The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUG H-STREET.

Yesterday John Wilkinson, Eleanor Hartwell,
and Sarah Atkin, who have been some days in
custody charged on suspicion of being concerned in
a robbery at the house of Mr. Curtis, the aurist, in
Soho-square, where the two female prisoners lived
as servants, were brought before Mr. Ron, the
Sitting Magistrate, for examination.
Mr. Curtis stated, that in consequence of the ex-
traordinary conduct of one of the new police con-
stables, he now utterly despaired of tracing out the
property stolen. When the robbery was first dis-
covered, he felt quite satisfied that the property had
not then been removed from the house, and he there-
fore placed the two female prisoners, on whom his
suspicion imirtaielyjell, in separate rooms, He
was himself t' that time obliged to go oft' on
..yelfurgent business to Clapham, and he desired
the policeman whom lie had call in not to permit
any communication between the two females
r until his return, nor to stiffer any person to
entiir the house, or remove any thing from it
during that time, and requested that he, the police-
man, should himself attend to the street-door and
answer all inquiries; but it now appeared, that not-
withstanding these injunctions, soon after he, Mr.
Curtis, had set out for Clapham, a person came to
the house and told the policeman, who opened the
street-door, that he came for an umbrella and a
parcel that he had left the day before with one of
the female prisoners, and that the policeman actually
not only communicated this message to the two
prisoners, but by their directions delivered the um-
brella and parcel to the person who called ; and as
the watches and other property stolen were of a
small size, they might easily have been conveyed out
in the umbrella itself, and under other circumstances
he (Mr. Curtis) had no hope of making out any case
against the prisoners.

The priso-ners underwent separately a long and
rigid examination, but in the end they were all dis-
charged on bail to attend again when required.
Eliza Edwards, another female servant, was
charged on suspicion also of being concerned in a
robbery committed at the house of Mrs. Dawson, a
lady of fortune, residing in Clarges-street,
It appeared that Mrs. Dawson went out of town
some days ago, to Doncaster races, leaving her
house in the care of her housekeeper, a butler, and
the prisoner, who was housemaid; mid on Saturday
lust the housekeeper, on going to a closet of her's,
found that a chest of drawers of her own had been
opened with picklock keys, and 171. in money, a
number of silver spoons, and a watch, all her own
property had been carried away, and it was soon after
discovered that the prisoner herself had also been
robbed of her own. watch. After a great deal of
prevarication, the prisoner, on being closely ques-
t►on by Clements, the officer who was employed,
told him, that on Thursday night last, after the
other servants had gone to-bed, she admitted a young
fellow named George Long, a footman, who had
some time before been discharged from the service
of Mrs. Dawson, into the house, and as he was pay-
ing his addresses to her, allowed him to sleep there
that night, and kept him the whole of the next day
in one of the rooms up stairs, where she took him
his breakfast, dinner, and let him out of the
house at dusk on Friday ; so that during the whole
of Friday he had the entire range of the upper part
of the house, as the housekeeper slept on the ground
floor, and die butler in his pantry.
The prisoner having lost her tmn watch was not
so anxious as she might otherwise have been to
screen her lover, and she told where he lived with

his parents in Westminster ; but on inquiry there,
it was learned that they had seen nothing of him
since the day of the robbery, and no trace has as yet
been found of him. It is much feared that a large
booty in plate, belonging to Mrs. Dawson, has also
been carried oil.

The prisoner was remanded until the arrival in
town of Mrs. Dawson, who is at present quite igno-
rant of the transaction, and the Magistrate gave di-
rections that every effort should be used to appre-
hend Long.
A young lady, elegantly attired, and beautiful in
the extreme, Miss Caroline C., the daughter of a
military gentleman at Bath, yesterday appeared at
this office under the following circumstances:—

It appeared, from the statement of Mr. T. Henry
Prosser, aft Inspector of the C division, that the
lady was seen to get out of a hackney-coach, and
after inquiring for a Mr. 11. at the Albany, she be-
came riotous, and was taken by the constable on
duty there, and brought to St. James's watch-
house; struck by her incoherent language, the le-
spector ordered a female to search her, and in her
bosom a phial full of laudanum was found, and on
its being removed, she immediately exclaimed," You
have got it, but I will destroy myself before the
morning." Mr. Prosser, dreading some ill effects
from the state of excitement in which she appeared,
immediately conducted her to a room by herself,
where he judiciously appointed a female who resides
at the station, and a constable to watch over her;
during her temporary absence of mind she called re-
peatedly on the name of Sir C-
but with kind attention she in the morning became
composed, and stated that she had been prevailed
upon to take wine on an empty stomach, which had
been the cause of her conduct. The coach in which
she arrived at the watch-home was searched, and
contained two large trunks foil of clothes, and a
portfolio full of letters, together with a gold watch,
a 51. note, and 2/, 12s. Gd. were found; from what
fell from a servant who attended her, it appeared
that she had removed front the hotel at which she
had been residing, and was about to start for Bath.
On her being conducted into the private parlour
yesterday, Mr. Roe ordered her to pay ss. for being
inebriated. Immediately on her rewriting to pay
the flee to the clerk's office' she became flighty,
and declared that she would not Imre unless she
were conducted back to the watch-house, where
she had received such kind treatment, as she felt
that every attention had been paid to her in the
power of the Inspector. She waited for:a considerable
time for the Inspector, Mr. Prosser, to accompany
her, and at length declared that she would go alone,
which she immediately 'did, and ultimately left the
watch-house at four in the afternoon in a coach for
Brighton.

NVe are in posses ion of the whole of the names
and circumstances, but from motives of delicacy for-
bear to mention them.

UNION.HALL•
Yesterday a man named Fowler, n broker, was
summoned for illegally seizing some wearing apparel
belonging' to an unfortunate female.
The complainant stated Oita she lodged with a
female named Ann Penny, who kept two houses of
ill•faine at Ford's-terrace, Lambeth, and that being
indebted to her the sum of twelve shillings, the
latter employed the defendant, who seized the
clothes belonging to witness without even inserting
them in t►n inventory, Amongst the articles were
a bonnet anti cloak, the loss of which prevented her
from leaving the house until she borrowed others in
their stead.

Mr. CHAMBERS said that it was no illegal Act to

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seize clothes, and the defendant must have been
aware of it. It was the practice of these brothel-
keepers to employ low brokers to seize upon the
goods of these unfortunate females upon whose
prostitution they lived, when they were unable to
keep up their payments. The Magistrate then in-
quired where Mother Penny was; he had no sooner
asked the question than an old woman of forbidding
aspect stepped forward anti said she was the land-
lady of the two houses alluded to.
Mr. CIIASIBERS-.4 shall take care and mtrke you
find bail to answer the charge of keeping common
brothels.

The Old bawd immediately fell down on her knees
:Ind besought. pity, declaring that the business of
both her tenements was connected with every
decency; but added, that if she was permitted to go
at large she should give up the trade altogether.
Mr. CHAMBERS said that with regard to the
broker, if he did not immediately deliver up the
articles to the complainant which he had seized, the
law should be put into force against him.
The case was ultimately decided by the broker
being compelled to pay all the expenses, and to give
up the articles he had illegally seized, and the old
mother abbess was held to bail irc.snreties. of 1001.
each, to answer the charge of keeping brothels.