The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

MARYLEBOA E.

John Frost, a bookbinde;,residinTat 4, John-street,
Edgware-road, was summoned before Mr. Long, by Adelaide
Adams, a girl not yet sixteen years of age, for the support of
a child to which she had given birth.
Complainant on being swot n, stated simply the fact, that
on the 6th of April last, she was delivered of an infant, and
that defendant was the father thereof.
In reply to the Magistrate, complainant said that defendant
was living with her sister, and that she was in the habit of
going to their dwelling.
Fanny Frost said that defendant was her son, and that he
had lived with Ellen Adams, whom he had promised to marry,
for three years, and the banns between them had already
been published in church. She (witness) had never heard
him admit that Adelaide's child was his. It had been men-
tioned to her that she was in the family way. and that she
intended to swear the baby to her son, the defendant.
Mr. LONG—When you knew of her being in the family
way, did you say anything to your son upon the subject ?
Witness-1 did, Sir ; and the answer he made me was, that
the child was not his.

Ellen Adams (21 years old) admitted that she had been
cohabiting with defendant for the period before alluded to,
and that her sister Adelaide had visited them very fre-
quently ; she had never heard defendant say that the baby
belonged to him, in fact he always denied that such was the
case.

In answer to the Magistrate, witness said, I have never
seen anything wrong, nor did 1 ever suspect that there was
an improper intimacy ; she has slept at my place perhaps as
many as twenty times, and I have made up a bed for her in
one corner of the room in which I and defendant also slept.
I generally got up first of a morning, but never to my know-
ledge left John and Adelaide in the apartment by them-
selves. I have not seen her upon terms of familiarity with
any one in particular.
Complainant's mother here said she had no doubt what-
ever with regard to defendant having taken an improper ad-
vantage of her child Adelaide, but notwithstanding that, she
should be quite satisfied if he would marry Ellen, with whom
he had so long lived, and thus make an '• honest woman" of
her. She had no further evidence than that of her daughter
Adelaide as to defendant being the babe's father.
Mr. LONG, addressing defendant, said—This affair has cer-
tainly a very dark appearance against you, but there has not
been sufficient stated to justify me in making an order upon
you. If you are guilty, it is one of the most horrible things
I have heard of for a long time.
Defendant then left the court, promising that Ellen Adams
should very soon have her name changed to that of Frost.
CLERK WELL.
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John Jordan, a journeyman in the employ of Mr. Joseph
Whitehouse, spectacle manufacturer, of Wilmington-street,
Wilmington-square, Clerkenwell, was brought before Mr.
Combe, on a warrant, charged with having left his work un-
finished.

Mr. IVakeling, the solicitor, attended for the prosecution,
and said the defendant was one of those persons who fancied
that they could treat their masters as mere instruments for
their convenience, and leave their work unfinished whenever
they thought proper, to the injury of the masters. He wished
to convince them that they could not do so with impunity,
and that the law would punish them when they did wrung.
The defendant had been before guilty of similar misconduct.
The defendant, in his defence, pleaded illness, which the
prosecutor was not inclined to believe, as be had so often re-
peated the offence.
Mr. COMBE asked if he would go and finish the work now
that he was able ?—The defendant consented to do so, and
after a reprimand from the magistrate, the case was post-
poned for a fortnight, when the warrant will be again exe-
cuted on the defendant, if ho fail doing the work.