The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-10 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JAN. 9.

lifichael Purcell, a publican, was charged with
killing and slaying a child of tender years, on the
27th of December last.

Mr. J. Leeson, a surgeon in Chiswell-street, saw
the child the day it died. There were no external
snails of violence on the body. It evidently died
from suffocation. A child might meet with death
by being unintentionally pressed by its mother.
Dr. &mind Miller gave similar testimony, and
added, that had the child been 'pressed between a
door and post, some external mark must have berm
apparent on the body.
William Webs•er, the father of the child, stated,
on boxing-day he had been out with his wife, drink-
ing at several public house'4, until an hour alter
midnight. On their way home they caned at that
kept by the prisoner, ansl requested some gin, but
he was refused, and him,ell and companions ejected
from the house. His wife and child were squeezed
between the door and the door-post. It was af, cr-
wards found to be dead. Himself and companions
were the worse for liquor, which was the reason
why Mr. Purcell refused to supply them.
Mr. Baker, the Coroner, deposed, that when the
matter was investigated before him the Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death." The de-
fendant was admitted to bail.

The RECORDER stopped the case, and observed
that the accused had acts-d in a proper manner by
ejecting. drunken persons from his house at an un-
svasonable hour of the night. He should be imme-
diately set at liberty, and the Court would not al-
low either Wetwer or his wife their expenses, as

t Wag okvirig to their profligate conduct that their
child had been deprived of life.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

A tall raw-boned fellow, with a black head and
whiskers, named White, was brought up, cha•ged
under the following eircums antes by a feeble-
minded old man, named Pitman, who is in the
employment of Mr. Mortimer, the irou-master, in
Bash-lane.
The prosecutor, a man of remarkable simplicity,
stated that about ten days ago, as he was looking
in at the picture-shop in St. Swithin's-alley, the
prisoner pressed against him in a way he did not
like. He walked off, bit the prisoner followed, and
said he wished to become acquainted with witness.
Witness did all he could to avoid the prisoner, who,
however, stuck to him, and did not leave him till
he put 3-. 6d. into the fellow's hands. The poor
old man was so much affected, that he could scarcely
proceed for some time, but we collected from his
s•atement, that the prisoner found oat where he
lived, waited for and pursued him in the street, and
terrified him out of money. The witness's apere-
hension was, that the prisoner meant to charge him
with something dreadful.
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and
he interfered and prevented them from persevering.
This induced the prosecutor to think favourably of
him, and he (prisoner)-accordingly borrowed money
of him, which he intended to pay as soon as he
was able.
The prosecutor declared there was no truth in the
prisoner's statement, and said that on one occasion
the prisoner met him and insisted upon having a
-hilling (all the money the prosecutor had about
him) and his pocket handkerchief and spectacles.
The LORD MAYOR expressed his fears that the
town abounded with miscreants who, like the pri-
soner, terrified helpless men out of their property.
He had never heard a more gross instance of that
horrible practice, and declared that if the evidence
was strong enough ro authorize the committal of the
prisoner, White should be sent to Newgate for
highway robbery. His Lordship then ordered the
prisoner to be remanded for further examination.