The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

On Friday Sergeant king,Oithe N division, stated to
Mr. COMBE that Lucy- Stanley, who within the last six
weeks was brought to this Court five times charged with
having attempted to drown herself in the New River, near
Sadler's Wells Theatre, had accomplished her object.
It appears that on Friday morning about two o'clock
the unfortunate girl, who was rather prepossessing,
and about nineteen years of age, was observed in con-
versation with a young woman named. Bonner, adja-
cent to Camden-bridge, Islington, when she parted with
her, saying she would never see her more. She im-
mediately proceeded to the bridge, from which she pre-
cipitated herself into the river. An alarm was immedi-
ately made, when police-constable Saunders, N division;
procured drags, and in the course of ten minutes she was
taken out of the water, apparently lifeless, and carried to
the station-house, where 1)r. Semple, of the Lower-road,
Islington, attended, and adopted every remedy to restore
11 animation, but to no purpose. She was quite dead.
It may be recollected that about a week ago the de-
ceased was brought to this Court, and charged before
Mr. Bingham, the Magistrate, with having thrown her-
self into the New River at the same spot where she
was taken out of the water by Saunders. Her mother
a respectable woman, residing in the New Cut, Lam-
beth, attended on that occasion much affected, and,
represented the deceased as having been extremely
fond of reading, and, being of a romantic turn
of mind, she would frequently leave her home, where
she could have lived comfortably, and wander about, and
she had been seduced by a scoundrel who deserted her.
She subsequently became acquainted with a young, man
who promised her marriage, but he having seen her in
.company of another young man, in a fit of jealousy
stabbed himself in her presence.
The deceased on each occasion was discharged and re-
stored to her friends, but she would never assign any cause
for attempting her life. Her body now lies for a coroner's
inquest in the vaults of Islington church.
Margaret Burton, a middle-aged respectable-looking
female, and Mary Ann, her daughter, a very fine girl 18
or 19, were charged by Mr. George Corbett, of No. 1,
Hatton-garden, with creating a disturbance and annoying
him in his house. It appeared from the evidence of the
elder female, that having discovered her daughter was
pregnant, she went with her to the house of the de-
fendant, in whose family she had lived for some time,
and who had effected her ruin. He admitted he was the
cause of the pregnancy, and offered 5/. towards the ex-
penses of the lying-in, and to take the babe soon after it
ivas born. She waited on him a second time, when he
behaved most brutally, and gave them in charge. The
complainant now denied having had intimacy with the
daughter, and said there was no proof of his offering 5/.
Mr. COMBE .(to the complainant)—l am inclined to
to think that an action might be maintained against you
for false imprisonment, and I am further inclined to be-
lieve you have seduced the girl, and are the father of the
child she is pregnant with. I also believe you offered
the 5/., since you do not deny it, but say she has no wit-
ness to prove it. Such an answer I consider an evidence
of guilt ; it is unfortunate the law is so strict that she
must have corroborative proof of your being the father.
If you are so, you are morally, if not legally, bound to
take care of it—no man would shrink from such a re-
sponsibility. The defendants are discharged.