The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-08 00:00:00

,E ITR AO It I N. 4 ItY NARRATiIrE,'

ON Thursday evening, a girl about fifteen years
of age went into a public-house in the neighbour-
hood :of Manchester.square, and asked the persons
present to purchase a song, which they said they
would if she would sing it : she accordingly did.
After which, they asked her if she got her•living by
Singing songs;' which she answered in the affirma.
tive, and with the assistance l cif her father anti
mother, On her being questiotied as to the man.
ner in which her father and mother got theieliving,
she answered, her father stole pewter pots belong-
ing to public.houses, and her mother stole children,
sold their clothes, and sometimes put them to death.
This was 'such a strange tale, that the persons-its
the publie-houie, after having a little more comer.
cation with her, thought it prudent to detain her,
to ascertain the truth of 'her story. She was taken •
to the PtibliEOffide, Marlborongh-streer, and when (-
examined before the Sitting Magistrate, she per.
sisted in her acoount; and she having given
the eesidente of her father • and mother to be
in Maynard-street, St. Giles's, several Officers were:
dispatched there, and they took the persons as de.
scribed by the girl into custody. • 'Yesterday they
were examined at Marlborough street,' before the
Sitting Magistrate, when the girl gave a -similar ac-
count in their presence, to that she had donesthe former
evening: The Magistrate desired her to describe
the children her mother had stolen,, when she
said she recolleaed four or five, and the last was
stolen from the neighbourhood of Chelsea, about
five, weeks since, and after she had stripped the
infant of its clothes,, she had put it to death because
it made a noise, by ripping open its belly, and that
it was buried in the Long-Fields, in Chelsea, and
that her mother had put A quantity of lime into the
earth with the body to destroy it, She added, that
her mother, to prevent the children crying, used to
put a large piece of sticking plaister on their
mouths, which was kept in a tin box which was
buried with the last child in the Long-Fields. She
was asked if she could point out the place where the
child was buried ; she • said she could, and several
Officers were dispatched, with her to point out the
spot, and when the Officers arrived at the- place
she described, they fOund the earth had been lately
anoyed, and on digging they found some lime,
and a tin box with some salve in it, but not the
least symptoms of a body. The ,girl-dettcribed
the. shop (vhere the clothes were : sold, which be-
longed to the child stolen from Chelsertiand ap-
plication to the woman who
,keeps it, she said she
recolleCied purchasing some children's clothes a
short time since, but they are not traced.—Here
rests this mysterions affair.
On JnYestigating the relationship of the girl and
the Prisoners, the Prisoners•viid that the man was,
her father,.bet the woman was only her mother-in..
in.law.—The girl said:,,she had understood that
neither of the Prisoners were her parents, but that
they stele her from Dumfries, in Scotland, and that
her father
.kept a shop there.
Thertieoners ar: known at the Office, and the
girl is -a very deprav'ed charadter.