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personally subscribed, and had received various
sums from others, which he felt assured would be
considerably augmented by the benevolent if the
magistrate would be so kind as to allow contribu-
tions to be received at that court, and accounted for
in the usual way.
Mr. Arnold said that he understood a committee
of the Westminster Palace Hotel Company was in
the progress of formation to raise a sum for the
widows and children of the poor sufferers, and it
would be better to hand the money to them.
Applicant gave the preference to his worship,
and urged the matter so strongly that Mr. Arnold
said he would consider about it.

LAMBETII.--CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER AT
PECKHAM.—Elizabeth Reagan, about 37 years of
age, a single woman, was charged before Mr.
Elliott with having caused the death of her illegi-
timate male child.

Inspector Dunn, P division, said that on Satur-
day night last, between six and seven o'clock, in
consequence of information, he, in the company of
Hull, a constable of the division, called at No. 16,
Camden-square, Peckham, where the prisoner re-
sided. Upon seeing the prisoner he told her that
he had been informed that in the month of October
last she became the mother of an illegitimate child,
that she had caused its death by lying upon and
smothering it. He stated to her that he was also
told that neither its birth nor death had been re-
gistered, and that it had been buried in the back
garden. The prisoner was for a short time much
agitated. When she recovered she remarked, " I
will tell you the truth as I hope it will go furthest.
I had a child at the time mentioned. It lived four
or five minutes. I fainted away, and when I came
to myself the child was dead. No one but the sur-
geon and myself saw it alive. It was buried in the
back garden. Ido not kaow who buried it. I did
not think it necessary to register the birth and
death of so young a child." Witness directed Hull
to search the ground.
Hull, a detective, said that the prisoner showed
him the spot wheal she stated the child was buried.
He got a spade and removed a quantity of loose
earth. He then found the remains of the child at
about four inches from the surface. There was a
quantity of lime mixed with the earth, amid which
were the bones, the skull, and ribs of the deceased.
There was 'also a piece of coarse cloth. He had the
remains taken away. He told the prisoner what
he had found. She said that it was all right, and
that her sister took the child away to bury it. She
herself did not see it buried.

Mr. Thos. Denne, surgeon, Cottage-green, South-
ampton-street, Camberwell, said he attended the pri-
oner at her confinement on the 22d of October last,
when she had a male child. It was a healthy child
and alive. He left and called the next day. She then
stated that she had made arrangements with a per-
son to take care of the child. He attended her
daily after that. About two months subsequent to
the birth of the child he asked her where it was.
She said that it was in the country but did not say
where. Witness during the confinement of the
prisoner went to her sister to tell her to call.

The prisoner, in answer to the charge, stated that
after Mr. Donne left she was for some time insen-
sible. When she recovered she found the child by
the side of her and nearly cold. She thought she
might have lain upon it.
Mr. Dunn now stated that the prisoner had ad-
mitted to him that her sister's husband was the
father of the child.

The prisoner was remanded for a week.

GREENWICH.—THE LATE CHARGE OF STAB-
BING A WlFE.—Samuel Newbury, 35, of 1, Con-
tent Cottages, Shooter's-hill-road, Blackheath, a
person of independent property, was brought up on
remand, before Mr. Seeker, charged with cutting
and wounding his wife, Mary Charlotte Newbury.
Mr. Carttar, solicitor, attended for the prisoner.
The particulars of the first examination have
already appeared, from which it will be remembered
that about 10 o'clock on the night of Saturday, the
7th inst., a gentleman's servant named George
Mantle heard the screams of a female, and was im-
mediately afterwards implored by a young woman,
servant to the prisoner, to run to the protection of
her mistress, who, she said, was about being mur-
dered by her master. On running to the spot the
prisoner was seen dragging his wife by the wrist
from a lamp-post, to which she was clinging, he
having a knife in his hand, and being heard to de-
clare he would " butcher her head from her body."
Mr. Tyser, a surgeon residing in the neighbourhood,
afterwards arrived on the spot, the prisoner and his
wife having fallen to the ground, with the witness
Mantle. The prisoner was ultimately secured, and
on the wife being examined a superficial wound,
two inches in length, was found on the left side of
the neck, and a slighter one under the neck, the
prisoner and his wife being both under the in-
fluence of liquor at the time.
In reply to a question by the prisoner's solicitor,
Mr. Tyser said he did not think that the superficial
wound he had spoken of could have been produced
by the pin of a brooch worn by the wife in her
shawl. It was, in his opinion, produced by a sharp
instrument. Witness dressed the wound about 20
minutes afterwards, and saw there was an effusion
of blood.

Mr. Seckerinquired if the wife was in attendance.
Mr. Carttar replied in the affirmative, but said
she was no party to the present complaint.
Mr. Seeker said he could not help her feelings,
but he must make her a party to the case.
The wife was then sworn, and said that on the
night in question her husband met her in the
Shooter's-hill-road, when they had some words
together, he wanting her to go home and she re-
fusing to do so. After this she had no recollection
of anything.
Samuel Cockman having given evidence as to
hearing the disturbance between the prisoner and
his wife,
_ _

Mr. Seeker said he should commit the prisoner
for trial, but would accept two sureties in £5O each,
for his appearance.
The required bail was put in, and the prisoner
was liberated.

DARING _ESCAPE FROM TILE MODEL

PRISON.

On Saturday afternoon, between two and three
o'clock, a convict, named Henry Edmonds, made
his escape from the Model Prison, Pentonville, in a
way that has excited considerable surprise. The
prisoner is an American by birth, but he has been
a resident in this country many years, and
once lived a respectable life as a commercial
traveller. He, however, fell into bad habits,
committed various acts of robbery at hotels,
and in 1856 he was convicted at the Ches-
ter sessions of robbing a tavern in the city, and
sentenced to six years' penal servitude. He was
sent up to London to serve a portion of his time at
trade,t e
AodheiloPro hisrison and was learning the tailoring
general conduct was good, and
perhaps this may in some way account for the offi-
cials not having such a watchful eye over him as
other prisoners, and so affording him the opportu-
nity of making a jacket and a pair of trousers out
of the sheet or coverlid to his bed, by which he was
enabled so successfully to effect his escape. It is
stated that he was not in good health, and on Satur-
day afternoon, the day being very fine, he was
engaged with a few other convicts in performing
some light duty in one of the gardensof the prison.
By some means he managed to steal away to the
south boundary wall of the gaol fronting the North
London Railway. Having possessed himself of a
rope he secured the end of it to a piece of iron
hoop, which he formed into a hook, and which he
succeeded in getting over the top of the wall, some
25 feet or more in height. He then got two or
three garden rakes or hoes, which he placed against
the wall, and having divested himself of his mask
and prison garb, and assumed his new dress, he
mounted the wall, and apparently without much
difficulty, reached the top. Here occurs what ap-
pears a remarkable part of the case. The point
where he got over is not more than 20 or 30 yards
from. the Caledonian-road, and he had to drop into
a side road, along which persons aro always pass-
ing and children playing. He was seen by several
persons when he came above the wall, but
being dressed in white he was thought to be
some bricklayer or whitewasher employed in the
gaol. It seemed that he had some difficulty in
getting the rope over to descend, and to make short
work of it he dropped downona d
hisfeet,andfalling acerate
stunned.ior ab3m,
tohmeenfatllo;rhseo,
however, hastily got up and walked down the road
by the side of the wall into the Caledonian-road.
He then hailed a cab, and telling the driver that
he had had some dispute, with his mates, and had
got the worst of it, directed him to drive fast to-
wards London. The driver states that he had no
suspicion that the man, either by his dress or man-
ner, had escaped out of prison. As they got nearer
town he directed the driver to proceed to Greek-
street, Sdho, and at a pawnbroker's he pledged some
false teeth which he wore for 75., paying the cab
man 3s. for his trouble. Edmonds then disappeared,
and nothing has been heard of him since. Within
a short time after he had escaped he was missed by
the officers of the prison, and active members of the
police were sent off in all directionso trace had
inquestofbheiemn,
but up to yesterda.y afternoon no
had of him. He is represented to be 33 years of
age, 5 feet 8 inches in height, and of swarthy com-
plexion.

Complaints are made by the principal mercantile
houses of the frequent irregularities in the arrival of the
French mails.