The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-10 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PEACE WARRANT.—Mrs. Dorothea Evans and Mrs.
Bridget Middleton, two of the fattest and funniest-looking
females in Crown-court, came yesterday before Mr. CONANT
and Mr. CHAMBERS, the former to substantiate two accu-
sations against the latter of having " kicked up a rumpus"
with her on Sunday irorning.
Mrs. Evans set out by describing her own temper as one
of peculiar placability and mildness, and then branched off
with certain insinuations against the temper of her next-door
neighbour, the defendant, plainly showing that it was ex-
actly the reverse of her's, and, in fact, that its natural viva-
city was by no means pleasantly stimulated with draughts
of something not to be procured from the parish pump.
Numberless were the provocations which she had put up
with, her peculiar excellence of temper enabling her to
withstand the attacks ; but she confessed that on Sunday
morning the business was done by four double knocks at
her door. She popped her head out of the window, and,
to her great alarm, discovered the defendant, surrounded
by a mob of people, standing before her house, using op-
probrious epithets towards her, and calling her, as she said,
everything but a " lady."
Mrs. Middleton assigned as a reason for her knocking at
Mrs. Evans's door that she went to demand the restoration
of her husband's tongs.
The MAGISTRATES, finding the parties disinclined to ar-
range matters amicably, held the defendant to bail.
POOR LAW QUESTION.—A paralytic old man belonging
to the parish of St. James, stated to Mr. CONANT and Mr.
CHAMBERS, that he had applied for relief to the Board, and
the only relief the Board would grant was to admit him and
also his wife into the workhouse. Now his wife was able
and willing to work, and at present bad a situation as nurse,
receiving her food and eighteen pence a week, which was
sufficient for her support. His wife did not wish to become
the inmate of a parish workhouse, but the Board refused to
admit him without her.

Mr. Bryant, the acting overseer, said he was relieving
the applicant although he was a non-resident. He had
stated the man's case fairly to the Board, and that was the
decision they had come to.
The old man, with tears in his eyes, said he would do
anything to keep out of a workhouse, but as his wife's
earnings were insufficient for both, he had been obliged to
apply to the parish. He was still able to carry a board
about, and if the parish would give him a'shilling or two a
week, he would try to maintain himself.
Mr. Bryant was inclined to think the labour of the wife
was sufficient for the support of herself and her husband,
and in that case he considered the wife was bound to exert
herself for her husband's maintenance.

Mr. CHAMBERS said that the wife, however capable, was
not .bound to contribute towards the support of her
husband, and remarked that it was not worth while to go
into general principles. Here was the case of an old man
afflicted with paralysis, and the question was, what did the
Board mean to do for him ?
Mr. CONANT said it appeared to him a case so well de-
serving of compassion that, as the parish did not choose to
do what appeared to him to be fitting, he should order him
half-a-crown out of the poor box, leaving it to the applicant
to do with the money as he thought fit, and not giving him
any particular directions how to apply it.
Mr. CHAMBERS fell no sort of hesitation in tellling
the applicant to go and get a bed with part of it in
St. James's parish, and then he would have a claim legally
on them. _

Half-a-crown was then handed to the applicant, and he
withdrew.

SUSPECTED MURDER.—A few weeks ago a lady
named Sedgwick, living in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
came to Marlborough-street Office, and stated her suspicions
that foul play had been practised by two persons, foreigners,
named Chabussier, and their servant, Mary Ann Taylor, upon
a female infant, which had been born a very short time after
the marriage of Madame Chabussier, who occupied lodgings
in her house, and carried on business as a milliner and dress-
maker. Her lodgers had left her for a short time, and after
occupying apartments in different parts of the suburbs, they
came from their last lodgings at Hornsey to her again, but
without the infant. A number of circumstances having oc-
curred to awaken suspicion, she questioned the parties respect-
ing the child. She received unsatisfactory answers, and then
she considered it was proper to lay the matter before a Magis-
trate. A warrant was instantly granted, an officer of this
establishment, who proceeded immediately to take the accused
into custody. He, however, discovered that the parties had
taken the alarm, and a few days previous had procured pass-
ports, and had gone to Belgium. The affair having got wind
in the neighbourhood of Hornsey, a diligent search was set on
foot, to see if it was possible to find the body of the child.
The search proved unsuccessful up to Monday afternoon last,
when a body, of which little doubt can be entertained that it
is the body of the infant belonging to the parties was found,
and information given to -the authorities at Hornsey. The
Coroner was sent to, and an inquiry, it is expected, will take
into this mysterious affair.
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