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. sensation ee n ce Jewishhad causedpopu an la ton extraordinary rtahoord i na r neighbourhood of Spitalfields. David Lazarus, the father, a Jew dealer, living at No. 26, Tenter-street, Spitalfields, 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 no. where to bo 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 alter seven yesterday morning he was called into an adjoining yard by a neighbour's servent, and ther•e, under a beard placed siantinz 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. lie had evidently been strangled with the handkerchief, which was twisted round the throat, and secured with four or tire 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 body was then cold and stiff. The witness said he afterwards kept a look out in the neighbourhood of Pet ticoat-lane, thinking it probable that the clothes might be taken there for sale, and about half-past nine 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 H 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, bad 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 purchased any clothing since Monday. Two women (named Fleming and Shermocaenn)tp oriwo. avhneadyt that they heard the prisoner telling several persons in the Tenterground that the person whom she named had bought the murdered child's clothes from a woman at seven o'clock that morning. They gave information of this to Mr. Lazarus, and the prisoner was ap pde r,t ehi atleenhndded,ephdo to oe. shed T herselfh e prisonerear heard in the t shaei d street, she ahatsnd onlywas innocent repeated hto hr: dehA hadreeierrr f. perpetratedo knowledge lrhier feltAeeas sa: tidz , a said,f oot a cruel of the pthh oeel it prisoner wasihasetot andne e unfortunate cold-bloodeda r f east fromw the murder evidence had been remand h ni it his duty, under the feaekccts, child lthat chicrectmunigsthatnebeesaafitotardethdinagntoamthpelemouppnoierrtu,nwihtyicohf wpreorseecceurtthi n g It itheir t tinquiries that fo for the a furtherpris o ne re lius c itdhaet i or mysteriouso hour last character. night ght the Ile a lo fm the deress, asomewhat hu police had not o tlsstand up to a succeeded in tracing the perpetrator of the horrid crime with any degree of certainty.