The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

NOVEL CIIIRGE 07 BEING DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.—
Emma Brown, a young woman, was brought before Mr
Paget charged with being drunk and incapable of taking
care of herself.
Police-constable 104 K said the prisoner was drunk and
incapable last night. She came to the Bow station-house
very much intoxicated, and said that she wanted a night's
lodging, and was locked up.
Mr Paget said the evidence of the police-constable was
the strangest definition of being drunk and incapable he had
ever met with. Tho woman came to the station-house, said
she was drunk, insisted on a night's lodging, and was locked

up,
The prisoner said she mistook the station-house for the
Stepney Union House at Bromley. She got out of a rail-
way carriage where the train stopped opposite the Stepney
Union House, at Bromley, and walked into tho station.
house instead of the workhouse.

Mr Paget—You are a pauper.
The prisoner—Yes, eir. I had leave of absence yester

day.
Mr Paget—And got drunk. I don't believe you mistook
the stationhouse for the workhouse. They were mole than
a mile apart. You are discharged.
DEAD DRUNK.—John Fleet, a dock labourer, was
charged with being insensibly drunk in the St. Katherine
Dock yesterday afternoon.
A dock watchman stated that he found the prisoner dead
drunk on the brandy quay yesterday afternoon, and he
vomited a good deal of liquor from his stomach.
The prisoner expressed great contrition, and said he had
been in the service of the dock company many years, and
was nevar drunk there before.
Mr Paget—lt is a very dangerous thing indeed to be
drunk in the dock. You were in &Inge! of rolling into the
basin and being drowned. You are discharged.
DRUNK AND RIOTOUS.—Ann Hinaman, an elderly mar-
ried woman, the wife of a steady, hard working bricklayer,
was charged with being drunk and riotous in Ratcliff-high-
way yesterday afternoon.
Dannevill, 140 H, said the prisoner had been drunk 50
times to his knowledge, and was incorrigible.
The prisoner—l will become a teetotaller. I will,indeed.
Mr Paget—You are lined 5s for being drunk.

WESTMINSTER•

SINGULAR CASE OF FELONY.—Jane Rill, an intelligen,
looking child, only 10 years of age, was placed in the felon's
dock charged with stea!ing a sovereign.
Mrs Ann Allwood, of 65, Milbank-street, Westminster,
wife of a stone merchant, said that prisoner occasionally
came to the house to nurse her infant. She was there on
Saturday night, and in her presence prosecutrix placed a
sovereign in a purse and put the latter in a drawer, On
the next afternoon her husband went to the purse and found
gone. The prisoner had promised
Sunday asdwaybut failed to do so, and as she was
s sent for yesterday, but the sovereign was
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Mr Arnold—What evidence is there against the child?
Inspector Humphreys—She is found in possession of half
a sovereign which she gave to her father. Perhaps you
would like to hear him.
The little girl's father, a journeyman tailor, working at
a West-end house, said that his wife and children were in
the habit of meeting him on Saturday night as he came
home, and did soon Saturday. Directly she saw him she
put a half-sovereign in his hand, told him she had picked it
up, and asked him what it was. She said she had picked
it up near the Houses of Parliament. When he hoard that
his daughter was suspected of stealing a sovereign ho took
her to Mrs Allwood's, but she positively denied-all know-
ledge of it.
The child's mother was now called, and said that she
went with the accused and her little brother to meet their
tptendgto pick it up, and saw what she
through the Broad Sanctuary, and prisoner thinking one
off fireworks as they passed
father.
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took to be a bright farthing, and brought it to her moth.
A little bay, the brother, said ho was present and saw his
sister pick up the coin as described.
Mr Arnold—I think the child is perfectly innocent, and
not qAuitbeosPeWatalistolno
discharge her. If this had been a sovereign found instead
of a half, which I have no doubt was picked up, and there
had been no witnesses of the fact, as there are, I am afraid
circu.nstantial evidence would have fixed a strong impute-
'ion against the poor
She was imniediately discharged.

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