The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-31 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3l, 1845.

Baron ALDERSON—The prii,cipal issue then appears
to be. whether the Tempest be or be not a light comedy.
Mr. OGLE—No doubt, my Lord, that question is suf-
ficiently prolific to give rise to sln argu rent, if nvcesssry,
a 3 abstruse as rny m law. The question whetht rit
was any pArt of plaintiff's day appear in the ch.( •
ratter of Vtrdinand after the regular mottee, and whether
the contract had not been rendered void by his net hav-
ing done so. There are, however, other points with
which I will not now trouble the Court.
Baron PARKE—Do you then mean to say, Mr. Ogle,
that in the same document there are two conditions—
first, that plaintiff shall platy in light comedy when
called upon to do so, and in other species of dramatic
representation after a certain notice ?
Mr. OGLE—Yes, my Lord; he engaged to play in light
comedy on demand, and in other pieces at seven days
after date.—(Laughter.)
Baron PARKE—I should like to know► if these two
conditions are really in the contract ?
Mr. OGLE replied that as his time of pleading expired
today, there would not be sufficient time.
It was ultimately arranged that the rule should be
drawn up, not absolute, and that plaintiff should tomor-
row show cause at chambers, the time of pleading being
in the meantime extended for three days.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGV
John Edwards, a boy, whose head scarcely reache
up to the top of the bar, was indicted for stealing ss.
and a handkerchief, the property of Mary Ann Brown.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix, that
the prisoner, accompanied by a man who appeared to be
his director, followed her along Barbican and into
Worship-street, when, feeling a tug at her pocket, she
turned round, and saw the prisoner with the handker-
chief in his hand, which he immediately dropped upon
the ground. Ilis companion made his escape, but some ,
of the bystanders detained the prisoner, and handed him
over to a policeman.
In his defence the prisoner said that the lady had
dropped the articles which he was charged with stealing.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The officer of the Court handed up to the Assistant-
Judge no less than four previous convictions against the
prisoner, whom the goalers described as an incorrigible
young thief.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE sentenced him to
seven years' transportation, intimating at the same time
that on account of his extreme youth he would be sent
to Parkhurst Penitentiary.
Mary Walsh, a girl about thirteen 'years of age, was
indicted for stealing a coat, of the value of Bs., the pro-
perty of John Summers, her master.
It appeared by the evidence that the prosecutor had
taken the prisoner into his employment at a time when
she was in the greatest destitution, having been deserted
by both her parents. In less than a week after being
taken into his employment, she committed the robbery
for which she was indicted.
The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty, and the
Court sentenced her to three months' imprisonment, the
last fortnight to be solitary.

CLERKENWELL.
This Court was crowded with spectators, in conse-
quence of its having been generally known that the
parish officer. of St. Luke's were about prosecuting a
worn:m, hying in 3, George's-yard, Golden-long, St.
Luke's, for cruelty of a most atrucions character to-
wards
her step-child.
John Marks, a smith, and Anne Marks, his wife,
were brought up on a warrant, charged with cruelty
towards Anne Marks, aged 10 years, the daughter of
the former and step-daughter of the latter prisoner.
Several of the parochial officers of St. Luke's were
in attendance. Between four and five o'clock on
Saturday evening last, a poor woman, living next
door to the prisoner, went to the police-station, and
informed the sergeant on duty there that a child had
been most brutally treated in George's •yard. The
police-sergeant ltidney, and police-constable Few,
154 G, went to the house of the prisoner, and found
the female prisoner sitting in a lower apartment,
somewhat intoxicated ; they asked for the child, but
she refused to give any answer concerning her until
her husband was present. The husband was sent for
to a public-house, and, upon hie arrival, the child,
who had been washing out a room, was produced.
The officers declared that her appearance shocked
them. She had no covering but a threadbare shift,
black with dirt, and a piece of sack, quite as filthy,
about her shoulders. There was an ulcer on one
of her feet, and a bruise on her back, and another
sore on her neck. Her skin was literally covered
with scales of dirt, and the smell proceeding
from her was intolerable. When brought into the
presence of her parents she cried and seemed terribly
frightened. She refused to say a word. The officers
sent for Mr. Birch, the relieving-officer of St. Luke's,
and he bad the child removed to the workhouse. Mr.
Birch and the two policemen then proceeded upstairs
to the apartment in which the girl was chiefly con-
fined, and in which she and her three brothers always
slept. Upon entering the room they were so dis-
gusted with the smell as to be obliged to retire.
Upon re-entering it they found the floor covered with
human excrement, and the only thing it contained
was a small heap of carpenter's shavings which had
been picked from the dust-holes, and huddled into a
corner of the room, and on this heap the prosecutrix
and her three brothers slept, with no other covering
than a part of a filthy old sack. The child said that
they strove to keep themselves warm by huddling to-
gether when the nights were cold. There was only
one small window to the room which was closed, and
the constables declared that it would be cruelty to
put a dog or a pig in it. The house contains but
three rooms, and that in which the female prisoner
was found, and in which herself and husband slept
and lived, was rather a comfortable apartment, and
was as well furnished with food and furniture as most
mechanics' dwellings. When Mr. Birch spoke to the
mother she laughed at him, treated his remonstrance
with the greatest derision, and set his authority at de-
fiance. He accordingly applied for and obtained a
warrant.
The child cried bitterly on being brought into
Court, and seemed to regard the female prisoner with
the greatest terror. She sobbed so bitterly and fre-
quently that there was great difficulty in collecting
her testimony. She was lame from the ulcer on
her foot.
Mr. COMM determined on sending the case for
trial for the assaults inflicted on the child on Satur-
day, and hence the child's testimony was confined to
what occurred on that day.
She deposed—My name is Anne Marks, and I
shall be 11 years of age next April. My mother sent
me for a kettle of water on Saturday morning, and
when I returned with it she met me at the door, and,
saying that I had been idle, she seized me by the hair
and dragged me into the passage. She lifted me up
in her arms and threw me down as hard as she could
on the floor, and kicked me on the body. I screamed,
but she took me up, and "chucked" me down again.
She kicked me on the side and (as the thighs, and when
I was lying on the ground she poured the kettle of
water on me. I lay there crying. When my
mother went away, I went out and sat
upon a door step in the court. I sat
there crying for half an hour, when a woman
came and took me in. I had nothing to eat up to this
time. The sore on my leg was caused by a kick my
father gave me a fortnight ago. My back was very
sore. I stopped more than an hour in the neigh-
bour's house, when my father came for me, and
brought me home. As soon as my mother saw me
she ran at me and kicked me again, but my father beat
her for doing so. The child added, that she did not
wish to hurt her father, who had given her bread and
butter. All the clothing she had on was a shift and
a bit of a sack, and sometimes the skirt of a petticoat
fastened upon me with a rope. The poor child, who,
as she proceeded with her testimony was becoming
more and more convulsed with grief, at length swooned
away in a paroxysm of grief, and was removed from the
Court in a state of insensibility. The male prisoner
burst into tears, and seemed deeply affected, as was
almost every one present. The female prisoner did
not seem in the least moved, but actually shook her
head and laughed when the child was borne by her
like a corpse.
Mary Dowlan, a poor Irishwoman living next door
to the prisoner saw the child sitting on a door step
and took her into her house. The only covering she
had was a dirty ragged chemise, and a piece of a sack
round her shoulders, both of which were saturated
with wet. She made the child dry herself at the
fire, and gave her a potato. Before the child
left the door-step she told witness to watch her
mother, lest she might be at the window. She was
trembling from cold, and said her mother had kicked
and thrown cold water over her. There were several
bruises on her, 'and a sore on her leg. One bruise
was on the small of the back. The child was very
hungry. Witness never saw any one in so horrible
a state before. When the child's rags were dry, wit-
ness went in to the mother, and begged that she
would not beat the child, and she promised she would
not. When the child was taken in by her father she
heard her screams, and soon after seeing her crying
at the window gave her another hot potato, which she
eat up.
Sarah Angelina Hewett, a very respectable-looking
matron, corroborated the above testimony in every
respect, and also deposed to the general brutality of
the female poisoner towards her. There was an ulcer
on her neck about a fortnight ago, as if she had been
burnt. Her back and legs were bruised. Witness
went into the • house of the last witness whilst the
child was there, and the latter seeing her said, " Oh,
Mrs. Hewett, pray do take me from my mother ; she
beats me dreadful:, The child had her hand on her
back, saying it ached very much from the kicks.
After the child was taken in by her father witness
heard her screams for ten minutes after, and her cries
for " mercy." Heard the female prisoner say,
"Yon —, by I will have your life, if you
go into a neighbour's house again ; or the life of any
neighbour that will harbour you." She used other
horrible expressions and threats.
The female prisoner here exclaimed, " And your
life too, you b—y perjured wretch !" and she held up
her clenched fist menacing the witness.
Mary Hewett and John Ward corroborated the
above testimony in every respect.
Elizabeth Howse, the workhouse nurse, deposed to
the nature of the injuries above described. Her flesh
was encrusted with dirt, and it required great labour
when the child was in the bath to scrape the dirt off ;
the smell was horrible. On Sunday morning when
the child got up she said her bones felt sore from
lying on a bed, she had been so unaccustomed to it.
Mr. COMBF said, he should discharge the male
prisoner, but send the woman for trial, and wished to
know if she had anything to say, telling her she
might say nothing if she pleased.
The woman—Then if I may not I will say nothing.
She was committed for trial.
A lad named Williams, was charged with the follow-
ing daring act of shoplifting :
This morning the prisoner coolly walked into the shop
of Mr. Edwards, a tjbacconist, in Marchmont-street.
Burton-crescent, took up a large box of cigars, value
It. 45., and walked off with it. was secured at once.
—Committed for trial.
Daniel Cooper, a cabman, was charged as follows :
The fellow was the ringleader of a mob of the lowest
vagabonds in Isl:ngton, at the Blue Coat Boy: at twelve
o'clock last night their shouts and yells disturbed the
whole neighbourhood. Police-constable 141 interfered.
The prisoner swore he would split his b—y head open,
and carve him ; he made use of other language of a
shockingly blasphemous character, and
forwas
five most violent.
avyiosl.ent.
—ln default of fine, he was committed

a condition could be supposed to be. He stated, that
he had property in some houses in Leicestershire, but
that no rvnt had been paid out of it for some years.
The only furniture in the room was an old bedstead
on which the wretched man sat with a piece of old
sacking wrdpped about his loins, and the filthy rags
upon the bed were c:;lculated to create a contagion.
Seeing a human being in such a condition, applicant
thought it his duty to apprise the magistrate of the
matter, that some inquiry might be made into it.
Mr. BRODERIP commended the man's conduct, and
directed Macready, the warrant officer, to inquire
into the case, and, if necessary, report it to the pa-
rochial authorities.
Macready, on his return, stated that he never be-
fore witnessed anything so filthy as the premises.
The deceased wotnan was sister to the two brothers
who resided in the house, and her parsimonious habits
surpassed even those of the brothers. From all he
could learn, she had fallen a victim to her extreme
notions of economy, though they were reported to
be possessed of considerable wealth. She had
scarcely any covering, except a slight upper garment,
and her flesh as well as that of the brothers appeared
as dry and dark as mahogany. The man in the cell
up stairs was even in a more miserable condition than
had been described. He complained of not having
received some rents to which he was entitled for the
last seven years, and when told by the officer that
the parochial authorities would take charge of him,
he said he was sure that exposure to the cold in the
removal would kill him. 'When he heard, however,
that he was only to be taken a short diltance, he was
much pleased at the prospect held out. The other
brother (William) who seemed to be the owner of
the house, and had a male and female servant, seemed
equally wretched, but, notwithstanding his penurious
habits, he indulged daily in from twelve to fourteen
quarterns of rum, alleging that it was to that he owed
his existence. The other brother stated to Macready
that whatever he swallowed appeared io drop instan-
taneously through his stomach and flow to his legs,
which were terribly swollen and eaten into as if by
leprosy. The constable reported the circumstances
to Mr. Hughes, the relieving officer of Whitechapel,
who promised that the case should be immediately
attended to.

THAMES POLICE.
A man, who seemed by trade a shoemaker, waited on
Mr. Broderip and stated that on the preceding night
his wife was called in to attend a woman who was
said to be in a dying state at the house, 63, Rose-
mary-lane, kept by a dairyman named William Chap-
man, who is the owner of thirteen or fourteen cows,
and is considered by the neighbours to be worth a
considerable sum of money.
On going to the house
she was almost suffocated with the nauseous smell
which issued from the place, and informed her hus-
band of the circumstance ; he went back with her,
and the dying woman informed him that two brothers
lived in the house who entertained a deadly animosity
to each other, and that but for her interference some
thing terrible would be the consequence. Mr. Cripps,
surgeon, of Wellclose-square, was sent for, but before
his arrival, the woman expired. The applicant hearing
the sound of distress in an upper apartment, proceeded
up stairs, and in a small room more like a cell than
an apartment, having neither window nor fire-place,
and lighted day and night by a rushlight, he found a
miserable creature, who, though only forty-five years
old, seem bowed down by want and age to the verge
of the grave. His beard seemed to be the growth of
several months, his face and body were terribly
emaciated, and his legs, which were swollen to an im-
mense size, were eaten into by sores as large as a half-
crown piece.
Mr. BRODERIP—Was be sane ? The applicant
said, he seemed to be as sane as a man in so wretched

THE BETHNAL-GREEN MURDER.
The exertions of the authorities in developing the
circumstances connected with the tragedy of Monday
night, have been successful. Although in possession
of the particulars. it is deemed prudent, pending the
inquiry, to withhold some of them. It may, how-
ever, he stated that important evidence crimina-
ting the accused, Tapping, has been obtained. Since
Friday last he carried a pistol to a gunsmith in the
neighbourhood to be, cleaned and repaired, and at the
same time ordered four bullets and a quantity of per-
cussion caps. On Monday night, at half-past nine,
he was in the tap-room of the Rising Sun, Seale-
street, in company with a man and woman. The
conversation turned upon the deceased, when Tap-
ping, with an oath, declared that if he did not enjoy
her no one should, for he would do for her. The
woman replied, " You don't mean that;" to which he
replied, "1 do—l'll shoot her." On leaving, the af-
fair was forgotten, and within a quarter of an hour
after the finding of the female, Tapping returned to the
Rising Sun, on his way home, and apprised the man
and woman that he " had done it." At a quarter past
one he was observed in company with the man al-
luded to, by the ex-landlord of the Rising Sun, near
the Salmon and Ball, Bethnal-green-road, a consi-
derable distance from Tapping's home. It is some-
what singular that Inspector Horne and a sergeant of
the K division passed close to the spot within a
few minutes of the occurrence, and must have been
passed by the accused. The affair has excited an
extraordinary interest in the vicinity. From all that
can be learned, the deceased was a prudent girl, and
strongly attached to Tapping, who had lately under- I
gone twelve months' imprisonment for defrauding oil-
men and others by the sale of spurious articles. When
apprehended he was found sitting on a chair, his head
being buried in his hands. The spot on which the
unfortunate girl waa found was on Wednesday visited
by many hundreds of persons, and credence is given to a
statement that the impress of a bullet is discernible in
the brick wall. This is believed by competent judges
to be im?robable, though certainly appearances favour
the supposition. Sergeant Backhouse, K 37, has, it
is said, succeeded in obtaining testimony of a highly
important character, which will be adduced before the
Coroner at the next inquiry.
At the inquest it was stated by Mr. Cummings, a
surgeon at the London Hospital, that, in his opinion,
the ball which caused the death of the murdered
woman was still in the head. On its extraction,
should it be identified by the gunsmith above referred
to, it will be a strong circumstantial paint in evidence
implicating Tapping with the sanguine act. It is
said that Tapping was jealous of Emma Whiter, on
account of her paying some attention to a young man
whom he looked upon as a rival.

SUICIDE OF A RELIEVING
OFFICER.
Or: Monday afternoon an inquest was held at the
King's Arms, Maidstone, before F. F Daily, Esq.,
on the body of George Bailey, who came to his death
under the following melancholy eircumstances :
John Daniels, landlord of the King's Arms, de-
posed that he had known the deceasl for several
years. He came to his house on Saturday night
about eleven o'clock as a customer, and inquired for a
bed. He went to bed about twelve. He drank two
glasses of rum and water previous to going to bed.
Witness saw him last, but did not remark anything
particular in him. He was not quite so cheerful as
usual. They sat together some time, and he com-
plained of not being sufficiently paid as relieving
officer of the Hollingbourne Union. He complained
that at present his salary was not so good as it was
formerly, and that his expenses beat him. After the
conversation he retired to rest. Nothing more passed
that night. He told the girl to call him at eight
o'clock. When witness went down at nine o'clock
the following morning, he found deceased's shoes at
the bottom of the stairs, cleaned, and he told his boy
to take them up stairs and call him, which he did.
Witness went up himself at a quarter-past one, and
called to him, telling him that dinner would be ready
in a quarter of an hour. He replied, " Yes, I am
coining directly." He did not come, and in about
twenty minutes witness went up again, and called
out, "Bailey, we are waiting dinner for you." He
replied, " Don't wait, my good fellow, I shall be
down directly." Witness sent his boy up to hint
shortly after, when he told him that he had not had
much sleep iat night, and should not get up till tea-
time. About five o'clock he went up again and called
to him, but, receiving no answer, he went into hid
room and found him lying an his left side, apparently
asleep, breathing very hard. Witness shook him, but
could make nothing of him, and immediately sent for
Mr. Power.
Mr. James Joseph Power, surgeon, was called on
last evening, a little after half-past six, and arrived
at the King's Arms at a quarter to seven. He went
into the room and found deceased lying on his left
side, with his head and face. on the pillow, making a
snoreing noise,_ and perfectly insensible. Witness
went to his house for the stomach-pump, but he
found there was no use in applying it. He was too
far gone to do any good ; no remedy would have had
any effect upon hi n. He remained vtith deceased till
he died. This day he made a post mortem examina-
tion of the body. He examined the brain arid sto-
mach. The vessels of' the covering of the brain were
very much injected with blood, and very much in-
flamed, and there was also an effusion of blood be-
tween the skull and the covering of the brain. He
then took out. the stomach, but had not analysed it.
He could not smell laudanum, but from the appear•
ar ce of the inside of the stomach and brain, which
was injected with blood, be had no doubt but that he
had taken poison, and that that poison was laudanum.
Mr. F. W. Buchanan, chemist and druggist, X`t'eek-
street—Did not know deceased himself, but Mr.
Jenkins knew him, and they had some conversation
in my shop together. He said his object in coming
there was for some laudanum for a female pauper, who
had long been in the habit of taking opium, which the
surgeon had refused to let her have, but he was de-
termined to ive her some. This was between seven
and eight o'clock, on Saturday evening. Ha then
served him with a shilling bottle, which he labelled
" laudanum, poison."
The bottle was produced, and identified by witness.
It was found itt deceased's bed.
Obadiah Millgate, Lenham, farmer—Has known
deceased for six or seven years. Last time he saw
deceased alive was on Thursday evening, between
five and six o'clock, near the Maidstone Savings'
Bank. He said, " Mr. Millgate, I'll give you the 31.
I owe you, and take these two 51. notes home to my
wife." He caught hold of his hand, saying, " Good
bye, Mr. Millgate, I shall never see you any more,"
and turned short, and was going away. Witness
went after him, and said he could riot part
with him in that way, and walked down to the
bridge, where they had a lengthened conversation ;
he tried to get away, but witness held him
fast. He said he could never live, for he had some-
thing to meet, which he could not' do. He said he
had laboured and tried hard, and made another at-
tempt to get away, but witness held him, keeping him
in conversation, and said that he would not leave him
unless he promised to return home. He was .ex-
ceedingly excited and very much depressed in spirits,
and witness feared at that time that he waulsl com-
mit some desperate act. He wished to get him home
with him ; he said he would not go, and it lie made
him a promise it would be of no use ; but after some
hesitation he said that he would go home, and wrote
a letter home to his wife. Ile called at lig bouse on
the following morning, and found he was not there.
Mr. Gulden Reader, clerk to the Hollinghourne
Union, stated the deceased was a relieving officer of
that union, and resided at Lenham. He was not
much behind in his accounts with the union, the ba-
lance declared against him at the last quarterly meet-
ing being but 161.
This being the whole of the evidence, the room was
ordered to be cleared of strangers, and the jury, after
a short consultation, returned a vedict of "Temporary
insanity."

Mrs. 'Elwell, the A ife of the man now in Aylesbury
Gaol, aecti,ed of th- murder of Sarah (Hart) Laurence,
has heel) p,culiarly unfortunate in both her marriages.
Her first hustaind (Mr. Cutforth) was a most reTectable
man, engaged largely in the silk trade, in which he had
accumulated considerable property, and they lived iti
circumstances not merely of comfort but of affluence.
By the failure of his banker, ant several heavy losses in
trade about the same time, he was deprived of his all,
and :the effect upon his health and spirit, was such
as to undermine his conslituti. n, and eventually to bring
him to the grave. He lest one daughter. To maintain
herself and child, Mrs. Cutforth brought into exercise
her cultivated talents, and. opened a school for young
ladies in Northampton-square, Cl‘atenweli. Success
attended her laudable efforts. The body of "Friends,"
of which she was an esteemed member, aided her in an
attempt to extend her sphere of exertion. At the time
she became acqnainte I with Mr. Tawell she was at the
head of a conside. able estabishinenL, and had the daugh-
ters of several highly respectable Quaker families under
her charge. The idea of a marriage with him was op-
posed by her most judicious friends. It, however, took
place. They removed to Berkhamstead, near the church.
FORTUNATE PRESERVATION.—On Friday last an
aged gentleman took a third-class ticket, at Chester, for
Manchester, and had proceeded about a mile and a halt
on his journey beyond Crewe, when an antiquated lady,
with whom he had an entertaining tete-a•tete, observed
that the engine had turned at the last station, leasing
Crewe, and they were going back to Chester. The old
man immediately leaped out of the carriage, and fell into
a ditch, but happily escaped without having sustained
any injury, excepting a ducking. The train was going
at a speed of about twenty miles an hour. Ile walked
back to the station, and leafnt, to his mortification,
that grey-headed chroniclers have yet to learn that they
should look before they leap. The clerk charged him
his fare, ss. Gd., from Crewe to Manchester by the next
train, by way of re-impressing on his mind the useless.
ness of his recent display of agility.—Liverpool Paper.
CITRIST'S HOSPITAL.--The public suppers of this
institution are to commence on Sunday next, the 2d of
February.