The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,
The business of the court did not commence till 11 o'clock
this morning, an hour after the proper time, much to the
annoyance of persons having business at the court.
A,DEAP AND DLMB PROSECUTOR--CURIOUS CASE.—
Margaret Littiejohns, a young woman, was charged before
Mr. Arnold with stealing a purse containing £1 13s. 61.
from the person of a deaf and dumb young man named
George Moore, of 39, Pancras•square, St. Pancras.
The evidence, which was interpreted by signs by the
Rev. Samuel Smith, of the Polytechnic Institution, went
to show that on Saturday night last the prosecutor went
into a tavern in Park-lane, and after being there a short
time the prisoner came in and asked the prosecutor to treat
her. He did so, and she began pulling him about, and
shortly after he lost his purse. He gave information to the
police,and the prisoner was subsequently taken into custody.
Prisoner said she was accused wrongfully this time.
Mr. Robert William Hammond, of the Queen and Prince
Albert, Park-lane, Knightsbridge, said that on Saturday
night last there were five deaf and dumb men in the bar.
Prisoner made signs to the prosecutor for him to treat her
and he did so. The prosecutor and the prisoner had a
struggle together, and afterwards the prisoner ran out of
the door.
In answer to a question the witness said that in getting
up the prosecutor made signs that he had lost his purse,
and wrote on a piece of paper that the prisoner had stolen it•
The prisoner asked the witness whether the deaf and
dumb men had not pulled him about, and the witness
said that two of them did.
The Rev. Mr. Smith said he was afraid the prosecutor
had been drinking a good deal.
Mr. Buck, 18 Ranelagh-mews, Pimlico, carpenter, said
he was at the tavern on Saturday, and took the prisoner
away with him, she being iatoxicated at the time. He
found her in the singing-room with three riflemen, and on
coming down stairs heard something about the loss of some

money.
Mr. Arnold said, after hearing evidence, as he believed
no jury would convict, he should discharge the prisoner,

WESTMINSTER.

ENDEAVOURING TO DEFRAUD TAVERN KEEPERS,--
John Leonard, a street labourer, was placed at the bar
charged with attempting to defraud tavern keepers by pass-
ing bad money to them.
Mr. Robert Edwards, the proprietor of the Swan,
Brompton-road, said that the prisoner came into his house
last evening, and. calling for liquor, ofFgrod o Lult oruwa
in payment. He immediately detected it, and told prisoner
it was bad, when he feigned astonishment, and said it had
been given him for work he had done last week. Com-
plainant told him that he was well aware it was bad, for
that he had previously attempted to pass it off at another
house in the Reighbourhood, and he should therefore give
him into custody, which he accordingly did.
Mr. Selfe—How did you know he had offered bad money
elsewhere ?
Mr. Edwards—A. customer of mine being present else-
where, and seeing him offer the money, thought he might
next attempt the same thing with me, as my house was
near, and came and put me on my guard ; so that I con-
sidered it my duty to put a stop to this man's proceedings
by giving him in custody.
Charles Rowland, assistant at the Anglesea Arms, in the
same neighbourhood, said that shortly befnre ttie prisoner
went to Mr. Edwards's he paid him a visit, and calling for
liquor tendered a counterfeit half-crown in payment. When
he told prisoner it was bad he took it up, and then said he
had some small money to pay for what he ordered, and hav-
ing showed a sixpence he was permitted to go away with the
bad money.
Prisoner said he had got the money for work he had
done.

Mr. Selfe remanded him till Monday.

THAMES.
THE LOST ONE.—Margaret Gibbons was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk and disorderly.
The prisoner has been in custody 50 times and attempted
to commit suicide so often, that Mr. Woolrych, after vain
attempts to reclaim her, committed her for trial for attempt-
ing to strangle herself in a police cell. She was found
guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, which
expired on the 19th inst. She has been drunk almost daily
ever since. She made a good deal of noise last night, and
was given into custody. Tw•o police constables remained
in her cell all night to prevent her repeating an attempt on
her life.

The prisoner, referring to the wounds on her head and
scars on her person, said she been terribly knocked about,
and her head was so affected that when she drank any liquor
her mind was gone and she did not know what she was
about. If she did not bring home money by thieving, or
by some other means, she was turned out of doors.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was a lost
one, and had knocked herself about over and over again.
Mr. Paget said it was a shocking case. The best thing
he could do was to send the woman to prison again, and not
let her go at large in her present state of excitement. lie
sentenced her to seven days' imprisonment.

A CENTURY AGO. —lf, in those days, when dif-
ferent trades congregated in the several quarters, a
lady desired to purchase a silk petticoat, she forthwith '
drove to Holywell-street, and made her choice at the Indian •
Queen or the Golden Ball ; if a tailor would call attention
to the particular cut and fashion of a suit of garments, he
or the sprightliest of his 'prentices would strut in front of
the shop, arrayed in clocked stockings, well-varnished
pumps, and bobwig, redolent of powder and pomatum, the
new stand of clothes displayed to full advantage, with a
large nosegay planted in the breast of the posy waist-
coat; handsome and buxom young women presided
at the counters of Exeter !change milliners; smart
orange-girls picked their way, between the acts, through the
well-packed pit at Drury-lane, with the invitation to boy
"apples, oranges, or ginger-beer," or "a bill of the play of
the right sort ;" the shoeblacks at Spring Gardens were an
institution, and doge were beasts of burden. Then Sam
Johnson rose betimes for a frisk with Topham Beau,
clerk, and took a turn with the vegetable porters of old
Covent Garden Market, or made the midnight echoes
of Fleet-street ring again as he rolled and laughed like
a rhinoceros. Then it was that honest Will Ho-
garth and his companions made the memorable trip
to Rochester. Then the redoubtable champion of
fisticuffs issued his challenges from Hockley in-the-Hole.
The Eideophusicon of Loutherbourg, Mrs. Salmon's wax
work, the pig-faced lady, Miss Ban, and the learned
pig were in full vogue ; Cockneys thronged to the Tower on
the Ist of April, to see the lions washed, and spent Cob-
bler's Monday at Bagnigge Wells tea-gardens, or partook
of ale and cheesecakes at Pancridge-in-the-Fields ; "Turn
out the young brindled bull 1" was still the cry of
Monday's market at Smithfield ; the pillory, flogging at
the cart-tail, and the almost weekly day of execution, at
Tyburn-tree, still afforded their relaxation even the
wretched criminal went gallantly, like a man of
mould, up Holborn Hill, to execution, nosegay in bosom)
quaffed St. Giles's bowl, with a promise to pay when he
should return, kissed his hand to the assembled fair ones,
made hie last dying speech end confession with an air,
bowed to the sheriff, kicked off his shoes, and died hand-
somely, like a gentleman highwaymen. Ranelagh, the
ordinary at Belsin House, and Marylebone Gardens were
then the mode; and costume, if inel-gant, was yet varied
and gay with bright colours. In short, society was more
robust and picturesque, and offered ample scope to the
painter of ordinary life,—Ones a wok