The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-22 00:00:00

THE CASE OF CHILD STEALING.

On Thursday morning Elizabeth Barry was brought
at the Town Hall, Maidenhead, for examination bac"
Mr. L. Moffatt Priest (Mayor), Mr. J. D. Rawlins, Mr
Nicholson, Mr. R. D. M. Pearce, and Dr. Powis, on t°'"
charge of stealing the infant child of Colonel Hickie.
inquiry created a great.deal of local interest. The CO
was crowded in every part.
The prisoner is a woman about 45 years old, stands V°
feet three inches, is round-featured, and of fair complexion'
She was attired in black. Having been stationed /wine'
diately before the bench,
Louisa Cooper was .the first witness called. She depesca;
I am a servant in the erploy of Colonel Hickie.
was nursemaid at Colonel Hickie's up to the Bth of ta
month. Colonel Hickie has four children. I saw the
prisoner leave the house of Colonel Hickie on the
inst., shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon. t°
had the youngest child with her. I thought she svi-
going for a walk. She never said anything in my presenica°
that led me to believe she was going "to take the elli;
away. I have not seen the prisoner from that time to ting
She had notice to leave her place. After she had Ott°
given her, I hcard her say, " I have not done with Al';
Hickie yet, and that Mrs. Hickie will know before I leave
this house."

Prisoner: I don't remember saying these words.
James Francis Hickie I have a family of four children"
I was in Ireland en the eighth of this month, and from
fermatien I received I came to England. Upon arril
home I found that the prisoner had left my service' 311
had taken with her my youngest child. I gave no eutift
rity for the prisoner to take it away. She did it with();
my consent. I offered a reward for the ?over,' of
child. I received no reliabS\ information until the after
noon of Sunday last, when I receive a telegram stating
that the child had been recovered in the prisoner's PeBff,
sion. The child is now here, its curls have been cut °
and its clothes altered.
Police-constable Holdway said he went to Liverpeelih°:
Tuesday with a warrant for the apprehension ef
prisoner. The prisoner was handed over to him at seleei
o'clock on Tuesday evening. Ho asked her if she t.-ci
what he had come for. She said, "Yes ; about the
ee"
I suppose. I took it as a companion. I was going to

at Liverpool, and keep it by needlework."
The prisoner then made the following statemen-
tone scarcely audible to the Bench :—ln my saying tmt4„t 9iti
had not done with Mrs. Hickie yet, it was because she -do
sho would not pay me my wages until I told her what v3a
me so unhappy in her house. I intended to enter into I'6o
titulars about things unpleasant in the kitchen l'Afetei
would leave, and that was the reason I spoke so. d
that Mrs. Hickie said I was not fit for service. She 3`ilf,!:ll
me not to take another situation, and that was the re-ci°l
I resolved not to go into another situation again' a'nr
thought I would take a parlour and commence -L A I
making, and I was grieved to leave the child, hec3-ii'
loved it so, and I made up my mind to take the eh
with me. did not think of the grief of the par w 4
or I would not have done it. The day following I ',Ad
very sorry, and would have returned the child if I 113'1410
the means of doing so. I took a parlour until I tb°,o,4
what I should do. I would have seen about sell 00
the child back again, only I caught a severe cold ef%isi
morning I arrived in Liverpool. I was very ill. *fo-
rmable to see about it for two or three days. 1911 troi''
clay week following I asked the landlady's daughter 000'
to the priest and ask him to come to me, as I had 1-0
thing important to tell him, and I received word that doe;
to go to the priest myself. I went, and she a,ccomPal'iieoo3
but as he was in the chapel I could not see him, and .001'
to wait for the priest till he came into the cenfollooo
I told him if ho would come to WY
I could explain the thing better, as it was concerP;;
child I had taken from its parents. He did liot °3'a
oyt
would or ho would not come, so I went home, alf,the
Friday I thought he might come but he did not uPsiciaS
afternoon, and then I resolved to write to Diri oparf
myself, and asked the landlady for envelope and
and I wrote last Sunday as follows :—" Mrs'
If you are desirous to have your child You 1•"
her '-
her at No. 7, Jude's-place North, Liverre'sfoorf
addressed the envelope and put on a postage peoe.
and I was just going to put on my things °biro
the letter when the detective came, and I gu°° to the
letter. The reason I wanted to give the child up where
priest was because I did not like to leave the child an
I was staying, as I knew nothing about the PeePle'
thought that by giving it to the priest he nilire'
that it was well done to, but as he did not conic go•
the note, and if I had posted it on the Sunday as 0°
Elickie would get it on the Monday. I saw thewag the
k
other alternative. I was very sorry I too
tflchild, and have repented of it ever since I. oto
away. I did net think at the time I took the cinni. th
trouble it was to the parents, and I just acted tu.ti- joa
impulse of the moment. Whilst the child wag wir, it t 9
f-reated her well, and as for the cutting off her it
because it wanted cutting, and to strengthen it,
'" ha
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weak, very uneven, and it always came in her :yes
no 0
ry Tiro
flushedi iliso,
nno had feeling whatever against Mr. and Mrs. ilici, bootil
was then 11 le nhad fullydcuorminnglithteera
to
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take her trial. einotg 60,01 tc

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We are requested (says the Times) to statet' ,
tioS
Bishop of Oxford expects to be able to hold autolllll3sdat Christmas for the Winchester diocese, and
slates should at once apply to him at Oxford. 003
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of a pit at Netherton has heel),
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the Stourbridgo magistrates £lO and costs for nee° 10
fence off a daugerous place in a pit uutler cgi0.04,144
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MONEY-MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The business on the Stock Exchange to-day was
very flat, but prices did not give way. American
securities were depressed, but in Railway shares the
prices remain unaltered.

Consols are now at 938 to 931 for money;
di▪ tto, for Account, 931 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 92 ; New Tkree per Cents, 92 18 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 6 prem. ; June,
6 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, 1
prem. ; June, prem.;; Bank of England Stock,
4 per Cent., 235.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ;
dit▪
to 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 114 s ; ditto 4
per l.'ent., Oct., 1888, 100 ; ditto Enlaced Paper,
52 per Cent., 1108 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 prem.
In Foreign Stocks prices have improved in some
eases. Brazilian are 83 to 831 ; Egyptian (1864),
86 to 87 ex div. ; ditto (1868), 76i to 76-1-, ; Viceroy
Seven per Cents., 81k to 814 ; ditto Nine per
Cents., 981 to 991; Italian, 521 to 524 ; ditto
Tobacco Loan, 841 to 851 ; Mexican, 121 to 13 ;
Peruvian, 808 to 811 ; Portuguese,33l to 34; ; Orel,
82 to 821 ex div. ; Nicolas, 68 to 681 ; Moscow,
831 to 84 ; Charkof, 801 to 81; Spanish, 27+ to
27: ; and Turkish Five per Cents., 428 to 428.
In the Railway Market prices are now as fol-
-IMI :—Caledonian, 80+ to 811 ex div. ; Great
Eastern, 37+ to 372 ; Great Northern, 107 to 109 ;
ditto (A), 1041 to 1044 ; Great Western, 56 to
682 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 124! to 125+ ; Lon•
don and Brighton, 44 to 442 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 164 to 17 ; London and North Wes-
tern, 118 to 1182 ; London and South Western, 90
to `JI; Metropolitan, 862 to 87 ; Midland, 118;
to 1191 ; North Eastern (Berwick), 117+ to 117; ;
and South Eastern, 77 to 77+.
In American Securities Erie Shares are again de-
pressed. Five-Twenty Bonds are 811 to 811 ex
div, ; Ten-Forties, 75f to 762 ; and Erie Railroad
Shares, 201 to 221.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway Shares are
higher, at 201 to 201; and Great Luxemburg are
121 to 128.
French Telegraph Cable Shares are higher, 16!
to 17 ; Anglo-American, 198 to 201; and Con-
struction and Maintenance, 31! to 32.
In Bank Shares prices are as follow :—Anglo-
Austrian 7 to 9 ex new prem. ; Chartered Mer-
cantile, 32 to 33 ; Consolidated, 41 to 4+ ; Im-
perial Bank, 16 to 17; Imperial Ottoman, 2/ to
21 prem. ; London and County, 481 to 492 ; Lon-
don and Westminster, 58 to 59 ; Oriental, 43
to 44.

In Miscellaneous Securities, General Credit is
quiet, at 14 to 1 dis. ; International Finance, 2k
to l dis. ; National Discount, 10i to 10i ; and
Hudson's Bay, 134 to 14.
Gold is firm at Monday's rates.
The sum of £30,000 in sovereigns from America
Was taken to the Bank yesterday.
A company was introduced in August last under
the title of the India, Australia, and China Tele-
graph Company, for a light cable from Ceylon to
Penang, with a capital of £350,000, but it was
generally understood not to have succeeded in get-
ting the required subscription. Yesterday a notice
was received asserting that they had secured their
,capital and would have their line in working order
in April next.
The Stock Exchange Committee have ordered the
Bliaree of the European Gas Company to be quoted
in the daily list as well as in the biweekly list, where
they already appear.
The half yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
London and South African Bank will be held on
the 11th of November.
The Canadian News states that as soon as Canada
has taken possession of the newly-acquired North-
West Territory she will be prepared to pay over
the £300,000 to the Hudson's Bay Company, and
that there is reason to believe that all the details
will be arranged before the meeting of the com-
PanY to be held next month, so that the whole
aniount, if a division be then determined upon,
may be at once returned to the shareholders. The
same journal adds that the amount of the award
recently given in the matter of the Orego Terri-
tor‘,
J is to be paid in gold ; and that this sum will,
If divided, be equivalent to a further bonus to the
Proprietors of 4s. per share.

A prospectus has been issued of the Brazilian
(las Fuel Company (Limited), with a c ipital of
£lOO,OOO in shares of £lO (of which half is to be
first subscribed), for working some extensive de-
resits of a combustible material called" turba" or
brown cannel," about 60 miles from the city of
Bahia, and which are believed to be almost inex-
haustible. The gas-producing power of the " turba"
5.8 very great, while the cost of excavating and deli-
V, !ring it is small in comparison with that of coal.
he concession obtained from the Brazilian Go-
vernment is for 30 years (to be increased to 90),
and,, the purchase money is to he £25,000, of which
''20,000 will be taken in paid-up shares. Brazil
a" the countries of the River Plate at present ob-
tain; all the coal for their gas works at heavy cost
Mal England, and the consumption is rapidly in-
creasing.
11r. Andrew, the chairman of the Scinde Rail-
Way Company, has just addressed to the Under..
secretary of State for [ndia a long and elaborate
letter, in which he forcibly urges the claims of that
company for the concession of the Mcolton and
x
°tree line, contending that the change of railway
1),,,°11°Y on the part of the Government of India
0
talg:ht not to prevent the company's several under-
, ings from being welded into a whole, under one
-4anagernent.
the return from the Bank of England for the
Week ended the 20th of Oct. gives the following
re
4Ults when compared with the previous week :- -
-"tst
•u•••••••••••••••••••• £3,074,201 •••
Increase ... £7,273
Oth%Lilo deposits
er deposits 18,482,729 Decrease 1,159,396
ojl_ the other aide of the account :
jellitient securi-
-048 .............
Islot: securities 15,082,133 ... Decrease ... 1,295,401,
Th's unemployed 8,953,145 ... Decrease 407,910
Le amount of notes in circulation is £24,210,555,
bullion decrease of £54,915 ; and the stock of
a in both departments is £19,477,691, showing
decrease of £357,237 when compared with the
preceding
return.
of Subjoined is a comparison of the present position
a
ast e Bank of England and the prices of Consols
French Rentes with the corresponding week of

At Present. Same Week
bullion last Year.
"ser ~
£19,120,691 ... £20,164,250
•,,'°
9,910,136 ... 10,648,335
rth,t_eBove
in circulation 24,210,555 ... 24,515,915,
ecer f discount
v_usols
ench Route; .....
711. 37c. 70f. 37c.
The following is the official return of the cheques
bills'
thed Cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
Week ending Wednesday, Oct. 20 :-
7'hursday £8,825,000
Priday
23,819,000
Saturday 13,171,000
kuuday ' •
11,130,000
Wednesday
10,876,000
'vednesday 9,029,000

£76,850,000

Two CrEILOOK•
0 131/TIIIII rum--
i ,s'OVERINNIENT Eustis.;
93i i i
-,,r cnt. consols
41,1;44°0 eftiotr. Account,
Nov
4 —
is:W per ()out
92 11
Lot per Cent. Jan. 1894,
, . 0 por Con J an. 187 3
bnouilies! SO yrs, expire sth Jan.i,,18858.0 -. ... . D • for do yrs, expire sth April u _
X °
Ned (ia Telef„raph), Aug„ 1908.-
c:hog:car Rills, 41,00 u, 2k p. Ct. March —.....
Do D.
3 do. June
pm
1
Ihm..
4100, £2OO pero
Lizof land Stock, 4k Cent
NI
~01)011111g
hit amit 4 per Cont. Bonds
er-Colonial Cranium
11,4111%%41r UOYERNMENT SECURITIES
1),,4 r,t()CIC, 10k per Cent., April 1874 —
Do___
" yPoning, for. ccount
114
b* 0 per Cent. July, 1880
100.t-
0' I Pot' Cent., Oct. 1888
„o• Certificates
"c""414 d P 0 t 921
co *To, 4 per on .. ••• _
uu kper Cast., Jill. 1872
1101
°' St Per Cent. May 1879 -
1)4 r
_
. per Cent., limp. Deb. 1872
Du
do 1877 .

Do. do. 1882 —
IR,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ —
Do Ronde, 4 per Cent., .£1,00()
Do. under 1.1..000 —
FOLLEIGiN 1111111 d— VITO O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent B2; 2
k uitriau Boucle 5 per cent
Do. 1659 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent. 1852 —
Do. do 1858....

Do. uu 186!) —
Do. do., 1863 72f
Do. 5 per Cent, 1865 —
Do Account B3l 3
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
°Wm., 6 per Cent.
')dilian 6 per Cent 75
Do. 4f per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Do. 7 per Cent., le6G
Do. 6 per co- t. 1867 o7}
3 lo uluan, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 25 3 per Cent., 18
Dan.‘ll:ol rrincip:llities, 7 i L.r Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 —
6.cutirl:-.)r New Ccnsolidated, 1 per Cent
114y174,ian, 7 per Gent_ —
lio Se, oott issue
Do. .45(it, Bonds •_.z•2l
De. 186 i
Do. Account .... ...........
Do. La° Bonds
Do. 41J6 Bonds BBl
'2
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 .. ...
D0..£100 Bonds •••••

Government Itall way Debentures -
Groot 5 per Cent., 1821 5, ex Coups --
Do. Acecun t . .
Do. Coupons -
Do. Account
Gu ,temalu:s per Cent . —l
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.,Ct., all pd
Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account ~ . --

Do Msremniana Railway
51exicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do.
1864 —
.... _

Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
alontevideau 6 per Cent. .. —
klocrish imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account BOl 1/
Do 44 per Cent. (Ui:vbarren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Do Account —
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'3 3/ 4
Do. do. 1867...... —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 i•er Cent., 1822, £ St
Do 44 per Cent 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..• 881 9
Do 'do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds , 921
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 6Bl
Sardinian 5 per Cent 724
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do. Account —
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. Now Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —

Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account —
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864 —

Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent.:
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do .£lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates 864
French Hentes 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italia), 5 per dent. 1861, Ex. 25f.
Do Account 524
TWO O'CLOCK.
Oonsols, Money' 931
Do. Account, Nov. 4 93!

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH- S TREET.

AN HOTEL-KEEPER FINED AND IMPRISONED.-John
Pheloo, hotel-keeper, of No. 124, High-street, Shadwell,
was charged before Mr. Knox, with assaulting two cab-
men, named,llenry Kerrige, 3,357, and William Phillips,
6,945.

Phillips said that he was driving along Compton-street
that morning about one o'clock, when somebody called
" cab," and on getting down, thinking it was a fare, the
prisoner, who was with three other gentlemen, struck
him and knocked him down.

Kerrigo said he was called by the prisoner and three
other gentlemen, and they asked io tako them to Shad-
well, and, after some barcaining about the fare, they
asked him for his ticket.. lie told theta that as they heel
not engaged him ho had no right to give them one, upon
which the prisoner and a friend set on him and knocked
him about, and the prisoner knocked him against a
wheel and hurt him internally, and he was in great pain.
Reuben Percival, 200 0, said that hearing a cry of
"Police," he went up and saw the prisoner knock Kerrige
down on his back, the prisoner being in liquor at the time,
as well as his friends.

The prisoner said ho had been with some friends to
supper, and they wanted to ride home, and the cabman
wanted too much, and called them bad names and shoved
them, and they shoved the cabman, but he did not knock
either of them down, but it was very likely they fell,

The cabmen denied using bad language.
The prisoner called Mr. Marina Ronaldi and Mr. Peter
Nicholas, who said that they did not seo either cabman
knocked down, neither did the cabmen fall.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said he saw the
prisoner deliberately strike the cabman and knock him
down, and in falling his back came against the wheel.
Mr. Knox said he totally disbelieved the evidence for
the defence, and was satisfied perjury had been committed,
the more especially so as the constable, a disinterested
witness, said he saw the cabman deliberately knocked
down. Poor cabmen, who wore trying to get a living, must
be protected. Efe should fine the prisoner .£5 for the as-
sault on Phillips, and committed him for a month for the
assault on Korrigo without the option of a fine.