The Sun. — 1868-03-03 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.  STANDING TREAT AND ITS RESULT.—Catherine Mills and Bridget Collins, two low-looking women, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing from the person of Mr. Thomas Thompson Collier, a clerk, residing at No. 21, Cirencester-place, St. Pancras, a canvas bag containing £3 in gold, 38s. in silver, &c.  The prosecutor said that about 12 o'clock the previous night he was going home, being rather the worse for drink, when he went into a public-house in Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, to have a little more, and he there saw the prisoners and got into conversation with them. The prisoners asked him to stand treat, and he did so, giving them half a quartern of rum each. Shortly after he left the house, when the prisoners followed him, and on his putting his band into his pocket for the purpose of getting out some money to pay for more drink he missed a small canvas bag containing £3 in gold, 38s. in silver, and some coppers. He seized and gave Collins into custody, but the other prisoner got away. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Sergeant Ingerson, 6 E, said that neither the bag nor the money had yet been found. Sergeant Burroughs, 21 E, said that about 12 o'clock last night the prosecutor, who had been drinking, but knew what he was about, gave the prisoner Collins into his custody as an accomplice of another woman with robbing him, and on taking her to the station she said that it was not her who robbed the prosecutor, but another woman, who after doing so ran away and left her with the prosecutor. From information the prisoner Collins gave Mills was taken into custody at her lodgings, in Short's-gardens, by Sergeant Ingerson. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoners.  AL I_,EG ED 211C!,1E1l.  --~  Dr. Diplock, the newly -appointed coroner for \Vest MiddleseY., has held his first inquest, and had a case before him of a very horrible kind. The deceased was a child named Honors Sweeney, aged one year and ten months. She was the dallghter of a married woman named Margaret Sweeney, living in Providence-place, Dawes-lane, Fulham. In the same house, and in the next room, there lived another man led woman, rained Manning. On Thursday afternoon last Mrs. Sweeney left her baby in the cradle whilst she went into the yard to chop up some firewood for Mrs. Manning. Whilst she was in the yard, she looked np into a room and saw Mrs. Manning sitting there with the child in Ler lap. Shortly afterwards she heard the child scream, but, though she was the baby's mother, she did not heed these screams, and, indeed, appears to have been the more callous as she knew that Mrs. Maiming had been in the habit of beating it. She went on with her wood-chopping, and, when she had finished, returned to her room just in time to see Mrs. Manning lay the child on the floor. Mrs. Sweeney took it up, and was nail, shocked at finding that the skin of its legs peeled off and adhered, to her hands. Then her maternal feelings were roused, and she turned to Mrs. Manning and asked what she had been doing. For answer, Mrs. Manning took hold of a chair, and attempted to strike the mother of the baby. An alarm was raised, and the neighbours, rushing in, rushed Mrs. Manning out of the room. The mother then took her baby to the police-station, when a surgeon was called. He found that the upper part of the thighs, and all about the lower part of the body, was terribly burned. Although so horribly injured, the child lingered until late on Friday night. In answer to a question from the coroner, the mother said she had seen Mrs. Manning hold the child over the fire, but she did not think just then it was with the intention of injuring it. It would seem that, in burning the child, Mrs. Manning had taken care not to let the flames touch any part of its clothes or her own hands. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against Mrs. Manning, who had already been taken into custody.