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law did not give the right of pursuit in cases°
shoplifting.
Mr. BINGHAM said he would have the depositieol
taken, and would send both the prisoners for trial.
Several pawnbrokers' assistants produced 51".
lengths of silk, which had been pledged with that
by Pillon. The silk was identified by the
witness.

Raoul had nothing to say.
Pillon said the silk had been given him to Pleag:.
by two ladies, but he was ignorant it had been stole"
The prisoners were fully committed.
LAMBETH.
William Linfield, Richard Orpin, Mary Ann -01,
den, and Spencer Linfield, who have been before ex,:
amined on the serious charge of endangering thelb°
of a young woman named Eliza Wilson, by inducil
her to take steps to procure abortion, were $Bll
placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton.
Mr. Games attended on behalf of the female Spec!!
Linfield and the young man William Linfield, who
had been described as h"r son, but who denied the
claim to the character of mother.
The evidence taken on the former examinationi
having been read over, the declaration of the young
woman Eliza Wilson, taken in the preseace of 31h
Samuel Elyard, a county magistrate, was banded
by that gentleman, who occupied a seat on the bench.
It was as follows :

"I am in my 32d year, and having had criminal n 01.21;
nection with Richard Orpin, and suspecting inYeelfrila
the family-way, I mentioned my suspicions to him.
replied, • Stop till Monday, and we will go together to'
woman in East-lane, Walworth, and that I need not
wilt
trouble myself for three or four months. He went
me on Monday, the 4th of September, to East-lane, but
we could not find out the woman, and on the following
day I went by myself, but did not succeed in finding
I saw Mrs. Dryden, who resides in York-street, Ws.
worth, to whom I mentioned that I was in the faroilt
way, and informed her I wished to get rid of it. Se
said it would be all right if I would pay her 45., whicl
gave her. She then gave me a box of pills and a b‘,o/'a
of stuff; which did not have the expected effect.
~_.Derl6
Dryden then went with me on the Wednesday to n 3-17,
Linfield's, in Prior-place, East-lane, Walworth, her:
shop. Mrs. Dryden said, I have got a friend of nue"
come to see you. Mrs. Linfield, without asking sal
d
questions, said, • I will take her upstairs directly, sad
shortly afterwards did so, and told me to lay on the De'
on my left side. I did so, and she then performed an
operation with some imt-ument. I went again on the
9th, and she used the instrument again saying, ---• '
slept there that night, and paid Mrs. Linfield 2/ 100•'"'
the first clay, and she gave Mrs. Dryden a few shilliort
for taking me there. I went to Mrs. Linfield's again oa
the 11th, when she again used the instrument, and when
I returned home I was very ill. I told Mrs. Linfie'
that my father thought I was ill, and she said, 'No"
sense, yon are all right.' Richard Orpin promised to
pay the 21 10s., but has not done so. The young man
called Mrs. Linfield's son was present on each occasiott.
I went, and was perfectly aware of the business which
was on.

" ELIZA WILSON."
The following certificate from Mr. Chapman, the
medical gentleman who is in attendance on the un"
fortunate young woman, was also put in, and
Mr. ELYARD, the magistrate, remarked that before
taking her statement the young woman had ex•
pressed to him her belief that she would not re'
Cover :

" This is to certify that Eliza Wilson is in a Precv
rious state, and I fear rapidly sinking.
" W. CLIAPAIAN, Surgeon'

"Norwood, Sept. 21."
In reply to a question from the MAcuswasTn,
ii
Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the Walwc%
division of police, and who is taking much paiesan--a
assisting in the investigation of this singular to
highly suspicious case, said there were some of `I;
neighbours of Mrs. Linfield's in attendance whom '-
wished to have examined.
Mr. Elizabeth Baker, the wife of a baker, hereignort
into the witness-box and stated she resided next door
to the house of Mrs. Linfield; that she had seen .0"
number of women brought to the prisoner's house in
the family-way, and all, or at least the great wilier?
of them, left in about a fortnight. They g'eneral
came in cabs, and were taken away in similar vehicles ;
some of them by gentlemen.
Mr. NORTON—Have you noticed that some of the
females were more advanced in pregnancy than ti"
others ?
,Witness—l have, Sir.
Mr. NORTON—And yet you say that all left there
in about a fortnight ? Witness—Yes, Sir, that was
about the time.
Mr. NORTON—Have you noticed that infants have
been taken from there ? liritness—No, Sir, I never
saw a single baby removed from the house.
(This answer produced a considerable sensation
amongst the crowd in the court.)
Mr. NORTON—Did you not observe any of thae
numerous women take away their infants with them r
Witness—Not one of them, Sir. As I have said
before, I never saw a baby removed from Mrs.
Linfield's.
In her cross•examination by Mr. Game, the wit•
ness acknowledged that she had known Linfield for
many years, and that she had once attended herself in
her confinement, when she acquitted herself with
skill and judgment. She (witness) was not aware
that Mrs. Linfield was a parish midwife, but believed
she was engaged as such by some charitable institu-
tion. She did not think it likely that women who wentto the house to be confined privately and conceal the!.... r
shame from their friends were likely to take their of!,
spring home with them, nor did she sit up all night
to see whether the infants were removed then or 110".
In conclusion the witness said, that she was not sividu;
lar in her remarks, for that many of her neighh"..r
thought it strange and suspicious while women wer'
evidently confined there, no infants should be seen.
Mr. J. Clark, a tea-dealer, also residing next door
to the prisoner Linfield, corroborated the testimony
of the last witness as to having frequently seen wl;
men in a state of pregnancy brought to the prisoner
house, end leave there in a few weeks but he did not
cl
take particular notice as to time. He had chservf,
women at the back windows of the house while
was in his garden, but had never seen any infants' If
heard their cries. For some considerable
time himself
and his family were annoyed by a nuisance of an in-
tolerable description, and having strong suspieicus as
to the cause, he had a drain which led from the cestr
pool in the prisoner's garden, and
passed under his
kitchen, opened, expecting to find something jilt-
proper there, but did not find anything of the deort
tion he anticipated. He had a grating placed in
drain so as to prevent any substance
it, and since then the stench, as of putrid matter, was
not so bad.
the
Another neighbour, a cow-keeper, described
_A
effluvium arising from Mrs. Linfield's premises, 3.7
which he said was not of ,an ordinary description'
but appeared to him to be occasioned by the deooll'._.
passing through
position of some putrid matter, and was most intole
rable.

The next and last witness was the brother of the
unfortunate girl, who said that he took a letter from
his sister to Linfield on that day week, when that
_
person told him she was merely treating his sister for
a liver complaint.
The prisOner, who declined saying anything, was
again remanded, and Mr. NORTON gave particular
directions that the house, garden, and promisee of
Linfield should be strictly examined.
Mr. Robins, in reply to a question from Mr. NO)"
TON, said he had placed the instruments found at the
house of Linfield before Mr. Flower, the divisional
surgeon, and that gentleman informed him that they
were such as might found with a midwife; but
still, that in unskilful or improper hands a very
dangerous and fatal use might be made of thaw

HAMBURGII GRAPES.—Yesterday, the Ocean ar-
riv. d in the river, from llamburgh, with 8,000 baskets
of black grapes, the produce of the vineyards in the
vicinity of that town. This is the first arrival during
the pr.( sent season.