The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

clothes as I had then. I wished to be taken in my mili-
tary dress.
His Honour—Oh, come I You go some fine day and
get photographed. The company wish to do what is right,
and they will bring out you and your old lady capitally.
The plaintiff, who did not seem to care about this at first,
at last agreed willingly to the course suggested by the
Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

ROBBERY BY A SERYANT.—AmeIia Hodson, a young
woman, servant to Mr Silvester, 53, Marshall-street, Golden-
square, was charged before Mr Knox with stealing some
money belonging to Mr Silvester; and also with stealing
several articles of wearing apparel, the property of lodgers
in Mr SitvTster's house.

Mrs Maria Silvester, wife of the prosecutor, a tailor,
stated that on Nov. 3, the prisoner, who was her servant,
absconded from the house, and some time after, on going
to a drawer in the front parlour, she found that it had been
forced open and Lls in silver abstracted. Two bonnets, a
cloak, a cloth jacket, and a petticoat were a terwards
missed.

Elizabeth Mann, a young woman lodging in the house,
identified the petticoat as her property. . ,

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Emily Chitty, a little girl, residing at 41, Marshall-street,
said that on the afternoon of Nov. 3 the prisoner, who had
11 large bundle under her shawl, spoke to her in the
street.

Dawson, 301 A, deposed to going to 21, Crown-street,
where prisoner was lodging, and finding the petticoat be-
longing to the woman Mann, two bonnets belonging to Mrs
SilTester, and also a duplicate relating to a black silk skirt
and cloak belonging to a lodger.

The prisoner. who put no question to the witnesses and
made no answer to the charge, was remanded.

THAMES.

A GOOD DRINK OF WlNE.—Alfred Hampton, a deck
labourer, aged 35, was brought before Mr Paget, charged
with stealing wino in the London Dock. _ _ _

Henry Davis, in the employ of the London Dock Com •
pany, stated that yesterday afternoon he was passing a gang
of labourers on the wine quay. and heard one or them say

"r se up." The man who made this exclamation was
looking over a long wooden chute on which goods are sent
down to ships. He went round the chute, which was at
the head of some casks of wine, and found the prisoner
between two casks of wino and leaning over one of them.
He remained until the prisoner rose from the cask and
saw wine flow out of his mouth, and wine came out of a
wooden tube which he had used in sucking wine out of the
cask. He then conveyed the prisoner to the station house.
In answer to Mr Paget, the witness said he told the pri-
soner to leave the cask directly he saw him, but ho paid
no attention to him, and did not leave the cask until he
had a good drink of wine.
The Prisoner—Why. I was as sober then as I am now.
Edward Ellis, a dock constable, said he examined a cask
of sherry from which the prisoner had been drinking, and
found a hole had been bored in it with a gimlet. The pri-
saner was sober when he was brought to the dock watch-
house, but the wine soon operated upon him, and he became
intoxicated. The prisoner's breath smelt of wine, and the
tube also.

Mr Paget—Sherry wine ?
Witness—Sherry wine, sir.
Mr Paget—ls there much of this going on in the dock ?
Ellis—l am afraid there is, sir. The labourers secrete
tubes about them, and get to the casks of wine. Every
possible vigilance is used, but one can't always detect them
" riding the pony." as this system of robbery is called.
The Prisoner—l never " rode the pony" before.
Mr Paget—l must make an example of you. I sentence
you to one month's imprisonment and hard labour in the
House of CorrectiOn.