The cruel midwife. Being a true account of a most sad and lamentable discovery that has been lately made in the village of Poplar in the parish of Stepney. At the house of one Madame Compton alias Norman a midwife, wherein has been discovered many children that have been murdered ... : Also an account of the seizing or apprehending, behaviour, and commitment to Newgate, the midwife, on the account of murthering these infants.

Postscript.

TƲesday, August 22. This Day the Coro∣ner's Inquest met again, but were ad∣journed till Monday, on the Account that they had done digging in the Garden, and other ports for Children, and for other Reasons. This Day likewise about One in the After∣noon, our Madam Compton, alias Norman, was Apprehended near Covent-Garden, and with the Assistance of the Constables and Beadles, being led between two Men, attended with a numerous Croud of People; she was carried to the Petty Sessions of Bloomsbury, where she was Examined before their Majesties Justices

of the Peace there fitting; who likewise took several Affidavits, by which she is vehement∣ly suspected (if not positively charged) to have Murthered several Children that were put to her to Nurse; upon which she was from thence Committed to Newgate, by the Warrant or Mittimus signed by the Worship∣full Justices of the Peace then on the Bench.

When our Doughty Midwife was first seized, all the way she went to the Justices, and when she came before their Worships, she was observed to carry her self with a great deal of Confidence, not seeming in the least concern'd, or much denying the Fact. It has been observed that several Gen∣tlemen and others have been seen to enquire at some of the Adjacent Ale-houses con∣cerning some particular Children.