The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE GERMAN MERjIaNT-;.,ll THE GERMAN CYP •
RlANS.—Three women of the town, natives of Germany,
were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing
in gold, the moneys of Julius Castor, described as a
merchant, of No. 54, Rupert-street, Haymarket.
Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, defended the prisonrs,
whose names were on the police sheet, as follows :—Eleanor
Bosselman, aged 29, Christiana Greeurvell, 29, and Louisa
Stoolmaker, 20.
It appeared from the evidenc3 of Wm. Chandler, 117
H, that on Saturday night the prosecutor came to the
station-house in Leman-street, Whitechapel, and said
he had been robbed of £7 in gold in a most
infamous house, No. 1, White Horse-court, Rosemary-
lane, to which place he had been taken by a woman. From
the description given he apprehended Bosselman in the
Minories, and Castor said she was the woman who took
him to the house. He apprehended the other prisoners the
same night, at 12, Lambeth-street, and Castor identified
them as having entered the room to which ho was taken by
Bosselman, and that they took away his clothes and robbed
him of his gold.
Mr. Beard—l am instructed they robbed him of nothing.
Chandler—l have no doubt the prisoners plundered
Castor of his gold. They rub every one they can decoy
into their haunts.

Mr. Beard—The prosecutor is not here. Ibis ashamed
to come after his adventure of Saturday night.

Chandler—l have seen the prosecutor since the prisoners
have been in custody. He said that being locked up two
nights and a day was punishment enough for being robbed
of 17. The inspector wishes me to call your attention to
the infamous character of the house No. 1, White Horse-
court, Rosemary-lano. Many robberies and outrages have
been committed there.
Mr. Woolrych said that was a matter for the interference
of the parochial authorities. As there is no prosecutor,
the prisoner must be discharged.

STORMS.—The Courrier du Bas•Ehin states that
within the last few days violent storms have pre-
vailed in the valley of the Rhine, by which considerable
damage has been caused. They broke over Coblentz on
the 10th, 13ruchsal on the 14th, and Strasburg on the 16th
and 17th. In the neighbourhood of the latter place the
hail was exceedingly violent, and in several communes the
tobacco plantations suffered severely. Rain had been
greatly desired by the agriculturists, and, where it has not
been accompanied by hail, the storms have been of great
benefit to the vines, hops, and vegetables. In the pala-
tinate, the hailstones were in some places of the size of
pigeons' eggs, and vegetation was entirely destroyed. At
Bochingen two men were killed, buried beneath a cottage
which was blown down. At Bruchsal large pieces of ice
fell, and the windows and tiles of the houses were
broken near Coblentz the fields were strewed with birds
killed by the hail, and a similar fact is mentioned as hav-
ing occurred in the neighbourhood of Strasburg. A vio-
lent hurricane, accompanied by lightning and torrents
of rain, broke over the town of Macon (Saone-et-Loire),
three days ago, and caused great damage. The church
steeple was thrown down, several houses stripped of their
roofs, and the produce of the gardens in many places de-
stroyed. The storm, impelled by en orth wind, proceeded
in the direction of the Beaujolais, but it by degrees left
its violen'L character, and subsided into a fall of rain, which
greatly lenfitcd she vineyards. Aix-les-Bains (Savoy)
was also visited three days ago by a tremendous thunder-
was
which lasted
ed four
heh ours, during which the rain
electric fluid cr os s the lake
ea-Tie down in torrents.
of Bou:;et to the great alarm of a number of excursionists
board a steamer. The lightning afterwards
who were o-. 1 , in the village of Treserve, which

fell on a thatch,-d house djoining barns also caught. They
was set fire to, and .
+he
aiestroyecl, so that before the fire
and their contents were
.s were destroyed .
was extinguished 14 buildu4,."
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