The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE IN

This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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ROBBERY BY A WAITER AT THE ARMY AND NAVY
CLUE.—George Day, waiter at the Army and Navy Club,
St. James's, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing
some provisions from the club louse, the articles being the
property of Captain George Porter, R.N., and others, the
trustees of the club.

Mr. James Weston, the steward of the club, said that
observing the prisoner leave the clubhouse, and suspecting
that he had something belonging to the club in his posses-
sion, he sent a person to fetch him back, and the articles,
consisting of loaves and other things, were found upon
him.

Mr. Knox asked Mr. Weston whether he had reason to
suppose pilfering had been going on ?
Mr. Weston said he had.
Sergeant Joy, 36, said, on taking the prisoner into cus-
tody he said he had only done what others had done.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months with
hard labour.

SCANDALOUS TREATMENT OF A PONY.—Satallel Mit-
chell, of 57, Carlisle-street, Lambeth, general dealer, was
charged with the following cruelty to a pony, the proceed-
ings being at the instance of Mr. Wm. Love, chief officer
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.

From the evidence of Mr. Guest, one of the officers of the
Royal Society, it appeared that while near Her Majesty's
Theatre that morning he saw the prisoner leading the pony
attached to a cart, in which there were about 12 or 14 cwt.
of slates. Observing the pony walk as if it were in great
pain, he stopped and examined it, and found two large
wounds under the saddle, which was pressing into it, and
nothing having been done to ease the saddle. The pony
was altogether in a wretched state, and only fit to be
slaughtered. There was also a nervous quivering of the
hind quarters of the pony, and it seemed in great pain.
The pony was brought to the front of the court, and it
was certainly in a deplorable condition.
Mr. Knox—the defendant having consented to have the
pony destroyed—ordered it to be taken by the society's
officer for that purpose, and allowed the prisoner to go at
large till a future day.
COMMITTAL OF NOTORIOUS TRIEVES,—Norah Holland
and Catherine Sullivan, two well-known thieves, were
charged with stealing a gold_ watch, of the value of £l2,
from the person of Mr. Joseph Rowell, jun., of Aberdeen,
but staying at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square.
The prosecutoa was in Leicester-square at one in the
morning, when the prisoners spoke to him, and on leaving
him he missed his watch.

The prisoners—Holland having been several times in
custody, but generally managed to escape, owing to the
absence of the gentlemen she has robbed—were com-
mitted for trial.

THAMES.
ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Margaret Lacey, an unfortunate
woman, aged 26, was brought before Mr. Partridge, on the
double charge of robbing a sailor boy, named Evanol6n, of
the barque Orient, of a half-crown, and attempting to com-
mit suicide.
Inspector Denby, of the H division, said the prisoner
was a notorious thief, and had given much trouble to the
police. She was given into custody by a lad for robbing
him of 2s. 6d., but the prosecutor was not forthcoming. He
visited the prisoner in her cell a few minutes after she was
locked up, and found that she had stuffed a handkerchief
down her throat, her eyes were protruding, she was black
in the face, and was nearly suffocated. He dragged the
handkerchief out of her mouth, and succeeded in reviving
her. She threatened to make another attempt on her life,
and was very outrageous and violent. He was obliged to
put the handcuffs on her.

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attempt there
and he hoped that after attending to the exhortations of the
worthy chaplain of the prison she would be convinced of
the folly and wickedness of the rash act she had committed.
Ellen Tenby, a woman of the town, aged 23, who had
served her week's probation under the excellent and worthy
minister, the Rev. Mr. Jophson, in Clerkenwell Prison,
was brought up on remand. The prisoner belonged to that
dreadful place, Palmer's•folly, Ratcliff-highway, where
the woman Lacey has been also living, The prisoner leaped
from the swivel bridge of the London dock in Old Gravel-
lane, Ratcliff-highway, into the water, a few nights since,
and narrowly escaped drowning. A police constablejumped
into a boat, procured the drags, and saved her.
Mr. Partridge said he had received a letter from the
chaplain of the House of Detention, stating that he had
made a deep impression on the mind of the prisoner, who
repented her suicidal attempt, and promised not to repeat
it. The chaplain believed the prisoner was sincere; under
those circumstances he would discharge the prisoner.
A great number of unfortunate women have thrown
themselves from the swivel bridges in Old Gravel-lane and
New Gravel-lane, and many of them have been drowned.