The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

THAMES,

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—'Bertha Landon, a servant
girl, was charged with stealing five shirts, a pair of men's
trousers, two silk handkerchiefs, and other property belong-
ing to her master, Mr. Alexander Abrahams, of No. 93,
Ratcliff Highway.
The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Abrahams
for a week, and in the course of that time he had missed
various articles from his shop. Having reason to suspect
the prisoner he called in a police sergeant named Dillon,
No. 19 K, who taxed the prisoner with having robbed her
master, and she immediately admitted that she had done
so, and delivered to him pawnbrokers' tickets relating to
the stolen property.
The property was produced and identified, and the pri-
sonee was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard
labour.
SOUR GRAPES.—Thomas 111‘Gree, an Irish labourer, was
brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a blue
guernsey shirt, the property of Peter 'Wilson, the cook of
the ship Hydra.
The prosecutor had washed his guernsey and put it away
wet in a basket. The prisoner came on board, coolly took
the shirt out of the basket, and walked away with it. He
was seen by a dock officer named Adams with the wet shirt
round his body. On the prisoner being asked why he wore
the shirt in chat manner, he said he came from Liverpool,
that he was covered with vermin, and washed his shirt,
and put it round his bady, outside his clothes to dry it, (A
augh.
The prisoner, in defence, said the guernsey shirt was not
worth a farthing, and was in the state he represented to the
officer.

Mr. Partridge begged of Martin, the usher of the court,
not to be holding up the shirt and pulling it about. He
did not want anything to reach the bench of a parasitical
character. (A. laugh.)
Martin—The shirt is a good one, and quite clean.
The prisoner—lt's full of 'em—you can't see them.
(Laughter.)
Wilson said the blue shirt was worth 100., and denied
that he was ever a dirty man.

Mr. Partridge—This is like the cry of sour grapes. The
prisoner is sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment and
hard labour.

WESTMIN-,TER.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY.—Mary Jane
Hodges, a very respectable looking young woman, was

placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged with stealing
a box containing upwards of £7.
Mr. John Robert Parr, coatinaker, 16, Montpelier-street,
Bromptou, said—Prisoner was formerly a servant of mine,
and 1 discharged her for dishonesty, and I now charge her
with entering my dwelling-house and stealing £7 3s. The
back of my house very much exposed, and my bedroom
has been entered without my knowing it while I was serving
in the shop, and I have been robbed.
Mr. Arnold—When did you miss the property ?
Prosecutor—lt was safe on the 28th of last month, and
' next morning we missed it.
Mr. Arnold—Why have you charged the prisoner?
Prosecutor—Knowing her formerly for pilfering, and no
other person could get over the wall and take this box.
Mr. At nold—li that your reason for charging her?
Prosecutor—Yes. She was the only person who could
get over the wall and enter the room and sort out this par-
ticular box and take it away.
Mr. Arnold—Have you another servant?
Prosecutor—Yes. One came these last two days.
Mr. Arneld—ls there any evidence against this young
woman?
Policeman—There was a young girl identified her last

night, she thought, by her voice.
Mr. Arnold—Mr. Parr, you have had servants before
and servants since the prisoner, I suppose.
Prosecutor—Yes.
Mr. Arnold—Then they could have committed the rob-
bery as well as the prisoner?
Mary Parr, wife of the prosecutor—l saw the box safe at
half-past six on the 28th. We went about 11 to bed, and
at half-past Bon the following morning it was gone.
Ernest Williams, a boy, said he saw a woman get over a
wall at the back of the prosecutor's house. He heard her
say she had come down these for the nearest way.

Mr. Arnold—Do you know who it was.
Witness—No. I never say her face, she had her back
the other way.
Mr. Arnold—ls there any further evidence.
Policeman—No. There was a woman last night who
said she fancied the prisoner's face was the same she had
seen, but could not identify her.
Mr. Arnold—There is not the slightest pretence for
charging the woman that I can see. The prosecutor has
acted very hastily in giving her in charge, and if the pri-
soner is properly advised she will bring an action against
him for the false imprisonment.
A woman from the body of the court, upon this, stood
forward and said that she had seen a person with a box.
The woman, who gave the name of Margaret Thompson
was sworn, and said she saw a woman at prosecutor's door
with a box on the night of the robbery. She was closely
veiled, but prisoner's face resembled the woman's, and so
did
her appearance. On her oath she believed her to be the
person.

Mr. Arnold--I shall remand the prisoner till Tuesday,
but I will take one bail in £lO.
It having been communicated by the police that the
woman Thompson had last night declared she believed pri-
soner was not the person,
Mr. Arnold directed the accused to be be discharged, on
entering into her own recognisances.
Discharged accordingly.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, July 3L—W'in.d this day at noon—East;
light breeze, and fine weather.

Fiamouni, July 3).—Wlnd S.W.—Arrived—Willie,
from itaugoon.

CARDIFF, July 30.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—James P,
Patton, for St, Paul de Loando ; St. Vincent, for St.
Thomas.

COWES, July 30.—Wind S.E,—Arrived—Giljicb, from
the Cape of Good Hope.

PORTSMOUTH, July 30.—Wind S.E.--Arrived—Louisa,
from London for Hong Kong,

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, July 30—Saturnius, from Launceston ; Figue •
reuse, from Lagos ; Frinette, from Konigsberg ; Charle-
magne, from Gothenburg.
Sailed, July 31— Sister, for Teneriffe; General 'Windham
and Chilie, for Otago; Magnum Bonum, for New Ply-
mouth ; Anstruther and Frank Shaw, for Quebec ; Vigi-
lant, for Frederickstadt ; Neptune, for Rio Janeiro ; Tersab,
for Port Natal; West Hartley, No. 1, and No. 2, for Syd-
ney; Dragon, steamer, for Hamburg.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Arran, from Quebec, for London (in tow);
Ellen, for Guernsey, from North, for West; lndopstan,
from Sunderland, for Singapore; Star of India, from Lon-
don, for Bombay ; Atalanta, from Hull, for Montevidoo ;
Ann, of Teignmouth, from North, for West; Annie, of
Plymouth, from London, for West.