The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

SURREY. SESSIONS---THURSDAY

(Before Mr. HEDGER and a Bench of Magistrates.)
The Court was occupied for several hears in trying an in-
dictment preferred against Ellen Mason, a young female, for
concealing the birth of her illegitimate child.
The prisoner lived as cook at the Red Lion, at Dorking,
and formed an intimacy with a man at Leakhead, by whom
she became enceinte. While in service at the Red Lion she
concealed her situation, until she at length became so ill, that
she left her place and went home. After her departure th•
body of a male infant was found in the water-closet at the
Red Lion, and as it was known that she had been there pre-
vious to leaving the house, it was suspected that she had given
birth to it, and afterwards concealed the body there. Several
witnesses were examined for the purpose of establishing this
fact, and after a lengthened address by Mr. Chambers on
behalf of tho accused, during which he dwelt with much force
on the humane construction which the Judges of modern days
put upon the Act, the Jury acquitted the prisoner.
After the trial of some unimportant cases, the Session ter-
minated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

A paralytic old man, named Henry Flood, came yesterday
to Mr. TRTFORD, and requested a note to admit him to the
workhouse, ae he was in a state of complete destitution, and
had not a farthing in his pocket to procure a crust of bread.
He had been once in good circumstances, and was before
1830 organist in St. George's Chapel, Brussels; but the
French revolution ruined him, and be has not since been able
to get a situation. He has obtained a livelihood by teaching
music, but having almost lost the power of his left hand he was
scarcely able to do any thing now. Several years ago he was
teaching music in the family of a military gentleman, and as
he had then a little money left, the gallant officer, instead of
paying him for his trouble, borrowed twenty7five pounds from
him, and he has been endeavouring through Lord Howick
to recover his money, but has not yet succeeded. His
Lordship is now in the country, and he is unable to sup-
port himself until his Lordship's return, and requested the
magistrate to got hisn admitted for a week into the workhouse.
About ten days ago he came to Mr. Minshull, and, at his own
desire, was sent for a week to the House of Correction ; but
he could not go back there again, as ha was quite unable for
the work. The surgeon took him into the infirmary after he
had been a few days at work, and he was then pretty comfort-
able, for he was always sure of a bed and breakfast; but now
he could obtain neither, and had sold his shirt, handkerchief,
and waistcoat to get a cup of coffee. He had been in the
street five nights in the week, and was quite exhausted.
Mr. TWYFORD inquired where he slept the previous night ?
The applicant had got a bed in a coffee-shop in Compton-
street.

Mr. TWYFORD then said that as he had not slept in this dis-
trict he could not send him to the workhouse, but would re-
lieve him from the poor-box in th• meantime, and he could
apply at Marlborough-street, the district in which he had
slept, to-morrow.

He then received 25., for which he thanked the magistrate,
and left the office.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Mr. E. M. Foxall, district surveyor to the parish of St.
George, Hanover-square, attended before Mr. CHAMBERS and
Sir GEORGE FARRANT, to support an information against Mr.
Carter, of Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, for an alleged
infringement of the Building Act.
Mr. Foxall preferred his complaint on the 49th clause in
the Act, which prohibited all projections, except in certain
cases, under none of which the defendant's alteration came.
Mr. Carter had altered the front of his house so as to bring
the front upwards of four and a half feet beyond the
line of the buildings in the street. It was true that the
projection was not beyond certain old projections in the street,
which were coeval with the houses themselves ; but this, he
contended, had nothing to do with the question, as the Act
forbade all new projections from the period when it came into
operation.
Mr. Carter admitted he had extended the front of his house
as stated; but was justified under the Building Act in so do-
ing, as he had not gone beyond the general line of buildings
in Chapel-street.
Sir G. FARRANT remarked that the question was, whether
the alteration was an infringement of the Act of Parliament?
Mr. Foxall had no doubt of such being the case. The
question as to what constituted the line of building was set at
rest by the proceedings in the case of St. George's Hospital.
The ablest counsel had been employed in the matter, but the
hospital people were defeated.
The BENCH must consider the infringement to have been
proved, and their order for the abatement of the nuisance
must, of course, follow.
Mr. Carter felt so satisfied that he had not transgressed the
provisions of the Act, that unless he saw at a future time reason
for altering his opinion, he should appeal.
Mr. Foxall said to adopt this course would be to throw
away goad money.
Mr. Foxall then gave his evidence, and the Magistrates
gave their decision, as the preliminary steps in the case of
appeal.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-On Wednesday
night, about half-past eleven o'clock, a highway robbery, at-
tended with circumstances of great violence, was committed
on the person of Mr. William Dowe, a respectable young
man in the employ of Mr. Purday, the music-seller, of No.
45, High Holborn. Mr. Dowe was on his way home, along
the new street, leading from the Westminster-road to the road
ia front of Bethlehem Hospital, when two tall, stout men,
dressed iii short jackets, went up and inquired of him their
way to Vauxhall, and while he was in the act of directing
one, the other, who was behind him, struck him a violent
Mow on the back of his head, with a bludgeon, which felled
him to the ground, and while in that position the ruffians
beat him in a most cruel manner over his legs and body
with their sticks, until he became perfectly senseless,
when they rifled his pockets of a purse containing a sove-
reign, and a half sovereign, with which they succeeded
in escaping. After remaining some time on the ground,
insensible, the poor man recovered his reason, got
upon his feet, and continued to crawl to his home, No. 9,
Little Moore-street, Lambeth, at the back of the hospital.
lie was bleeding profusely on reaching home, and after being
put to Led was attended by Mr. Hooper, who dressed the
wounds on his legs, and applied the necessary remedies to
allay the swelling and pain caused by the blow at the back
of his head. Mr. Dowe is still confined to his bed, and was
yesterday labouring under considerable fever and pain, occa-
sioned by the violence of the blows. A few moments previous
to the attack being made upon him by the robbers, the police-
man on the beat passed him, and there is every reason to sus-
pect that the two fellows watched the constable away before
they commenced the desperate outrage. Just after he had
recovered his senses, he saw two policemen pass ; and,
although he called to them, he was so exhausted that he could
not make them hear. The street where the robbery was com-
mitted has not long been opened as a thoroughfare, and there
are only two unfinished cottages in it. The street adjoins the
large plot of ground fronting Bethlehem Hospital, and is not
much frequented. The hat worn by the injured man is in-
dented inwards at least an inch by the force of the blow he
received on the head.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Port-
man Arms, Quebec-street, Mary lebone, on the body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Price, aged 63, a respectable married lady, who
committed suicide by hanging herself. It appeared from the
evidence that for a length of time past the lady, whose hus-
band is in independent circumstances, had laboured under an
unhappy delusion, the impression on her mind being that she
should be reduced to the situation of a pauper in Marylebone
workhouse. On Sunday she was very low and deject xl on
this account, and on Monday she was discovered suspended to
the rail of a bedstead. She was immediately cut down, and
a surgeon sent for, who endeavoured to restore animation by
bleeding and other remedies, but ineffectually, as life was quite
extinct. The Jury returned a verdict of—Temporary Mental
Derangement.
DREADFUL DEATII OP A CIIILD.--Yesterday
afternoon, an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, Coroner or
the City of London, in his Court, No. 62, Bartholomew-
close, upon the body of Mark Lockwood Hutchinson, a child,
aged eight years, whose death was occasioned in the following
manner :—lt appeared from the evidence of several wit-
nesses, that the deceased, who was the son of Mr. William
Hutchinson, a tradesman, residing at No. 42, Fetter-lane,
Fleet-street, was a very intelligent and promising child.
On Tuesday evening, about five o'clock, he was returning
home from school, and when in the act of crossing the road
near the White Horse, Fetter-lane, the cart of a Mr. Everett
came up, and before he could get out of the way he was
knocked down by the horse, and the off wheel passed over his
back. The witnesses, who all lived upon the spot, called out
to the driver, who was proceeding at a very slow rate, in
.ufficient time to prevent the accident ; but the driver, an el-
derly man, upon being examined, stated that he neither ob-
served the child crossing, nor heard persons call to him to
stop. The unfortunate child was taken up and conveyed to
St. Bartholemcw's Hospital, where he died within half an
I hour of his admission. Mr. John Borror, the House Surgeon
of the Hospital, deposed, that on a post mortem examination of
the body, the liver was found to be ruptured ; that injury was
quite enough to account for death. The father of the child,
who appeared much affected by his loss, said that his wife, who
was within a few days of her accouchement, was in a state
bordering upon madness. Verdict--Accidental death.
OnWednesday information was received by the police
of a robbery of sacramental plate, committed at the house of the
Rev. Mr. Owen, No. 13, Whitehead 's-grove, Chelsea. It
appears that Mr. Owen (son of the late Rev. John Owen,
rector of Fulham), who until lately was minister of Park-
place Episcopal Chapel, whence he was removed in con.
sequence of allowing some demonstrations of " the unknown
tongues" to take place in his chapel, and who is now " the
angel" of an Irvingite chapel in College-street, Chelsea, is
with his family from town. The house is left in the care of a
female servant, who on Tuesday evening went out about seven
o'clock, leaving the premises unprotected, and on her return,
about an hour afterwards, she found an entrance had been
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