The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

UESDAT MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1845.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two very simple-looking girls, named Sarah Jepson
and Amelia Dixon, were brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having committed a robbery in
the shop of Mr. Harris, linendraper, of Bishopsgate-
str

•eet.
The prisoners, who were well, but not gaudily,
dressed, and who wept incessantly during the exa-
mination, attracted for some time general compassion.
They were both very young, the latter, who appeared
to be the more youthful, not being 14 years of age.
The shopsnan of Mr. Harris stated that the two
prisoners walked together into the shop, and asked to
be shoo n some ribbons. A box or case of ribbons
was placed before them, into which they looked, but
they said that it contained nothing dark enough for
them, and then other pieces were shown to them.
Suspicion attached to them in consequence of a noise
which was heard by the person who was serving
them, and who, upon looking into the case, missed a
piece of ribbon, value five shillings. They were at
once taken into custody, and between the shawl and
dress of the younger was found a piece of ribbon
which had just occupied a position in the box.
Here the prisoners declared that they had never
been in disgrace before.
The LORD MAYOR having asked whether the female
searcher at the Giltspur-street Compter had performed
her office towards the prisoners, and having received
an answer in the negative, sent for that official, and
gave her the necessary directions. The searcher re-
turned to the justice-room, and stated that she bad
examined the clothes of the girls.
The LORD MAYOR —What sort of pockets had they ?
The searcher—The younger girl had a pocket in her
cloak which reaches to the very bottom of it.
The LORD MAYOR—Into which a considerable
quantity of goods might be conveyed ? The searcher
—Certainly, my Lord. There is a great deal of room.
There was a small pocket also loose under her apron ;
but there was no money.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Sarah Dixon, what
business had you to go into the shop to purchase rib-
bons when you had no money about you ? Amelia
Jepson—But I had, Sir. I had two shillings in my
bosom. Oh, dear
The LORD MAYOR (to the principal turnkey of the
Compter)—Do you know anything of these girls,
Gooch? Gooch—Sarah Jepson, my Lord, has lately
come out of the House of Correction, where she was
confined six months for a robbery, under the name of
Betsy Smith.
The LORD MAYOR—What do you say to that,
Sarah Jepson ?
Sarah Jepson answered only by sobbing.
The LORD MAYOR—It is impossible that I can do
otherwise than commit these two girls for trial. It
is evident that they have been deeply instructed in
this dangerous system.
The prisoners were then committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.
A big fellow, named Patrick Tushy, who trades in
Petticoat-lane, was charged with having given George
Ince, an umbrella-maker, a very severe beating.
The complainant, it appeared, was in the habit of
attending the Petticoat-lane market, for the purpose
of buying up the whalebone of old umbrellas. As
he was on the . look-out one day, he saw a young
man enter the lane with an umbrella, and he imme-
diately called out to him not to sell the article for less
than eighteenpence. The defendant at once struck him,
whereupon he threatened to pull Mr. 'rushy before
the Lord Mayor. " D—n and hang the Lord Mayor,
and you together," said Mr. Tushy, " I'll knock every
drop of blood you have in your body out of you," and
he struck the witness a blow on the ear, which swelled
one side of his head to double the size of the other,
and interfered with the sense of hearing, probably
for ever.
The LORD MAYOR—I suppose he thought your
hint about the umbrella prevented him from getting
a bargain ? The complainant—No doubt that was
the case, my Lord.
The defendant admitted that he had committed the
assault, but, said he, " I do solemnly declare to you,
my Lord, that I have the greatest friendship in the
whole world for my friend Mr. Ince.—(Laughter.)
Sure, don't I know him as a dealer in the lane this
many a long year ; and don't we meet every day of
our lives ?—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I dare say you would have no
objection to make it up ?—(A laugh.) The defendant
--Objection ! I assure you, my Lord, I don't bear
him the least animosity on earth.
The complainant—l don't see why a man is to be
knocked out of his sense of hearing for nothing, and I
shall have nothing more to do with him but prose-
cute him.
The LORD MAYOR—Iie has admitted the assault
himself, and he shall not leave this without giving
sufficient bail for his appearance.
The defendant—Bail ! I can produce bail for 5,0001.
any day. How much do you want
The Loan 'MAYOR—Two sureties for 201. each,
and yourself in 401.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF MURDER
AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Yesterday the neighbourhood of the Lambeth
Police office was thrown into the greatest excitement, in
consequence of its becoming known that a man of the
name of John Kendall was charged on suspicion of mur-
dering his mother, a poor old woman of sixty years of
age, at a low house in Fore-street, Lambeth, and
afterwards attempting self-destruction, by throwing him-
self in the river Thames.
Shortly after one o'clock the prisoner was placed at
the bar, in the custody of Mr. In specter Evans, of the L
division of police.
Police constable L 89 stated that, between twelve and
one o'clock on Sunday morning, the prisoner was given
into custody, on a charge of creating a disturbance
at the door of Mr. Morgan, the Ship public-house,
but Mr. Morgan did not press the charge, and the pri-
soner was liberated. This was about a quarter to one
o'clock, and about two o'clock the constable received
information that the prisoner's mother was found dead
in the passage of the house where she rented a room.
Thomas Massey, L 39—The house in which the prisoner
and his mother lived is in my beat. Shortly before two
o'clock a person, close to where the deceased lived,
told me that there was something lying in the
passage, in consequence of which I went to the
passage, and then I saw the deceased was lying
on the ground quite dead. Her r'ght thigh and part of
her person was exposed. There was some liquid on the
ground, which smelt as if she had been drinking rum.
Her tongue was protruding, and mouth was Hide
open. She was quite cold, and there was no pulsa•
tion. Dr. Jeffery was sent for, and arrived in
about twenty minutes ; he attempted to bleed
her, and could get nothing but some congeal d black
thick blood. I assisted to carry the body to the dead
house at Lambeth Church, where it at present awaits this
coroner's inquest.
W. Hull, L 88, has known the prisoner for five years;
he is the son of the deceased, whom he has been in the
habit of cruelly ill-using.
Another policeman stated that about two o'clock he saw
the prisoner making for the river, near Lambeth-stairs,
when he stated that he had destroyed his mother, and
he should find a place of rest for himself. The prisoner
endeavoured to get away from the police, and ran to-
wards the river, but was overtaken, and charged on sus-
picion of causing the death of his mother.
The magistrate was informed by Mr. Inspector Evans
that there was a person at the coffee-shop who heard
the prisoner exclaim, " Keep your b— legs out of the
way." This took place in the passage, and it is sup-
posed that the prisoner, who was then dreadfully drunk,
was ill-using the poor old woman.
Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner what he had to say ?
The prisoner denied having stated that he said that he
had destroyed the old woman, and said that there was
no quarrel with his mother on Saturday night.
Mr. HENRY directed that Dr. Jeffery might be sent
for, and the prisoner was remanded to await the result
of the inquest.

MURDER OF A CHILD, AND
SUICIDE OF THE MOTHER.

Mr. Goulding, lighterman and cornfactor, of Horsely-
down, has a residence at Clapham-rise, and a considerable
number of servants. Among them was Eliza Daniels,
who had been in that gentleman's service about six or
eight months, as housemaid. On Wednesday Eliza Da-
niels had been attending to her duties as customary,
and no depression of spirits. or alteration in her ap-
pearance, was noticed either by Mrs. Goulding or any
of the other servants, and she went to bed late at
night. About two o'clock on Thursday morning Mrs.
Goulding was disturbed by a strange noise proceeding
from Eliza's room, and on procuring a light and going up
stairs to it, a frightful scene met her view. The floor of
the room was deluged in blood, and the clothes of Eliza,
who wa:.in a corner of it, were likewise saturated with it;
there were also suspicious marks about the room,
which led to subsequent investigation and discovery.
Mrs. Goulding was very much alarmed at the sight,
arid having called for assistance, a groom was dispatched
for Mr. Dodd. of Stockwell, surgeon. In the meantime
it was discovered that the unfortunate woman had made
no less than three deep wounds on her throat, from
which the blood was gushing in streams, and she ap-
peared quite insensible, but not dead, it being supposed
that they had but recently been inflicted. Mr. Dodd, on
making an examination of the deceased's bed, discovered
what had before been suspected, that she had delivered
herself of a child, which he found rolled up in the bed-
clothes; and quite dead. It was a fine female child, and
there appears little doubt it was born alive, and having
been made away with, the mother made the desperate
attempt upon her own life. Upon searching the room
one of Mr. Goulding's razors was discovered on a wash-
hand-stand, covered with blood, and this she must, by
some means, have obtained on the previous day. She
expired under the effects on Friday, about two o'clock.