The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-13 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Sarah Shannon was re-examined before Mr. Al-
derman ANSLEY yesterday, charged on suspicion of
having murdered a man, whose name is unknown,
in the year 1819, at a house in White Hart-yard,
Drury-lane.
Brown, the woman who caused the prisoner to
be apprehended, said she had something to add to
her former deposition. When the young man spoke
with the prisoner about five months ago about some
rumours that she had committed a serious crime,
the prisoner said that witness was in possession of
a secret by which she could have her topped (hanged)
at any time. Then you rte st have committed either
murder or forgery, replied the man, and she said
she had committed the latter. The man asked her
how she could have done that, when she could not
write or read : and the prisoner turned-she conver-
sation to some other subject. Witness did not hear
of this second confession till Saturday evening.
She called

Benjamin Powell, the man alluded to, who corro-
borated the above statement, except as to the time
when this conversation occurred. He represented

that the admission was made to him three months
ago. The Alderman did not inquire who he was,
or how long he had known the prisoner.
Corby, the constable, then put in the following
document:—

" This is to certify that I have examined the bas-
ket of bones brought by Mr. Corby, and found them
to be those of a beast ; and, from their general ap-
pearance, think it likely to be that of a calf.
" ROBERT DAVIES, Surgeon.
Aug. 12.-126, Holborn-hill."
Corby produced two bones as specimens. One
of them was, beyond dispute, not the jaw-bone of a
man.

The ALDERMAN asked if there was any suspicion
that the witness was actuated by malice.—Corby
said there was suspicion, as she had caused the pri-
soner to be apprehended on a charge of stealing a
brass cock and some leaden pipe.
Witness said this was true. The prisoner told
her where she sold the pipe, and what she got for it ;
and she gave information to a constable.
A constable said he apprehended the prisoner, but
as the landlord, on being acquainted with the facts,
would not prosecute, the prisoner was liberated.
Alderman ANSLEV said the prisoner denied having
raised the report, and, at all events, no proof of her
guilt had been discovered. The prisoner must now
be discharged.—She was accordingly liberated.
The landlord of the house in White Hart-yard
complained that Brown sometimes came about his
door and seemed disposed to raise a mob. He begged
that she might be ordered to keep away. He in-
tended now, for his own satisfaction, to have the
whole of the back cellar dug up and searched.
The woman readily promised to abstain from vi-
siting White Hart-yard, and so the matter ended.
A salesman in Newgate-market inquired what he
ought to do if a carcass was brought to him, the
wholesomeness of which was doubtful in a trifling
degree, some butchers thinking it sound enough for
food, others doubting.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said he would do well to

take the opinion of some inquest-man who is also a
butcher; for if any decidedly unsound meat should
be discovered on his premises, it would be presumed
to be for sale for the food of man, and he would be
heavily fined. The only way to avoid the fine was
to refuse to receive within their premises all unsound
meat.

The reason of the graziers continuing to send

their " casualties" to—Newgate-market,—is obvious
enough. The sausage and soup-makers give twice
as much as the horse-slaughterer, and the grazier
pockets the profit which the horse-boiler would get,
if the beef, &c., were consigned direct to him, and
by him hawked about the trade (the sausage and
alamode beef-trade.