The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Wino STOLE THE SHOULDER OF MUTTON ?
Arthur Loftus, who was said to be respectably
connected, was charged; before Mr. Selfe, with
being in the unlawful possession of a shoulder of
mutton, valued at 53., the property of Mr.
Shackell, a master butcher, at Knightsbridge.
Police-constable Arthur Watkins, No. 253 B,
said that be met the prisoner last night with the
shank end of a shoulder of mutton protruding
from his pocket. He asked him where he got it
from, and at first he said that he bought it at
Knightsbridge, and afterwards at Kensington. The
answers being unsatisfactory he took the prisoner
to the station-house.
Mr. Shackell, in answer to the magistrate, said
that the mutton was worth about 55., as it weighed
7 Albs.

The prosecutor said that he did not wish to
press the charge against the prisoner, who was
highly respectable, and his friends were in great
trouble about him.
Mr. Selfe—l cannot allow this case to be settled

in such a manner. In the case of a common assault
I have no objection sometimes for the affair to be
settled between each party. I shall not send the
prisoner for trial, but I shall fine him 50s. for the
unlawful possession, or a month's imprisonment
with hard labour.

The prisoner said the shop-boy gave him the
shoulder, and he was now sorry that he took it away.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Jane Hugh, a deter-
mined-looking woman about 42 years of age, the
wife of a seaman, was charged with abandoning and
exposing her child, aged four months, whereby its
life became endangered, on June 22.

The prisoner's husband, by whom she has had a
large family, was away from England six years, and
by his industry and talents maintained a high posi-
tion in a distant part of the world, and allowed her
per month during his absence. She became
faithless to him ; and when he came home about
Christmas last she was seven months advanced in
pregnancy, in consequence of having carried on an
adulterous intercourse with another man. She imposed
upon her husband a tale that she was ill and labour-
ing.under dropsy. In February last she gave biith
to a male child at the house of her daughter, Sarah
Burley, a married woman, of No. 18, Arbour-place,
Stepney, in the immediate vicinity of the Thames
Police Court, left her newly-born babe with her
daughter, and returned immediately to her home to
impose another fiction on her injured husband, that
she had undergone an operation and been relieved
of the dropsy. The illegitimate child, of whose
existence the prisoner's husband was quite uncon-
cious, remained with Mrs. Burley the night of
Saturday, the 22d of June, when she removed it in
the absence of her daughter, who never saw
it afterwards. On the same night, or rather
early on the morning of 23d of June, a lad
named Thomas Piper, of No. 87, Heath-street,
Stepney, was on his way home, and kicked
dg ainst a bundle on the ground.. The squeaking
of a child indicated what the bundle contained. It
was the body of an infant, which had been placed
on the ground, against the railings of Albert-square,
Stepney, about 500 yards from Asborn-place. The
child waa taken to the station-house, and afterwards
transferred to the Stepney Union Workhouse at
Bromley on the 11th of the present month. The
inquiries of Inspector Turner, of the K division, and
Police-sergeant Briden, No. 4 K, left no doubt that
the prisoner was the mother of the child, and that
she had cruelly abandoned it. Last evening Police-
sergeant Briden went to the dwelling of the prisoner
at No. 1, Asborn-place, Stepney, and told her he
had called to see herin consequence of a child to which
she had given birth a little while ago. The prisoner
said " Yes, sir, I have had a child." Briden
which she replied in the
asstkepednehyer
Union-house
-ihtowuasse, tc'
at Bromley. Briden said
" How came it there ?" She answered, " I took it
there; I left it on a door-step." Briden said,
" When was it ?" She answered " On the 22d of
June."

Mr. Paget—The child was found by the boy
Piper on the night of the 22d of June after 12
o'clock ?

Briden—Yes, sir.
Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she would ask
any questions of the witness.
The Prisoner—Not any, sir ; what he says is
quite true. I did leave it in the square ; it did not
belong to my husband. .

George Smith, a police-constable of the K divi-
sion, said he received a child found in Albert-
square, in the Commercial-road, Ratcliff, on the
morning of the 23d of June last between the hours
of 12 and 1 o'clock. The child was very cold and
weakly.
Mr. Paget—When was the child born ?
Inspector Turner—On the 20th of February at
the house of the prisoner's daughter.
Mr. J. S. Hawkins, surgeon, of No. 7, Canipbel

road, Bow, was called to see the child on the 23d
of February. It was in a fearfully emaciated con-
dition, and the hand forced down the throat. It
was admitted as a foundling. The child died on
the 11th of the present month.
Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she had any de-
fence to make, and delivered the usual caution.
The Prisoner—Nothing, sir, at all.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial at the
next Middlesex Sessions.