant continued to follow him he would
give him something for himself. The prisoner walked on
a little distance, and then rushing at the complainant
struck him on the side of the cheek with a knife, and
thereby inflicted a serious wound. After a violent
struggle, the prisoner was taken into custody and con-
veyed to the station. The complainant had been under
medical treatment ever since.

Prisoner said he was very drunk at the time, and did
not know what he was doing.
Mr. Long committed him for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Matilda Humphries, a mid-
dle-aged woman of respectable appearance, was charged
with assaulting Louisa Thompson, 10 years of age.
The complainant, a pretty-looking child, but whose
head appeared to be so seriously affected that she re-
quently lost the chain of her evidence altogether, and
was obliged to be assisted by questions from the magis-
trate, stated that her parents lived in Spring-street,
Twig Folly, near Bow, and, having been sent out by
her mother on the afternoon of the 16th of September
last, to give the baby an airing, she was passing down
the street, when the defendant, who only lived two
doors off, called her into her house and asked her to go
upstairs and fetch down one of her children, called
" little Freddy." She went upstairs, but could find no
" Freddy," and was about to come out of the room,
when a figure dressed up like the Devil, in a
long white bedgown and- with a mask on its face,
caught hold of her and seized her by the neck.
She was so dreadfully terrified that she imme-
diately lost her senses, and upon coming to herself
some time after found one of her legs thrust out of the
window, as though she had been trying to escape that
way. She again became terrified, and began screaming,
upon which the defendant hastened up into the room,
and, pulling her away from the window, struck her two
severe blows, one on her back and the other on her
head, with a broom-handle, while the person who was
dressed up like the Devil gaVe her two more stripes
across the head with. aßane, after which they forced her
downstairs into the street, the defendant increasing her
terror by exclaiming that there was the Devil after her:
She after that became so ill that she had a succession
of fits, and was obliged to be taken by her mother to two
hospitals, the London Hospital and that in Gray's-inn-
lane, but she did not get much better, and her head,
where she was struck with the broom-handle, still
pained her much.
The child was gently cross-examined by Mr. Vann,
who was retained for the defence, to elicit the fact
whether she was not constitutionally subject to fits, but
the little girl said that she had never had a fit before she
was so frightened and received the blow on her head,
and that she was taken to the hospitals for both
affections.

This evidence having been partially corroborated by

that of a girl named Louisa Lake, who deposed to
hearing a child violently screaming at the time in
question,

Mr. Vann addressed the magistrate on behalf of his
client, denying the charge altogether, and contending
that it had been preferred in consequence of some former
disagreements between the women ; but
Mr. Hammill said that it was a very extraordinary
case, and one that he regarded in a serious light ; he
should therefore order the further hearing of it to be
adjourned for a week, and in the meantime the officer
must endeavour to procure the attendance of some of
the medical gentlemen under whose care the child had
been placed, to depose to the condition in which they
had found her, and the probable cause of such a sudden
affliction.

GREENWICH.—AmeIia Elizabeth Burt, aged 30,
the wife of a gas-fitter, residing in London-street, Green-
wich, wasihrought up on remand, charged, on her own
confession, with having caused the death of her female
infant, aged ten months, by throwing it into the Thames
from the Hungerford Suspension-bridge, on Monday
night last.

-The first witness called was Police-constable Osborne,
254 R, who deposed that on Tuesday morning last, about
two o'clock, his attention was attracted to the prisoner wan-
dering about Burney-street, Greenwich. On goine, up to
her, and asking her were she was going, she replied that
she did not know ; and on being asked where she came
from, shereplied London. In answer to further questions,
the prisoner said that she was married, and that her
husband was employed as a gas-fitter in the college ;
that she had come from Lambeth, a,nithat her name was
Burt. She also said that she had a family of three chil-
dren, but did not know where they were, with the ex-
ception of her infant, which she said she had given to a
boy on Hungerford Suspension-bridge, to throw into
the river. He asked her why she had given the child to
the boy to throw into the river, when she replied "That
she could not keep it clean." Witness then took her to
the sergeant on the same beat, to whom the prisoner
made the same statement. Seeing something concealed
beneath her shawl, witness inquired what it was, and
then took a child's cloak from her, which she said be-
longed to the baby. The sergeant then ordered the pri-
soner to be taken to the station, which was done ; and
subsequently witness conveyed the prisoner to the union.
Sergeant Pearson, 15 R, stated that on questioning
her closely, she, owned to having thrown the child from
Hungerford-bridge herself. On the following day he re-
ceived information that the body of a child had been
picked up from the Thames off Rotherhithe, which was
identified as that belonging to the prisoner.
It was stated that Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey,
concluded an inquiry, on Friday afternoon on the body,
at the Albion Tavern, Rotherhithe, when a verdict of
" Wilful Murder" was returned.
The prisoner was committed to take her trial on the
capital charge at the Old Bailey Sessions, commencing
this day.