The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1818.

•upon the rioters, who took refuge upon a mountain,
-whence they dislodged stones, and hurled them upon
the whites. Orders were then given to take the
.mountain by assault, which was effected by thirty-
five Communal Guards. Several blacks were killed,
and a European female was struck by a ball, which
was, however, extracted, and her life declared out of
danger.
In the Danish colonies there has been a general
:rising of the blacks in the islands of St. Thomas and
Santa Cruz. In both these place's the Governments
were obliged immediately to publish an ordinance by
which the blacks we re declared free.
The New Rotterdam Courant gives an account of
the discovery of very rich iron mines in the kingdom
of Borneo.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 14.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
Sarah Freeman, a woman about thirty years of
age, late cook in the establishment of Henry B.
Baring, Esq., M.P., was placed at the bar, charged
with the wilful murder of her child.
The attention of the police was first called to the
matter through the receipt of an anonymous letter,
intimating that the prisoner had been recently deli-
vered of a child, which, there was too much reason to
fear, had been murdered.
Mr. William Cumming, Inspector of Police of the
B division, sworn—ln consequence of receiving an
anonymous communication on Saturday night last, I
went to the house of Henry Bingham Baring, Esq.,
M.P., 13, Eaton-place, about eight o'clock in the
evening. I saw the housekeeper, and asked for the
cook. In consequence of what the housekeeper there
said, I sent Sergeant Prongar to bring the cook
back, she having just before left the house, and I
afterwards met the sergeant and the cook (the pri-
soner) and conveyed her back to the housekeeper's
room, where she placed a basket, which she had
been carrying on her arm, upon the table. I said to
the prisoner, " I have received information that you
have lately been delivered of a child." She said,
" Yes, sir, I am very sorry to say that I have." I
inquired where it was, when she pointed to the bas-
ket I had seen her place upon the tabla. I inquired
when it was born, and she replied, on the previous
Saturday, between two and three o'clock. I asked
her how long it lived, and she said only a few mi-
nutes. She then stated that she was going to take it
to a woman at Chelsea, who promised to bury it for
her, so that no one should know anything about it.
On the way to the station-house she said, " Oh, sir,
what do you think will be done to me ; tell me your
real opinion—do you think I shall be hanged ?" I
said, "It is impossible that I can know." She then
observed, "I would not have done it if that woman
had not promised to put it out of the way." She said
the housekeeper and housemaid knew nothing about
it. At the station-house I examined the basket, and
found it contained the dead body of a male infant.
The child was forced into the stocking produced,
which appears to have had the mark cut out of it.
The child was also wrapped round with a piece of
cloth, a dress corresponding with which I found in
the house, among the prisoner's things. I made a
strict search all over the house, in the prisoner's drawers
and boxes, and could find no baby-linen, nothing what-
ever prepared for the birth o f a child. Mr. Pearse, the
surgeon, examined the child at the police-station, and
it was then conveyed to St. George's workhouse.
Sergeant Prongar, 237 A, proved that he accom-
panied Mr. Cumming to the house in Eaton-place,
and remained outside. While he was there he saw
the prisoner leave, but not knowing her or the result
of the inspector's inquiries, he allowed her to pass on,
but subsequently, by the direction of the inspector, he
went in quest of the prisoner, and saw her enter a
pastrycook's at Chelsea. On her coming out, he
asked her if she did not live at 13, Eaton-place, and
on her replying in the affirmative, he told her that
she must accompany him back, as the housekeeper
wanted her, as also a gentleman. She replied that
no gentleman could want to see her, as she had not
done anything. She had the basket containing the
dead body of the child on her arm at the time.
Sarah Nuttall, housekeeper at Mr. Baring's, and
Sophia Keath, housemaid, who with the prisoner
were the only servants left in the house during the
last two months in which the family have been from
home, proved that the one from her own personal
observation, and the other from rumour, accused the
prisoner with being enciente, which she positively
denied. They were not aware that she had given
birth to a child. Observing that she was unwell a
few days ago, the housekeeper put some questions to
her, when the prisoner, in order to lull suspicion, told
her not to make herself uneasy, as she had been
equally unwell before.
Mr. George Pearse, of Regent-street, Westminster,
surgeon, sworn.—On Saturday night I was sent for
to the police-station, in Rochester-row, where the
inspector handed me a basket, which he requested me
to examine. I found in a bundle which it contained
a male infant, which had been born at the full period,
measuring 21/ inches, with 18 inches of the umbilical
cord attached, which had been cut without any liga-
ture. The body had been forced into the upper part
of :a stocking, head foremost, and then enveloped in a
piece of dark-coloured print. There were no marks
of blood on the body or stomach. I have examined
the prisoner, and entertain no doubt that she has been
recently delivered of a child. The medical gentleman
here went on to:state the result of some conversation
that he had with the prisoner, in which she described
to him some of the circumstances attending the birth
of the child ; after which Mr. Pearse continued—l
have made a pest mortena examination of the body, in
conjunction with the medical officer of St. George's.
The lips and nose appear to have been much com-
pressed.
Mr. BRODERIP—Was that, do you think, caused by
the birth, or by being compressed in the stocking?
Mr. Pearse—l should say, not the birth. Much blood
was extravasated on the inner side of the lips, and
the eyes much injected with blood.
Mr. BRODERIP—Beyond what would have been
the case from the natural circumstances of birth ?
Mr. Pearse—Yes, sir. The membrane of the
brain, and brain itself, were much gorged with blood,
I also examined the heart and lungs, and am perfectly
satisfied that the child was born alive.
Mr. BRODERlP—Witnesses and prisoner, attend
while the evidence is being read over.
Air. W. Taylor, the chief clerk, having read the
depositions of the several witnesses,
Mr. BRODERIP, addressing the prisoner according
to law, said, having heard the evidence, do you wish
to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are
not obliged to say anything unless you desire
to do so; but whatever you do say will be taken
down in writing, and may be given in evidence against
you upon your trial. Moreover, it is my duty to
give you clearly to understand that you have nothing
to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to
fear from any threat which may have been holden
out to you to induce you to make any admission or
confession of your guilt, but whatever you say may
be given in evidence against you. Have you any-
thing to say ?
Prisoner, who had been seated in the dock during
the whole f the examination, and had leaned forward
on the rail, burying her face in her hands, replied,
with a weak voice, " Nothing."
Mr. BRODERlP—Prisoner at the bar, it is my duty
to commit you to take your trial at the next sessions
of the Central Criminal Court for the wilful murder
of your child.
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LAMBETH.
It will be recollected thatontheofl2tthheofElasstatbmlioshed
month
a highly respectable clergyman
Church, the vicar of an extensive parish in the county
of Kent, was brought in custody to this court, and
placed at the bar, on the charge of passing a counter-
feit half-crown to an omnibus conductor, in whose
vehicle he had been a passenger from Oxford-street to
the Walworth-road ; and that, upon an investigation
of the charge, it appeared perfectly conclusive that
the Rev. Gentleman, if he gave the half-crown ob-
jected to at all, was perfectly ignorant of its being a
bad one. On that occasion Mr. Norton complimented
the Rev. Gentleman for the spirit and determination
evinced by him in resisting what he conceived to be a
gross attempt at imposition, and expressed his deep
regret that a gentleman in his position should have
been put to such an inconvenience, and treated as he
had been. On the following day Mr. Norton received
a letter from Mr. Peterson, the barrister, on the sub-
ject, which, on reading, he deemed to be of such im-
portance that he immediately wrote to that gentle-
man, requesting his sanction to publish it. Mr.
Peterson having left town for the continent on the
morning after he had written, his answer to Mr. Nor-
ton's note had not reached the hands of Mr. Norton
until a few days ago, and in that answer he gave his
full permission to the publication of his former letter,
which was as follows :
" 1, Essex-court, Temple, Sept. 18.
"Sir,—Excuse the liberty I take in addressing
you, but in the police reports of this day's papers I
see a case of a clergyman charged with passing a bad
half-crown to an omnibus conductor; charges of this
sort are by no means uncommon, but very few of the
parties have either the courage or spare time neces-
sary to follow the charge. In my own case, not very
long since, I gave a conductor a shilling, I got my
sixpence back, and was walking leisurely away, when
I was collared by the conductor and charged with
passing a pad shilling, which was tendered to me.
On declining to give another one, a mob soon gathered
and I had the satisfaction of being roughly handled,
and was glad to give another shilling, at the same
time insisting upon the number of the conductor,
which he prevented me from getting, and ran away
to his omnibus. The crowd, however, did not leave
me until, by good luck, the son of a respectable
tradesman in the street recognised me, and freed me
from the mob. Now, in the first place, even supposing
the coin was bad, the treatment I was subjected to
was very unpleasant and wrong ; yet, as the coin I
gave was good, and in ninety cases out of one hun-
dred, when the charges are made, the passenger has
given good coin, how hard it is to be duped by a
vagabond conductor, passing off his own bad coin,
and at the same time having you locked up for a
whole night on the charge. In my case the coin
tendered was good, having no other money in my
pocket but what I had drawn from my banker's, in
Bond-street, about ten minutes before I entered the
omnibus. Now my object in writing this, is to
suggest that in cases of charges like this, the police
should have orders to search the complainant, and see
what coin he has on his person, and they will most
probably find some base coin. One conductor of an
omnibus is at this time undergoing his punishment

for passing bad coin in change to the passengers, and
he admitted that he had made on an average some-
thing like fifty shillings a week by the trade. Eloping
you will excuse the liberty I have taken in making
the above suggestion,

" I have the honour to remain yours, obediently,
"A. T. T. PETERSON.
" Hon. G. C. Norton, Lambeth Police-court."
WORSHIP-STREET.

Sarah Smith, a young woman with a infant in her
arms, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill,
charged with having been found engaged in the ma-
nufacture of counterfeit coin.

Sergeant Brannan, of the G division, stated that
between five and six o'clock on Saturday evening he
proceeded with Sergeant Dubois, and four constable.,
to the house, No. 5, Nelson•place, Hackney-road, in
pursuance of instructions from the authorities of the
Mint, who had received information that the premises
were occupied by a notorious gang of coiners. Find-
ing the street-door secured on the inside, they in-
stantly burst it open, and hastily entered a lower
room, where they found the prisoner seated at a
table giving the final polish with a hard brush to a
base shilling, to render it fit for circulation. They
immediately secured the coin, together with two
others which were lying upon the table ; and the
prisoner at the same time dashed over a cup contain-
ing a powerful acid in solution, a portion of which
they also succeeded in securing. Upon further
search the officer found secreted in the back kitchen
a complete galvanic battery, which had evidently
been recently in operation for electro-plating coins,
and a jar connected with which containing a
solution of the same description as that the
prisoner had attempted to destroy. They discOvered
a quantity of base metal, a strong knife encrusted
with plaster of Paris, and other implements and ma-
terials used in the fabrication of spurious money.
The whole of the articles seised were conveyed with
the prisoner to the station-house, and witness had
been since directed by the Mint solicitor to apply for
a remand, to enable him to attend and prosecute the
case against her.
The prisoner, who was recognised as having been
repeatedly in custody for offering counterfeit coin,
declined offering any defence, and was ordered to be
brought up again for the completion of the evidence.
Mrs. Jane Randal, a cowkeeper in Sebright-street,
Bethnal•green, was summoned for keeping a large
number of pigs upon her premises, and thereby
causing a nuisance prejudicial to the health of the in-
habitants.

It appeared that the nuisance in question had ex-
isted for a considerable time past, in a yard at the
rear of the defendant's residence, and in the centre
of a cluster of houses, densely occupied by poor
weavers and their families, whose repeated com-
plaints of the mischief and annoyance occasioned by
the noxious effluvium arising from the place having
been altogether disregarded by the defendant, the
subject was brought under the notice of the Police
Commissioners, who directed the present proceedings
to be taken.

The defendant's daughter, who attended on behalf
of her mother, denied having been cautioned that they
were acting in violation of the law, and prayed for
sufficient time to abate the nuisance.

Mr. liammlLL, however, said that at a time when
fatal epidemics, most of which were engendered by
nuisances similar to the present, were impending over
the metropolis, it was the imperative duty of those in
authority to take the most active measures for their
immediate suppression, and he should therefore only
adjourn the summons until Wednesday, when, if the
cause of complaint should still continue, he should
visit the defendant with the highest penalty imposed
by the Act under which the proceedings were in-
stituted.

In the course of the afternoon a gentleman, who
was understood to be attached to the City Mission,
addressed the magistrate, and stated that he was de-
puted by Mr. Jackson, of that institution, to attend
for the purpose of refunding to the poor•box the
amount contributed towards the temporary relief of
Anne and Emma Lofinck, the emigrants wives,
whose case has been so frequently brought before the
public.
In answer to a question from the magistrate, the
gentleman briefly intimated that a passage had be( n
taken for the conveyance of the women, with their
children, to their husbands at New York, and that
they would sail in the Panama emigrant ship on the
following day.
Mr. IlAmmiu. expressed his gratification that such
a proper course had been adopted, and the gentle-
man having handed over the money, about 305., left
the court.