The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-30 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Either from the vigilance of the new police out of the
city, or from the lenity of the Magistrates in the city, the
number of charges of picking pockets has increased con-
siderably in the last two months.
Win. Connelly, a little urchin scarcely nine years old,
was charged yesterday with stealing a handkerchief from
the pocket of Mr. Busfield, of Union-street, in the Bo-
rough, as he was entering St. Ann's Church, Blackfriars,
on Sunday evening.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY condemned the prisoner to three
months' had labour in Bridewell.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday two wheelwrights, named Clarke, father and
son, were charged before Sir R. BIRNIE with having com-
mitted a violent assault upon Henry Tyrrell, one of the
toll-collectors on the Middlesex side of Waterloo-bridge,
and also with having refused to pay the toll chargeable
upon foot passengers.
Mr. Powell, Secretary to the Waterloo-bridge Company,
said, that upon inquiry he had found that the defendants
were, generally speaking, sober, quiet men, and lie there-
fore felt disposed not to press the case too harshly against
them.

Sir R. Bin Nut would mitigate the penalty to 20s. ;
but, in addition to this, the defendants should find bail for
the assault.

The defendants were then removed in custody.

HATTON.GARDEN.

Aggravated case of Rape—concluded from our Paper of
yesterday.)

Thomas Drew, of Ro. 2, Skinner-street, Snow-hill,
druggist, deposed, that on Thursday evening last he and
two friends were sitting in the parlour of Cop-nhagen-
house. The prosecutrix and the prisoners were drinking
there at the time. The conversation of the prisoners was
exceedingly lewd and obscene, but the prosecutrix did not
join in it, and seemed to take no notice. They left the
house together about half-past seven o'clock, and one of the
prisoners as they were going out called the prosecutrix his
wife. In about five minutes after they were gone, witness
and his friends heard the screams of a female in distress
proceeding from the fields in front of the house. They
threw up the window, and after the lapse of about five
minutes more they distinctly heard two more screams
much mere violent, and accompanied with cries of " mur-
der !" The screams were repeated with redoubled violence,
upon which the witness and his friends, guided by the
waiter, went out, and proceeded in the direction whence
' the screams seemed to issue, which were by this time be-
come much fainter. When they had got about a quarter
of a mile across the fields from the house, they came up
with the prisoners and the prosecutrix. Warren was then
in the act of violating her, and the other two were stand-

ing at the distance of about twenty yards on a hedge. Wit-
ness and his friends rescued the prosecutrix, who, ap-
parently from exhaustion, was scarcely able to stand. She
could hardly speak, but sobbed violently. Her person was
in a most disordered state, and her clothes hung about her
in rags. She begged of them as well as she could articu-

late to save and protect her, and declared she had been
used ill by all the three prisoners. Smith.and Myles came
up, and blamed her for making so great a hubbub about
nothing, and they wanted her to go away with them.
Her manner appeared to be that of a person whose intel-
lects were disordered, and she hardly knew what she said
or did. Witness and his friends saw her home to her pa-
rents' house. Being fearful of an attack from the pri-
soners, they suffered them to go away.
Mr. Metcalfe, of No. 12, Gray's-inn-square, solicitor,
and Mr. Groom, the friends of the last witness, above
alluded to, corroborated his evidence and identified the
prisoners.

Mrs. Owen, mother of the prosecutrix, deposed that on
the night in question her daughter communicated to her
the nature of the violence offered by the prisoners, and
complained that she was almost murdered. Witness ex-
amined her person and her clothes, and from the marks
upon them, she was convinced that the offence had been
perpetrated.
George Dismore, police-constable, No. 93, letter G.
division, deposed that he apprehended the prisoner Warren
on Saturday night. The prisoner confessed the charge,
and said it was the effects of drinking that brought him
into the trouble.

Abraham Stanner, policeman, No. 226, G. division,
apprehended Smith on Saturday night. Smith said to
him, "If the woman speaks the truth, she'll hang me."
The prisoners declined to say any thing in their defence,
and one of them seeming to treat the matter lightly, Mr.
LAING observed that he considered it his duty to tell them
that they stood in an awkward situation, and that it be-
hoved them to make the best use they could of their time.
They were then removed from the bar. They stand com-
mitted for trial ; but as Mr. Dodd, the surgeon, was not
present at the examination to give his evidence, they were
ordered to be brought up again this day, to afford that
gentleman an opportunity of stating the result of his exa-
mination of the prosecutrix.