The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

little creature appeared to have been suffering from a
scrofulous disease, arising from long continued neglect,
and want of proper nourishment. One of its little
arms bad been broken, and badly united again. It was
the single bone that was fractured, and therefore with
0 little care might have been properly set by the
rot, then, had she been capable of attending to the child's
wb,s),,s. It was such afracture as would have united with-
our an assistance, but it would form a bad angle. I saw
child again on Saturday and to-day, and the
tehhe an.ge in its appearance is astonishing ; it is so
improved that I should not have known it again.
There is a diseased condition of the child set up, but
whether that, can be cured I cannot say.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL (to prisoner)—Do you wish
on any questions ? Prisoner—No,
innocent of the charge. I have
tsoirst,skl
atmhepesrufreVly
been entrapped into the court in which I live by a
gang who have combiieed against me, and that woman
there (pointing to Mrs. Bunt) is one of them. My
insensibility since I have lived at No. 2, Three Her-
ring-court, Redcross-street, is not the effect of drink-
ing, but arises from exhaustion, produced by these
parties constantly beating me.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL—Mrs. Hunt could not have
been a party to any combination against you, as it was
through her means alone that your child still lives, for
you were utterly incapable of taking care of the poor
little creature.
Mr. Hill, the beadle of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, said
since the children have been in the workhouse in-
quiries have been made, and it has been ascertained
that she lived at Notting-hill for seven years, and was
a housekeeper there. During that period she paid
scot and lot—that is, rates, taxes, &c., by which
means she gained her settlement. The two children
she has are both illegitimate. She has no husband,
but the father of the children (a merchant
in Sise-lane) allowed her a very handsome
neaintenance. About ten days ago he sent her two
sovereigns, with which she took a bed out of pledge,
and went to lodge in Three Herring-court.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL—Where were the children
born ? Prisoner—The eldest was born in the parish
of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, and the other, little
Polly (the child in question), was born in St.
James's.
Sir GEORGE CARROL—This is a case of such gross
neglect that I think it a fit one for the parish officers
to take up and prosecute.
Mr. Hill—l am instructed to inform your Wor•
ship that whatever the magistrate may direct, the
parish officers are most willing and anxious to do.
Prisoner—l hope, Sir, you will hear some of my
neighbours who have expressed a wish to speak to
my character, and all that has been alleged against
me.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL-1 don't think you can
bring any witness to contravene the surgeon's evi-
dence. You have accused Mrs. Hunt of leaguing
with other parties against you. I hate paid parti-
cular attention to the evidence, and from what I have
seen of Mrs. Ilunt,l can only say that, as the mother
of twelve children, she has done her duty in this in-
stance in a most creditable and worthy manner. Her
humanity is beyond all praise.
Prisoner—They say I have been imprisoned, Sir,
for a month, from another court, when I can so-
lemnly declare I never was in a prison in my life.
Hodges, 120, the officer who had the charge, said
that prisoner lived some time since at No. 14. Circus-
street, Bryanstone-square, when she was given into
custody for a similar offence, and she was committed
to the House of Correction for a month or six weeks,
from Marylebone Police-court.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL—I am afraid there is very
little reliance to be placed in any of the statements
you have made, and it will therefore be my duty to
commit you to Newgate, there to await your trial, on
the charge of wilfully neglecting, and omitting to
supply proper food, clothing, &c., to your child.
Prisoner here again asserted that sho loved her
children, and in order to satisfy the Court and give an
example of her affection for her offspring, she stooped,
and taking up the eldest child (who had unnoticed
crept into the dock) in her arms, commenced kissing
and hugging it in a most frantic manner.
The depositions being prepared, the, prisoner was
fully committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Jane Sayer, a young married woman,
very respectably attired, was placed at the bar before
Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with feloniously stealing a
small piece of meat, of the vine of Hid., from the
shop of Mr. George Sutton, a butcher, at Dalston.
Mr. Hobler, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the
prisoMner.
r. John Peach, a gentleman of property, residing
at Shacklewell, stated that on Saturday evening he
was in the prosecutor's shop, when his attention was
attracted to the prisoner, who was standing outside
in front of the shop and handling a piece of meat in
such a manner as to excite his suspicions. After
watching her nations for a short time he at length
saw her throw the end of her shawl over the meat,
under the cover of which she dexterously jerked it
either into or upon a small basket she had in her hand and
walked away with it. Witness instantly hastened after
the prisoner, whom he overtook at one of the adjoin-
ing shops, and upon charging her with stealing the
property, which was next found lying at her feet, the
prisoner earnestly protested her innocence, and de-
clared that she must have inadvertently removed it from
the board on which it had been placed by the end of
her shawl. Witness, however, called for the police,
and the prosecutor upon being apprised of the facts,
gave her into custody. Witness was in the habit of
dealing at the prosecutor's shop, but the prisoner was
an entire stranger to him, and he had never seen her
there before.
Milne, a police-constable of the N division, stated
that upon reaching the spot where the accused was
detained by the last witness, he saw the prisoner pass
her hand rapidly behind her from underneath her
shawl, and upon looking down he observed the piece
of meat lying upon the ground.
Mr. George Sutton, the prosecutor, identified the
meat in question (a small piece of lamb) as his pro-
perty, which be had seen upon a hook a short time
before, and almost immediately afterwards heard a
noise in the street, and on going out found it lying
on the ground, and the prisoner in charge of the
officer.
Mr. nobler addressed the magistrate on behalf of
the prisoner, whom he described as being connected
with a family of the highest respectability, who had
resided in the same neighbourhood for the last fifty
years, and contended that notwithstanding the appa-
rently inculpatory nature of the evidence, it was
wholly beyond credibility that a person in the pri-
soner's station should have knowingly been guilty of
such an offence.
Mr. D'EyncounT, however, said it was manifestly
a matter for the decision of a jury, and ordered the
prisoner to be at once committed for trial; but upon
subsequent application that she might be admitted to
bail, consented to accept substantial sureties in 801.
for her future appearance.
HAMMERSMITH.

Eleanor Donovan and Sarah Dawson were charged
with having robbed Thomas Prendergast of 2/. in
gold.
It appeared in evidence that between one and two
o'clock on Saturday night, complainant, a respectable
young man, met the two prisoners near the Feathers
public-house, High-street, Notting-hill, when they
accosted him, and asked him to give them something
to drink. He told them all the houses were closed,
but the prisoners said the Swan public-house, at the
corner of Silver-street, was open, and would serve.
At that time he had three sovereigns in his left-hand
trousers pocket. Finding the Swan was not open,
he gave the prisoner Donovan threepence in copper,
which he had in another pocket, and while standing
there Donovan snatched at his gold chain round his
neck, which he resisted and secured, and at that mo-
ment seeing his left-hand trousers pocket open he
examined it and found two sovereigns gone. Being,
however, certain Donovan had something in her
mouth, he called a policeman who was near, when he
saw something fall from her mouth, which the con-
stable, on examining the ground at the spot,
found to be a sovereign. On the prisoner being
searched another sovereign was found.
The prisoner Donovan was committed for trial, and
as there was no evedence inculpating Dawson, she
was discharged.
John Thorogood, driver of one of the Exhibition
omnibuses, badge No. 2,520, was summoned for
having used abusive language while in his employ-
ment, under the following circumstances :
Dr. Louis Antonio Ritterbardt, residing at N 0.43,
Warwick-street, Golden-square, stated, on the morn-
ing of Friday last, the 29th ult., during the shower,
while standing at the corner of Swallow-street, Pic-
cadilly, he hailed the defendant's omnibus, which had
the words, "Kensington-gate" behind ,it, and asked
defendant his fare, which he said was 4d., on which
he got in. On arriving; at the centre of the Exhibi-
tion, the vehicle stopped, and the other passengers got
out. The conductor told witness they went no farther.
He demanded to be taken to A.ensington-gate, which
being refused, he got out without paying the fare, and
walked on, having a patient to attend. On getting
to the Symposium he found the defendant had driven
after him, and stopped, demanding his fare or card of
address, and called a constable there to his aid, but he
refused to do either. Defendant then offered to take
him to the gate, but he declined to go in, and went
on. Defendant still followed him, and at the Vic-
toria-road defendant called him a " b—y foreigner.
Complainant then went on to the Kensington police-
station, where defendant also came, and complainant
was advised to pay the fare and summon defendant
for the abuse.
In cross-examination by Dlr. Gilbam for the de-
fendant, the complainant denied having six times
sworn at defendant, or having ever before been in a
police-court.
Mr. BEADON, in deciding the case, deprecated the
course of his advocate by the putting improper ques
tions in ems-examination, as JUr. Gilhorn Igid done