The Sun. — 1851-10-18 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH.  Mr. Edward John Lee, of Elizabeth-place, Wyndham-road, Camberwell, a compositor in the printing establishment of Mr. Hansard, and who has behaved with the utmost kindness and humanity towards the widow and mutilated child of the late unfortunate suicide and murderer Fawcett, waited on Mr. Norton to solicit his worship to place his name at the head of a list of subscribers to a fund to be raised for the future education and support of the poor child who had so narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of her unfortunate parent. Mr. Lee stated that on the day the frightful event took place he was the first to enter the house of the unfortunate man Fawcett, and on witnessing the awful and distressing scene that presented itself, he took Mrs. Fawcett and her daughter, a child eight years of age, and who was at the time shockingly mutilated, to his house and kept them there. At the suggestion of several benevolent tradesmen in the neighbourhood, and who had kindly assisted in it, a subscription was set on foot for the benefit of the widow of the deceased (who was left wholly unprovided for) and her injured child, but the shock which the,opoor woman experienced at losing her husband and two children, under such frightful circumstances, was more than she could sustain. She gradually sank under its effects, and, notwithstanding the most unremitting attention of her medical attendant, died on the day before (Wednesday). Aware of her approaching dissolution, the poor woman begged several times that he (Mr. Lee) and his wife would look to her orphan children, and particularly the youngest, who was in so helpless a state; and both his wife and himself had solemnly promised her that they would do so, and would use every endeavour to see her properly provided for. With this object in view, and having communicated the promise he had made to the respectable tradesmen who had so kindly come forward to assist him, they declared their willingness to form themselves into a committee for the purpose of raising such a sum as would be sufficient to provide for the poor child. The Rev. Mr. De Crespigny, of Emmanuel Church, Camberwell, had also kindly offered his assistance, and had drawn up a statement of the lamentable case, and, further, had written a note to his Worship, which he al) e dgmi ges tr r. de sto nithgTa ona Nds %rt remarked emlhl ai mar ks eadvtehrayt sthhoecekaisneg appeared at sok be de what family had been left ? Mr. Lee replied three daughters. The eldest, a girl of 18, was earning her own living, and likely to do so, by dress making, and the second, a girl of 14, was also in service as a nursery girl, and at present getting her own living; but the third, a child of 8 years, was wholly unprovided for, and it was for her that the committee was anxious to raise such a fund as would provide means of subsistence. The poor child had received such serious injuries on her hands while struggling for her life with her maniac father, that it was doubtful whether she would be enabled to use themfreely. At all events it would beae longthe time before she could do so, and therefore the sh wish more required that assistance which it was of the committee to place within her rehalch and does the committee much credit. Mr.