The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-02 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday a miserable-looking woman, named Amelia
Jones, was placed at the bar before Mr. TWYFORD, the
presiding magistrate, charged with having at an early pe-
riod that morning been found by police constable M. Mer-
chin, 131 H, sleeping in the open air on the step of a door
in Church-street, Bethnal-green, and also with having no
visible means of subsistence.
Sergeant M'William, of the H division, informed the
Magistrate that the poor woman was, on the preceding
evening, brought to this office before Mr. BENETT, and
charged under similar circumstances ; but Mr. BENETT
said he had no power under the present law, and ordered
her to be discharged.

The unfortunate woman, on being asked to what parish
she belonged, said St. Luke's. She had, she said, formerly
been in very comfortable circumstances ; but since.the death
of her husband, which happened about three months ago,
she had been in an excessive state of destitution, and for
three weeks had not slept on a bed. She had made appli-
cation to St. Luke's parish for relief, and had been refused.
Mr. TWYFORD asked her where she had been in the ha-
bit of sleeping for the last three weeks ? The woman wan-
dered about until she became quite exhausted, and then re-
sorted to either a field or the steps of a door for rest, and
her clothes had literally rotted off her back.
Mr. TWYFORD had no power to interfere otherwise than
to send the poor woman to prison ; and, as she had com-
mitted no other offence than sleeping in the open air, his
feelings would not allow him to do that. The unhappy wo-
man would much rather go to prison than wander about the
streets. All she wanted was the parish to clothe her, and
she thought she would then be able to maintain hersel
Mr. TWYFORD said that the new Act had taken all the

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power to order relief 'out of the Magistrates' hands, buttlibee
would recommend Sergeant M' William to take her to
overseers of Bethnal-green, in which parish the constable
found her, and state her case to them.
_ Sergeant M' William asked the magistrate if he would
give him a note to the overseers ?
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the overseers would certainly be indpicotoarbl"e'ofmorainuarder.
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Sergeant M‘William ultimately undertook to take
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wretched WrMlati to Bethnal-green workhouse, and to rer—,
to the moglstrites the re?,ult this day.

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tuck otwh other. .
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woman, and she had no right to strike him. It
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