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London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.

EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT!

(Before Mr. Justice TALFOUED and Mr. Baron
MARTIN.)
Henry Gregory, 18, was indicted yesterday for
the manslaughter of Daniel Michael Isaac.
Mr. Robinson was counsel for the prosecution.
It appeared that on the 19th of August the prisoner
and some other persons were playing skittles at the
George and Dragon public-house, Hoxton, and upon
the prisoner refusing to pay for some beer that he
had lost the potboy called him "a thief." The pri-
soner then struck the potboy, and the deceased inter-
fered, and offered to fight the prisoner, and they
stripped and fought several rounds, and both of them
frequently fell to the ground. The deceased, in the
course of the struggle, became insensible, and died
almost immediately. The fight was represented to be
a fair stand-up one, and it appeared that when the
prisoner was informed that his opponent was dead he
expressed the greatest regret for what had occurred,
and procured water and did all that he could to re-
store the deceased.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter
under mitigating► circumstances, and he was sentenced
to be imprisoned for two months.
Walter Whittaker, 24, was indicted for cutting and
wounding Alfred Stride, with intent to do him grie-
vous bodily harm.
Mr. Locke and Mr. Payne prosecuted ; Mr.
O'Brien defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of the 4th of Septem-
ber the prisoner and two other persons went into the
Custom-house Stores public-house, Lower Thames-
street, and bad some refreshment, and in consequence
of the prisoner misconducting himself the landlady
refused to serve him with any more liquor, and insisted
upon his leaving the house. He would not do so, and
she then called in the prosecutor, who is one of the
City police, and at his entreaty the prisoner went out,
but he came back almost directly, and expressed his
determination to go into the house again. The
officer advised him not to do's°, and put his hand upo❑
his shoulder and requested him to go away, and the
moment he did so the prisoner took a pipe that he
was smoking from his mouth, and thrust it with great
violence into the constable's face, at the same time
exclaiming, " There, you -, take that." The
blow was so violent that the pipe was forced into the
nose of the prosecutor, and a portion of it was em-
bedded in the upper jaw so deeply that Mr. Childs, the
surgeon to the force, who was called in upon the oc-
casion, was occupied for more than a quarter of an
hour in extracting it.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common
assault, and he was sentenced by Mr. Justice Talfourd '
to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for nine
months.

An inquest was held to-day, at the South Infirmary,
Cork, before Mr. Coroner .Mahony, on view of the
body of a man, whose name was unknown, and appa-
rently about 30 years of age. It appeared, that some
of the constabulary, early yesterday morning,
found
the deceased lying in one of the hulks on the coal-
quay nearly dead. He was immediately removed to
the infirmary, and every effort used to restore him,
but in vain. Dr. John Shenquin was examined at
the inquest, and stated that there were no marks of
violence on the body, but that it was very much ema-
ciated, and in his opinion death was caused by starva-
tion and exposure. The jury retired after the evi-
dence having closed, and in about ten minutes re-
turned with the following verdict, which was drawn
up by the foreman :—" That we find the deceased,
name unknown, came by his death through starva-
tion, he being in the prime of life, owing, in our
opinion, to the reckless and careless treatment of our
governing Ministers, in not giving more attention to
the distress of the country."

John Caffrey, 42, was indicted for wounding
James Caffrey, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. Carteen prosecuted.
The prosecutor was the son of the prisoner, a lad
14 years of age. When the case was called on, the
constable engaged in it informed the Court that he
had gone away and could not be found, and he believed
he did not intend to appear.
Robert Crebo, a police. constable, was examined,
and he stated that between 9 and 10 o'clock at night
on the 4th of September, while on duty in March-
wont-street, Burton-crescent, he heard screams of
"Murder" proceeding from Crescent-mews. He
went to the place, and at No. 22 the sounds directed
him to the top front room. He was refused admit-
tance, hut burst in the door, and he there saw the
prisoner standing in the room with a redhot poker in
his hand, which he was holding by a cloth. The
prisoner's son was stark naked and crying, and ap-
peared to have been burnt. Witness asked what was
the matter, and the prisoner ordered him out of the
room, and told him he had no business there. Wit-
ness asked the boy what had been the matter, and he
said that his father had been beating him with a red-
hot poker, and he observed the marks upon his person
where the redhot poker had been. The prisoner then
ordered him to leave the house again, but he refused
to go, and told him he was his prisoner, upon which
he struck him, and his wife came into the room, and
they both assaulted him, and forced him out of the
place. He immediately procured assistance, and the
prisoner was taken into custody, and as they were
going to the station-house, he said that the boy was a
bad boy, and he had chastised him for it.
Edward Harris, another constable, proved that he
assisted the last witness to take the prisoner into
custody, and he produced the poker, which he found
in the fireplace, and which he said was still hot when
he accompanied Crebo a second time to the house.
Mr. Waldegrave, the surgeon who examined the
person of the boy, said that his back was severely
bruised and burnt. There were also burns upon each
of his arms and upon his chest, upon his thighs and
upon his leg, and the skin was destroyed by the
burn on the chest. The burns were all of such a de-
scription as would be caused by the poker that had
been produced.

officer was mistaken, that they were only lying there
reading. On Miller was found a prayer-book.
A great number of highly respectably witnesses
gave the two prisoners a most unexceptionable cha-
racter.

His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury Acquitted the prisoners.
The COURT refused to allow the park. keepers their
expenses.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the COMMON•SERGEANT.)
Mary Ann Johnson, 28, spinster, was indicted for
unlawfully neglecting to give and provide for Mary
Ann Johnson, the younger, aged 14 months, suitable
food, drink, and other necessaries for her support.
Mr. Huddlestone conducted the prosecution, which
had been undertaken by the authorities of the London
Union.
The prisoner, a shabbily-clad, dissipated-looking
young woman, who bore traces of having once been
very handsome, pleaded "Not guilty," and continued
to cry during the whole of this time she was in the
dock.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE having stated the case, called
Jane Hunt, living at No. 2, Herring-court, Red
Cross-street, who said that on the 22d of August the
prisoner came and took a room in that house. She
brought two children with her, one of which was the
subject of the present inquiry, and another about four
years old. The whole time she was in the house and
till the day of her apprehension she was in a state of
continual drunkenness. She stated herself to be the
wife of a commercial traveller, and always seemed to
have plenty of money, and at one time showed the
witness two sovereigns that she had. The children
were always crying, and annoyed the whole house.
On Thursday, the 28th of August, the screaming
was so violent that she went into the room, and there
found the mother drunk, and the children in the most
wretched state imaginable. The children and mother
were lying on the bed without a particle of covering
on them. The infant was crying for food, and by
its side lay a piece of dry crust, from which it was
trying to pick the crumb. Three of its fingers were
matted together with filth. The mother was too
much intoxicated to give it any food, and witness took
it into her room, and washed it, and gave it some
nourishing food, and, seeing the state the mother was
in, offered to bring it up with her own. This the pri •
Boner would not listen to, and took it back into her own
room again. The deceased continuing to cry she again
went into the prisoner's room and found her still drunk
and insensible, and the child was so bad that she
thought it to be dying. She had some neighbours
with her. They partly roused ,the prisoner, and
offered to give the child some warm food, which she
refused to let them do, and she and her neighbours
then came to the determination of taking it away,
which they did, but the poor little thing becoming
rapidly worse, witness took it to Dr. Lloyd's, who
directed her to give information to the police, as the
child, if longer neglected, could not survive many
hours, She then took the child home, and having
given it some food, called in the police, to whom the
prisoner was given in custody, and the child was ulti-
mately taken to the union.
The prisoner would not ask the witness any ques•
tions, but stated that it was her that made her drunk,
and ill-used her.

Mr. Lloyd, surgeon, Basinghall•street, said, that
when the child was brought to him it was fast sink-
ing from want of food and gross neglect, and coald
not have lived 24 hours longer. It was most fearfully
emaciated and suffering from cutaneous disease,
neglect, and dirt. He saw the child a few days after,
when it had been under proper care, and it was so
altered that he scarcely knew it. It had since died
of an inflammation of the lungs, not caused from its
ill-treatment, though, probably, the shock to the
system had destroyed its chance of recovery.
Thomas Baley, of Circus street, Bryanstone-
square, said that the prisoner bad lodged in his
house previously to coming to the City. She had
when drunk fearfully neglected the child, and his
wife had to take care of the children. She had
been four times at the Marylebone Police•court
for drunkenness, and on one occcasion was sent
to prison for a month, and the children went to the
workhouse. When sober she was very kind to the
children.

John Hodges, 120, said that the prisoner was quite
drunk when he took her into custody. The children
were all over sores and nearly naked ; there was no
fire in the room, or any sign of victuals. He never
saw such filth and misery.
It transpired in the course of the proceedings that
the father of both of the children is a wealthy city
merchant, and allowed the prisoner an ample mainte •
nance.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was
sentenced to six months.' imprisonment.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 18, 1851.

given him 3d. to get them, but the elder male pri-
soner refused to say anything.
A Mr. Cluvedon, a sc ileboard maker, proved the
sale to him about a fortnight or three weeks since of
four of the prosecutor's candlesticks by the elder male
prisoner, who had been in his service for a lengthened
period, upon a fictitious tale of distress, and that the
female prisoner was in the frequent habit of calling at
the premises to see him.
James Johnson, a fellow-workman of the elder
prisoner, also deposed to buying him, about three
months ago, three of the stolen spoons, a pair of sugar-
tongs, and a timepiece, under the supposition t hat
they were his ow❑ property, and produced the former
articles, but could not do so with the timepiece, as he
had disposed of that to a stranger some time since.
When called upon for their defence the prisoners
gave an improbable account of one portion of the
charge and a general denial to the other; but
The MAGISTRATE ordered them to be committed
until that day week for the completion of the case,
and to afford an opportunity of tracicg the rest of
the property.

CLERKENWELL.
Two young women, sisters, who gave their names
Sarah and Rebecca Sharp, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt
under the following peculiarly distressing circum-
stances :

It appeared that they were servants from Thrap-
stone, Northamptonshire, and their masters granted
them a holiday in order to come to London to see
the Great Exhibition. They left Thrapstone, accom-
panied by their eldest sister, Anna Smith, a married
woman, and her infant child, seven months old. On
their arrival in London they took lodgings at a house
in Bidborough-street, St. Pancras, and on Friday
night they retired to rest with a view to attend the
Exhibition on the following day. On Saturday
morning, at about two o'clock, they were awoke out
of their sleep by an alarm of" Fire," when they found
the lower part of the house in flames, and were nearly
suffocated with smoke. In their anxiety to save their
lives they made their escape, leaving behind them
their money and everything belonging to them. Anna
Smith, their sister, who with her infant slept in an
apartment in the upper part of the house, found it
impossible to make her escape through the flames
and dense smoke, and making her appearance at
the window, she was urged to throw her
infant out to the people below, and it was
saved. The unfortunate mother then, in a state of
frenzy, precipitated herself from the window, and,
although the spectators endeavoured to save her, she
fell with great force and injured herself so severely
that she was instantly conveyed to the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, where the most prompt
assistance was afforded her by Mr. Lane, the house
surgeon, &c.; and she now lies there in a very preca-
rious state. The applicants bad lost everything they
had, and were destitute with the exception of the
clothes they then wore, which were the benevolent
gifts of the inhabitants of the locality in which the
calamity occurred ;and their object in making this
application—which they were induced to do through
the friendly advice of others—was to solicit some aid
to enable them to return to Thrapstone, Northamp-
tonshire.

Mr. TTRITIIITT directed that immediate inquiry
should be made into the circumstances, and
Turner, the officer, proceeded instanter, and, after
proper investigation, found that an alarm of "Fire"
had taken place at the house in Bidborough-street ;
that Anna Smith was in the hospital, and the whole
of the applicants' statements were true; and it is only
justice to add to the credit of a Mrs. Harris, the wife
of a carpenter and undertaker of No. 25, Bidborough-
street, Burton-crescent, that she and her husband
rendered every a‘siatance to the unfortunate sufferers,
and that Mrs. Harris is at present nurturing and
suckling the infant of Anna Smith, the injured mo-
ther in the hospital.
Mr. TYRWHITT said everything should be done for
the applicants.

Names of
Companies.

of the bedroom windows, and afterwards passed
through the library door.
Sergeant Marquard expected to obtain some of the
property stolen on that day, and therefore prayed for
a remand.

The prisoner having declined to ask any questions,
Mr. BEADON remanded him until Wednerday next.