The Sun.
London, England, 1815-03-24 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE

Yesterday John Strange, the soldier, tvlto bad
been apprehended some time back at the Isle of
Wight, on suspicion of bcing concerned with
Ashton and Moloney, the two men who were
executed' last April,- -ou a charge of cot/matting a
:robbery in Hyde-p..11.k, was brought up from Bide-
well, for examination ; but it being intimated to
the Magistrates, that the two soldiers who had
been on duty with the prisoner, at the time of the
above robbery, and when he deserted, were, e
their way from Holland; by order of the Secretary.
of State, to give their evidence in the case, the
prisoner was again remanded.
FRAUD.-Mary Roberts alias Smith was charged
with a fraud on the East India Company. It ap-
peared, that she had received three years' pension
from the Admiralty, as the widow of Smith,a
boatswain, and six months pension from the Com-
pany, as the widow of Roberts,• late a steward in
the Company's service, she having married Ro-
bert's in Smith's lifetime; but both her husbands
!lied without any charge of bigamy having been
preferred. The solicitors, after looking at the
Act, agreed to the prisoner's being admitted to
bail, to appear at the next Sessions.

FIXITON-GARDEN.
Yesterday, a young man of the name of Henry
Lewis was brought up by two officers of exc,se,
who stated, that in consequence of private infor-
mation, they went to the house, No. 1, Eagle-
court, Eagle-street, lied Lion-square,' yesterday
morning, where they discovered a forty-gallon
private still at work ; they apprehended the defen-
dant coining from the-place where the still was ;
they seized the still, with a quantity of spirit,
ivash, and conveyed it to the Excise Office.—
The stefendant was convicted in the penalty of
391., and not paying the same, was committed un-
til the said fine be paid,

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tIiMtGE I‘.II3IID'EItING TWO tIIILDREN:

TIIP. K;NG V. 131.1/. 13tInflOWS

The prisoner indictol fol• the wilftil mur-
der-of her uwn chiid Hannah Burrows, aged tour
years, and also of her child .(4eorge l'yttrro‘vs,
aged three years, by administering poison to them.
'She was tried on only the tirt indictment.
The case on the • part of the prosecution was
supported- by very strong circumstantial evidence.
On the part of. the prisoner, the following wit-
nesses were examined—

Ann Sherard lived next door• to the prisoner,
and h►id known her seven years ; she was a very
good mother to her children ; she was diseased in
her mind ;. worse at some times than others ;
when she was in this state she rambled abroad ;
she ran off one morning, and left her favourite
child George, then one year old, naked on the
hearth s she has come into my house many a time,
and said, << Oh, my head's going again—:what
shall 1 do !". She carne int', nay house once with
a pin, with which she would have pricked tier
arm, if I had let her; she asked my husband to
kill her, or cut her head oil; she left her home
in the August before for a. fortnight ; her fits
returned oftener than once in six weeks or two

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Jane Ryles lives about two stones' throw from
the in isoner, and had known her seven years ; sl►a
had been in a t»eiancholy way that time; she
Confirmed the last witness ; site used to' say,
" What ‘vouhl give if I could do better for my
family !"

Martha Haneocks testified to the same effect.
The prisoner would Wring her hands, and say she
•
tioNt leave her family.
'
Rev. M. Whitby knew nothing of the ptisoner,
till his attendance as a Magistrate in a gaol
brought him to her. He :7ollld neser make any
impression upon her; she denied any knowledge
of the cause of the-children's death ; he red.(' to
her and prayed with her without effect : last Sit.-
turday he thought he saw a glimpse of reason, but
was not able to say whether she could distinguish
right. front wrong ; iti his opinion, she was af-
flicted with that species of insanity called melan-
choly.
Mr. Hughes, surgeon of the gaol,. confirmed.
Mr. Whitby's evidence, but could not take upon
hint to say, whether she was capable. of distin-
guishing between right and wrong.
Mr.-Baron Rieumtp charged the Jury, that
there was no evidence of the state of her mind
immediately before the murder, ard it was for
them to say, whether, 'at the time of conmetting
it, the ptijoher was in such a state of mind as to'
distinguish 'right from wrong.
The Jury, after a•shOrt co. solta io 1 found the
prisoner Not Guilty.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

DEATH OCCASIONED BY

HE W ; trs-r OF THE NE-

CI:SSAIZIE 01, Lipp,.

Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Green
Dragon public house, in Whiteehapel, before .1:
\V. UNWIN, Esq. one of the Coroners for the
county of Miiddlc•sex, on the body of a man of co-
lour, who died in the London Hospital, on Sunday
last, under• the following deplorable circumstan:-
ces appeired front the evidence of Th,:rnai
Humphreys,
.Surgeon's-Mahe, at the Hospii al,
that, about ten o'clock on Sunday morning:, lire
deceased was brought- to the Hospital supported
by two „ten, one of ..vliont was a black matt, and
the other witness believes, to be a pauper belong-
ing to Whitechapel workhouse, the deceAed was
unable to support and was speechless
the men said they found him by the London-
docks wall, and, Out of huMunity, took the trou-
ble to bring him to the Hos,pital ; he could speak
when they first met. lit a, and he told thew he tail
down the hold of a ship, but what ship thea did
not knoW ; whness assisted to carry hint 1:p CO
No. 28 ward, in the cloisters, but he al„to.•t
stantly expired.
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John Francis Tonilinson is Assistant Surgeon
at the London Hospital. He was called when
the deceased was brought in, but when he can
lie found him quite dead. He, assisted by his
colleague, Mr. licidgers, opened the body. on
Tuesdav ; he could not discover any externalmarks of violence ; the internal parts appeared in
a very healthN state; he a plidziro very inuci„..:
(leed and emaciated.. Witness believes hint 'to
have been about 35 years Of age. The stomach
was almost empty, and witness was of opinion he
was in want of food.

Mr. El (iry Atley, M. D. of Stepney-square, de-
posed, that he went to view the body of the de-
ceased, in company with the last tritnets.. Khows
from a certain bandage found upon him, next to
his body, that he was of the Mahometan
The Jury returned a verdict of—Pied for want
of Me common UCTeVarie,s of