The Sun. — 1848-05-17 (London, England)

MURDER IN SPITALFIELDS.  At Worship-street Police-court, yesterday, Sarah Rogers, charwoman, was placed at the bar, on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of a little boy between six and seven years of age, named Henry Lazarus, who had been found dead in Spitalfields that morning, having been most inhumanly murdered, for the mere sake of the clothes that were stripped from his person. The occurrence had caused an extraordinary sensation amongst the Jewish population in the neighbourhood of Spitalfields. _ _  David Lazarus, the father, a Jew dealer, living at No. 26, Tenter-street, Spitalfivlds, deposed that the deceased, who was six-and-a-half years old, was safe in the house at half•past nine on Monday night, and a quarter of an hour afterwards was sitting on the doorstep, while the other two children were playing about outside. At ten o'clock they were called in to go to bed, but only two entered; and the deceased was nowhere to be found, and was not again heard of until yesterday morning, when he was found dead in the neighbourhood, and stripped of his clothing. his clothes were a cord jacket and trousers, and a striped silk handkerchief round his neck, and all the things had a fresh and new appearance. Abraham Lazarus, a relative, living a No. 14 in the same street, said he saw the child at five o'clock on Monday evening, dressed as described, and on his being missed was about all night with the father and others in search of him. Soon after seven yesterday morning he was called into an adjoining yard by a neighbour's servant, and there, under a board placed slanting against the wall, found the body of the child quite dead, and stripped of all the clothing except the shirt, the stockings, and the handkerchief. He had evidently been strangled with the handkerchief, which was twisted round the throat, and secured with four or five tight knots. The face was discoloured, the eyes nearly starting from their sockets, the tongue protruding from the mouth, and partly cut through with the teeth. The Fleming and hmpoernafinaveneaddyt. ticoat-lane, thinking it probable that the clothes might abfotdeyrwwaards s thenkept acollodokaonudt stiff The the The neighbourhood be taken there for sale, and about half-past nine he witness said o f Pet he found the prisoner at the corner of White's-row, surrounded by a crowd of at least 100 persons. The prisoner exclaimed, that at the station-house she would tell who had bought the child's clothes, and should thus be able to clear herself. He had not said a word to her about the clothes, but he then accompanied her to the station, where she asserted that a person in Frying-panalley had bought the clothes. Police•constable 207 ii said, he was with the last witness when the prisoner was taken to the stationhouse. On the way thither, she told him that a Mr. Lyons, in Frying-pan-alley, had bought the clothes that morning. Mr. Abraham Lyons was now examined, and said he had never seen the prisoner before, that he knew of, and he assured the magistrate that he had not purchasseeoddnsahnaiydn eshl orri fenhgl mhce: murdered anaurMurzdndra(ddri (namedtni uehnt drshe:atadyhat prisoner trdhsi child'ss teotr hnepeee etr prisonerstcane In person clothes dti hnegws whomafwsr oai severalnssmhnueopacnppe wrane en named stt thathhilboughtieels. clothinghTwtt eehoornes myt wet seven o'clock that morning. They gave information of The prisoner now said she had only repeated what other knowledge of the matter. Mr. lIAMMILL said, it was manifest from the evidence he had heard that a cruel and cold-blooded murder had been perpetrated upon the unfortunate child, and he therefore felt it his duty, under the facts detailed, to order a remand of the prisoner for a week, that the police might be afforded an ample opportunity of prosecuting their inquiries for a further elucidation of the circumstances attaching to the murder, which were certainly of a somewhat mysterious character. It is not thought that the prisoner is the real murderess, and up to a late hour last night the police had not succeeded in tracing the perpetrator of the horrid crime with any degree of certainty.