Star.
London, England, 1824-02-19 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

William Sykes was put to the bar, on an indictment
charging him with breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of James Child, on the 31st of February, and
stealing therein four coats,and other property, the goods
of him the said James Child.
The prosecutor is coachman to Lord Darnley, and,
with his wife, resided in a mews at the rear of his Lord-
ship's residence. Orr the day in question, the wife of
the prosecutor left her home, and returned again in
about two hours, and found everything correct. In the
course of the night, however, she missed some knives
and fork; and home wearing apparel, in addition to the
abovenamed property.
The prisoner was apprehended by a watchman named
Reeves, as a suspicious character, who, on searching
him, found a kniCre belonging to Mrs. Child. He was
of Course deriined, and subsequently the remainder of
the property *as found at his lodgings. The case was
fully brought home to the prisoner, and the Jury found
him Guilty.

MURDER Ai' FOREST-ROW.
We have learnt the following authentic particulars
of the cruel and atrocious murder committed at Forest-
ltow, near East Grinstead, in Sussex, on Saturday, and
which We noticed in the STAR of Tuesday last; and we
are happy -to be able to correct a- trifling mistake in the
account which we at first heard of this atrocious
and almost unprecedented act of barbarity. The infant
child of a family named Sewell, of Forest-row, was on
Saturday night missing from its cradle, about a quarter
before seven in the evening. Half an hour previous to
that time, the child had been seen in its nurse's arms.
Immediately on the diScovery being communicated to
the family, and to the village, that the mother could
not find the child, the whole neighbourhood, with a
promptitude that does them great credit, offered to as-
sist in looking after the child ; and the idea naturally
suggesting itself that some child-stealer had carried it
away, persons were sent out in every direction to make
inquiry, and to search every barn, Stable, or hovel, in
the surronoding
_count: y. The girl, who acted as nurse-
maid tthf chikd, during all this inquiry seemed to par-
licipate lathe grief Of the family, and at the same time
protesting that she knew nothing of the child, but that
she had put it to bed at the usual time. She evinced
also some very remarkable inconsistencies in her con-
duct, which will of course be more fully investigated
by and bye. During the whole of Saturday night the
Parishes of Hadfield, Withyam, Cowden, and East
Grinstead, became the scene of the most active research,
and upwards of a hundred persons did riot go to bed
all night. Unhappily for the suspense of the parents,
the washing-house was no examined that night, the
girl having pointedly declared that it had been locked
u previously to the loss of the infant. About seven.
o clock, however, on Sunday morning, a neighbour pro-
posed to examine it, and on lifting up the lid of the
copper, found the dead body of the child floating in the
boiler. Circumstances led to the apprehension of the,
girl, from whom a confession of having accidentally lit
the child slip into the copper was extorted.
A Court of Coroner's Inquest sat on Tuesdays at the
Swan Inn, and was crowded to excess. Mr. Nleggins,
one of the local Magistrates, together with Doctors
Collins, Forster, and Wallace, and several other Medical
and private Gentlemen in the vicinity were present, and
the most minute examination of every circumstance -
being made before an intelligent Jury, it did nat. tura
-out that any motive could be assigned for the act, which
seemed to have been perpetrated by, the girl wantonly,
and without any sort of provocation whatever, as if she
had possessed some demoniacal and insane propensity to '
murder, of which many instances are on record; and
which, when uacontrouled by education and the-fear of
Gon, have led now and then to sanguinary acts of the
most unaccountable atrocity !
The Jury having heard the c•vidence of the case, de-
libel aced in close retirement till a late hour of the even-
ing, and returned a verdict of Wiljid Murder against
Hester Gorringe.
The girl had been a year in the Service a Mr.
Sewell, and had always evinced great kindness towards
the children; she is only fifteen years of age, and of in-
teresting appearance. During her confinement she has
'exhibited alternate signs of great determination of cha-
racter, and at the same time great, and indeed violent
feelings of sorrow, and was surrounded by her
own a icted family, as well :rs that of the deceased
infant, who was only nine months old. The girl is
committed to Horsham gaol; to be tried at the ap-
avaching Assizes.

In the course of yesterday, the trunk of which the
carriage of Lidy ANN BECKETT WAS rchhod, as men-
tioned in the STAR of yesterday, was brought to Union
Hall, by Glennon, the officer, who stated that he had
found it early that morning in a piece of waste ground,
near Walcott-place, Kennington, with the patent lock
wrenched off, and emptied of its contents. A reward of
101. has been offered 101 the apprehension of the thieves.