The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

EVENING. DECEMBER 0:)

to be a man. After she was gone a blue
bandbox was found by Jackson in the passege at the
railway station, without any address upon it, and it
was thereupon taken into the booking office and
opened, and in it was found the dead body of a male .
child wrapped up in some linen, *spite warm and
bleeding. The neck was slightly cut on one side, but
more severely on the other, the artery being cut
through. From the evidence of the surgeon the child
had been born alive, and in his opinion the cuts had
been made before death. Intelligence of the disco-
very of the child immediately spread, and a man and
woman walking near the railway station were taken
into custody on suspicion of being the persons who
applied for the ticket for Dewsbury. This, however,
turned out to be a mistake, and a reward was offered
of 251. for the apprehension of the criminal, and a
further reward of 501. and a free pardon for any ac-
camplice were afterwards offered by GJveriinaent.
From suspicious circumstances affecting the prisoner,
she was taken into custody on the 24 of November,
and on examination by a surgeon, though dillicalt to
express an opinion, from her having had a child before,
ha gave it as his opinion that she had recently
given birth to a child. She was also seen walk-
ing into Dewsbury that same morning at nine
o'clock carrying a bundle and a basket. Gill's
premises were then searched, and discoveries were
made which indicated that the prisoner had been de-
livered at Mrs. Gill's of a full-grown child. A piece
of cloth was found there which formed part of the
cloth in which the dead child was found wrapped, and
which had formed part of a chemise belonging to the
prisoner. After this the prisoner had said to Mr.
leleDonald, the superintendent of the Wakefield police,
that she had had a miscarriage at Gill's of a fear er
five months' child, and that the had thrown it into
the privy. On searching the ashpit up the yard of
Gill's house an afterbirth of a full-grown child was
found. While in custody the prisoner wished to see
a clergyman, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, curate of the
parish church at Wakefield, saw her, and to him she
made a statement that she was delivered cm the night
of the 19th of October of a child, and that Gill came
into her room, tosk the child, and murdered it by the
bed. She afterwards said that Gill and his wife had
murdered the child. All the family of the Gills were,
in consequence, token into custody. It was elicited in
cross-examination of one the policemen examined, that
while before the magistrates, when Gill was discharged,
he stooped down end kissed the prisoner. Gill,
however, stated, when asked as to this, that as he
passed at the magistrates' table he said to her, " Well,
you've made a hooey job of yourself." She answered,
" Will you forgive me ?" He said he did, and shook
hands with her, and stooped to do so, as she was
seated, but did not kiss her. (In their evidence Gill
and Mrs. Gill, and other witnesses, entirely contra-
dicted the prisoner's statement.)
The Learned Counsel for the prisoner then addressed
the jury for the defence, contending that the evidence
was inconclusive to fix this crime on the prisoner;
that her statement to the clergyman was made when
she was scarcely conscious of what she said from
terror and exhaustion, and was not to be relied on ;
and that it was physically impossible for the prisoner,
if she had given birth to a child, as alleged, on the
night of the 19th of October, to have got up next
, morning at five o'clock, and after walking with her
bundle and the child in a bandbox to the railway
r station, to have afterwards walked six miles to Dews-
, bury. The child must, therefore, have been placed
where found by somebody else.
• It being now ten o'clock the court was adjourned
)1 until next morning._

December 20.

Mr. Baron PLATT this morning proceeded with
great care to go through the voluminous evidence,
occupying nearly two hours in summing up.
The jury having retired, after an hour's absence,
found the prisoner Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, having put on the black cap, then
proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon
the prisoner. His Lordship held out not the slightest
hope to her, as her crime had been aggravated by her
falsely charging another with it, and that other ber
foster brother, who had given her hospitality. His
Lordship in the usual form then sentenced the pri-
soner to be hung by the neck until she was dead.

The rest of the day was occupied by the trial of a
poaching case possessing little interest.
In the Crown Court Mr. Justice Maule was occu-
pied all day in trying rape cases and cases unfit for
publication.
The grand jury were discharged this morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.

Henry Martin Flanagan, aged GO, described as
a gentkinan, was placed at the bar on remand before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with obtaining from a woman
named White 11. 3a. 6d., under the false pretence
that he was clerk to Mr. Horry, the barrister, and
that for that sum Mr. Horry should defend her
husband, who subsequently was sentenced to trans-
portation.
Mr. Horry was now examined—He said he was a
barrister, and had chambers at No. 1, Warwick-court,
Holborn. He had not received any money from the
prisoner to defend a man named White, who was tried
at the Middlesex Sessions and transported. Toe
prisoner never was his clerk, and he was never au-
thorised to receive lees except when he was specially
sent for them, he (Mr. lorry) sometimes having em-
ployed him as a messenger. He never authorised the
prisoner to represent himself at the House cf Deten-,
tion as his clerk.

Cross examined—l knew the prisoner as an attor-
ney's clerk, and if I had not taken briefs from him, all
the other members of the bar at the sessions would
have been glad to do:so. I have not been in the habit
of giving him the clerk's fee when he brought ue
briefs. Might have done so in some cases. I cannot
swear that I have not. I have received the depositions
in cases frotn :him, and defended prisoners with no
other
instructions.

To the MAGIETRATE—That is a very commonprac-
tice with the bar at the sessions, and it is customary
to take the guinea without a clerk's fee at all. I have
no clerk at this time. I cannot say I have not done
it. I never gave the prisoner the half-crown out of
the guinea. Flanagan and Mrs. White came to me
on the Monday of the sessions, and she instructed me
to make a int:don to put off the trial of Edward
White until the next session. She appeared in great
trouble and distress. She promised to pay me the
money at the end of that week or the next. The fee
was 1/. 33. 6d. The prisoner introduced her to me.
I made the motion, and Mr. Witham postponed the
trial. I have defended prisoners and made motions,
believing that the fees would be paid afterwards. In
such cases the prisoner has received the fees, and paid
them to me afterwards. I have defended cases on the
promise of the prisoner that I should be paid. I have
received briefs from him. I expected to receive the
fee for the motion in question from him. I should
have looked to him for the fee entirely.
Re-examined—l did not understand the prisoner
to be an attorney. I have known him to be a clerk
to several attorneys, viz., Davis, Head and Williams.
I knew him first in 1847. I then lost sight of him
for two years, and saw him again two years ago. He
gave me briefs, but in no particular character. He
brought briefs and clients, and the parties sometimes
came without him. I did not authorise him to re-
ceive money for me, but I had not forbade his receiv-
ing it. If he did receive money, I expected he was
to pay it to me. In this case I expected he would re-
ceive the money and pay it to me, not as my clerk
though, but as a client.
The Clerk (Mr. Mould)—Without reference to
this case, are there not a number of persons who
prowl about the court to get hold of poor persons
under the pretence that they are attorneys or clerks ?
Mr. Horry—Yes, and every member of the bar at
that court takes briefs from them. I objected to it
ten years ago, and called a meeting of the bar upon the
subject, to reverse the whole system. I proposed that
there should be a regular roll of the attorneys of the
court and their authorised clerks, so that counsel
should receive briefs from none but them, but it was
not carried out. I wish to say that lam not in par-
ticular an example of this system. It is general
amongst the bar.
The MAGISTRATE, after recapitulating the facts,
said he should commit the prisoner for trial.
Flanagan said Mr. Horry had behaved most cruelly
to him in deny big that he was his clerk. " I have
been living with him." he said, "for six years in the
same chambers, and I have signed all his papers and
been consulted in all his business matters; and didn't
I make an application to my schoolfellow, the O'Con-
nor Don, who was a Lord of the Treasury, to get
him made a county court judge; and didn't I intro-
dace all my friends to him as clients ? I have two
brothers of my own barristers ; and I declare to God
I never had a penny of this woman's money. I had
to write on the chambers-dour every morning where
I was going. Oh, Mr. Horry, what a cruel man you
are I"
The prisoner was fully committed, the Magistrate
consenting to take bail for his appearance to answer
the charge at the sessions.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Arnold Gerber was charged before Mr. Hardwick
with uttering a forged cheque, purporting to be drawn
by Messrs. Salim, Dean, and Co., for 3401. on tho
London and Westminster Bank.

George Tozer, clerk at the S. James's- square
branch of that bark, said that that morning the pri•
soner presented to him for payment a cheque for 3401,
signed " Selim, Dean, and Co." The bank had cus-
tomers of that name, but as it was directly di,covered
that the signature was not in the handwriting of the
firm, the prisoner was questioned as to the party he
had received the cheque from, when he mentioned
the name of Sims, and said he received it from that

person.
Mr. Mr.
was not in the handw►iting of his partner or hirmelf,
and the prisoner was an utter stranger to him.
The prisoner, in anwer to the charge, stated that

bin in want of a situation, he bad advertised in one
of the morning papers, and in reply thereto he:received
the following note :—" If A. G. has not yet met
with an engagement, he is requeated to call to• morrow
(Friday) by one o'clock, at Osmond's Coffee-house
in the Strand, and inquire for Mr. Sims. If found
suitable he will be eegaged.” He went to Ostnond's
Coffee-house and asked for Mr. Sims, bet was told
by the landlady that that gentleman had left a note
for him. The note stated that Mr. Sims had waited
for him and had gone towards St. Jomes'et-prk, end
would be found leaning against the Duke of York's
pillar. He went there and found a well-dressed
stranger who said his name was Sims ; and after
some conversation, he told him to call on him
at the same coffee-house on the following day
He did so, and was engaged, and the cheque in ques-
tim given him to go to St. James's-square with, and
get cashed.

The prisoner was remanded to Tuesday next for
further inquiry.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty's yacht
Fairy, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, G.C.H.,
embarked the Queen and Court at Cowes yesterday
morning, at eleven o'clock, and conveyed them, under
the customary honours, to the Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling estahlinhment, Gosport, where they di,em•
13,_trked, end were receivcrl by the Hon. Miss Byng,
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Com-
mander-in-Chief ; Bear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C.B. ; Lieutecaut•General d'Aguilar,• Act-
ing Lieutenant-Governor ; C::ptain Supf.lintendent
Sir Edward Parry, and the other officers of the Cla-
rence yard ; Messrs. C. Stovin (manager), Beattie
(chief engineer, &c.), end R. W. Stevens (superin-
tendent of the South-Western Railway Company),
and a guard of honour of 012 48th Regiment, com-
manded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ward, At five mi-
nutes to twelve o'clock the R,,yal train in charge of
Mr. C. Stovin, left the Royal station for Windsor.
Her Majesty and family appeared in excellent health
and spirits.

The half-yearly examination of mates in the Royal
navy, and cadets of the Royal Marine Corps, termi-
nat«l yesterday at the Royal Naval Collkge, when
Mr. Edward Field was deelered qualifi.2q, and !ad-
judged the Li,uternneg commission awarded to the
most proficient ; and Messrs. E. C. L. Durnford, E.
Gladstone, U. L. Morris, J. G. Shanks, A. C. J.
I\l.'Meekan, and G. F. Walker, Marine Cadets, ;ere
recommended for coattni,l,bion3 as S.ccdal-Lieutenants
in the .f.oyal Marine Corps.

Mr.As, landing waiter at Southampton, is ap-
pointed Surveyor in the Customs at this port, vice
Ba,kett, deceased; and Mr. DAWQSI, landing-waiter
at this port, removes to Southampton, vice Mends.
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, Commander-in-Chief
at this port, has most handsomely consented to become
the patron of thi! Portsea Frc,o School.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.--The 11 ig-t,hip Impreg-
nable, 104, will be paid off and recommissioned on
the Ist of January next with a complement of 208
mei).

The steam block-ship Smspareil, 81, having com-
pleted her boilers, was this day warped to the jetty.
The circumstanc's connected with a collision cif
the Start on \Veduesday have excited a great amount
of interest here. According to the account of Captain
A. Van 00F,tercorn, the Corinthian was seen at eight
o'clock in the morning under too topsails,
foresail, fore and aft mainsail and wizen, jib and
staysail, on the larboard tack, sailing down Channel;
wind variable, S.E. to 1..5,E. The Theodora and
Sara was close-hauled on the starboard tack, under
topsails, maintopgallant sail, foresail, mainsail, jib,
staysail, gaff-mainsail, and t&z!n. About nine o'clock
the Corinthian struck the Dutchman between her
cathead and stem, and cut completely through her
bow, causing her to fill and sink in about an hour.
The Theodora and Sara left Batavia on the Bth of
September, called at St. Helena on the lit, and sailed
therefrom. on the 21 of November. Her cargo of
sugar, coffee, and tin, and the vessel, have been esti-
mated at the value of 25,0001. She was 400 tons
burden, and had a complement of 15 hands; iii addi-
tion to them the Corinthian brought to this port
the captain's wife and daughter and Lieutenant Baron
van Heeckereen van Branzenburg and five soldiers,
invalided from the service of his Netherlands Majesty
at Batavia. Every attention has been paid to the suf-
ferers by Mr. Luscombe, the Consul fur Holland at
Plymouth.
The Aboukir, hired ship, with pensioners and their
families and male convicts, last from Portsmouth,
arrived on Friday. After embarking 60 or 70 con-
victs from the Dartmoor pritons, she sails first fair wind
for Hubart-town.