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

THAMES,

NOVEL CHARGE OP 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.
Polioe-constable 104 E. 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
over met with. The 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 the station
house instead of the workhouse.
Mr Paget—You are a pauper.
The prisoner—Yes, sir. 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 mere than
a mile apart. You are discharged.
DEAD DRUNX.—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 th prisoner dead
drunk on the brandy quay yesterday afteernoon, 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 never drunk there before.
Mr Paget—lt is a very dangerous thing indeed to be
drunk in the dock. You were in danger of rolling into the
basin and being drowned. You are discharged.
DRUNK AND RIOTOUS.--Ann Hillstrom, an elderly mar-
ried woman, the wife of a steady, hard working bricklayer,
was charged with being drunk and riotous in R3.tcliff-high-
way yesterday afternoon,
Dannevill, 140 LI, 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 fined 5s for being drunk.

WESTMINSTER.
SINGULAR CASE OF F ELONY.—Jane Hill, an intelligen
looking child, only 10 years of age, was
placed in the felon's
dock charged with stewing 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
that the sovereign was gone. The prisoner had promised
to come on the Sunday but failed to do so, and as she was
suspected she was sent for yesterday, but the sovereign was
not found.
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,
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 so on 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 heard that
his daughter was suspected of stealing a sovereign he 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
ewntalistoleotpteindgtoopffick it up, and saw what she
through the Broad Sanctuary, and prisoner thinking one
fireworks as they passed
took to be a bright farthing, and brought it to her mother.
notfwassther.
A little boy, the brother, said he was present and saw his
sister pick up the coin as described.
Mr Arnold—I think the child is perfectly innocent, and
qAuitbeosyp
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
circunstantial evidence would have fixed a strong impute-
on against the poor child.
She was immediately discharged.

rer at the Lord Mayor's Banquet.