The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

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ROBBING CHILDREN. - Ellen Reynolds, a young
woman dressed in shabby black, with a small portion of
a dark veil, which covered her features, was brought be-
fore Mr. Combe, charged with stealing a basket contain-
ing tea and sugar from a little girl named Ann Rotter,
about 10-years of ago. She is also suspected of robbing
other children in various parts of London.
The mother of the child said that on Saturday morn-
ing, the 15th inst., she sent her with a basket and
money to purohase tea and sugar in Blackman-street.
Finding she did not return in half an hour, she went in
search of her, and found her up a court crying bitterly,
at the same time being without the basket. She asked
her what had become of it and the tea and sugar, when
she said a lady dressed in black had taken it from her
and ran away with it. Witness immediately proceeded
to the police station and gave information, when it was
ascertained that a female answering the prisoner's de-
scription had robbed other children about London. On
Saturday morning last her litle girl was playing at the
door in Whitecross-street, Union-street, when the pri-
soner came past. She immediately called out " Mother,
come here; here's the lady who took the basket from
me." Witness immediately went after her and stopped here
at the same time telling her she had robbed her child
of a basket, with some tea and sugar, on the Saturday
previous. She denied it, but the child was so positive
as to the identity that she called a constable, and gave
her into custody. The child was not sworn owing to
her being too young to know the nature of an oath,
but she positively asserted that the prisoner was the
party who took the basket from her.
Inspector Mackenzie, M division, said he had re-
ceived several notes from various parts of London
giving a description of a female like the prisoner going
about London robbing children. The female in question
is described as being strongly pock-marked, and a scar
over her right eye.
Mr. Combo ordered the prisoner to raise her ♦eil,
when her appearance answered the description in every
particular. Inspector Mackenzie asked for a remand
to enable him to obtain the evidence of other persons
whose children bad been robbed.
Mr. Combe accordingly remanded her until to-
morrow.

THAMES.
SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A WIPZ BY HEE HUSBAND.,
William, Bourne, a seaman, aged 42, of No. 35, Har.
dinge-street, St. George's-in-the-East, was brought
before Mr. Yardley, charged with violently assaulting
Elizabeth Bourne, his wife, who is far advanced in preg-
nancy.
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the effects of her husband's savage treatment, and whose
face was in a frightful state, said she had been married
to the prisoner for six years. Her husband had been
away in the barque Corona for about five and a-half
months, and he came home last Monday and joined
No. 35, Hardinge-street. He
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pel-street, with whom he had lived, and who brought
him up. On Wednesday he said the old woman had in-
formed him she was going to Australia with her child,
and he taunted her, and said, in a very sneering tone—
" You will go to Australia, will you," and he struck her
in the face, and accused her of keeping him without his
dinner. She told him there was food in the cupboard.
A female named Ellen Murray interfered and prevented
further ill usage. On Saturday he went to Green's
Sailors' Home to receive his wages, and she followed
after him with his child, and asked him for some money
to purchase food. He refused to give her any, and ut-
tered the most dreadful oaths and imprecations, and re-
fused to go home with her. He also said he would help
himself, and he had got money and would keep it, and