The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-20 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

.W. Poore, a woman apparently about fifty years of age,
was brought before Mr. JEREMY, charged with having ad-
ministered a certain drug, and used other forcible means, to
procure the miscarriage of Mary Ann Preedy, a young fe-
male 17 years of age. The investigation of the alleged
charge against the accused exhibited an instance of de-
pravity rarely to be equalled.
The complainant, who is a well-looking young girl, stated
that her father is a tailor, and carries on business at Wim-
bledon, and that the prisoner is a laundress, living within a
few doors of their house. She (complainant) had been
acquainted with the prisoner for some length of time, and
had been urged by her to leave borne, come up to-town, and
take up her abode at a house of ill-fame in the neighbour-
hood of Soho-square. In the month of January last, during
the absence of complainant's father and mother from home,
the prisoner brought a man to the house, and introduced him
to her. She stayed but a few minutes, and went away,
• - - the man there, saying as she went out, " You have
. '-nity now, and you may do as you please."
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, again same man there • ain in a week •
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.the
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adding, that she should procure.
in town, where she mould be supplied with fira,
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that occasion, examined her, and expressed herself as being
•of the same opinion. The complainant here proceeded to
describe that the prisoner prevailed on her to take a
draught of some powerful medicine, telling her, at the
same time, that it would facilitate in procuring abortion ;
and other means of a forcible nature were also resorted to
by the prisoner on that occasion, which it was only a mat-
ter of `Jurprise the unfortunate girl had survived. Subse-
queuey— to this period, the prisoner brought the same man
to %tie house in the absence of the complainant's father and
rrother, and the former went away, as she had previously
done, the moment she introduced him into the house. The
complainant added, that she had seen the man on three
different occasions, that she had never seen him until
brought there by the prisoner, that she did not know what
his name was or where he lived, and that, to the best of
her belief, he was a stranger at Wimbledon.
Elizabeth Preedy, the mother of the complainant, stated
that in April last her daughter was very ill, and it was then
discovered that she had miscarried. Her daughter will be
seventeen years of age in October. The witness added,
that she remembered being from home two whole days, at
the interval of a week each time, in the month of January
last.

Mr. Edward Bright, surgeon, of Golden-square, deposed
that he heard the statement made by the complainant, and
that the symptoms she described were the exact symptoms
of a person who had been pregnant, and on whom means
of a forcible nature had been used to procure abortion.

The prisoner denied the charge, and declared it to be
the invention of the complainant from beginning to end.
She was fully committed.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Last night, at seven o'clock, an inquisition was held before
Mr. PAYNE, in the spacious dining and commercial hall at-
tached to the George Hotel, in Aldermanbury, on the bodies
of Samuel Holden and Frances Anne Holden, which were dis-
covered that morning in the Vestry-room of Aldermanbury
parish, with their throats cut.
Elizabeth Holden, the daughter of the deceased persons,
resided with them. At seven o'clock that morning she took
the milk to the Vestry, where she was to have breakfasted
with her parents. She found the church outer-door ajar, and,
passing onward, came to the vestry-door, which she found
close shut. She supposed her parents were at breakfast, and
opened the door, when she discovered the bodies. Witness
passed the previous evening with her father and mother. The
latter was only mother-in-law to witness, whose father had
been married to her about two years, and they had one child.
They passed the last night in a friendly manner, but witness's
father was very desponding. He had been much changed for
a fortnight past, and both her brother and herself had noticed
the change, and that he did not at times know what he was
about. Her father laboured under apprehensions of being ar-
rested, and his fears at times amounted to delirium.

Sarah Reynolds, of Angel, place, Milton-street, was aunt to
the deceased woman, who was 42 years old. Had frequently
seen her since her marriage ; sometimes very happy, and some-
times very miserable. She saw her last on Thursday, at her
house, when she appeared in great trouble about the execution
her husband had put in the house against her lodgers. Wit-
ness had reason to believe his wife was afraid of him. She
bad often come crying to witness about the trouble she was iu,
because her husband used her ill.

William Holden, a young man, son of the deceased, left his
father about half-past five o'clock the previous evening. Wit-
ness had been with them in the church all day, and they ap-
peared quite friendly and loving, like children, as if they would
eat one another. For the last fortnight or three weeks his
father had been like a child, quite senseless. He talked of
having to go to prison in his old age through his lodgers. He
was 72 years old.
Mr. Linnicar, surgeon, of Aldermanbury, was called in to
see the bodies. They were warm, but quite dead. From the
position of the bodies supposes the woman must have been
sitting on a chair which was close by, .and that the murderer
came behind, and, raising her chin with one hand, with the
other made a cut from left to right. It is witness's opinion,
from the way in which the bodies lay, and from all the circum-
stances of the case, that the husband first deprived her of life,
and then himself.

The Jury by their verdict declared, " That Samuel Holden
cut his wife's throat, and afterwards his own, being in a state of
temporary derangement."

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, MAY 19.—Wind N. E., fine.—Arrived the Grey-
hound, Corneby, from Lisbon ; Elizabeth, Dyer, from Lime-
rick; Hector, Morgan, from Jamaica ; and Broxbornebury.
Chapman, from Calcutta. Arrived from the River and sailed,
the Tancred, Crosby, for Barbadoes ; Miranda, Happer, for
Rio Janeiro; Claudine, Keen, for Hobart Town ; and Kings-
ton, Powell, for Antigua.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S. S.E.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind S. S. E.
FALMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind S.E. tt S.W.—Arrived off
port, the Lady Cornwall, Keen, from Lirna. Sailed the
Pandora packet, —, for Havannah, Belize, and Mexico ;
Renard packet,
for Halifax.

HASTINGS, MAY 19.—Arrived off port, tho Ocean, Fokke:
from Rio Janeiro.

GUERNSEY, MAY 19.—Arrived the Caledonia, Gifford, and
St. George, David, from Havannah ; and Argus, Vautia,
f•-om Cette.

LtvEnroor„ MAY 18.—Arrived the Robert Morris, Wescott,
from New Orleans. Off port, the Kelsick Wood, --, from
Demerara ; and R. J. Ilaynes, --, from Nassau.
DUBLIN, MAY 17.—Arrived the Fair Barbadian, Benham,
from St. Lucia ; and Royal Oak, Pleapoe, from Oporto.
SLIGO, MAT 17.—Arrived the Auguste, Halslc, from Memel.

SHIELDS, MAY 17.—Arrived the Vrau Catharica,
carding, from Copenhagen ; and Frederick Amelia, Panow,
from Stettin.

HULL, MAY 17.—Arrived the Albertina, Lewin, from Me.
mcl; and Eagle, Biass, from Stockholm.

The James, H. Albuoy, from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, bound
to Liverpool, was wrecked on Sable Island, previous to the
instant—crew saved.

The Salamis, from the Mediterranean, bound to Newcastle,
foundered at sea on the 1 st instant—three of the crew saved.
The Constantia, of Hamburg, put back to Pernambuco on
the 20th March, and would be obliged to discharge.
The Spartan, of Jersey, has been towed into Balbriggan
dismasted.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTON,
HOUSE, MAY 18.

Commerce, Rolson, from Guernsey ; Dart, Letch, Guern-
sey; Tyra, Tritton, Guernsey; Sovereign, Turney, Guernsey ;
Hibernia, Bidwell, Guernsey; Wellington, Liddle, Madeira
arid Cape of Good Hope ; Lady Raffles, Pollock, Bombay
and Cape of Good Hope; Elphinston, Domett, Calcutta and
Madras; Sarah and Mary, Nicholson, Guernsey ; Mercury,
Gilbert, Oporto ; Johanna Tonden, Anderson, Christiana ;
City of Hamburg, Whittingham, Hamburg ; Treasurer,
Laurie, Odessa ; Delft, London, Aalberg ; Sarah, Pratt,
Aalborg ; Stirling Castle, Fraser, Halifax ; Attwood, Morfee,
Antwerp ; Pytham, Bumeyer, Antwerp ; Manley, Davis,
Bahia; Asia, Stead, Madras and St. Helena; Eliza, Gaard,
Memel ; Resource, Kalhorn, Memel ; Zevaen, Cassanvers,
Louvain ; Providence, Dady, Dunkirk ; Cater, Whitnall,
Dunkirk; Cornelius Star, Kramer, Dordt ; Catharine, Middle,
Amsterdam ; Anna Elizabeth, Brorkhart, Amsterdam ; Mar-
garetta Coutia, Hazeninkel, Amsterdam ; Diana, Hop, Altona;
Flora, 011eson, Odensee ; General Brook, Jones, Boca ;
Union, Laury, Calais; London Merchant, Mowl, Rotterdam;
Prima Donna, Buchanan, Tarragona ; Le Trois Forenes,
Smit, Brussels ; Catharina, Bogen, Hamburg ; Johannes
Sophia, Simonssen, Stockholm ; La Belline, Lavalle, Grave-
lines ; La Felice, Merlin, Gravelines.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, MAY 18.
The General Palmer, Dowries, for Canton ; Nereide,
Faillant, Calais ; True Briton, Balderson, Barbadoes ; Sir E.
Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam ; Weichsel, Bartels, Stettin.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAY 18.
The Kingston, Sewell, for Antigua; John, Standerny, El-
sineur and Petersburgh ; Brother, Pitkethly, Elsineur and
Petersburgh ; Manna, Miller, Sydney, New South Wales ;
Gode Hoop, de Jonge, Amsterdam.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MAY 18.
The Concord, Lawson, for Gottenburgh ; Codrington,
Gaynes, Antigua ; Ellen, Swancen, Copenhagen ; Johannes
Minde, Hansen, Baltic ' • Svaneir, Meltz, Baltic ; Iris, Kanpert,
Baltic ; Ann, How, South Seas ; Frances, Thornton, Riga ;
Minerva, Marest, Thornton.

HAMBURG, MAY, 1835.
HEINE BROTHERS beg to inform all those
who have to remit to them Eight Pounds, that upon receipt
of a Ten Pound note, Two Pounds will be returned in gold by re-
turn of mail.