The Sun.
London, England, 1816-09-18 00:00:00

MURDER.

rolinußn's 1.161)F.ii..—•-All Inquisition (ail 'w
st steti in Alontlav's Pape') was held sit
Nritylehone klorit-house, in the N,..%r-roail, on tilt:
of (pond in the canal. in the
Itegent';-park,,On. thilistiay, it ii-iv,ng. peen
Coro:4o'4i by it
.ivoniati. A !.tirgeon gave it 'Hs' ilk
pinion thacthe child was horn alive ; attcl the
Jury ietirliett a verdict murder against
the unnatural 1116 I her .

The follow.ingsaccoant of an investigation at
'the Marlborongh-street Police-ofllce throws fur..
on this case :—On Saturday an elderly
ivoMan, and a mother of Sixteen ehildren,_ was
brought up from 111arilebone watch-house,
charged with 'being accessary faith Mary ()ridge
in mat tiering her infant chili), by drowning it in
the Ttegent."s
.Park net ThurSday
John Stephens, inirtner in the Om of Stephens
and f wyder, trurserythen,Pew;road, Marylebone,
about five o'cloeit on Thursday evening teas
standing at the door of his residence in the New
Circular, Regent's Park, which is called the Ser-
pentine ; he Saw a woman going towards the Wit-
ter, wish appeared in great ,agitation : suspecting
she wanted to dtnwn herself, be was resolved to
watch her,
.and accordingly placed himself in is
situation to see her motions, She went to the
edge of the water,. and seemed to explore all
the places adjacent with her loOks, There were
a. number of boys standing abont fifty yards
oft, whom. she eyed ,vith great caution ; butt
they semi depatte!l, when she again looped tonna
for the last time, and, observing no person near
her, „she threw something into the water. Mr.
Stephens imagined it seemed like R.Ollll li:e threw
in by its legs ; he was now juiced by hiS nephew,
John Edwar.!s, who had been also watching het..
Haying communic iced their suspicions to each
outer t hey proceeded towards her : she then rattl-
ed np to t child ahont six years old, who Was
with her", but_ ivhont she lied left at a distance
during this proce:ding, and now took it in her
arms, at
to
lfer,having cast a look hack at the water,
as if to some object, and immediately went away
with great precipitation.. Mr. S. and his lie**
het , owl began to question her respect-
ing tvlatt ,she i ad (tang into the water ; at first slit
seemed confused, but soon reco..ered her presence
of mind, and replied it was it dog, Edwards then
went 'tome, and My. S. priseeeded.With her alone. '
as far as builford-'news, where it beginning to.
rain, they got under a gateway for slither. Here
he plainly, told her he helieved it was a child she
had rlrowned hpt, she still persisted it waS a dog
xvhich had goue:taid. Edwards, his nephew, here
.joined then' agent,. and, both insisted On ascer-
taining her residence, which she said was at
Marylebone-lane. Finding they would
not go, and tverc ktermined in their resolution
of seeing lier hoMe she went 'on, and brought
them to a court called Rrunfort.cotrrt, Maryle-
bone-street, and Paradise-row, Where the went
into it house. Mr. Stephens remained at the
dour, whilst Mx. Edwards went in to see the
landlady, Mrs. Pitts, who said' he had known the
%%roan five years, and gave her a good character;
that liar name was bridge, alias Mason. On this
information they relinquished their 'doubts, and
went home, but still thought proper to make further
inquiry. At the first dawn 'of day. nest 'mom"
ing they got up and proceeded 'to the spot togs..
and after a great deal of trouble in raw
lag; they dragged up the body of a newly borrt
infant child a large heavy brick was tied to
its left anti another to its grist, so very tight,
that the :cOrd cut through to the bone : the bo:ly
quite naked. They gave information to .the
proper officers, and went to the house of Mrs.
bVIt Mrs. °ridge hid absranded. A little
child told thein another woman had been with her
on the preceding day, and during her stay Mrs.
°ridge had her door locked. Mrs. Pitts tole,
them,. after their departure on the night before,
Mrs. Oridge 'seemed very fearful, tied tidinbted
gently, telling tier they bad lint her in a must terrible
fright; when Mrs. Pitts replied to her, that it A*
Was right she need not he lrightened, as she could.
not be hart. After this conversation she ate a
hearty Slipper and *wit to heel. About 7 o'clock
next morning Mrs. Pitta beard her come down
stairs and ga out, and had not seen her since....
The prisoner is supposed to be the person who
had been With her locked up in her room, as ,
stated by the child. She was eximined at the
Coirontl's Inquest, when a verdict of " Wilful
• Murder" was returned against Mrs. Oridge, the
supposed unnatural Mother; hut she prevaricated
to, such a degree it) her evidence, having gone so
far as to otter !Us swear Mis, Oridge hail not been.
pregnant et all, that the Coroner ordered her to
he apprehend d. She was ordered to find two re..
spectahle ItoaS: keepers to bail her in 401. each,
...a herself in 604.

A Small detachment of the Lancer-Dragoons
appeared In the Park yesterday. The flags at.
Whed to their latices are red and white.

Yesterday a new sort of road way was laid
clown at the font of Blacktriars Midge, on the
Surrey side. It consists of cast iron sqnsres, in the
form of paving stones ; a stratum of gravel is laid
►spun the iron ►work, which is intended to form a
hard futintlation. it i,s not at present k flown what
ttfect the iron may produce when it comes in coup
tact with the hones shoes in frosty weather,. A
vast number of spectators assembled round this
novelty. _ _ _

A most awful visitation of Divine Providence
occurred here on Timidity morning, in the person
of Capt. Wm. ATKIN, of the brig Silva, of this
port, aged 35, bound to Petersburgh. Captain
ATKIN had just discharged an account with a
witterman on the New Dock Quay, near the Inert
and given orders to unmoor the vessel, when he
was struck instantly motionless in a tit of apoplexy,
anti berate surgical assistance ',mild be prohurest
the vital spark was extinct l---(Hull Paper )
Sunday afternoon as some boys were etteroPting
to get behind a hackney coach in the Ilatutteast
Road, one of them named T. Jertningson, residing
at 3, Wild Passage, Lincolieseinn.fiside-, felloff,and
though very prompt exertions were matte to pick him
up,hecould out be prevented from being run over by
a post-chaise,whieb 'vas Owe heti ind,nod bywhich
his collar-bone was broken, and his head frac.
tared dreadfully ; he was conveyed in a senseless
state to the Middlesex Hospital, whereto-stilll:ea
without any impala his roomy.