The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

POLICE

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
FRENCH PROSTITUTES AND THEIR BULLIES.—Rosins
Tenville and Hannah Coste, two French prostitutes,
and Victor Balline, the bully of the former, were placed
at the bar before Mr. Bingham,
charged with annoying kpassengers in the streets, and also with assaulting the
police in the execution of their duty.
In consequence of the numerous complaints of the
growing immorality of the French prostitutee, who prowl
about the purlieus of Regent-street and Leicester-square,
accompanied by their fancy men, the police have re-
ceived strict orders to lock up the offenders in all such
cases as come under their notice, with a view of ridding
the streets of this intolerable nuisance. This morning
at an early hour the two female prisoners were seen by
Constable 84 C to accost several gentlemen in a very
impudent manner, much to the disgust of the latter. He
went up and ordered them to move off, which they re-
fused to do. He then took hold of them for the purpose
of taking them to the station, when the male prisoner
came up and dared him to interfere with his friends,
and attempted to rescue them from his custody. Witness
called for assistance, when the male prisoner kinked him
about the legs with great violence, the women urging
him en. At length, after a deal of trouble, the whole of
them were 1 .dged in the station.
The prisoners stoule denied the charge, and were
fined, Balline 20e, or 10 days, and the two women 104
each, or seven days.

THAMES.
CONONALING A BIRTH. —SHOCKING CAPIN. --Sophia
Wright, a plain-lloking woman, aged 22, who appeared
in a weakly cordition, was brought before Mr. Selle,
()barged with concealing the birth of a child, under cir-
cumstances giving rise to a strong suspicion that she
had murdered it.

Police-sergeant Campbell No. 44 K, said an inquest
had been held on the body of the prisoner's new-born
child, and an open verdict was returned, that it was
found dead, but how or by what means it came by its
death there was no evidence before the jurors to show.
Mrs. Jane Murphy, the lsndlady of a public-house in
Star-street, 133wer Shed well, stated that the prisoner
had been in her service about one month up to Sunday,
the 4th Oct., and she had received a good character
with her from her last employer in Milo-end-road On
the 4th inst. the prisoner was Wren ill in the morning at
breakfast, and said she had been insensible all night. The
prisoner's illness appeared to increase until 12 at noon
and she could not do her work. She seat her to bed,
and gave her a glass of ginger brandy. Some time
afterwards a child of witness's assisted the prisoner in
her room, and cause down stairs and made a remark
which indtacel witness to assist the prisoner, who said
she war better, and would soon be well. Witness at
osoe suspected the prisoner hel just became a mother,
and told her there was something wrong. The prisoner
stoutly denied there was anything wrong ; and witness,
after making a eeareh, and being citable to find a child,
again told the prisoner she hsd given birth to a child,
and she again denied it. Witness then sent for a
doctor, who examined it, and the prisoner then ad-
mitted having a child, and that it wag under the bed.
Witness searched for it, but was unable to find it, but a
neighbour discovered where the child was,
Mrs. Harkness, ( f No. 7, Et t: -street, went into the
prisoner's room atter the last witness had left it, and
said to the prisoner, "Sophy, where is the baby." The
prisoner said it was between the two beds, and raised
one of them, took up the dead body of an infant, which
had been flattened between the two bide, and laid it
alongside of her.

Mr. James Hardy, surgeon, of Wapping•wall, maid
he examined the body of a fa-grown female child, en
the prisoner's bed, on the 4tk kfitant. He believed it
had been born alive, and wonli have lived if the pri-
soner had paid the necessary attention to it at the mo-
ment of its birth. Ths arobilical cord had been violently
torn away, and the child had bled to death.
In answer to Air. &He, the witness said he did not
make a post morten txamitiation of the body or float the
lungs ; but it was his opinion the child was born alive.
There was a great deal of fluidity and a large effusion
of blood. He believed that the child bled to death, and
that it was not suffocated by beinglplaced between two
beds.

Police.Sergeaot Campbell, 44 R, raid he took the pri-
soner into custody in Wapping poor-house this morning,
and ailed her whether child was Lora alive, to which
she replied—•o No, I never heard it cry." He asked her
why she concealed the child between the two beds, and
she said she did not Imo .Tv what to do with it. He asked
her how long the baby had been between the beds before
Mrs. Murphy earns into her room, and she said she did
not know, lie asked her who the father of the child
was, and she answered that he was a barman at a
public bowie in Mile-end, and bad lately gone to Aus-
tralia.

The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Sells, after
requesting the chief c erk to take the depositions, for-
ma►ly committed the prisoner for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.