The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-15 00:00:00

RECORDER'S COURT. DUMAN, AlAlien 10.

tolhoritee ffondeo tau indicted for enticing away,
on the rld of Febreery, I). ikl`Gowan, a child of
life years old, from No. 1, Gardiner-street, end fe-
loniously etealing from his persos various articles of
wearing apparel.
Lawrence MiGowen.—llia child Dsoiel, was en-
ticed away between two and three o'clock on the day
of the 221 of February; he remembered seeing the
Prionner in the street neer his house that day t - did
not find him until the morning of toe'!-Ith. at Stony-
batter ; the moment the child saw the Prisoner at
the Police.olfice. be identified her as the woman who
hail enticed him away, by offering him a plot:sof sugar
stick.

Marcella Brower, never saw the women in her life
that shecnn remember; found the boy in a waste
haute at Stonybetter, quite naked, lying on the
boarded floor ; thought he wesdeed ; look him op in her
firms and carded kite to a public-house near her own;
g t a kettle full of warm water end bathed him well
with it till he recovered; then wrapped him with
the help of the people of the house in warm flannel,
end put him into her own bed, where he remised
until his father came for him the next day.
Thin account was received with misted @Omit'.
lion of the wilnesr, and horror at the oboists!.

114nway awl the •moan at the bar, and the
child in her hem, in Strated-street ; knew the child,
and melted where they were going; she said they were
going (tome ; it was then after throe o'clock of a
Monday afternoon; his hiker fogad him two days
after almost dead.

Brio the father and Mareella Brogan were again
celled. The father said it was about two or three
of • Monday when the child was stoles, end the I
Lady said the boy was first discovered by her bro-
ther, on Toesday morning in the waste-hoese ; when,
on hearing of the circumstance, she flew I. his relief.
Ile mast have suffered severely, eke said, as it reined
incessantly the whole of the morning, and the house
bad no roof or cover of any kind.
Mr. B. Ilenway's evidence contineed. He would
have taken the child from her, if seaweed her de-
tign, but he did not know but she might be his 'setae,
lila aunt, or near relative. He was positive the Priso-
ner eau the very woman he then I.IIW with the child.'
After a short and impressive charge from the Learn.
ed Recorder, the Jury Instantly pre in a verdict of
Gmlq, and the Prisoner was sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.
Jane Farrell, otherwise Armstrong, was Witted
for frlonioa'ly stealing a pocket-bunk and Bank of
liaised notes, to the amount of neatly 2001. the pro-
per,y of J. Shea.
Mr. She•. in • state of intoziestion, on Saturday
night, the Bth of Febresty last, was led by this
woman to her lodgings. Itt this place he remained
with her, 'sheeted, as he said, to be seen going out
of such a plac►, the whole of Sunday. Towards
evening he sow the Pawner, Farrell, take his pan-
taloons of a chair et the bed-side, and pick the
pocket of a book. which contained the notes; he
started op immediately to take it nut of her hand,
bat she was too nimble for him, sod conveyed it to
oi • of two Of three female cemp•uions who stood
at the room-door, who drat eeeee ly contrived to pat
it nut of his reach for ever. Ile recovered one note
only, of 51. out of the whole property thus taken
from his. Ile was positive as to the person of the
Prisoner, and the fart of her 'skit% the pocket-book.
Guilty.—lb be troorportrd for seven peers.

A phenomenon. which teed, meth to elucidate the
origin and emote of funguses, particularly of that
species termed mushroom. lately occurred to the ob.
(ion of Sir Joseph Banks. Having a cask of
wine rather too sweet for immediate use, he directed
that it should be placed in • cellar, that the waist.
tine it contained might be more perfectly decomposed
by age. At the eud of three years be directed his
hotter to overlain the state of the wine, when, ow
attempting to open the unit door, be mild not
effect it in cooseqeence of some powerful obstacle.—
The door was t►erefore cot down, when the cellar
.•.<s friend to be completely filled with a fires fungus
vegetable prodection, so firm that it was necessary
to sae the ale for its remove,. This appeared to
hive grown from, or have been nourished by. the
decomposed particles of the wine, the cask being
empty and carried ap to the c►iling, where it was
wird 11.41 by the isrface of the fougus.
DROPPED CMILD —Dei WHO SPIED eml eight
in't•lnek list Thursday night a female infant, ow.
:rutty about a month or five week. old, was found
wrapped up in a piece of old blanket, lying at the
gateway of No. 11, Foster-lane. Cheapside. It wss
curled to the bridle of St. Leonard's perish.
Saturday morning, as a carman was leading fend.
fate in John-street. blinerieli, he fell off the cart,
end pitching on his bead, upon • heap of atones, was
killed on the spot.
03 Friday night, at the Anabaptist Chap•l.
in
I'r•vcot•street, tiocidmsn'ti•fieldi, whilst tho CO/P.
sonny of <lipping eight adults was guing 00, some
tl i•tes contrived to disposiesi seven of the carigiega.
Con of great coals, bats, stsJ uutbetllal, with *bath
ti.p; tot cif.