The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-03 00:00:00

POLICE INT SLLIGENCE.

Mr. Broughton-4 am astonished to hear such a re-
mark from the learned gentleman, who must be aware
that it is the practice at the assizes and the Central Cri-
minal Court that a person at the bar should be unveiled.
How is it possible to identify a person charged who has
a veil over her face ?
Mr. Ballantine remarked that it was quite time
enough for the accused when there was a necessity for
her identification to remove her veil.
Mr. Ballantine (to the witness Welch)—Are the hand-
kerchiefs said to have been stolen here ?
The handkerchiefs were produced.
Mr. Ballantine—Had any handkerchiefs been shown
to Mrs. Ramsbotham ?
Witness—Not that I am aware of.
Mr. Ballantine—The value of the four, I believe, you
consider 9s. 6d ?
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Ballantine—Are they really cambric ?
Witness—They are.
Mr. Ballantine—French cambric ?
Witness—l should say " Yes."
Mr. Ballantine had no questions in cross•examination
to put to Beckett, the policeman.
Mr. Bonsor, on the part of the prosecution, said that
his client had not been actuated by any particle of ill-
feeling in following up the matter, which had been
brought under his notice by parties in his establishment.
He telt it to be a duty which he now owed, not only to
himself, but to his brother tradesmen, to pursue the
inquiry.
Tile additional witness was James Watkins, who was
examined by Mr. Bonsor.
Mr. Bonsor—ln whose service are you ?
Witness—l am an assistant to Mr. Motile, 54, Baker-
street.
Mr. Bonsor—Do you know the prisoner at the bar?
Witness—l know her from her having conic into the
shop en Tuesday last.
Mr. Beneor—At what time did she come in ?
Witness—At about half-past 11 o'clock in the fore-
noon.

Mr. Bansor—Explain what took place.
Witness—When she came in she asked to look at
some linings. I showed her three or four pieces, and
she selected one piece at 4ad. a-yard. About six yards
were cut off it. I asked her if she wanted anything else,
and she replied that she did not. I presented to her a
box containing half-a-dozen cambric handkerchiefs. She
said that she did Lot require them ; but that, if she re-
quired any, those I produced were o too thin a texture.
Another packet from the other side of the shop was
handed to her ; it contained handkerchiefs of another
description. She. observed that they were the kind of
handkerchiefs she liked, but that she did not then
wish for any. She then asked me to show her an
article of dress, at the same time remarking that she
did not want to purchase it. I went to the other end
of the shop for the dress, which I placed before her.
She told me she was much obliged to me for showing it
to her, and asked me to make out the bill for the lining
she had bought. I did so, and when she paid it she
desired me to send the parcel to 7, Portman-square.
The handkerchiefs produced I identify by the marks upon
them as the property of Mr. Moule.
Mr. Ballantine—Are they French cambric I
Witness (after some hesitation)—l cannot positively
say that they are.
Mr. Ballantine—Are they sold as French handker-
chiefs
Witness—They are sold as French cambrics.
Mr. Ballantine=-Are they not sold to ladies as French
cambrics/
Witness (rather confused)—Not in all cases, sir.
Mr. Ballantine—What handkerchiefs were those
which you first showed to Mrs. Ramsbotharn ?
Witness—They were of a different description ; but I
cannot say that they were of a better quality. They were
of a more expensive kind than those in the second box.
One lot was hemmed and the other was not.
Mr. Ballantine—Are you sure that the defendant did
not say, "Make out the bill for what i hare had, and
not merely for the lining."
Witness—She said nothing more than "Make out the
bill for the hieing." She paid for it, and the parcel was
forwarded to her house in Portman-square, agreeably to
the directions she gave.
Mr. 'Ballantine—Was she known to you as Mrs.
Itamsbotham!
Witness—Not to me. She was known to some of our
establishment.
Welch was recalled, and in reply to a question put to
him, he stated that, while passing down Baker-street
with the prisoner, she (prisoner) said, " I have got
the handkerchiefs, but I had no intention of stealing
them."

Mr. Broughton—Was that after having denied that
she was in Mr. Morale's shop ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr. Fell, chief clerk—Yoti did not state on your pre-
vious examination that the prisoner observed she did
nut intend to steal the handkerchiefs?
Witness—l believe I did.
Mr. Herring—No, you did not.
Mr. Fell—lf you had, lam sure it would have been
down in my minutes.
This closing the case for the prosecution, •
Mr. Balantine, en the part of the defendant, in a
lengthened and most impassioned address, urged the
magistrate not to send the accaaed for trial. In the
course of his speech Mr. Ballantine alluded to what he
considered a great impropriety—requiring the prisoner
to lift up her veil, and thereby expose herself to the gaze
of every one in the court, which was densely crowded by
persons who bad been attracted there in order to look
upon a lady whose state of inind was most distressing.
Mr. Broughton, ri r,forence to the last remark of
the learned counsel, said he Hoped he should never
live to see the time when a court of justice should not be
looked upon as an open court, whether a party charged
was in a rich or poor condition of life. (Applause was
here manifested to some extent, but it was speedily re-
pressed by the officers.) The magistrate added that,
peihnhcleictihty, the report of theei firmer
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proceedingslete,
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had
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which the writer said—" I have read with feelings of
the greatest disgust the report in the papers. A police-
court was never meant for the purpose of receiving evi-
dence against respectable people." The writer further
said that he was a friend of Lord Palmerston, and that
he (the magistrate) would be sure to suffer if Le dared
to send Mrs. RainsbAtharn for trial. Mr. Moule had
also received several letters from persons stating that
they should cease ta deal with him if he was so blind to
his own interest as to go on with the case. One of the
letters he had received contained a proposition that the
affair might be compromised by contributing a sum of
1001. to the Middlesex Hospital.
Mr. Ballantine thought it highly improper that Mr.
Broughton should have read or referred to any such trash
as that to which he (Mr. Broughton) had alluded.
Mr. Broughton—lt is highly improper that such
letters ,should be sent by any one pending an inquiry.
Often it is the case that letters of such a description
have been read publicly in court by judges at the cir-
cuit and at other law courts, Mr. Broughton, after
some further observations, said that lie could not, con-
sistently with the oath he had taken as a magistrate to
deal out justice fairly and impartially, consent to the
liberation of the prisoner. Only that clay he had sent
two women for trial who were charged under nearly
similar circumstances, and if he were to discharge Mrs.
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adduced against Mrs. ilamsbothani, she must go before
a jury for trial. He regretted exceedingly that a lady
in her position of life was in such a situation as to com-
pel Lim to adopt that course, but be would take the
came bail as ho did before—viz., 2,000/.—for her being
forthcoming to answer the charge at the next Westmin-
ster sessions.
Dr. Itainshotham and Mr. Lindsey renewed their for-
mer bail in 1,0001. each, rind the prisoner was then
driven away in a cab, after bring led through one of the
passages in the vicinity of the court, in order to avoid
encountering a crowd of some hundreds of persons who
had congregated in front of the magistrate's entrance in
High-street.

Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) has left Holland
for Dresden ; but not to leave our Dutch friends utterly
disconsolate for her loss, she has promised to return, and
resume her vrofessionai airocations after Easter.

_ - -
THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SHOP-
LIFTING BY A LADY.
MA.RYLEL'ONE.—The case of Mr•. Ramsbotham,
which has excited an extraordinary degree of interest,
came on for hearing yesterday morning, at the Maryle-
bone Police-court, before Mr. Broughton, the sitting
magistrate. The time appointed was 2 o'clock, but at
least an hour before that time the court and the passages
were crowded to excess. The accused, whose age is
about LiO, came up in a cab and remained in a private
room until after the despatch of numerous night charges.
At half-past 2 o'clock Mrs. Ramsbotham was brought
into the court and placed at the bar, and two other
ladies, in compliance with a request which was made,
were allowed to be seated on either side of her.
Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Messrs. Lewis and
Lewis, with Mr. Herring, attended for the prisoner.
Dr. Ramsbotham was present, as was also Dr.
Tweedie, the latter of whom sat near the magistrate.
• Mr Bonsor, from the office of Messrs. Ashuret, Son,
and Morris, No. G, Old Jewry, appeared on behalf of
Mr. Motile, the drapar, in Baker-street, from whose
shop the four cambric handkerchiefs were alleged to have
.been stolen.
A report of the former proceedings in this case has
been already inserted in The Sun, and it will be remem-
bered that an adjournment upon bail, to the amount of
2,0001., took place, the sureties being Dr. .Raiasbothatn
and Mr. Lindsey, of Laurence Pountney-lane, for the pri-
soner's appearance, another witness—viz., the person by
whom Mrs. Ramsbotham was served at the shop—being
required to give evidence.
The statements which had been given by Samuel
Welch, one of the shopmen, and Beckett, 231 D, were
read over by the chief clerk, Mr. Fell ; the two witnesses
having heeu resworn to the truth of their dspositions.
Mr. Broughton (to Anstead, the gauler).—Tell the
defendant that she must put her veil up. It is usual to
do so.
Mr. Ballantine—Stop a moment. Whether usual or
not, she is not bound, I presume, by any law of the land
to do so.

SPORTING NOTES.

WAIFS AND STRAYS.

• The rseetin,g at Lincoln scarcely pOSsesses 'even a
• temporary or local interest—a sufficient excuse for not
occupying space with anticipatory remarks respecting
it. The current week will be barren of stirring sport-
ing incidents, unless, indeed, the elements of excitement
be found at Harrow on Thursday. The experiment of
getting up a popular metropolitan steeplechase meeting
is again about to be made on the lixendon Farm, not-
withstanding the unmitigated failures which have hi-
therto attended the undertaking. Hopes, however, of
better things were once held out, for report stated that
Mr. Newcombe Mason had taken the affair in hand, but
he, however, objects to a "partnership," and will now
have nothing to do with the concern.
Speculation seems paralysed. Mr. Howard has com-
pletely narrowed its range, and rendered it uninterest-
ing. For the Chester Cup he stops the way with Scy-
thian ; for the Two Thousand and Derby he effectually
withstands all " bombardment " with St. Hubert ; and
a probability exists that he will yet introduce something
to engross the betting on the Oaks. People talk omi-
nously about St. Hubert, who, however, maintains his po-
sition in the turf-market with nnskaken firmness. It is said
I that a noble lord offered to bet 1,0001. to 500/. against
him, an offer which was declined. The most exaggerated
reports are circulated respecting St. Hubert's private
exploits. A rumour of his having been thrice tried with
Virago at twenty-one pounds, and having easily de-
flated the "flyer" at the weight, is, perhaps, after all,
not utterly unworthy of belief. St. Hubert, it is said,
can de anything with Oulston, who is now seldom men-
tioned with marked favour. Still, certain parties perti-
naciously adhere to the belief that Oulston will yet prove
worthy of the confidence which was once placed in him.
Lord of the Isles is under daily deepening suspicion.
The manner in which he was talked about at Northamp-
ton was scarcely complimentary to those who have the
care of him. Almost any odlda were offered against his
winning the Derby, and remaining in the Woodyates
stable until the day of the race. Indeed, in the signifi-
cant slang of touts, Lord of the Isles is considered—
whether justly or not—a "at iff-un."

A reaction has set in respecting Scott's lot, Both
De Clare and Graaculus Esuriens have been reintroduced
into the market with increased forco. Many weeks ago
I expressed my opinion that Grwculus Esuriens would
not be the imposter which his opponents expect ; and
through good and through evil report, I have adhered to
that opinion. My faith is not yet shaken.
The movements relative to Polydore have been some-
what perplexing. He is reported much improved on his
autumn form, and his style of going is generally admired.
Still, until within the last day or two, he encountered a
steady and determined hostility in the turf market. His
owner, however, has recently been seen to back him, and
this circumstance, coupled with Quince's running, has
somewhat discouraged his opponents. Polydore may be
a useful horse for the Two Thousand, especially should
any arrangement interfere with the starting of the fa-
vourite.

Coroabus's performance at Epsom has caused the hopes
of Dirk Hatteraick's Derby backers to revive. Dirk was,
it is said, tried at the last Goodwood meeting to be up-
wards of twenty pounds better than Coroabus, and, de-
spite the sinister reports to the contrary, it is asserted
that he has "trained on " most satisfactorily. Should
Dirk be only a stone bitter than Corcehus I shall he con-
tent to "stand on" him alone fur the Darby.
April 3. A FRESH MAN.