The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Raikes, whose difference with Mr.
Brougham the public are aware of, was brought to this office on
Tuesday night, in custody of Smith, one of the principal officers,
for the purpose of entering into securities to keep the peace, in
consequence of the misunderstanding to which we have alluded.
Mr. Raikes was accompanied by Mr. Hughes Ball and another
gentleman, who came forward as his bail, and the requisite securi-
ties having been complied with, Mr. Raikes and his friends retired.

UNION-HALL.—A man named Cushion and his wife were
brought up to this office, charged on suspicion with having mur-
dered their infant child.

It appeared that a few days back an inquest had been held on
the body of a child which was found in a privy at the rear of a
tenement in which the prisoners lodged, situate in Loman's-pond,
Southwark.

The evidence adduced before the Coroner merely went to
prove that the female prisoner bad been suddenly taken ill on
the night of Thursday se'nnight, and that her husbr..nd had
got up out of bed, and was heard to proceed down stairs and
return back to his room soon afterwards. When the body of
the infant was found, which was stated by a medical man to
have been a full-grown one, suspicion immediately attached
to the female that she had been delivered of a child, and that
the circumstance of her husband having gone down stairs on the
night in question, for the purpose of concealing the birth, by
throwing it into the. place where it was afterwards discovered by
a female named Smith. No individual, however, summoned on
the inquest, could satisfactorily prove to the Jury that the female
was observed to have been pregnant pievious to the discovery of
the body of the child, and therefore a verdict was returned on that
occasion which exonerated the accused from the charge.
Subsequent to the inquest they were apprehended, and placed at
the bar of this office, before the sitting Magistrate, R. J. CHANI-
Baas, Esq., when the following evidence was adduced in afidition
to that taken before the Coroner.

Mrs. Belworthy, landlady of the Duke's Head, in Loman's Pond,
stated that the female prisoner was decidedly pregnant previous to
to the body of the child having been found.
The female prisoner—l am innocent of the charge. I know
nothing of the child that was found in the privy; at the same
time, Ido not deny hut that I had a miscarriage a few days back.
Mr. CHAMBERS-Was your husband present at the time of
your miscarriage ?—No, he was not; but I informed him of it
afterwards.

Her husband here stated that his wife bad spoken the trtitli.—
" She could not," added he, "have been delivered of a full-grown
child, from the time we have been married."
Magistrate—But can you state that you tad not been carnally
connected with her before marriage ?
Cushion—l can swear I never had, for I have been at sea
until within the last four months.

After the examination of several other witnesses, none of whose
testimony went to prove the charge against the prisoners to the
satisfaction of the Magistrate, although he remarked that there was
considerable suspicion attached to the female, he discharged them.
As soon as the prisoners were out of custody, and had got some
distance from the office, they were Stacked by a rabble, who had
been lying in wait for them, and their lives in all probability would
have been sacrificed to the exasperated feelings of those by whom
they were attacked, had not some of the officers been near the
spot, and prevented further outrage.