The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-09 00:00:00

TVORSHIP-STREET.

WILFUL DAMAGE.—William Muller, a respectable-
looking man, was placed at the bar, charged with wilfully
destroying the blinds of a house inhabited by Mr. Hunt, a
skin-dresser in Spitalfields. It appeared from the evidence
for the prosecution, that while Mr. Hunt, who is of the
Jewish persuasion, was at seven o'clock on Friday evening
engaged in prayer, preparatory to the commencement of
the Jewish Sabbath, the prisoner's wife knocked at his
door, and demanded the sum of 1/. 4s. 6d., which was due
to the prisoner from the prosecutor. The prosecutor's
daughter informed her that Mr. Hunt was at prayers, as
it was Sabbath, and said that he had desired her to tell
Mrs. Muller to call on Monday, and he would settle with
her. Mrs. Muller then commenced a volley of abuse against
Hunt, and went to fetch her husband, the prisoner, with
whom she returned, and created a disturbance. Hunt
desired a young man named Nathan Levi to shut the shut-
ters ; on which Muller stood against the shutters, and pre-
vented their being shut ; at the same time lifting up the
•window, thrusting his fist through the blind, and breaking
it, ; while the wife was making use of abusive language,
and creating a great disturbance. A policeman coming
by at the time took Muller into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied breaking the blinds,
but admitted preventing the shutting the shutters. He
said the money had been owing him for eleven months.
Mrs. Muller, a little woman of a most vinegar aspect,
whose tongue travelled at a railroad pace, was here ex-
amined, but not on oath. She denied that she bad made
use of abusive language, but stated that Mr. Hunt had
abused her and spit in hor face, and that his daughter also
had abused her.

Mr. BROUGHTON unfortunately asked Hunt's daughter
if she had abused Mrs. Muller. This was the signal for a
scene of confusion of tongues, which turned the office for
a time into a perfect Babel, a strange mixture of the Jewish
and Christian languages, which might very properly be
denominated a " Babylonist dialect." At length, in order
to preserve any thing like silence, Mr. Broughton was
obliged to station a policeman between the contending
ladies, and then proceeded with the case.
The prisoner called one witness, who contradicted the
testimony of the prosecutor and his witness, and said,
Hunt himself had thrust his elbow through the blind.
Mr. BROUGHTON said there was a palpable contradiction
between the evidence for the prosecution and that for the
defence ; but as it was admitted, by the prisoner himself,
that he had prevented the shutting the shutters, which was
in itself an offence, and as the balance of evidence seemed
to go to prove that he had destroyed the blind, ho sen-
tenced him to pay Bs. for the damage he had done.
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The prosecti.to-r and his witnesses then left the court,
and Mrs. Muller rushed after them. _

Mr. Batouourolv ordered her, to be detained for ten
minutes, or there would be a renewal of the disturbance
outside the office; she had better sit down until she was

cooler.
Mrs. Muller, in a very agitated manner, and with a flushed
countenance—l am quite cool, Sir; I—l—l am—not at
all in a passion, Sir
The policeman handed her to a seat, where she remained
some time, fidgetting about and biting her lips, but getting
gradually cooler. She was permitted to quit the office
after the expiration of a quarter of an hour.
Bridget Rubinson, alias 'Etty Flanighan, and Mary
Davison, two notorious shoplifters, were charged with
stealing a till, containing a quantity of silver, from the
Wool Pack public house, Briek.lane, St. Luke's. The
two women went into the house and called for a 'pint of
beer, where they were followed by two desperate looking
fellows, whom the publican ordered out of his house.
Just at this moment the prisoner Robinson pretended to be
in convulsions, and feigned so well that the publican's
family left the bar to assist her, when the fellows rushed
off with the till; the others having made their escape, the
fainting lady was given into custody, and Miss Davies hav-
ing, with generous devotion, sought news of her friend's
fate at the office door, was apprehended and placed beside
her. The police were ordered to make inquiry after the
men, and the prisoners were remanded for a week, that
they might be apprehended.