The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

POLICE INT.ELLIGENCE.—( 27sis Day).

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iNew Bond-street, woollen drapers, by means of forged
;orders, and also from Messrs. Goole and Co., of the Xdg-
;ware-road.

Wm. Carr, assistant to Messrs. Hardy, said that on Sa-
turday, a boy, who he believed was an accomplice of the
prisoner's brought an order purporting to come from Gel-
bart's, tailor, Oxford-street, for some oth. He gave the
boy the cloth, and followed them into Hanover-square, and
asked the prisoner where he was going to take the parcel he
was carrying. At first he said to Gelbart's, but afterwards
that he was in their employ and was going to the Strand.
He said he should take them to Gelbart's, and on getting to
the door the prisoner pushed him nearly down, and the
other boy escaped. The prisoner threw his parcel away,
but he managed to secure him.
Mr. Edward Goodman, foreman at Messrs. Gelbart's, 95,
Oxford-street, said be knew nothing of the order presented
at Messrs. Hardy's. There was a person in their house of
•tbe name of Evans, but the order was not in his handwrit-
ling. The prisoner had been in Messrs. Gelbarts' employ.
;Orders had been sent to about a dozen different tradesmen
!in his name, all of them fictitious.
In answer to a question the witness Carr said the cloth
was of the value of £3 10s.

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Mr. Goodman said the order was not in his handwriting,
id he had never sent the prisoner.
Prisoner said a man and the other lad wrote the orders
as they wrote better hands than he did.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Henry Edward Leake, a lad, was charged with being
concerned with the prisoner Chapman in obtaining tho
goods.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, appeared for the accused.
Some evidence being given, the lad was discharged, 111 r.
,Lewis stating that he was a person of respectability.
MURDER ON A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER.—Mary Ann
Hamilton was charged on her own confession with killing
her child, ten months old, in Rebecca-court, Wells-street,
10xtord-street.

'i It appears that the prisoner went up to George Brown,
18 F, in Kitg-street, Hammersmith, yesterday morning,
' and said she wanted to give herself up for murdering one of
her children at 9, Rebecca-court, Wells-street, Oxford-
street, by tying a piece of braid round its neck. He
asked her why she did it, and she said—" I could
not see it want for bread any longer." He then
told her that she must consider herself in custody for mur-
dering her son, Henry Hamilton. She replied that it was
too true. He took her to the house, and in a kitchen found
an old bed with two children in it, one being dead. Brown
then sent for Mr. G. H. Bailey, a surgeon, who instantly
lattended, and stated that life had been extinct some hours.
I'he prisoner was afterwards taken to the station, and after
being cautionei by the sergeant who took the charge,
Stanley, 3 C, she replied, " I am sorry, it's too true," and
commenced crying. On being told to sit near the fire at
the station in Clarke's buildings, as she must be cold, she
replied, " I shall soon be in a colder place."
i Prisoner was remanded.

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