The Sun. — 1830-03-23 (London, England)

ATFON. GARDEN.  A young woman of repectable appearance, named Mary Frost, was brought up for re-examination on Saturday, charged with having administered poison to her child. Sarah Clarke stated that about eighteen months ago the prisoner, who then lived as wet nurse in the family of Mr. Rowe, a surgeon, observing a bill in her window, place"! the child under her care at Is. per week, which payments she kept up regularly till she was discharged from her situation; the account hal run on to about 51 10s. On Thursday afternoon last, about one o'clock, the prisoner came and requested witness to return the child, as she wd9 about to go into the country where she could get her child nursed at 4s. Gd. per week, and on her return to town she would discharge her account. Witness delivered the child, in 'perfect health, to the prisoner; it had never been afflicted with fits or il!nass during the period that witness had charge of it.  Police constable No. 121, Division E, between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday evening, while on duty in Tottenham-cJurt-road, observed the prisoner lying on the steps of a door beastly intoxicated, with the child in convulsions in her arms. Immediately he tuck the child to a surgeon, who declared that had it ken two minutes loser iu that state without medical assistance it must inevitably have died. After prescribing for it he desired him to convey it to Middlesex Hospital, where it now lies in a precarious state. He was afterwards informed that the prisoner was Seen to enter three druggists' shops to make purchases, and he took her to the police station. The prisoner was again remanded. A long investigation took place in the case of a female named Catherine Cockerell alias Gibbs, who was charged with having murdered her infant.  The prisoner lived as cook with a family in the neighbourhood of Bedford-square, and on the 14th of February last went to bed apparently in good health along with Mary Philips, the housemaid. The prisoner got up several times during the night, and about four o'clock in the morning struck a light and went down stairs dressed. The housemaid saw her sitting by the fire during the morning, and she seemed to be la-ge in the family way, but denied such was the case. About ten o'clock the prisoner sent her on an errand, and on her return, about an hour afterwards, she found the prisoner seated in the kitchen very ill but changed in her appearance; and, from her previous conduct, and other circumstances, the witness was convinced that the prisoner had been delivered of a  child; but on the third or fourth day following (after she had been visited by a medical man, who gave it as his opinion that she had given birth to a child) she confessed the truth to the witness, and took her to an adjoining yard, where the body of a female infant was hidden. The prisoner, with the witness, removed the body of the child and placed it in a box i❑ the house; and subsequently, information was sent to the parish officers, and a Coroner's inquest was held on the infant on the 20th of February. In the mean time the prisoner was kept at the workhouse of St. Andrew's i❑ so weakly a state that she eould not be brought up for examination till the present period. Mr. Peregrine Fernandez, a surgeon, said that the child was uncommonly large; the lungs having been examined by the usual test left a doubtful result. He could not positively say whether or not the child was born alive. Mr. LAING, after hearing the evidence, directed that the prisoner should be committed for trial for the misdemeanour of concealing the birth of her child. She made no defence beyond saying that the child was not born alive. The investigation occupied two hours, and was conducted with closed doors. The father of the child is understood to be a married man in humble circumstances, who has since deserted his wife and children, and left them chargeable to the parish.