Smyrna times., 1861-11-28

enveloped the entire body. The toes were
dreadfully SCARED with the impressions ei
wounds no doubt Inflicted by walking on stones
while the head and body generally showed un-
mistakable marks of negligence and i'll usage.
The house from top TO bottom appeared to be
occupied by prostitutes and beggars, and the
officer only escaped with the child in safety by
literally" paying his way through the swarn
of people who blocked up every means oi
egress.
Mrs. Andrews, in whose charge was the
child. being arrested, the detective ascertained
that on one wet Saturday she was standing in
Windmill street, Haymarket, apparently selling
songs aud staylaces, but in reality begging
with her two children, one in arms aud the
other in the gutter by her side. when Hill,
passing her, in furtive manner, slipped shi.
ling into her hand. Having passed and re-.
passed several times, he beckoned her to follow
him to a dark part Of the street. She did go,
and then he asked if she would take child to
nurse. telling her she need only treat it as her
own, or that she might. if able, dispose of it by
placing il IN some work-house or asylum. She
promised to procure the advice Of a friend, and
made al appointment for the following night
in the same place. Hill kept the appointment.
and at that meeting he agreed to give her ELS
year for taking care of the child, and told
him to meet her at the same spot on the follow
ing Wednesday night, when he would take her
to place where she would receive the
child.
The latter appointment also was kept, but
Mrs. Andrews was accompanied on this occa-
sion by women, named Mrs. Scott, alias Mary
Ann Idle. who is at present undergoing twelve
months imprisonment in ToIhill Fields Prison
for robbOg gentlemen in the street. She ad-
added that all three went in a cab to
Northwestern railway station, in Eustcn Square,
on the. Wednesday night, where they received
the child, az stated by the girl, as TO how the
child had been treated at Rugby; she stated
that her friend Scott, alias Idle, went with the
prisoner TO a beer shop, near the station, and
there received ELS from him tor then to take
The child away. ,~ ..l. ..t.-
She also stated that when she received the
child it was wrapped in a shawl, which she
afterwards pledged. Brett redeemed the shawl,
which was identified by Mrs. Hill. The officer
also obtained q box, which Mrs. also Identified
as being the one filled with baby linen, sent by
her With the child; and it was worthy of men,
ton that the prisoner had, with the object Of
still further destroying identity, cut out ell
tho marks which had been inserted upon the
child's clothing. Mrs. Andrews furthsr stated
that when the prisoner gave her the child he
told her that the mother was dead, aud that be
was clerk going 10 travel on the continent
boa he gave her neither name nor address,
She did not believe =" all was right" and ulti.
mately had the child registered ia her maiden
name. which was Farebrother. Brett tested
the truth OF that statement. and found an entry
in the book of the register of st. Giles, to the
effect that on the 29sh of Feb. 1859, q child
hve weeks old, had been registered in the name
OF Albert Farebrother-the name given TO the
prisoner by the woman when she received the
child. ssr-. Ass
To further prove the identity OF the child,
Brett went to every house where Mrs. Al
drews had lived 10 St. Giles, frem the time
the child left Rugby to the hour of its recover
~, and he found her statement true in every
particular. He sscertained that on one oeca-
sion, when Mrs. Andrews sent TO prison for
begging. the child, with her own, was placed
in ST. Giles Work-heuse, where it remained
snlil she regained her liberty, wheR she used
1t, ss before. for the purpose exciting the COM
miseration of thu public in her begging expedi.
tons. Scott, alias A ndrews, alias Farebrother,
Upon its recovery, the child was restored to
Its mother. But, unfortunately, owing to the
neglect from starvation aud cold, il was still
under the careful attention Of eminent medical
men. aud it's ultimate recovery was by no
means certain. Upon the above facts being
established, Hill was arrested and held ls bail
for further examination.