The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-05 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, Mary Hailing, a dwarf, about three feet
high, with a pretty face, was placed at the bar, before Mr.
Laing, charged by James Elford, an athletic fellow, residing
on Mount-pleasant, Clerkenvrell, with robbing him of
7s. 6d. The prosecutor, it appeared, on Sunday night
last was attracted by the charms of the prisoner, whom he
treated to various glasses of Hodges' best, and she took au
opportunity of putting her hand into his pocket, and ab-
stracting the money.
The prisoner, whose head just reached the bar, denied
the robbery, saying that the prosecutor gave her the money.
She was fully committed for trial.
Francis Whitford was charged by Henry Macey, um-
brella maker, of Tottenham-court-road, with stealing a
parasol.
The prisoner sent a boy into the shop on a trifling mes-
sage, to arrest the attention of the prosecutor, when he
was seen to take the property, which was found in his pos-
session.—He was fully committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.
AUDACIOUS ROBBERY AND COMMITTAL OF A Po.
Licemate.—Yesterday James Turner, a police constable
of the D division, No. 68i was brought up in custody, and
placed at the bar before Mr. RavvuNsoti and Lord MONT-
FORD, charged with the following audacious robbery :
Superintendent Lincoln attended by order of the Metro-
politan Police Commissioners to hear the case.
Sergeant Pitt, 8 D, deposed that on the same morning,
between two and three o'clock, as he was going round his
beat, he saw the prisoner, who was also on duty, in the
act of climbing over the wall in front of the premises of a
gentleman, named Johnson, No. 1, Alpha-road, Regent's
Park. The prisoner bad in his hand a quantity of gera-
niums, and, on witness asking him what he had been doing,
he replied, " This is the last night I shall be placed about
here, and as I have long wanted some geraniums I have
cut these." He begged that what had happened might be
looked over, but witness at once conveyed him to the sta-
tion-house.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Have the geraniums been pulled up
by the roots, or are they slips cut from different plants ?
Witness (producing them)—They are all cut from one
tree, which is supposed to be the largest and finest any-
where to be found, and is considered very valuable.
Charles Clark, 117 D, stated that soon after the pri-
soner was given in charge he requested to be allowed to go
into the water-closet, which he was permitted to do. While
there witness fancied that he heard a noise, resembling the
rattling of keys, and on the prisoner making his egress
witness examined the closet, in which he discovered five
keys, some of them were skeletons, together with a box of
lucifers and a knife ; the latter article was open, and was
encrusted with mould.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Have you searched his lodgings ?
Witness—l have, your Worship. He lives at No. 19,
Upper Gloucester-place, Portman-square, and on my look-
ing over the place this morning, I found these keys (pro-
ducing a bunch, upwards of 20 in number).
Mr. RAWLINSON (after examining them)—Why, here
are keys of all sorts and sizes, and such as would open
almost any door in the parish. Has there been any rob-
bery lately on the prisoner's beat ? Witness—Not that I
am aware of, Sir.
Mr. RAW LINSON (to the superintendent)—How long
has the prisoner been in the force? Superintendent—

Upwards of three years.
Mr. RAWLINSON (to the prisoner)—This is a very se-
rious charge against you. What Lave you to say ? Pri-
soner—This morning, at two o'clock, as I was going down
the Alpha Road, I thought I heard footsteps in the gar-
den of the house No. 1. I therefore jumped over the wall,
thinking to meet with some one who had no business there,
and in the garden I found these geraniums lying near the
path. I picked them up, and was about to jump from the
wall with them when the sergeant saw me, and addressed
me in the way he has stated.
Mr. RAWLINSON—BUt you told the sergeant you had
cut them.
Prisoner—l was very fearful that I should get into
trouble, and knew not exactly what I said. The knife and
keys found in the closet, are not mine, and I know nothing
of them.
Mr. RAWLINSON—What do you say to this bunch
(holding up the keys found at the prisoner's lodgings) ?
Prisoner—They are all mine, and I have had them a long
while.
Mr. RiovraNsort (after consulting• with Lord .Montford)
—We consider this to be a case which calls for the severest
punishment that can be inflicted by us, and you (addressing
the prisoner) are committed to hard labour in the House of
Correction for six months. •
He was then locked up.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Anne Murray
.was placed at the bar before
Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with stealing a cat, the property
of a man named Ellis.
Police constable Maling, G 156, stated be was informed
that the complainant had lost a tortoiseshell cat. Knowing
that the prisoner where she previously lived was in the
habit of stealing cats for the purpose of skinning them, he
called upon her at her present habitation in Green Har-
bour-court, and found a cat answering to the description
of the one lost.

The prisoner denied that her present avocation was that
described by the witness.