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London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

WORIIIIP.ITREETCOMMITIKENT OF • MOTHER TOR CON.
CLALING THE BIRTH OF HER CHILD....S•tHiday, MOM Gravat,
a tingle woman, residing In Walbrook.place, New North-road, about
34 years of age, wasbrought before Mr. BROUGHTOY by the parochial
authorities of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, charged under thefollowing
circumstances :

It appeared, that on the 16th of August last the prisoner gave birth
to a full-grown male child, unknown to the people of the house in
which she lodged, and who were also ignorant of her being in a state of
pregnancy. to the birth, the prisoner wrapped the child in a blue
apron, and concealed it under the bed. In a few hours after, she ad-
mitted the facts to a Mrs. Bell, and said that Thomas Powers, who was
her sister's husband, was the father of the child. A few days after, a
coroner's inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, when, after the exami-
nation of several witnesses, the jury agreed that " the prisoner was
guilty of concealing the birth and the death of the child. but had not
used violence, and that the concealment arose from the public shame of
her brother in law being the father."—The parochial authorities, how.
ever, have thought proper to institute a further investigation, and on
Saturday—Eliza Bell said, she resided at No. 1, Walbrook-place,
New North.road, and that the prisoner lodges in the same house.
About three weeks ago, the prisoner (as was usual) came down
stairs for a kettle of water fur breakfast. Witness observed, that she
looked very ill, when the prisoner replied, she had been at her
mother's on the day before, and had eaten herrings, which disagreed
with her. In two hours afterwards the prisoner was going out, and
witness seing her look so ill, and such an alteration in the
of her person, was induced to ask her if she had been delivered
The prisoner at first denied; but afterwards admitted the fact,
and said her brother-in-law was the father. Witness then sent for the
prisoner's mother, and on her going into the room she saw her bring out
from under the bed a full-grown male child, folded In a blue apron.
Witness saw the child the following morning, in the
of the doctor, and she perceived some marks on the neck, as if presencefiit:d
with the nails of the fingers. She also noticed a slight scratch on the
nose. The mother of the prisoner went to her daughter's for clothes for
the child ; and to questions from the Magistrates, witness said the pri-
soner had a child seven years old, and was allowed ss. a week for its
maintenance by its father, who is a ship-broker, and that she followed
the business of shee-binding.
J. W. Parkinson said, he was surgeon to the parish of Shoreditch ;
on the 15th of August he visited the prisoner's room, and saw the child
lying on a nest of drawers ; the child came to its full time, and was
born alive ; there were no marks of violence.
Mr. Bionomut delivered his sentiments at considerable length upon
the law of the case, in which be separated the capital offence from the
mtsdemeanor, and said he would send her to trial for the latter charge ;
but she was entitled to bail.

44uinVr-Bnua----az.Mavatatotriar. Jags.—Saturday, Mr. Ed.
ward Arthur, a solicitor, appeared before Mr. MARRIOTT, to answer
the complaint of his wife. Mrs. Elisabeth Arthur, an interesting look-
ing young lady, stated that she resided with her husband, at No. 6,
Hendon.street, Vauxhall.road ; but that latterly his conduct towards
her had been so bad, that she could bear it no longer, and she went in
fear of her life, from his violence. He certainly never beat her, but he
was continually in the habit of seising her and pinching her in the most
violent manner, until she was black and blue all over, the marks of
which she now had about her. _

iii;:liAitazoTTLiedier. if she had not given her husband any
provocation ?
Mrs. Arthur replied that she had not.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, had no excuse to make, and
was ordered to find bail, himself in 50L and two sureties in 251. each,
to keep the peace- The sureties not being forthcoming, he was taken
to prison.
LAU3ITN-lITILEI2.—THE SINATUOILD PUBLICAN, RIB Win:
AND Mrsvarsa.— Mr. Elliott, the landlord of the Three Pigeons,
Stratford-green, who, it may be remembered, had some time sines ap-
plied for and obtained a warrant at this office, against a manta tailor,
, in the Strand, for eloping with his wife, and subsequentlyc
a violent assault on him, was brought before Messrs. %Va=
WYATT, on Saturday, on a warrant charging him with assaulting Anne
Chapman.
The complainant, a middle-aged and rather a respectable looking fe.
male, commenced her statement by saying that she and Mr. Elliott bad
liveitogether for upwards of 14 years as man and wife. It however
happened that some two years since Mr. Elliott was sent to the Fleet.
prison, and while there an acquaintance was formed between him and a
female, also an inmate of the prison, who had two daughters, and the
instant be obtained his liberation he married one of the latter and
turned her (complainant) adrift. She nos compelled to go to service,
but though she had obtained good sltuationa, the defendant and his wife
got her discharged from them, by representing to her employers her
former situation in life. At length they prevailed on her to live with
them as "bar mad." and in this situation she remained until Tuesday
night last, when Mr. Elliott, after violently assaulting her, turned bee
out eddeon.

—Mr. Elliott, accompanied by his wife (who be alleged on a former day
bad eloped,) and several other friends, in his defence said, that themes-
-1 t bad, on the night in question, kept his child out to a very late
boor, on her coming in be checked her for doing so, on which she
got into a violent rage, and flew at him, and all he did was merely to
prevent ben from 'matching his face.—The complainant denied this, and
said that she could show several marks of the severity of the defendant's
ill-treatment, if decency permitted it. Besides, the child which Mr.
Elliott said was his own, was not so, but one which bad been actually
purchased when an infant, and Mrs. Elliot having gone through the
mock ceremony of accoucherneat. it was reported that she had given
birth to it. This, she said, was done with a view of securing some he-
reditary property which belonged to the family.
After • good deal of crimination and recrimination, during which,
however, no reference had been made to the story of the child, the Ma.
giatrates ordered the expenses of the warrant to be divided, and dia.
missed the complaint.
&SOUL/1R COARSE or lloase-rriaLtso.-77sousas Stems, a
simple-looking countryman, was brought up in custody of Norris, who
charged him with stealing and selling a horse, belonging to Captain
Powell, a gentleman residing near Tilbury Fort, Essex. From the
statement of the officer, and the housekeeper of Mr. Powell, it appeared
that the prisoner had been a servant for many years to that gentleman,
but was at length discharged for dishonest practices. Since his as-
charge he went to the house of his late master, in open day, and took
away a horse which he used to drive in • cart, and sold him for 6L
The prisoner, in defence, said, that the captain had made him a rp neat
of the horse and cart, and therefore he thought he had a right to dispose
of them as he thought prerer. The housekeeper admitted that her
master was very kind to the prisoner, but denied that he gave him the
horse and cart. Mr. Walker thought there was no felony in the case,
and therefore discharged the prisoner on his promising to appear at the
office on Monday, when Mr. Powell will attend.
TURAS, POLICE.—EXTSOORDINARY REvgass or FORTUYS.
—Saturday Peter Tales, an elderly man, whose appearance and manner
denoted that he bad seen better days, was charged with stealing three
pounds of raw sugar from a hogshead on the St. Katharine Dock-quay.
Two of the dock officers stated that about twelve o'clock that morning,
they saw the prisoner standing alongside a hogshead of raw sugar, from
which be was filling his pockets. After be had dace so, he away,
and was going out of the dock gate, when they stopped him, and atipded
his coat pockets of the sugar.
The prisoner, who covered his face with his hands, and ap to
feel acutely the disgraceful situation in which he stood, that
urgent distress drove blur to the commission of the theft, and that wheal,
he stole the sugar he had not tasted food for 24 hours.
Benjamin Blaby, a Thames police officer, stated that ha had known

the prisoner many years. He was formerly an extensive ship-owner and
merchant, sported a carriage, and kept a large establishment. A ape.
culadon in which he was en ma was unsueessaftd, and proved his ruin,
and he had lately been reduced to a state or adversity.
AIL R. Bagster, the superintendent of Bt. k police, sad
the Company bad no wish to prosecute, and produced upwards of 100
duplicates for valuable articles be found upon the prisoner.
The defendant said the pledges were the wreck of his property, which
he bad pawned to keep life and soul together. At present he had nothing
but what be stood upright in.
Captain Ricnam.r. and Mr. Bionxitir, the Magistrates, told the
prisoner that, as a well-educated man, he mutt have been aware of the
consequences clench a theft, and he must not go unpunished. They
sentenced him, under the Police Act, to six months' imprisonment, for
unlawful possession of the sugar.