The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

EVENING, MARCH l, 1852.

the Hotel de l'Europe, Leicester-street, Leicester-square'
made the most desperate efforts at self-destruction. in
which they would no doubt have succeeded but fcr the
great vigilance of the police.
Mr. C. Otway, superintendent of the C
through whose astuteness the culprits were traced and
captured, as well as the whole of the property recovered,
entered the Hotel de l'Europe, accompanied by a police
inspector, where they found the accused, when, upon
making known the nature of their errand, the male pri-
soner suddenly took a razor from his pocket and lowered
his head, evidently with the intention of cutting his
throat, but was prevented by the officer suddenly spring-
ing upon him. He, however, succeeded in mutilating
his arm very severely with the razor, which he had no
sooner dropped than the woman seized it, and in an in-
stant inflicted a most dreadful wound upon herself across
the tendons of the left arm. So desperate was the re-
sistance of the parties and the desire to carry on the
work of self-mutilation that the officers were obliged to
throw them on the ground is a pool of blood and there
hold them until assistance could be procured, which was
not until after some little delay, owing to the fright oc-
oasieaed by the circumstances. Medical aid was imme-
diately sent for. The officers, having bound up the
prisoners' arms as well as they were able with hand-
kerchiefs in order to stop the bwmorrhage, the accused
were conveyed to the Charing-cross Hospital, where both
remained until yesterday, when the male prisoner was
considered sufficiently recovered to be brought to this
court—'he woman still continuing in the hospital.

Mr. Superintendent Otway stated the leading fea-
tures of the case with much minuteness, and called wit-
nesses in support of it. Tho facts are briefly these:—
On the 11th instant Caroline Kramer, a German, en-
tered the service of Dr. D'Alquen with a character pur-
porting to bear the seal of the town-council of her na-
tive place, and on the following day asked permission to
go out for an hour, which was granted; when having
left the street door open at her departure, she pre-
tended on her return that a valuable brooch, given her
by the prisoner Strosen, and her master's great coat
from the hall, had been stolen by some stranger, who
must have entered the house during her absence. On
the same day Mrs. D'Alquen missed a sovereign. On
the 16th the prisoner Strosen was seen at the house in
conversation with Kramer, and shortly afterwards the
latter absconded from the house, immediately upon which
Mrs. D'Alquen missed her jewel case with its valuable
contents of diamond rings, brooches, chains, &c., and
also a 101. note, besides other articles. Information was
given to the police, and Mr. Otway having traced her to
a pawnbroker's, where she had pledged the property,
followed her to the Hotel de l'Europe, where she had
taken an apartment with Strosen, and captured them
both at the moment they were about to start, with all
their luggage packed up for Dover. The seal from which
the impression was made upon Kramer's written charac-
ter was found upon Strosen, and the jewel-case of Mrs.
D'Alquen's, with some articles belonging to her, in his
portmanteau. _ _

The prisoner denied the charge, and endeavoured to
account for having inflicted the injuries upon himself by
stating that he thought he was arrested to be taken to
his own country for something.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that he could not allow the
case to pass without the expression of his great satisfac-
tion at the activity and presence of mind displayed by
Mr. Otway and his inspector under such exciting cir-
cumstances.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
On Friday a court was held for the dispatch o.
business.

Upon the motion of Mr. H. Tlylor, it was referred to
the officers and clerks' committee to inquire when any
new appointment to office had been made, and whether
any addition to the salaries of officers had been voted by
any committee, without the concurrence of the court.
Mr. Mortimer, the Chairman of the Navigation and Port
of London Committee, brought up a report, with the
drafts of petitions to Parliament, against the Bills of the
Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall Water-
works Companies, as calculated to abstract largely from
the waters of the river Thames, and injuriously affect
the tolls.

The report and the petitions were unanimously
adopted.