The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-06 00:00:00

MAR YLEB ONE.

SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Yest er-
day Elizq Carter, a girl about 18 years of age, was
brought before Mr. RAWLINSON, the Sitting Magi-
strate, charged with attempting to put a period to
her existence.

Police•constable, William Powell, No. 59, of the
D division, stated, that at half-past 11 o'clock on
Thursday night, as he was on duty in the Regent's
Park, near the bridge leading to the inner circle, he
heard a splash, and on hastening to the bridge, he
saw a woman's bonnet lying on the road, and heard
a noise proceeding from the water, like that of a
person struggling in the agonies of death. He after-
wards perceived a rope, one end of which was fas-
tened to the railing of the bridge, and the other sus-
pended in the water, and a women's head above the
surface. At that moment a gentleman, who resides in
Cornwall-terrace, came up to his assistance, and
finding that the rope was attached round the waist
of the prisoner, they managed to drag her ashore
before life had become extinct. She remained for
a considerable time in a state of insensibility, and
when she was being conveyed to the Station-house
in Marylebone-lane-, she exclaimed several times
" Oh, Lord !" Witness asked her, whets she re-
covered, how she came to commit the rash act, and
the only answer she made him was " because I
was in trouble." On searching her at the Station-
house, he found on her a bottle containing nearly a
pint of laudanum, which she said she intended to
have taken, provided the water had been too shallow
to drown her. She was afterwards conveyed to the
Marylebone workhouse, and placed under the care
of a nurse. Witness added, that the gentleman
who hail assisted him in getting her out of the
water, had desired him to give the prisoner 55.,
which he accordingly did before she was removed
from the Justice-room.
Mr. Henry Thompson Green, surgeon, 39, Es-
sex-street, Strand, stated, that the prisoner had been
about three mouths in his employ as a servant.
There was a foreigner lodged in the house, whom
witness suspected had seduced her, and he took
her to task on the seeming intimacy which subsisted
between them, when she informed him that she was
labouring under severe illness. On the night on
which she attempted to commit the fatal act, she
asked leave to go to the house of a Mrs. Robinson,
m Citiey-street,.but not returning, he sent to inquire
for her, and not finding her there, he gave orders to the
other servant not to admit her into the house again
if she should return. Witness, however, heard no
more of her till that morning, when he was told she
was in custody.
Mr. RAWLINSON here asked the witness what had
become of the foreigner?—.Mr. Green said, that lie
Thad decamped from his lodgings to avoid being ar-
rested, awl t,ii;ce that time the girl had fallen into a
deep melancholy.
Witness here Fodueed the following lines, which
the prisoner left behind her, addressed to her mo-
ther :
s, My body will he found its th,: Serpentine River, when
all my troubles will sink to rise no more.
" ELIZA CARTER."
Mr. RAwlastsoN asked the witness if it was his
intention to take the prisoner back into hie service ?
He replied, that, after what had taken place, he cer-
and), should have loathing more to do with he:.
Mr. HAWLINSON then asked the prisoner why r3he
hed committed the rash act.
The prisoner said she could not bear the uejust
reproaches of her master. She denied that she had
ever permitted the foreigner to take any liberties

with her, or that she ever had the disorder imputed
to her, or that she was with child.

In answer to a question from the Magistrate, she
said she tied the rope round her waist to attract at-
tention, that her body might be found.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Are you sorry for what you
have done ? Prisoner—No, not at all.

Mr. RAWLINSON—WouId you do it again, if I
wera to discharge you ? Prisoner—l don't think I

Mr. RAWLINSON said, that in the present state of
the prisoner's mind it would be unsafe to let her go
at large, and ordered her to be taken over to the
workhouse, and to be carefully looked after, until
her friends, who live at Greenwich, are made ac-
quainted with the circum'tances.
The prisoner was then removed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A female named Farrow was brought before Mr.
CONANT, having, as stated by a policeman of C di-
vision, applied to him to allow her to sleep in the
station-house, as she was without either home or
friends in London. On being asked by the Magis-
trate why she had not applied for relief at her legal
settlement, she made the following statement :
Her maiden settlement was at Stanwell, in Middle-
sex ; but having married a labouring man belonging
to Farnham, that parish of course became her pro-
per settlement. After her husband's death, she en-
deavoured to earn her subsistence by washing ; but
having found it impossible to maintain herself by her
labour, she applied to Farnham parish for relief.
The overseer would not do anything for her, and
told her to go to Stan well. She went to Stanwell,
and the overseer referred her back to Farnham.
Being thus bandied about between the two parishes,
and being entirely ignorant of the proper mode bf
proceeding prescribed by the Poor Laws, she made
her way to London about three days ago, half
naked, and in a starving condition.
Mr. CONANT inquired in what parish she had last
slept.
The woman replied she did not know, as she had
wandered about the streets the last three days, sleep-
ing in empty houses at night, and during that time
she declared she had eaten but one single penny-
worth of bread.

Mr. CONANT said he could hardly believe the
overseers could have acted in such an unfeeling
manner towards her; but the woman declared her
statement was true, and added, that she had a cer-
tain claim on the parish of S:anwell, as she had lived
some years there in the family of Sir John Gibbon,
as kitchen maid.

As the appearance of the female was that of an
hard-working woman, Mr. CONANT, in addition to
some temporary relief which he directed to be given
to her, wrote an account of the woman's statement
to Sir John Gibbon, with whom he is personally ac-
quainted, which will probably have the effect of
causing some inquiry into the conduct of the over-
seers of both parishes.
ASSAULT.—Timothy Hagan,. an Irish ninth part
of humanity, the pride of pugnacious tailors in St.
Giles's, was charged by Jerry M'Kelland with hav-
ing " punshed his head in a cook shop," without
reasonable cause.

Your %Vertship, said Jerry, I wint into Misthress
Dinnis's cook shop to get a treepenny plate of cow
weal, whin I saw Tim Hagan and two other blag-
gards ating a basin of shupe together; " that's a
nate dhrop of shupe, Mishtress Dennis," said Tim,
" but may be I'd like it betther, if you made it wid
mate that hant got any maggots." " Och, by the
powers !" said I to M's. Dinni3, " don't take any
notice, darlint, it's that big blaggard, Tim Hagan,
whom I've taken a howth never to spake to agin,
bekase he ink a false howth agin me at the Ses-
sions." " You won't spake to me no morel" said
Tin; "do you mane that Jerry "Bad luck to me
if I don't," said I. "Then take that," said he,
taking up his fisht and hitting me a whack before I
could git guard o' myself.
Tim Hagan, however, by the help of two of the
ugliest mortals who ever came forward in the cha-
racter of witnesses, succeeded in convincing the Ma-
gistrate that Jerry had brought the drubbing he got
upon himself by giving the first insult, and striking
the first blow; therefore Mr. CONANT dismissed the
warrant, and divided the expenses between them.