The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 31.

MARLBO ROUGH-S FRTE EL—Sarah Gibbs was
brought before Mr. Beadon, charged on the police sheet
with concealing the birth of her child.
Mr. Beadon asked if the child in the arms of the pri-
soner was the child whose birth she was charged with
concealing!
The constable replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Beadon said it was quite absurd to place such a
charge on the sheet. Concealment of birth was where
the dead body of an infant was conveyed away and con-
cealed. The charge, if anything, was one of attempting
to murder her infant.
Miss Bryant said she was assistant to a dressmaker,
No. 51, Conduit-street. The prisoner was one of the ser-
vants. On the 3d of July she noticed that the prisoner
looked ill. The prisoner went to the coal cellar, and
witness followed and listened, and then heard the cry of
an infant. She then told her employer that she sus-
pected something was wrong with Sarah, and on this a
police•constable was sent for,
Police-constable Scarlett, C 120, said he went into
the cellar, and there, buried under the coals, be found
the body of a live infant. The prisoner said it was an
unfortunate business, hut slatt had not put the child where
it was found with any bad intention.
Mr. Mitchell, assistant to Dr. Johnson, said he was
called in to see the child. He found it covered with coal,
its eyes and mouth were filled with coal. The child was
alive and must have been a particularly strong child to
have survived the treatme at it had received. The child
and afterbirth were aitoae ther, and this accounted for
the fact of the child not having disd from hemorrhage.
To a question from the magistrate, Mr. Mitchell re-
plied that the child must Lave died had not assistance
been rendered in time.
Mr. Beadon remanded the case for a few days.

SOUTHWARK.—John, Stacey, a beershop-keeper,
of Little Torrington-street,. Torrington-square, and IVil-
lions Simpson, alias George Flatman, respectable looking
men, well known on the turf, were brought up from
Brighton by Inspector Csirpenter, R division, charged
with uttering a forged i5l. _Bank of England note at the
Brighton Railway terminus, London•bridge.
Stephen Richard Jones, a booking clerk in the employ
of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company, said that he was at the pay window of the
London-bridge terminus csn Tuesday morning, issuing
tickets for Goodwood. Tim train was a very long one,
and just as he was about to close the window for the
starting of the train, the prisoner came rushing up and
called for two tickets for Goodwood. He suppli,,d them,
when Stacey banded him a 151. note. Witness gave his,
four sovereigns and the remainder of the change in silver
when they went away togeVner and entered the railway
carriage. As soon as they were gone witness examined
the note, and having some suspicion as to its genuineness,
he took it into one of the offices, when he was recom-
mended to take it to the Bank of England. He did so
immediately, when the Bank authorities pronounced it
to be a forgery. On his return to the railway Inspector
Carpenter was communicated with, and a telegraphic
message was forwarded to Brighton, where the prisoners
were detained and taken before Mr. Bigge, the stipen-
.iiary magistrate. Witness was positive as to the iden-
tity of the prisoners.
Inspector Carpenter, R division, said he received in-
f)rmation of the occurrence, and caused the prisoners to
detained at Brighton. On his arrival there he asked
Stacey where be got the note from that be had passed to
last witness. He said he had received it the day before
from a servant girl from Gower-street, near his house.
The other prisoner said he knew nothing of the note.