The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M A RLBOROU GH-STREET.
On Saturday a man named John JVP Dugal, a

shoemaker by trade, and a woman with whom he
cohabited, named Elizabeth Mary Collett, residing
in Portland-street, Golden-square, were, for the
second time, brought before Mr. CONANT, the Sit-
ting Magistrate, charged with starving and other-
wise ill-using three infant children, their illegitimate
offspring.
Mr. Bradford, a surgeon, residing at No. 216,
Tottenham-court-road, having accidentally heard
some days ago that there were three children at a
house in Portland-street in a very declining state of
health, owing to the ill-treatment of their parents,
went there and had an interview with the mother,
the female prisoner, who showed him one of the
children, and said that it had a constitutional
disease which prevented it from taking any nourish-
ment, and that this was the cause of its miserable
and squalid appearance ; he desired her to bring the
child up to his house, and that he would prescribe
for it, which she accordingly did, but on examining
it, he found that the child had no constitutional or'
other disease beyond what arose from a want of pro-
per nourishment. The mother said that the child
had a peculiar aversion to all sorts of meat, and in
order to try this fact, he induced the mother to leave
the child with him for a part of the dsy under the
pretence of giving it medicine, but when the pri-
soner had gone away he placed some bread and but-
ter and meat before the child, a little girl of five
years old, and she immediately began to devour the
food in a most ravenous manner, giving the pre-
ference to the meat, which clearly showed that the
poor child had been kept a long time without a
sufficiency of food of any kind. He was then sa-
tisfied that the account he had heard of the ill-
treatment of the children was correct, and he forth-
with gave information to Mr. Chadwell, jun., one
of the overseers of St. James's parish, who very
humanely lost.not a moment in taking the necessary
steps to relieve the children and punish their cruel
parents: The prisoners and their three wretched
offspring were then brought before the Magistrate,
and nothing- could exceed the starved and skele-
tonized appearance of the poor infants, and Mr.
Bradford said that lie had no doubt but a little time
longer of such treatment, had they not been re-
lieved, would have ended their sufferings with their
lives.

Airs. Sod, the landlady of tie house in Portland-
street win re the prisoners resided, said that they
had been lodging with her for only a short time, but
she very soon perceived, that although they took
very good care of themselves, they entirely neglected
these three infant children, the eldest of whom,
named Clementine, was only five years of age; the
second, Rosa, about four years old ; and the third,
a little boy named Daniel, only two years old. The
prisoners were in the constant habit of locking the
three children, without a morsel of food, up in a
room, and leaving them there all day long, and until
eleven or twelve o'clock at night, va hile they them-
selves were out drinking, or passing their time in
some other unprofitable manner. The female
prisoner used frequently to drag one or the other of
the children up the stairs, from the bottom to the
top of the house, by one arm, in a manner that
would seem almost to pull the shoulder joint out of
its socket, and she seemed no have no more feeling
towards them than if sine were a she bear, upon
whom some straggling orphans, not of her kind, had
intruded themselves.

Several other witnesses residing in the house called, and he stated that he considered the premises
gave testimony as to various acts of cruelty and worth 20 years' purchase upon a compulsory sale.
neglect on the part of the prisoners to the children, They might let at 7001. per annum, but were worth
and in the end, after a very protracted investiga- more to Messrs. Jones. He valued the' leasehold
tiny, both prisoners were fully committed to the interest at 12,4001. No such premises could be
sessions to take their trial for the offence; and the found in the neighbourhood. On his cross-exatni-
witnesses were all bound over to give evidence, Mr.. nation, he admitted that in general the value of

wharf-side propeity bad greatly diminished• g:
also admitted that he had consulted Mr. ritlif,
It also appeared in evidence that Mr: Roper Bo to
Winatanley had been called is by the elairagn"

value the premises.
• ad d eelf
A considerable body of evidence was
and several eminent traders were examined, to slindo
that the business was of the nature and o*Piolesi
represented by the claimants' Counsel.. „
Se".t
declared they would give from 8001. to 1,00010',-,
annum for such premises. The present stock
valued at 20,0001., and the loss of the removal -:;;;-
estimated at 15 per cent. '1 he average profirpit
stated, should be 10 per cent. on such a busiaell'it,'
It varied from sto 20 per cent. The average to
turns were stated by the claimants' clerk Wes
207,2091. 15s. 10d. The average gross profits yi
15,5401. The business of the claimants had gre°,ll:,
improved since their removal from near the s°ll'
'work-bridge. seed
The COMMON SERGEANT, in his reply, cont.,' of
the evidence given by the surveyors on the Perteic
the Corporatioa with that of Mr. Burrell, and 00.
on the circumstance of the absence of bles; it
l'Anson, Roper, and Winstanley, whose evidollc-the
was to be considered was not such as would ant 00(1
ease. He congratulated the claimants on their gfeo
fortune in having been placed twice within 8. to
years in the way of public improvements, se "'Se
entitle them to the sweets of compensation. 'OOO
trusted, however, that the verdict of the Jul"' Ate
fall short of the amount claimed, and fail to 0-

undue hopes in other expectanti. thel
The Jury retired for about one hour, when •
returned a verdict, awarding as compensation f°tt
The Lease
Fixtures
Loss on Removal of Stock and Inter-
ruption of Trade 6,000 0
a .6
£80,839 lon tban the sum claimed. 14,061 19
ed.