The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

ALLEGED ROBBERY.—This morninga very fashionably-
dressed woman, who gave the name of Ann Hammond,
was placed at the bar charged with robbery.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, a foreign gentle-
man, it appeared that, on the evening of Monday week,
he met the woman at the bar in the neighbourhood of
the Strand, and, having had a slight conversation with
her, he allowed her to take his arm, and they
walked for some distance together. When they had
reached Newcastle street, in the Strand, she stopped op-
posite a house in that street and then again entered into
conversation. At this moment the door was opened by
a person, and during the passing out of this person, the
prisoner, he alleged, picked his pocket of a purse con-
taining two sovereigns, a half-sovereign, twenty shillings
in silver, and a diamond stud worth nine pounds. She
immediately made off, and he had not been able
to trace her until last night, when he again met her
in the Strand, when he asked what she had done with
his purse, and told her that if she would give him the
ticket of the stud, if she had pawned it, she might keflo
the purse and money ; but if she did not restore the
stud he should give her into custody. She told him
she knew nothing about his purse, and he then called a
policeman, and she was conveyed to the station-house.

Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prisoner, put a num-
ber of questions to the prosecutor, with a view of show-
ing that the purse might have been taken by the man
who passed out of the house in the doorway of which
the prosecutor was with the woman to whom he was
talking. With respect to the prisoner at the bar be
(Mr. Lewis) felt that it was a case of mistaken identity,
or else the purge had been taken by some other person.
The woman at the bar was well known, and bad she
committed the robbery she would have kept out of the

way.
The magistrate remanded the prisoner till Tuesday
next.

SOUTHWARK.

CHAEGB OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—Efenry Light, a respect-
able•looking young man, was brought before Mr.
A'Beukett for final examination, charged with embezzling
various sums of money, the property of his employer,
Mr. William Reeves Cooper, Stones-end, Borough.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been
nearly four years in his service, and it was his duty to
deliver goods to the various customers and receive the
money, which he ought to pay over to witness or the
book-keeper every night. Latterly he had reason to
suspect his honesty, which induced him to go round to
several of his customers, when he found that the pri-
soner bad received money to a considerable amount. He
consequently gave him into custody.

Sarah Taylor, a young female in the service of Mrs.
Graham, of Salter 's-hall-court, said her mistress dealt
with the prosecutor, and the prisoner bad been for some
time in the habit of bringing goods to the house and re-
ceiving the money. On the 9th of July last witness paid
the prisoner the sum of 4/. Bs., and he gave her the re-
ceipt produced.
Maria Letcb, a servant in Mrs. Butler's employ, of I
46, Trinity-square, said the prisoner brought goods from
the prosecutor to their house, and on the Ist of Septem-
ber she paid him a bill amounting to 6s. 6d., and on the
15th of September she also paid him 6s. 2d., and he re-
ceipted the bills produced.
Mr. Cooper said he bad examined the books and no
entry of the payment had been made. There were other
accounts to a large amount, but witness bad not brought
the witnesses, as be understood three cases would be
sufficient to go before a jury.
Joshua Golding, a Berjeatt of the M division, said he
took the prisoner into custody on the Ist inst., but be
said nothing about the charge.
The pr;soner said he was guilty of the offence, and be
wished that be might be dealt with summarily under the
New Criminal Justice Act, instead of being sent before
a jury.
Mr. A'Beckett said be bad no power to do so in
charges of embezzlement, therefore he must be com-
mitted for trial.