The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-01 00:00:00

THAMES,

HEARTLESS ROBBERY.—Ann Moore, a dirty and dissi-
pated woman, about 45 years of age, and described as
having no home, no occupation, but married, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, on remand, charged with stealing
two flannel petticoats and a worsted comforter from the
person of a little girl named Abigail Curling, about 10 years
of age.

The child is the daughter of poor and industrious parents
dwelling at 34, Crown-court, Upper East Smithfield. On
Thursday evening the girl was playing with some other
children in a street near the St. Katherine's Dock, when
the prisoner decoyed her away from her companions, and
said, " Come home with me my dear, and I will give you
roast beef and plum pudding, and lots of nice things."
The prisoner then took the girl to the door of an empty
house in Burr-street, at the back of the St. Katherine Dock,
and told the girl she could not take her home to eat the
roast beef and plumb pudding until she took her things off.
The prisoner then deliberately stripped the girl of her flannel
petticoats and a worsted comforter she was wearing round
her neck, which the prisoner concealed under her "jacket"
with lt.rge sleeves. She then took a green perfume bottle
from her pocket, and said " put your tongue to this and taste
it, my dear." A boy named Danity, who had followea pri-
soner and her victim said, " You shall not drink it, she
wants to poison you," and at the same dins snatched the
bottle from the prisoner and ran away with it. A girl
named Emma Daaity, the sister of the boy, took the petti-
coats and the worsted comforter from the prisoner, and
called to a Thames police ceastable named Cassidy, No
44, who was passing
the end of Burr-street, and gave the
prisoner into custody.

The two petticoats and worsted comforter stolen from the
girl were produced, and identified by her mother.
Cassidy said the bottle taken from the prisoner contained
strong turpentine and red paint.

Emma Danity confirmed the girl Curling, her playmate,
in every particular, and said, when I took the things from
the prisoner sho knelt down and cursed us all, and said we
should all be withered.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner was a most heartless
wretch to rob a poor man's child of its ch,thes, and there
was something very strange about her conduct in asking
the girl to taste the poisonous stuff in the bottle. He sen-
tenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for three months in
the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour,

MILITARY STORES FOR CANADA.—A Parliamen-
tary return shows that from June, 1862. down to
March, 1863, arms, ammunition, and other military stores,
of the value of £363,285 have been sent from Woolwich and
the Tower to Canada, besides clothing for the English
troops. The articles sent included 40,000 rifled muskets,
29,941 cartridges, and ammunition (tor small arms),
6,890,680.

The statement circulated in the daily press, and
copied from a Brussels journal, as to the alleged great
honours bestowed on Mr. Henry Thompson for his recent
successful treatment of King Leopold is unauthorised, and
is not knovvn here to have any foundation on fact.—Lancet,