The Sun. — 1851-07-25 (London, England)

LAMBETH. Two well-dressed women, one remarkably fine grown and good looking, and the other rather slight, and not very prepossessing in her appearance, presented themselves before the Hon. G. C. Norton, and the former, addressing the magistrate, said her name was Ann Bailey, arid that she was the person described in the newspapers of Tuesday last, whose disappearance was so mysterious, and who was believed by her friends to be the individual that had been murdered in the neighbourhood of Norwich. She further stated that the person who accompanied her was Mrs. Gooch, another of the alleged missing parties, and that the object of their attendance before his worship was to contradict the statement that appeared in the newspapers, and remove from the minds of her friends the impression that she had met with any violent or improper treatment. Mr. NORTON asked Ann Bailey if she had communi cated with her sister, Mrs. Faucett, who had made the application on her behalf ; and she replied that she bad not ; that the feeling between her sister and herself was not of the most friendly description, and, therefore, she had no particular wish to see her. Mr. NORTON thought it desirable that the parties should be seen and spoken to by Mrs. Faucett, and directed Sergeant Grant to take them to her residence for that purpose. In about two hours after Ann Bailey, Mrs. Gooch, and Mr. and Mrs. Faucett, accompanied by Sergeant Quiunear, P 1, entered the court, when Sergeant Quinnear addressing Mr. Norton said, that in consequence of the statement which appeared in the newspapers on Tuesday, on the evening of that day a person named Neeves, who was foreman over Gooch and other workmen when employed at the mansion of Baron de Goldamid, at Tunbridge, called at the station in Lock's-fields, and informed Mr. Robinson, the superintendent, that Gooch and Ann Bailey had been seen in the vicinity of the Edgeware-road by a painter in the employ of Mr. Piper, of 42, Eastcheap, and who, he had no doubt, could give some information as to where they could be found. Mr. Rubinson, upon this information, dispatched him (Quinnear) in search of the man in question, whose name is M'Kennelee, who informed him that he had drank with Gooch and Ann Bailey, on Friday last, at a public-house in the Edge ware-road, and that they were living in that neighbourhood, but he could not say exactly where. On that (yesterday) forenoon the young woman, Ann Bailey, came to the station-house and said that she and Mrs. Gooch had called at this court to contradict the report that had gone abroad about them, and that the magistrate had sent them to Mrs. Faucett, her sister, and that Mrs. Gooch, not wishing to see her sister, had gone home. By direction of Mr. Robinson, his superintendent, he (Quinnear) accompanied the young woman to the Edgeware-rcad, and took both her and Mrs. Gooch back to the residence of Mrs. Faucett, and requested the attendance of all the parties before his worship.  Mrs. Faucett, in reply to a question from the magistrate, admitted that her sister, Ann Bailey, and Mrs. Gooch, now present, were the persons she alluded to in her statement to his worship on Monday last. The young woman acknowledged that she had left her place with Gooch, the painter, to be married, as he had represented himself to her to be a single man, but the ceremony bad not taken place, and she discovered that she had been deceived by him. The reason, she said, why she had not informed her sister of where she lived and what she was doing, was that her sister and herself had never been ou the most kindly terms. She admitted that she still lived with her seducer and his wife, but was solely under the protection of the latter, and appealed to Mrs. Gooch for a confirmation of her statement, that nothing improper took place between her and the husband of that per son aitor discovering that ho was a married man. Mrs. Gooch ackuowledged the fact, but said that the sooner she took herself off the better.  Mr. Faucett, the brother-in-law of the young merest], offered to take her home and keep her till she was provided with another situation—an offer which she ac.  cptcd, and thus the matter terminated. Mrs. Faucett expressed her thanks to the magistrate for his kind suggestion, and relieving many menabc-rs of her family from the most serious end unpleasant conjectures; and  Slr. NORTON, in reply, said he was very glad the affair had not turned cut to be of so serious a enaracter as was at first apprehended.