The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEMENT.

Charles Dawes, 27, clerk, pleaded guilty to a charge
of embezzling two orders for the sums of 8L and 101
17s. 6d., the property of Ambrose John Rolli, his master.
The Recorder ordered him to be imprisoned and kept
to hard lard labour for twelve calendar months,

STREET ROIMERY.
Caroline Arnold, 34, widow, was convicted of stealing
two bank notes for 101,, and monies from the person.of
Samuel Sterne.
The case was this. Prosecutor bal Leen stopped by
prisoner on Tower-hill, and she having robbed him, a
man came up and assaulted prosecutor, but police coming
up she was secured and the man escaped.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that he wished
it to be publicly known, that if any men acting as bullies
to the class of women to which the prisoner belonged
were convicted before him, he should inflict the heaviest
penalty the law allowed. There was scarcely a worse
class of offence. Ile should not visit this prisoner with
the full power alio% od bin, but transport her for seven
years.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Edmund Hasher, 19, tailor; Wm. Churchill, 21, tailor;
and George Langley, 20, labourer, were indicted for bur-
glariously breaking icto the poor-house of St. Pancras,
and stealing a quantity of clothing, the property of the
directors of the poor of that parish.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and stated the follow'n; case
to the Jury:—Early on the morning of the Ist of Octo•
ber, some of the police on duty near the St. Pancras
Workhouse saw Langlay coinin4 along the rod with a
large bundle, and he was shortly afterwards joined by
the prisoner Husker, to whom he gave the bundle. The
first officer waited till another constable came up, and
Husker was seized on the spot, but the other two bolted.
Langley, after a smart run, was taken on the spot, but
Churchill was not taken until the next day. Husker,
when seized by the police, took from his pocket a large
flint, with which he inflicted a serious wound on the
officer's forehead. When searched, he was found to hare ,

thron pairs of tromusta on. It was directly found that

tin property belonged to the r.wkhouse, end that 1
the tailor's shop of the workhouse had bzen broken ino,
and the teings taken from there and the storehouse. Alt
Cie prisoners harl been inrnat:).; but a Short time before,
e•nd Hasker hztl wofl:c3 in the shop.
Tt' jury convicted Churchill and Langley, linker
pleading guilty.
Langley was again indicted with jitmeg Smith for a
burglary in the dwelling-house of Frederick Reeve.
They both pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and said that in this case the
prosecutor's house, 27, Pembroke Cottages, Caledonian-
road, had been entered, and a quantity of clothing
stolen ; the police, however, caught the two prisoners
before they could get away with their booty, and after
much struggling and ill-usage to the officers they were
ecured, and Langley was identified as having bean the
one that escaped the previous night.
Smith. Hacker, and Churchill were then sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour in the
[louse of Correction, and Langley having been before
convicted, was transported for seven years.