The Sun. — 1853-02-08 (London, England)

MOTHER.—On Saturday, at an inquest taken by Mr. upon it, when one unfortunate wight, carried away by raker, the coroner, at the Victory, Bingsland-road, the exeitement of the moment, incautiously approached Shoreditch, information was communicated to him by too near the spring, where, the ice being thin and Mr. Meadows, summoning officer of the parish, of the fol- weak, it suddenly gave way under his weight, at once lowing extraordinary case of child murder in the Regent's precipitating him in the deepest portion of thei depth.pond, Canal, Haggerstone, by the unfortunate mother, and of and where the water was considerably beyond the attempted suicide of the latter, who is at present Rising to the surface, he continued to catch his of lying in Shoreditch workhouse, where she was removed, the table ice, but either through fright or cold, _or sbeoifith; after having been prevented effecting self-destruction. combined, he made no farther efforts to extricate him. It appears that on Tuesday morning last, about 11 o'clock, and as his companions, influenced most likely by the as some men were passing down Great Cambridge-street same feehngs, also seemed incapable of affotdiii g him any naggerstone, near the bridge which traverses the Queen's- assistance, contenting themselves rhei* with road, they observed a female, who was holding a bundle part of passive spectators., his situation was everyrilousin the here hand, plunge into the canal. Several of them went ment becoming not Only there p.ainful but ap C et. Grierson, toowh.nr assistance, and succeeded in bringing her to the extreme. Pertnnately at this juncture acting m theo. t i g path. While they were so engaged, an infant was who was noming from the barracks, seeing Capt. c.ommoobserved to be str 1' • dropped out of theg ling in the water, and which had tin abont the pond, rushed down, that none of the wrapped. The handkerchief in which it had been Pgrth';us position of the boy, and, also,h,, number n'' the wrapped. baby soon sank. Some persons, ') who were in al) I ystanders, of whom there Afaa ft eddy -- wie ordinary scene, tried statet of astonishment at the extra- banks of the pond, were *illititt tO 'risk their lives or The mother was taker:iand perceiving the rescue it, but without erlecess. subject themselert le tk, wetting with the thermometer at Cambridge-street, where she tothe Acorn pnblic-horse Great the freerL4V. YAM, in an attempt to save the lad, boldly day the unfortunate was put to bed. The next and A MICe plunged into the water, broke up the ice in young woman was Mb:loved tA Ms immediate vicinity, severely lacerating his hands in Shoreditch workhouse, and has been attended to by Mr his effortsand after considerable danger and difficulty Clarke,. the house-surgeon. She still remains in I, ry. ucceededi dragging precarious state. The name of the young Womanve is condition.s nNot content him ashore in all but an exhausted Mary Ann Capron, and she resided at No. 7, -I -am did even here, but had him at once conveyed to street, Coal Harbour-street, Hackney-road. She is es- r sto house, wrapped up in blankets, and resingle woman, about 26 years of age, and very respect! at neighbouring d, 1. and wasted not even a thought on his ably connected. She was delivered of the child about sownoradirives inapo.peole condition and bleeding hands until he had five o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, unknown to her the satisfactionp of knowing that, under Divine Proviparents, who charged her with having been enciente, and dente, he had been the means of not only preserving a who suspected that her delivery had taken place, which fellow-creature from a sudden and violent death, but also she denied. She left her home unknown tothem,'andworthy family from affliction and hay. a decent