The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-12 00:00:00

carousing in the prisoner's abode when the officers made
the detection ?

Inspector Brennan said six women and twenty men,
besides boys and girh. The sights there nightly were
of the most infamous and disgusting description. It
was, in fact, a school for thieves and characters of the
worst description, where crimes were concocted and ear-
ned into effect.
Mr. Corrie was at a loss to understand why the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue did not act on their last
judgment----why suffer such a course of infamy.
Inspector Brennan could not account for it, unless it
was from the multiplicity of business, and the various
alterations in the revenue department. At all events,
the police could not obtain the co-operation of the Ex-
cise in suppressing such abominations with which he
had known the prisoner to be connected nearly 30
years ; and her profits from illicit spirits and adultera-
tions of malt and other liquors must have been
enormous.
Mr. Corrie was altogether taken by surprise at what
he had heard, and, as far as he was concerned, every
means he could take should be enforced to check such
iniquities, for they were a curse on society at large. It
would be a waste of words to address the defendant,
who had no defence to make, and he sentenced her to
an imprisonment with hard labour of three months, un-
less she paid 101.
A general howl of the prisoner's friends followed the
decision, amid which the accused was locked up.
On Saturday Mr. Corrie received a letter, enclosing
30s. as " card-money," which the donor, an old in-
habitant of Clerkenwell" requested might be put into
the poorbox.

LAMBETH.—Ann Kedge, an exceedingly good-look-
ing young woman, described as a cook in the family of
a gentleman at Peckham, and Elizabeth Coglan, a repul-
sive-looking old woman, with a strong Scotch accent,
and said to be a fortuneteller, were placed at the bar
before the Hon. G. C. Norton, the former on a charge
of concealing the birth of her illegitimate child, and the
latter with administering drugs for the purpose of pro-
curing abortion.
From the evidence, which had been taken at consi-
derable length, it appeared that from information which
had reached Sergeant Lyster, of the P division of police,
he proceeded on the day before to the house of the
master of the younger prisoner, and charged her (the
prisoner) with concealing the birth of an infant of which
she had been delivered three weeks before, and giving
the body to be taken away to Mrs. Coglan, The pri-
soner replied that the charge was perfectly right, that
there had not been any medical man present at the birth
of the child, and that she had taken some powders given
to her by Mrs. Coglan to destroy the child, and, further,
that when she gave the body of the infant to Coglan,
that person said she would make it all right. The ad-
missions made by the younger prisoner were volunteered
after she had been cautioned that anything she might
say would be used in evidence against her in another
place, and, as the witness said, she seemed anxious to
state the truth. The other prisoner, Coglan, on the
contrary, at first denied all knowledge of the young
woman, or the charge made against herself, but subse-
quently admitted that she knew and attended Kedge,
and had given her some stuff in a powder, as a medicine,
but not with the intention of causing abortion, but im-
proving her health.
The prisoners, after a lengthened examination, were
remanded to a future day.