The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

SINGULAR CASE *UNDER THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES
ACT.—A respectable hard-working looking woman, about
30 years of age, applied to the magistrate for a protection
order under tha Matzimonial Causes Act.

Applicant said that her husband had left her two years
ago, and had done nothing since then towards her support,
which now induced her to apply to a magistrate.
Mr. Selfe—What induces you to come here now P

Applicant—Because I am afraid my husband will come
home and take all my little things.
Mr. Selfe—Do you know where your husband is ?
Applicant—Yes, he went to Northampton, where, I be-
lieve, he still remains.
Mr. Selfe—Under what circumstances did he leave you
to go there ?

Applicant—He left me on. a visit to his friends there; he
was merely to stay a fortnight or three weeks, •
Mr. Salle—And never returned ?

Applicant—Never returned.

Mr. Selfe—l am afraid that I cannot help you. It can-
not be called desertion if your husband did not mean it to
be so, but always had an intention to return.
Applicant—He did not intend to return. He is living a
very bad life there. He is cohabiting with another woman.
Mr. Selfe—That alters the case.

Applicant—l am afraid that the very moment he gets
into trouble he will come home to me again and take all I
possess. It would be two years on the 10th of next month
since he deserted me.
Mr. Selie—And you have since supported yourself by
by our own industry.
Applicant—Yes.
Mr. Selfe --You may have the order.
Applicant having been sworn, want into the clerk's office
to give the necessary instructions for the order ;',but shortly
afterwards again came into court, a diMculty having pre-
sented itself, which the clerk had communicated to the
magistrate.
Mr. Sclfc—l understand that the property by which
you wirsh the order to protect has not been obtained by you
since your husband's departure, but is the same with which
he left you.
Appiicant—Yes, your worship.

Mr. Selfe—Then, I have no power to assist you. The
property which an order is to protect must have been ac-
gulled by a wife after the departure of her husband.
Applicant—l bought all these things out of my own hard
earnings before I married my husband.
Mr. Selfe—Then, they became his when you married
him. You endowed him with all your worldly goods,
Applicant—lt is a very hard case.

Mr. Selfe—lt may be. but I cannot help you.
Applicant then left, much disappointed.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAB AND RAILWAY VAN THIEVES.—AIfred Johnson,
11, St. John's-terrace, Hackney-road, and George Timothy,
of 15, Vincent-street, Shoreditch, were charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being concerned with a man named George
Jones, convicted in June last, in stealing a box from the
roof of a cab, while in Park-lane, on the 16th of May last.
The prisoners are both well known to the police as
" dragsmen" (stealers of luggage, &c.), from cabs. John-
son has been twice convicted, each time receiving a sen-
tence of 12 months' imprisonment, and Timothy has once
been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment;
their companion Jones was sentenced to three years' penal
servitude. A number of notorious thieves, &c., were in
waiting outside the court to learn the fate of their com-
panions (tbe prisoners).
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, deposed that at S o'clock on Satur-
day, the 16th of May last, he saw the prisoners with a man
named George Jones, who had since been convicted, near
the Circus, in Oxford-street. He followed them—they
being in a cart with a fast-going horse, and Jones driving—
into Grosvenor-square, where a four-wheel cab with a box
on the roof passed them. They pulled up close to the railings.
I stopped for a moment and then followed the cab into Park-
lane, where the cab pulled up in consequence of a stoppage,
and Jones drove the cart close behind the cab, and Johnson
then walked along the shaft of the cart towards the cab and
lifted up the box about five inches fron the roof, when two
soldiers happening to pass, and making a remark about
Johnson being "after the box," ho walked back along the
shaft and returned to the cart, and Jones drove off as fast
as he could towards Oxford-street. He (the sergeant) fol-
lowed them as far as the Edgware-road, when, having got
the assistance of two constables, ho continued the pursuit
in a Hansom cab to Oxford-square, and then jumped out
and laid hold of the horse's head. Jones then began whip-
ping the horse, and afterwards all three jumped out of the
cart and made off, but he secured Jones and the horse and
cart, the prisoners managing to keep out of the way till
yesterday, when I say them at the Spital•square Station,
and identified them as the persons who escaped from the
cart.
Doughty, 87 11, said he apprehended Johnson on the
23d of May in Bethnal-green. Johnson called for assist-
ance, and some of his companions violently assaulted him
(Doughty), Johnson's brother taking his staff away from
him, and throwing it away. His neck was twisted round,
and he was very much hurt. Johnson then escaped, hut
yesterday morning he took him again.
Kenwood; 194 11, having proved apprehending Timothy
yesterday morning,
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for trial.
Sergeant. Cole said there were convictions against each
prisoner which would be proved.