The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

THE SITN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBING A NIGHT
HoUSE-PEEPER.--SINGULAR REVELATIONS.--Minnie
Wilson, a good-looking girl, about 17 years of age, an
" unfortunate," was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
breaking open a box and stealing 15 sovereigns, the moneys
of Mr. Thomas Howard, who described himself as a
tobacconist of 51, Haymarket.
Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great
Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence.
The prosecutor said—l keep an oyster shop in the Hay-
market. lam the cook, and look after the place. I lived
with the prisoner some time ago, but as she associated with
pickpockets I complained, and then she left me, saying
that she could live with a man who could get £lOO
night.
Mr. Slyer—Will you come to the charge.
Prosecutor—She came to the house the night before
Christmas-day, and asked me to lend her some money, and
to let her live there. I agreed to let h3r sleep there at
is 6d a night. A few nights ago she said that if I would
lend her £3 be. to get a black moire antique dress out of
pledge she could get on very well. I lent her the money.
Mr. Sayer—This has nothing whatever to do with the
charge.
Prosecutor—The night before last she came in and went
up stairs about 12 o'clock, and presently the barmaid came
running down stairs, and told me that the prisoner had
been to my box. I ran up stairs, and saw the prisoner
leaving the house with a man in a hurried manner. I then
went into my bedroom, and found the box broken open and
all the money gone (Ll 5) which I had put aside for the rent
out of my hard earnings. I then gave information to the
police in London and Brighton, but the prisoner was taken
in Piccadilly. The man I saw the prisoner with is only
just out of prison.
By Mr. Sayer —I am a cook at 51, Haymarket. I am
not the proprietor. I have not been living on the prisoner's
prostitution for the past two years. I have never been
convicted of felony. I once lived in Rupert 'street, but I
did not keep a brothel there. I kept a oigar shop, but not a
"dress woman." The place was not used as a brothel. I
kept a coffeeshop in the Haymarket. It was not a brothel.
I did not keep women there. My house is not a brothel.
I do not dress women up to send them out, so that I may
live on their prostitution. I did not give the prisoner in
charge because she did not give me the money she received
from a Frenchman. The man the prisoner was with was a
pickpocket. The girls tell me so. They are not respectable
girls, or they would not know him. I have £1 a week
from Mr. Trinder, the proprietor of the place. I dont know
where he comes from, but he is a billiard place keeper in
the City.
Mary Walton, but who gave her name as Polly Walton,
said she was the barmaid.—l heard a noise up stairs,
and on going up I saw the prisoner with a bundle in her
hand and a box open in her master's room.
Mr. Sayer—The master ?

Witness—Yes, Mr. Howard. I said " Minnie, what are
you doing," and she said, " Looking for some paper." I
then went down stairs, and as soon as I got down she came
down and left.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had tho box been broken open.

Witness—lt had.

By Mr. Sayer —Mr. Trinder is the master, but I call
Mr. Howard the master, as he hired me and pays me. I
don't know who has given the prisoner her dress. _

Mr. Sayer—Now Will you ;wear that you don't know
how that poor girl became possessed of her clothes.
Witness—l don't know. We do not keep clothes for
girls. Prisoner paid some money for her baby, &o.
Mr. Sayer—ls Mr. Howard the father of the prisoner's
child ?

Witness—He is very good to it. It is said he is the
father. They do not sleep together. I will swear there
are not four or five girls in the house. Mr. Trinder is a
cousin of Mr. Howard's, and is a billiard-player in the
City, and has a place of his own.
Prosecutor—l've got another witness. (To her.) Now,
go on, and speak up.
Mr. Sayer—This is very indecorous.
Mr. Tyrwhitt (to prosecutor)—Keep quiet, sir.

The witness's evidence was not immaterial.
Wm. Watson, 299 A—The prosecutor gave the prisoner
into custody last night in Piccadilly. She said she had
not taken the money, and said that why she left the house
was because she went with a gentleman who gave her £3,
with which she bought a jacket. I have seen the chest,
and it is a very strong one, and I can scarcely believe
a girl like the prisoner would have strength sufficient to
break it open. The prosecutor last night made a very dif-
ferent statement to that which he wade this morning. He
also admitted that the house in the Haymarket was formerly
a brothel, but not now.
By Mr. Sayer—l have known him some years. I have
not the last hesitation in saying that the house in the Hay-
market is a brothel.

Mr. Sayer then addressed the magistrate in a most for-
cible manner on the prisoner's behalf, and called
Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, who said—l have known the
prosecutor five or six years. He kept a brothel in Regent •
street, and was indicted, but he absconded. He also kept a
brothel in the Haymarket, and the house in the Haymarket
which he keeps now is one to all intent and purposes. He
has been living on the prostitution of females for years. I
have seen him following poor girls about, and he has four
or five women in his house and sends them out " dressed."
On one occasion I heard cries of " Murder" in the place,
and on breaking open the door saw him having hold of a
poor girl by the hair of her head. Many of the girls are
frightened for him, as, if they do not give him money, he
charges them with robbing him. He has done so two or
three times.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, after animadverting in very strong terms
on the prosecutor's mode of life, said he believed he had
broken the box open himself and trumped up tho charge
against the prisoner. He (Mr. Tyrwhitt) did not even be-
lieve that the prosecutor had the £l5 in his possession.
The prisoner was then discharged.
The decision seemed to cause much satisfaction in court.

Magistrate to a case of great urgency where a poor Irish-
man, named Jeremia Maher, had been waylaid and nearly
murdered by his countryman, Brian Dunn. The wounded
man was in great peril, and he had to request that the case
should be at once investigated.
Mr. Woolrych—Certainly. Let the prisoner be at once
put in the dock.
Brian Dunn, a very tall, portly man, about 40 years of
age, answered to his name.

Inspector Phillip Beare, of the K division, said he caused
the prisoner to be apprehended last night, and was informed
that the man he had waylaid and injured was not likely to
survive.

Mr. Robert Nightingale, M.D , surgeon and apothecary,
of Commercial-terrace, Limehouse, said he was called upon
to attend Jeremiah Maher, on Monday night at half-past
nine o'clock, and found he had received a most extensive
lacerated wound on the left eye which penetrated the globe
of the eye. He believed the sight was entirely destroyed.
A blunt or heavy ?instrument might, have caused the in-
jury. The pulse of the patient was this morning below 60,
and he was in a very critical state.
Dr. Giles said--I do consider the life of the poor man is
in great peril, I don't think he will recover. There is a
deep cut over the eye lid.
Bridget Maher, of No. 1 Jamaica-place, Limehouse, said
her husband was brought home on Monday night by his
brother and another mon with his eye injured, and he had
been very ill ever since.
Thomas Ward, a hammerman, stated that on Monday
evening he was in Thomas-street, Limehouse, and saw the
prisoner come from his own place and strike Maher a blow
with a brick on the eye. It was a very heavy blow, Maher
fell to the ground insensible, and did not move for some
time afterwards.

Mr. Woolrych—The blow stunned him ?
Witness—lt did, sir.

Dr. Giles said erysipelas had commenced, and the patient
was very bad indeed.

The prisoner, who was very restless, made no defence,
and Mr. Woolrych remanded him for a week.

MARKETS--This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of wheat from
Essex and Kent were small, but most samples came to hand
in fair.condition. The trade for all qualities ruled heavy,
and previous quotations were barely supported.
With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied. For
all descriptions the trade was in a sluggish state, on former
terms.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates.

There was a full average supply of barley on the stands.
Malting qualities were a slow sale, on former terms. Other
descriptions Bold heavily, at fully the late decline in the
currency.

The supply of malt on sale was large, and the trade
ruled heavy, at drooping prices.
Both home•grawn and foreign oats met a dull enquiry,
at about previous currencies. The show of samples was
rather limited.

Beaus and peas wore in slow request, at late rates.
In flour, sales progressed slowly, on former terms. There
were scarcely any barrels on offer.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Halt. Oats. Flout.
English...". 630 I 650 1,680 ' 320
1ri5h.......... 3,910 . _
oreign...... 2020 5,970 3,060 I 770 sks,

BOROUGH HOP.
The market is very moderate supplied with hops, yet the
trade rules quiet, but at full prices.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade
rules inactive, at the subjoined currency :
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Beef, from 23 6d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 45 6d; veal,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per Blbs by the
carcase.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

HOLYHEAD, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Hanni-
bal, and Admiral, from Liverpool for Bombay; Antonio
from Liverpool for Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind N.—Arrived—True Briton,
from London for Melbourne--M. M. Jones, from London
for Newport.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dido,
screw steamer, from Alexandria. Sailed—Sea Queen, for
for Calcutta.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Grace and
Jane, for St. Kitt's.
SWANSEA, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Florenoe,
for Cuba.

GROUP, Dec. 28,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Charsten,
from Bilboa.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Dromedary, from Ascension.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Arrived, Dec. 30—Furet, from Graveliness—Asterdalen,
from Azera—Providence, from Gravelinse—Gabalod, from
Shanghai.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Anchored—Gleneal, for Valparaiso—Columbine, for
Canaries—Thomas Powell, screw steamer, for Liverpool—
all from London.