The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

Paddington, gentleman, examined, said—l was
present on the 2d of July last, when the purchase
referred to was made between the parties. I was
there on the part of Mrs. Taburnay, and said to her
in the room, in prisoner's presence, " I think you
would be wrong and foolish to pay any portion of
this money before you have searched the Registrar's-
office to see if there is any bill of sale or judgment
existing affecting this property," and I advised that
such course should first be taken. The prisoner in
reply said, " There is really no necessity for doing so,
for I declare to you, as a gentleman, that nothing
of the kind exists." I contended that in such a
transaction as they were negotiating a mere state-
ment of denial on his part would not be sufficiently
satisfactory, but while we were arguing on the
point a van laden with furniture belonging to Mrs.
Taburnay arrived at the door, and as it must have
been taken back again if the sale they were upon
had not been there and then completed, that lady
elected to complete and accept his -word that all was
right. I put the question pointedly to the prisoner,
"Is there, or is there not, as bill of sale, judgment,
or document that can in any manner affect the goods
now to be sold here ?" '1 hese were my words, and
he distinctly answered, "No, there is not." I next
called for receipts of rent and taxes, in order to be
assured by written proofs that every outgoing had
been settled up and paid. The prisoner, it then
appeared, could produce no receipts whatever, but
pressing for the money, I was induced, upon his re-
peated asseveration that all was correct, to advise
Mrs. Tab arnay to let him have £9O of the money,
retaining for a time the difference to meet any pos-
sible claims which might come in in the way of rent
and taxes. On the following Monday the prisoner
called on me, and was most anxious to obtain the
remaining portion of the amount, and then his very
great anxiety, so soon after the first money was paid,
led me to suspect him in this affair, and on the next
day, I, in consequence, proceeded to the Queen's
Bench-office in the Temple, where all bills of sale
as '4 knew are registered, and found that a bill of
sale had been effected on the property in favour of
a Mr. Bayne, bearing date the 15th Sept., 1858.
Directly I had ascertained this fact, I went to, and
consulted with Mrs. Taburnay, and next proceeded
to the station, and made the police acquainted with
the circumstances. Subsequently the prisoner
worked upon me, after he had seen Mr. Bayne, and
on the strength of a declaration made in this court,
which 1 received from him, I advanced £62, re-
ceived from Mrs. Taburnay, to him, on the bill of
sale on the furniture and effects alluded to, to pay
off Mr. Bayne, who he said would not allow any
rebate of interest—the declaration, which is false,
and the bill, bear the same date.
The prisoner here said he did not think he was
making a false declaration.
Mr. Cooper, for the prisoner, said he was able to
show that if there was any fraud, it originated with
Mr. Bayne, and had been compounded by Mrs.
Taburnay, and he would submit that there the per-
jury ended.
Mr. Beadon—That cannot be, and that perjury
has been committed is as clear as the sun at noon-
day. So far as the case has gone, it is also plain
that a most abominable swindle has been effected.
At this stage of the case, Mr. Lewis, of Ely-
place, came in, and took up the case for the prose-
cution.
Mr. William Bayne, 29, Brook-street, bill dis-
counter, called—l have seen prisoner about twice ;
last time in September, 1858. I made an advance
of £lOO to him on a bill of sail on the furniture in
question, in Albion-street. I required a declaration
to be made afterwards. I had asked him if there
was any lien on it, and he said £75 only, due to a
loan society on money borrowed. The declaration
was made at this court. I paid the money on the
execution of the bill of sale.
Mr. Lewis ayplied for a remand till Wednesday,
as it was impossible for him to do justice in the case
under less time.
Mr. Cooper, for the defence, opposed this.
Mr. Beadon said it was clear a further hearing
must take place.
Mr. Cooper said he was prepared to prove that
Mrs. Taburnay was aware of the bill of sate having
taken place before the money was paid by her to
the defendant.
Mr. Beadon remarked on the fact that Mr. John-
son had advanced £5O to pay off the bill of sale.
Mr. Lewis said he hid no objection to good bail
being taken.
A gentleman, who said his name was Samuel
Denton, 15, Gray's Inn-square, hoped his evidence
would be taken at once—l produce a bill of sale,
dated 2d February, 1857, on the furniture in ques-
tion. It was registered on the sth February. It is
for £75, of which £36 now remains due.
Cross-examined—We have an assignment of the
house in question besides, from Mr. Crowther, the
prisoner. There is another also security with him.
Mr. Johnson remarked thht the prisoner, when
asked about the lease, stated that it was either
burnt or had been mislaid.
Remanded till Monday next ; two bail in £6O
each, and his own security being taken for his re-
appearance, of which the usual notice was to be
given for inquiry.

WORSIIIP-STREET.—ANOTHER BRUTAL
MOTHER.—Susannah Brooks, dirty and dissolute
in appearance, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt
with cruelly assaulting Thomas Brooks, her own
child, seven years of age.
This case was prosecuted by Mr. Messer, relieving
officer of the parish of St. Luke's, from instructions
by the board of guardians.
On Monday last several respectable inhabitants,
principally females, made a complaint at St. Luke's
Workhouse that a family.of children, living at 12,
Lizard-street, were suffering from hunger and gene.
ral neglect, in consequence of which Gurling, the
beadle, accompanied by Mr. Bletchly, surgeon, of
the City-road, repaired to the house, in one apart-
ment of which they found three boys, aged respec-
tively fourteen, seven, and five years, and a girl,
two years old, in an almost nude state. They were
conveyed to the workhouse, and shortly afterwards
the prisoner, their mother, returned home drunk,
when she was taken into custody, and from what
had been ascertained in the interim charged as above
before Mr. D'Eyncourt, who directed a remand.
The children now presented a very altered ap-
pearance. They were warmly clad, and the .boy,
now most particularly the subject of inquiry,
looked even plump, but a scar on one of his cheeks
testified to some previously severe sore.
Mr. Edmund Bletchly said he examined the child
Thomas on the day when first received into the
house. There were 12 bruises about the head and
body, two of which, on the hip and right side, were
very severe. There was also one, apparently the
effects of a kick, at the bottom of the abdomen,
and this still remained. The little fellow was then
in a very weak state from want of food, and lite-
rally covered with vermin. The other children also
were in a generally bad condition.
Gurling, the beadle, mentioned that the prisoner
had formerly been well to do, her husband, who
died about six years since, having kept a beer-shop
in Britannia-street, City-road. After his demise she
sold some household property left by him to her,
and had since then squandered the proceeds. She
was an habitual and confirmed drunkard, now co-
habiting with an old man as bad as herself. He
did not believe . she had been sober for two years.
There was a good bed in the room occupied by her,
but the accommodation for the four children in one
corner of the apartment was disgusting.
The evidence of the eldest boy, Jordan Brooks,
was to the effect of his having seen his moth2r, on
the Bth inst., force the child Thomas under the grate
while there was a fire in it. She also kicked that
child in the back at the same time ; and to get out
of her way, she being drunk, the victim of her bru-
tality crept under the bedstead. The occasion of her
doing all this was, that the child had taken some
money out of her pocket. It was further sworn that
prisoner was in the constant habit of ill-using them
all when she was in liquor.
Mrs. Sarah Kelly, residing opposite the prisoner,
said that on Sunday week last she saw the two boys,
aged seven and five years, on the stairs of her house;
they were crying, and complained that their mother
would not let them in-doors. Witness sent her
daughter with them to the prisoner, but she was in
bed with some man, and the appeal on behalf of
the children was ineffective. Witness sheltered them
the whole of that night, cleansed and fed them.
They were were in a most pitiable condition ; one
of them had not any shirt on—their hunger was ex-
cessive. The prisoner had formerly lodgeT with her,
and was always a drunken, dirty woman. All the
children at that time frequently asked her for
broken victuals. They were miserable and dirty,
the youngest particularly so.
Mrs. Mary Hampton, landlady of the house where
prisoner lodged, spoke to having heard repeated
acts of apparent violence committed by the pri-
soner on the children, and to having seen them pick
up refuse in the streets and eat it. They always
appeared dirty and starving.
Mr. Messer observed that there was further evi-
dence of a similar character, but

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Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he purposed dealing
with the prisoner, not for the alleged general ill-
usage to all the children, but for the assault upon
the boy Thomas, as an aggravated case. What had
she to say respecting it ?
The prisoner, trembling from head to foot, and
sobbing, replied—l recollect that I had been to get
some things to stew for a meal, and on returninm
met the two females, who treated me to a drop of.
gin, it overcame me, and on reaching home I laid
down; when I awoke I found that the boy had
taken some money from my pocket, and also eaten
a carrot, and I recollect that in my passion I pushed
him down by the fender ; that is all.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Why, you are now almost in a