The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-14 00:00:00

Police-eotttta I have nothing whatever to do with
the subscription. I paid for Mr. Brent's funeral,
And gave his widow £5 for her mournin; apparel,
And our family has also given the late Mr. lit-.lnt's
mother an annuity of 108. per week for her life.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Tate asked
for a remand, when
Mr. Vaughan said he objected to such a course.
She (Mrs. Brent) was left in great distress, and
authorised the prisoner to collect subscriptions for
her. The late deputy-coroners Mr. Brent, had
held a very high position in society, and parties
who knew her were coming forward with subscrip-
tion for her benefit. The name of Mr. Probert has
been mentioned as having gotten a subscription from
him, but he (the learned gentleman) was given to
understand that Mr. Probert knew all the facts.
Mrs. Brent is here now, and she will tell you that
all the money which prisoner had received, as al-
leged, was paid over to her. Mr. Adams has mis-
understood the prisoner when he says he is in the
service of Mr. Wakley. He certainly was in the
service of Mr. Wakley.
Mr. Tate—Before you go any further, Mr.
Vaughan, if the remand is not acceded to, I shall
have to put in letters and speak about family mat-
ters, which Ido not wish at present. I may inform
your worship that Mrs. Brent, for whom this sub-
scription is surreptitiously got up. had only been
married to the late Mr. Brent for a few months, and
cannot, as stated, have been left in very distressed
circumstances, It is not alone on the ground of her
alleged distress that we appear to-day, but it is on
account of the prisoner having used Mr. Wakley's
name without his authority.
Mr. Mansfield observed that it would be an of-
fence to get money by using Mr. Wakley's name
without his consent ; for Mr. Waaley's name is well
known, whereas Mr. Brent's name might not have
been known to all the gentlemen in the medical pro-
fession, and unless knowing him, or being familiar
with his name, it is not likely that medical men
would give a farthing.
William Hewitt said—l am an officer belonging
to the Mendicity Society, and from instructions 1
received from Captain Wood and Mr. Horeford I
looked after the prisoner, I saw him this morning
at Bow-street. I said to him, "Mr. Davis, I be-
lieve Ps' He said " Yes, it is." I then said I wanted
him for obtaining a guinea from Mr. Adams, of Hen-
rietta-street, under false and fraudulent pretences.
He (prisoner) said, " How can you call it false ?"
I said to prisoner, " I have told you the charge; I
must take you into custody." On the way to the
station-house he said, " This is a conspiracy to get
up them Wakleys to injure me, because I sent a
threatening letter the other day as to what I would
do with him."

Prisoner—l said to you that I bad threatened
him with an action at law on account of what Mr.
Conic?, the magistrate at Bow-street, had said the
other day:
Mr. Vaughan, who had some trouble to keep his
client quiet, and at this period threatening to
throw up his case if be did not curb his temper,
cross-examined last witness, who replied.
Prisoner said he had sent a threatening letter as
to what he would do for him. He never said any-
thing to him (witness) about an action. He said,
" What appears in the paper this morning will
make me all right."
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Mansfield
said, without expressing any opinion, he should re-
mand the case for a week, but allowed: the prisoner
to go at large on his own recognisance.

LAMBETH.—THE RIGHT OF A PUBLICAN TO
ENTERTAIN HIS FRIENDS.—Mr. Joseph Richard-
son, proprietor of the Montpelier tavern, Queen's-
road, Peckham, appeared before the Hon. G. C.
Norton, to answer a summons charging him with
keeping his own house open for the, sale of wine,
spirits, beer, &c., between the hours of 12 o'clock
on the night of Saturday, the Ist inst., and one
o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday the 2d.
Inspector Richard Frost, of the P division of
police, deposed that at two o'clock in the morning
of Sunday, the 2d inst., his attention was called to
a light in the house of the defendant, and on
knocking at the door he was admitted. On going
into the bar-parlour he found the defendant there
and four other persons, and the person who opened
the door for him, and who had joined them, mak-
ing the fifth. There were six glasses on the table
containing spirits and water, and the defendant said
that three of those present were lodgers, and the
other two his•friends.
In cross-examination, by the defendant's solici-
tor, Mr. Frost admitted that the bar-parlour
where he found the defendant and his friends was
a private apartment, and not a p;,:pe where ordi-
nary customers were admitted, and than en his call-
ing nothing was going on in any other pare of the
house.
Police-constable 126 P corroborated the testi-
mony of his inspector, and said that soon after their
visit to the house he saw some persons come out of
the house of the defendant, two first and three after-
wards.

In reply to the magistrate,
The witness said that the first two came out in
about five minutes, and the other three in about
eight minutes after Mr. Frost's visit; and this was
the whole of the evidence in support of the com-
plaint.
For the defence, Mr. John Seymour, a dentist,
who gave his address 11, Victoria-terrace, Leam-
ington, Warwickshire, was here called, and said
that on Saturday night, the Ist inst., he was at the
house of Mr. Graham, a friend of his, on Peckham-
rye, and having to pay a professional visit to the
house of Mr. Richardson, the defendant, he took
his friend Mr. Graham with him. Mr. Richardson
being from home at the time, Mrs. Richardson re-
quested that they would atop for her husband's re-
turn. They did so, and Mr. Richardson ultimately
returned with three friends, and they all retired
into the private bar-parlour where the inspector
found them. They were all treated by the defend-
ant, and it was his (Mr. Seymour's) intention to
have slept in the house, and arrangements were
made for that purpose, but after the police being
there he made up his mind not to stop, and went
to take a bed at the house of Mr Graham.
Mr. Graham, an accountant, corroborated the
evidence of his friend Mr. Seymour; and the bar-
man who had waited on the parties deposed to not
receiving any money for what had been supplied.
On hearing this Mr. Norton dismissed the com-
plaint.
The defendant's attorney complained of the hard-
ship of his client being taken away from his busi-
nes on such a complaint, and hoped his worship
would consider it such a case as to award expenses
to Mr. Richardson.
Mr. Norton observed that, considering the hour,
he did not think the inspector could do less than
report the circumstances, and, therefore, would not
say anything about expenses.

SOUTHWARK.—HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO AN
INFANT BY ITS MOTHER.—Mary Ann Stanley, a
decent-looking woman, iar advanced in pregnancy,
was brought before Mr. Burcham by Mr. Townson,
one of the relieving officers of St. George's, South-
wark, charged with cruelly neglecting to provide
sufficient food and necessaries and paying proper
attention to her male infant, thereby causing it to
be in a dangerous state.
Mr. Townson, on being sworn, said—Yesterday
afternoon, about 1 o'clock, I received such informa-
tion as induced me to go to 96, Blackfriars-road,
and in the top back room I found lying on a bed in
a state of nudity, by itself, a male infant. There
was no one in the room,and it was moaning bitterly.
The child was in a filthy, emaciated state, appa-
rently dying. I saw a dirty chemise and some cloth-
ing at the end of the bed, and on examining the
room I perceived some bread and butter, and things
seemed to be comfortable for poor people.
Mr. Burcham—Was the child quiet when you
entered the room

Mr. Townson—lt was moaning, Sir. It was so
weak and emaciated that it had no power to cry.
Mr. Burch.tm—Was the child cold ?

Witness—Yes, Sir, very cold, and had it been left
in that state many hours it must have perished.
The lower extremities were wasted away not larger
than a new-born infant. I immediately went for
assistance, and on my return to the room I found
the prisoner lying on the bed drunk and endeavour-
ing to force dry bread into the mouth. I had the
prisoner removed in custody, and took the poor in-
fant immediately to the workhouse.
Mr. Burcham—ls the prisoner a married woman
Witness—She is not, sir, but she has been living
with a man for some time, by whom she is now preg-
nant.
Mr. Burcham—How old is the child ?
Witness—The prisoner told ale it is one year and
eight months old. -
Mr. Robert Gibson Brown, M.R.C.S., said—l am
surgeon at St. George's Workhouse. On the pre-
vious afternoon the infant was brought into the
house, and I immediately attended to it. On exa •
mination I found it to be in a very emaciated con.
dition, and so weak that it could not open its mouth.
Mr. Burcham—Do you know by what that has
been caused ?
W being
ihave no doubt by gross neglect,
properly fed and attended to. and
no
Mr. Diekes
ne s s
(the second clerk)—ls it
suffering from
any disease?
Witness—Yes, from water on the brain, and from
diseased lungs.
Mr. Bureham—Did you b o serve whether the
child was able to take food p
Witness—l did not P but the nurse whom I in-
structed to attend to it told
me that it ate ravenously.
I had it properly cleaned and clothed, and a remark-
able improvement is vi •
sible since yesterday.
Mr. Burcham •
do not think it necessary to take