The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-27 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday Bridget Sheen, a brazen native of the " first
gem of the sea," with a fine young " pisant" in her arms,
was brought before Mr. Hoskins, by Richard Pearson, an
officer belonging to the Mendicity Society, charged with
unlawfully practising her vocation as a beggar in Great
Cumberland-place, New-road.
Mr. HOSKINS—What have you to say ? Bridget—Say,
yer Honour ; why, I say I've been taken up unlegally. I
was not begging at all at all.
Mr. HOSKINS—Pray, tell me where you were about,
then. Bridget—lt's myself will soon do that same thing.
It's mighty aisy to explain to yer Honour. The fact is,
I was only collecting a little rint money, and, I s'pose, yer
Honour's not against me doing so.
Mr. HosKlNs—" lint money !" What do mean by
that ? Bridget—Boderation and blarney, won't Ibe after
'mancipating yer Honour's mind upon the subject. Well,
then, without any gammon, you must understand that I
owe me landlady three weeks' rint, and, kase I could not
pay the same she threatened to turn me and me innocent
baby out o' doors into the wide world, yer honour ; and
so I was collecting the rint money to satisfy me landlady,
when the officer came upon me, and dragged me before
yer honour.

Pearson—lt's not her own child, your Worship, but ow a
borrowed for the occasion.

Bridget—Oh ! you false man, to say sich a tb.
Why, the dear babby and myself are ar, much al:}
.e as
two pass in a pod, barring that one's green and t'Ae other
a little grey. _ _

Mr. iIOsKINS—You are an old offender,
the treadmill for a fortnight. .;pd wil 1 go to

Bridget—An old offender ; and so Niles° yer Honour
sends me to the mill to be ground young and hinnoce nt again.
Bridget was then removed.

BlGLlY.—Yesterday a young man named NV &jam H.
Harris, a carpenter, residing at No, 14, N9rtlll

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Jane Pardon, a well-dressed middle-aged fe-
male was brought to this office, having been dragged out
of a pond into which she had thrown herself on the prece-
ding night Sergeant Martins, V Division, stated that on
the preceding night, about half-past ten o'clock as he was
going round his heat at Clapham, his attention was directed
on hearing a heavy splash in the water of a pond near the
Lock public-house, on the common. He immediately re-
paired
to the side of the pond, and saw a female in the
water, making efforts to get into the deepest part, by plun-
ging herself forward. The sergeant on seeing that her in-
tention was self-destruction, rushed into the pond after her,
and with the assistance of police-constable Wilkins, suc-
ceeded in rescuing the woman, who exhibited great agita-
tion of mind, and seemed highly displeased that efforts
should have been used to save her from drowning. When
taken to the station-house it was found necessary to watch
her closely, with a view to prevent her from laying violent
hands upon herself in the state of mind in which she still
continued. She refused to tell who she was or where she
lived, but the sergeant had since ascertained that she was.
of a respectable family in the neighbour!lood or Stockwell,
and had also learned some particulars' es to the cause of
her unhappy condition of mind. It appeared that she had
formed an attachment for a young man nearly twenty years
junior, and that in consequence of his having recently mar-
ried a more favoured rival the circumstance had such an
effect upon her mind that she attempted to commit suicide
as above narrated. The unfortunate woman was liberated.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE AND AT-
TEMPT AT MURDER.

Yesterday information of the following horrible outrage
and attempt at murder, committed on the person of a fe-
male, named Elizabeth Barlow, was received at the various
police offices and station-houses in the metropolis :
On the evening of Friday last, as Mrs. Barlow, wife of
a working man, residing at No. 13, Denzell-street, Clare-
market, was at Stratford-le-Bow, about four miles from
town, on the Essex-road, she went, accompanied by a
friend, into a beer-shop, where they had some porter. On
coming out she parted from her friend, and, having to go to
Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, she inquired of two men, who
came out of the same house, her nearest way to Poplar.
They said they were goinr, that way, and would show her
the road. They then took her down by the Lea river, and
at Harrow-bridge, it being nearly dark, Mrs. Barlow ex-
pressed some fear for the safety of the road, when one of
the men remarked that she need not fear as she was in good
company. After walking along the bank of the river un-
til they arrived at the most lonesome part of the road,
one of the men suddenly seized her by the throat and threw
her down with great force on her back. Mrs. Barlow immedi-
ately screamed" Murder" and attempted to struggle with
her assailants, when the other ruffian placed his hand on her
mouth to prevent her calling out, and afterwards held her
down, while the first mentioned man used great violence
towards her, and finally violated her person, at the same
time taking a knife from his pocket and attempting to cut
her throat with it, threatening he would murder her if she
made any noise. The other man also said he would do for
her. One of the villains then took from her pockets five-
pence halfpence in copper, after which they both ran away,
leaving Mrs. Barlow on the ground, in a faintino. condition.
The man who had put his hand over her mouth, however,
in a few minutes turned back, and said to her, " Mind, I
have done nothing to you, do not bring me into a snare."
He then followed his companion ; and Mrs. Barlow being
afterwards found by sonic persons passing by, was conveyed
to her residence, where she remains very ill from the fright
and injuries she has received. From inquiries which have
since been instituted, it has been ascertained that the ruf-
fians were two men named Charles and Richard Fisher
(cousins), who are well known in that part of Essex.
Charles has a cast in his eye, and has from that circum-
stance been nicknamed " Cock-eyed Charley." His face is
believed to have been much scratched by Mrs. Barlow in
her resisting his throwing her down. Richard Fisher is
very much pock-marked, and noVso tall as Charles. Their
fathers arc employed in the West India Docks, where the
accused men also worked up to the evening of the outrage,
since which they have absconded.

A medal is to be struck at the Royal Mint of Paris
in commemoration of the Duke of Orleans' marriage.
On Wednesday last, the 2-ith inst., as his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, attended by several gentlemen and
two youths on horseback, were returning from Kensington
Palace, after leaving their names congratulating her Royal
Highness the Princess Victoria on the joyful oceasi.'on of com-
ing of age, when, on entering into High-street:l,y the Kin g's
Arms Ilotel, a poor woman was suddenly %snocked dor‘n by
one of the Hammersmith omnibuses whi'.
st crossing '..ne road
through the bustle, and the vehicle pP-sf'zd over one of her legs.
Her screams drew a number of Irjesr.,ns around 'oer, when the
Duke of Wellington irr,taetly rose up to her assistance, and,
on ascertaining that per kg -.As severely fractured, his Grace
took a sovereign ilt.em h;..,1 purse, which he presented to the
poor woman,
v ,ad
gav e a man five shillings to convey her to
St. George's linc..pital, attended by two policemen, so that
every att.dntsiots. might be paid her by the experienced surgeons
of that.
~ txc.:ilent Institution, for which kindness she appeared
trul,'
ic v. ateful.
Zesterday evening an Inquest was held at the Three
y•
_ings, Clerk. enwell-close, before Mr. Stirling and a respect-
able Jury, on view of the body of Elizabeth Munday, aged 15,
an interesting young girl, who was found drowned in the New
River under very mysterious circumstances. Henry Coltee,
police-constable, division G, No. 126, on Wednesday last waa
on du' .y in Gosvvell street-road, when, a cabman called his at-
tention to something floating in the New River. Witness, on
! going to the spot, ascertained it to be the body of a female.
He obtained assistance, and got it to the bank. It was in a
very decomposed state, and must have been in the water ten or
twelve days. Witness caused the removal of the body to the
church vaults. Mrs. Ann JefTeries, wife of John Jefferies,
builder, of No. 35, St. John's-lane, stated that the deceased
had been in her service five weeks when she absented herself.
Witness cannot account for her being found in the river. The
Jury said it was a very mysterious case, and in the absence of
evidence returned a verdict of " Fouud drowned,"