The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-23 00:00:00

H ATFON. GARDEN.

A young woman of repectable appearance, named Mary
Frost, was brought up for re-examination on Saturday,
charged with having administered poison to her child.
Sarah Clarke stated that about eighteen months ago the
prisoner, who then lived as wet nurse in the family of Mr.
Rowe, a surgeon, observing a bill in her window, place"!
the child under her care at Is. per week, which payments
she kept up regularly till she was discharged from her situ-
ation; the account hal run on to about 51 10s. On
Thursday afternoon last, about one o'clock, the prisoner
came and requested witness to return the child, as she wd9
about to go into the country where she could get her child
nursed at 4s. Gd. per week, and on her return to town she
would discharge her account. Witness delivered the child,
in 'perfect health, to the prisoner; it had never been
afflicted with fits or il!nass during the period that witness
had charge of it.

Police constable No. 121, Division E, between eight
and nine o'clock on Thursday evening, while on duty in
Tottenham-cJurt-road, observed the prisoner lying on
the steps of a door beastly intoxicated, with the child in
convulsions in her arms. Immediately he tuck the child
to a surgeon, who declared that had it ken two minutes
loser iu that state without medical assistance it must in-
evitably have died. After prescribing for it he desired him
to convey it to Middlesex Hospital, where it now lies in a
precarious state. He was afterwards informed that the
prisoner was Seen to enter three druggists' shops to make
purchases, and he took her to the police station.
The prisoner was again remanded.
A long investigation took place in the case of a female
named Catherine Cockerell alias Gibbs, who was charged
with having murdered her infant.

The prisoner lived as cook with a family in the neigh-
bourhood of Bedford-square, and on the 14th of February
last went to bed apparently in good health along with
Mary Philips, the housemaid. The prisoner got up
several times during the night, and about four
o'clock in the morning struck a light and went down stairs
dressed. The housemaid saw her sitting by the fire during
the morning, and she seemed to be la-ge in the family way,
but denied such was the case. About ten o'clock the
prisoner sent her on an errand, and on her return, about an
hour afterwards, she found the prisoner seated in the
kitchen very ill but changed in her appearance; and, from
her previous conduct, and other circumstances, the witness
was convinced that the prisoner had been delivered of a

child; but on the third or fourth day following (after she
had been visited by a medical man, who gave it as his
opinion that she had given birth to a child) she con-
fessed the truth to the witness, and took her to an adjoin-
ing yard, where the body of a female infant was hidden.
The prisoner, with the witness, removed the body of the
child and placed it in a box i❑ the house; and subse-
quently, information was sent to the parish officers, and a
Coroner's inquest was held on the infant on the 20th of
February. In the mean time the prisoner was kept at
the workhouse of St. Andrew's i❑ so weakly a state that
she eould not be brought up for examination till the pre-
sent period.
Mr. Peregrine Fernandez, a surgeon, said that the child
was uncommonly large; the lungs having been examined
by the usual test left a doubtful result. He could not
positively say whether or not the child was born alive.
Mr. LAING, after hearing the evidence, directed that
the prisoner should be committed for trial for the misde-
meanour of concealing the birth of her child.
She made no defence beyond saying that the child was
not born alive. The investigation occupied two hours,
and was conducted with closed doors. The father of the
child is understood to be a married man in humble cir-
cumstances, who has since deserted his wife and children,
and left them chargeable to the parish.