The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.
Yesterday George Wylie was brought up for re-
examination before Mr. Alderman Wreenesere, charged
upon his own statement with having embezzled 431., the
amount of a cheque which he was intrusted to obtain cash
for by his employer, Mr. Hume, the Member for Middlesex.
On being placed at the bar, the Magistrate read a lttter
he had received from Mr. Hume, which stated that the
prisoner had been in hie service as clerk, for a considerable
period, and that up to the time he absconded the writer
bad respected him much, on account of his talents and
good conduct, and should, if lie had remained , ith him,
have served him to the utmost of his power. He did not
lament the loss of the money so much as the misery whit h
the prisoner had inflicted upon his unfortunate wife and
child, as well as himself. He preferred leaving the pri-
soner to be punished by his own conscience, and thought
tae best thing he could do was to go to the new world,
where by his talents and by prudence he might be able to
retrieve his circumstances.
The Alderman feelingly expatiatel on the folly of the
prisoner's conduct, and dismissed him so much affected
that he wept as he left the room.
W OR SH IP-S TREE T.
Bridget Cabin, the young woman suspected of the
wilful murder of a little girl five years old, named Marga-
ret Duffy, was examined yesterday before Mr. TWYFORD ;
and a man named Cattle, a noted resurrection-man, who
had also been apprehended on suspicion, was placed at
the bar with her. The body of the child, who is sup-
posed to have been " Burled," was found in a privy common
to all the iehebitants of a court in Golden-lane, several
hours after she had been missing from her home in Broad-
arrow-court, Milton-street, as stated in the Times of yes-
terdal, end nothing can exceed the excitement which the
oecurrenee has occasioned throughout the district. The
prisoners were brought from the police-station in Bunhill-
row, in a hackney-coach, guarded by a strong body of the
police, and followed with most appalling yells by an im-
mense moil, hundreds of whom hod no doubt been wit-
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proved the facts already stated in the Times. The pri-
soner, Who lived next door to the parents, was seen in the
court about half-past five on Saturday evening, with the
child, whom she had called out of doors in order to give
her a penny to divide between her and her brother. The
child could not afterwards be found, and shortly before nine
the prisoner, who denied all knowledge of her absence,
when qeteetioned by the parents, was charged with steal-
ing her, while that charge was under inquiry at the police
station, the corpse of the deceased was taken there, having
been found in the place above mentioned. A girl, who
lived in the court, had trodden upon the corpse on
entering the place in the dark. She screamed out and ran
away, and her brother was approaching the place with a
candle, when a man ran against Lim and pat out the light
and made off.
Mr. Dixon stated that the prison Calkin, when brought
to the station, before the body was discovered, declared
that site left the child in the Court where they lived, and
never saw bee again, and she accounted for the disposal of
her time by saying that she went to a person whom she
mentioned in Rotten-row, Old-street, and remained there
till about seven, after which she walked about for upwards
of an hour, and was part of the time in company with one
of the nurses of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, name,'
Bryant. Upon inquiry, both these statements were denied,
and at the hospital it was stated by the nurse herself, and
the sister of her ward, that she had not been ont of the
place all that day, nor seen the prisoner for two days pre-
viously.
Mrs. Bryant, the nurse, now stated that she knew the
prisoner, but did not see her on Saturday as she asserted.
A respectable-looking man, named Bailey, now came
forward, sand deposed that he was passing through the court
on Saturday evening, and saw the prisoner Calkin come
from.;lae privy where the deceased was afterwards die-
. ,overed Jt was somewhere about eight o'clock when he
saw Hers
Mr. TWIrrOAD asked him if he ws, certain it was the

prisoner ?
He said he had riu doubt of it. He could not be mis-
taken, as be bad knows her for a length of time.
A female named Jennings also came forward, an,d stated,
that between seven and eight o'clock she saw the pr.:boner
and the little girl about 100 yards from that spot.
The female ptitoner made a statement of some length,
to the effect that she frequently took the child out, and ad-
mitted that she saw her in their court as stated by the
witnesses, and gave her a penny. She did not take her
away from the place, but left her there, and never saw her
,gain until she saw the corpse at the police station. She
herself went to Rotten-row, Old-street, and afterwards
went towards Whitechapel and walked about, and during
that time met with Nurse Bryant.
The nurse came forward again, and expressed her asto-
nishment at this statement, which she flatly contradicted
The prisoner Cattle is known to be a resurrection-man,
and lives close to the spot where the body was found. A
man was stated to have run from the privy, and he was

taken on suspicion.
The little boy said that the man who knocked out his
light was not the prisoner Cattle, and there being no evi-
lence against the latter he was discharged.
The prisoner Calkin was remanded to :Await the deci-
sion of the Coroner's inquest.
HAT T ON- GARDEN.

Yesterday Thomas Loyd, a middle-aged man, was
brought to this office in the custody of police constable
No. 67, division G, charged on suspicion of having tour-
ered Catherine Loyd, aged 23, his wife.
Elizabeth Ann Sampson being sworn, stated that thc
resides in New-court, Portpool-lane,
The prisoner and Catherine Loyd his wife lived in thy
-ame house; about three months ago, about two o'clock
in the afternoon, she saw her in perfect health and spirits.
On the following morning she did not come to ask wit-
ness for a light, as was her usual custom, which she
thought rather strange, and she had been missing ever
since. In two days after her absence from home, she
made inquiries of several of the neighbours whether they
had seen •her, but none of them had. Some days after-
wards witness was informed that two persons had been
seen entering the house with Mrs. Loyd on the night since
she was first missed. On that night witness was alarmed
at a late hour by a noise of a confused Liud, and shortly
after heard something being dragged down the stairs of a
heavy description ; but she did not suspect any thing
wrong until the woman supposed to be murdered remained
away from home for weeks together. She then mentioned
her suspicions to the police, and also to the mother of Mrs.
Loyd, who lives at Newington. Since that time witness
had heard nothing of her.
Susan King stated, that about three weeks after Ca-
therine Loyd was missing she met the prisoner, and asked
him where his wife was ? and he replied, " her, I
don't know, nor don't care; she has been my w—e once,
but take care she shall never be my wife or w—e again."
Police constable 67 G stated, that be had received in-
formation that the woman was missing, and a suspicion
was entertained that she bad been murdered or " Burked."
He was on the look-out after the prisoner, who was
suspected, and he took him into custody at a public-house
in Tash.street, Gray's-inn-lane.
Inspector Busaine stated, that on hearing that a female
had been missing under suspicious circumstances for the
last three months, and no tidings had been beard of her,
and there being a report that she had been " Burked," he
ordered the officers to search the room in which the
prisoner and the woman missed had been lodging. On
doing so, they found a woman's dress in the room, and
there were marks of blood upon the under garment, He
had heard that the missing woman had but one change of
raiment, and it certainly struck him with suspicion.
The mother of the absent woman, a decent-looking
elderly woman, stated that she resides at Newington. She
heard what had been stated. Her daughter had been
missing for the last three months, and after every in-
quiry she could receive no intelligence whatever of her,
only that a mite had been heard, and something heavy
being dragged down stairs, on the night before she was
missed from her lodgings.
The prisoner's defence was a denial of the charge. She
had left him, and he bad not since seen her. He was
obliged to quit the place in consequence as having crowds
following him in the neighbourhood, chargi,:te, him with
having Burked" her. He could produce a wi!ness who
had seen her alive only on Thursday last, and ;:e had
spoken to her, and inquired after him (the prisoner).
The Magistrate observed, that it would be most im-
portant for him to produce that witness, and asked where
tie could be found ? Prisoner —At 154, Drury-lane.
The Magistrate ordered the officers to go and make in-
quiry after the witness, and also to produce the wearing
ipparel found in the late lodgings of the prisoner, in order
that the mother of the missing woman might see them,
and, if possible, identify them ; for which purpose the,
prisoner was detained and locked up. -7` -
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. CHARLES GREY;
late of the 60th Foot, has arrived at the official residewp
of his noble father, Earl GArT, 14 DOWOI4II-sYtet,

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