The inhabitants of Enfield have raised a subscription in order
to rid the neighbourhood of Cooper, one of the murderers of Mr. Darby, who turned King's evidence against his accomplices on the trial. He was put on board a vessel a few days since for Van Diemen's Land.
Richard Coster, the notorious swindler, has been removed from Newgate to the convict-ship Cumberland, et Woolwich, previously to his being transported. Sir Peter Laurie had expressed his fear that Coster would contrive the means of escape from prison, unless he were removed, which is the reason of this step being taken.
An inquest was held on Monday at the Strand Hotel, on the body of an infant whose mother had by mistake given it some oil of vitriol instead of syrup of poppies. The poor child was dreadfully burnt, and the mother was in a state of extreme distress. It was dusk, she said, when she gave the child the poison, and she did not see what the bottle contained ; she hoped that God would forgive her. The Jury returned a verdict that the child was accidentally poisoned.
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