The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Five stout young women, inmates of St. George's
Workhouse, were charged with insubordination, and
breaking upwards of forty panes of glass, in one of
the wards.

Several of the board of guardians attended to re-
present the violence of these young women. It ap-
peared that after prayers that morning the defendants
caused an uproar in the ward, and when one of the
officers went to request they would desist they became
more uprorious, used the most filthy and disgusting
language, and commenced smashing the windows,
and broke upwards of forty panes before they were
secured from doing further injury.
The Chairman of the board of guardians said, as
the Magistrate might perceive, the defendants were
all strong and healthy young women, and could earn
their bread by industry if they pleased ; that situa-
tions had been provided for them on several occasions,
but they remained in none, owing to their bad con-
duct, and always came back to the workhouse, pre-
ferring the kind of life there to that which they
ought to pursue, to obtain their livelihood without
being a burden on the parish.
The defendants, one and all, began to exclaim
against the treatment they experienced in the work-
house, but were silent when told they were not
compelled to remain there, but might go out and earn
an honest livelihood.

Mr. SECYER having in vain remonstrated with the
defendants on the violence of their conduct, during
which they only made a laugh at what was addressed
to them, sentenced them to pay for the damage they
had done, and in default committed them for two
months to the House of Correction. The moment
sentence was passed on the defendants they broke
into loud denunciations against the workhouse autho-
rities, and their infamous language was infinitely
worse than that of the lowest women of the town who
frequently stand at the bar of this court.,
LAMBETH.

Mr. Norton received a letter from Sir W. P. Call,
Marten, and Co., Old Bond-street, enclosing the half
of a 51. note from "E. P." for the poor-box, and
stating that on acknowledgment of the same the other
half would be sent.

THE MURDER IN GOLDEN-LANE.
The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two
children who were recently found murdered in
Golden-lane was held yesterday at three o'clock, before
Mr. William Baker, coroner, at the William the
Fourth public-house,
Jeremiah Donnoghue, labourer, was the first
witness called, residing at No. 9, Cupid's-court, who
stated, that about one or •two o'clock on Saturday
morning last, he distinctly heard the voice of Amina
Blake, one of the deceased, cry " Murder" several
times. About four o'clock on the same morning he
was apprised of the murder' of the two children,
Amina Blake and her brother.
Mrs. Blake, the mother of the deceased, deposed
to their being two of her children by her lawful hus-
band, Robert Henry Blake, under whose protection
they were left in London. She was at present living
apart from her husband at Birmingham with another
of her children.
Mr. Wright, surgeon, stated that he was
called in to see the deceased shortly after four
o'clock on Saturday morning last. He found
the body of Thomas Henry Blake, the younger,
lying upon a bed on the ground floor of the house,
the bedclothes were in the greatest disorders; the body
was warm, but life was extinct. There were several
scratches on the tip of the nose and the nostrils, on
the right side of the mouth, and upon the left cheek,
and upon the throat near the windpipe; there
were no other appearances of external violence
on the body. He examined the chest and
found the lungs perfectly healthy, but gorged
with a dark coloured black fluid, the intestines and
abdomen appeared also in a perfectly healthy state.
On removing the scalp he found that the dura mater
was covered with numerous bloody points, from
which dark-coloured blood issued. The vessels of the pia
mater were gorged with a dark-coloured fluid. The
substance of the brain, when cut in two, also pre-
sented numerous bloody parts. There was no blood in
the ventricles of the brain. Upon examining the
body of Amina Blake, he found, with a small
difference, precisely the same appearances, and
in both cases he was led to believe, as the result of
the examination, that death was caused by forcible
compression of the mouth and nostrils.
Mr. Courtenay, surgeon, of Whitecross-street, gave
evidence of a similar nature.
The CORONBR proceeded to sum up, and in doing
so, completely exonerated the father of the children
from any actual participation in the dreadful crime.
There appeared to be no doubt that the murder was
committed by Harriet Parker, who had been living
with the father of the children for some three or
four years. The only course for the jury to adopt
would be to return a verdict of wilful
murder against her. It appeared from her own state-
ments that she had contemplated the atrocious act for
some months past, and that, since she had committed '
it, she had stated that she gloried in what
she bad done, and had made use of the
extraordinary expression, "That she could die on the
gallows like a trump for it With respect to any c
plea that might be set up on the ground of insanity,
that would be a question to be tried in another place.
The Coroner then proceeded to read over the whole
of the voluminous evidence taken during the three •
sittings of the Court, after which he said, he would
trouble the jury with no further remarks, but leave
the matter in their hands to return a true and proper
verdict.