The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SKELETON KEYS.—ATTEMPT TO ENTER AN HOTEL.—
William Jones, a young man, was charged before Mr.
Knox, by Sergeant Winters, 8 C, with attempting to enter
the house, No. 8, Dover-street, a private hotel.
The evidence went to show that James Cox, waiter to
Mr. Storey, private hotelkeeper, of 6,7, and 8, Dover-street,
while in the hall of the house No. 8 the previous evening,
heard some one trying to open the door with a key. He
opened the door, and the prisoner immediately ran away,
leaving a key in the lock. The witness Cox pursued the pri-
soner, who in his flight threw away some skeleton and
other keys, and at last was caught by a Commissionaire
named Robert Pitt, and handed over to Sergeant Winters,
BC. On Sergeant Winters going to the residence of the
prisoner's father, he found that he had only been home a
few weeks after receiving three years' imprisonment for a
skeleton key robbery.

Jarvis, 16.5 C, proved picking up several keys which had
been filed.

Prisoner wanted to know what the indictment was against
him, and Mr. Knox told him that he would know that in
good time, and remanded him.

THAMES.

A GRRAT MISTAKE.—Jane Smith, a disorderly and dis-
sipated worn An, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged
with breaking several panes of glass in the window of the
Horse and Groom public-house, in Church-lane, White-
chapel.

Mr. Joseph Ryder, the landlord of the Horse and Groom,
said the prisoner was drinking in a beerhouse next door
to his own, and became intoxicated and disorderly there.
She was ejected from the house, and she then took up a
large stone, and instead of breaking the windows of the
beerhouse she broke the window of the Horse and Groom.
Mr. Woolrych—By throwing stones ?
Witness—No, sir, she kept one stone in her hand and
pummelled away at my windows as hard she was able, and
before she was stopped, broke four panes of glass, which I
value at 20s. lam not insured.

The prisoner—l am very sorry—l made a great mistake.
I was turned 3ut of the beer-shop—thrown out—and I in-
tended to break the beer-shop Windows.

Mr. Woolrych —You are a very disorderly and ill-con-
ducted woman. You have no right to break anybody's
windows. You are fined 205., the value of four panes of
glass, and in addition 35., or eight days' imprisonment.
WILD SPORTS IN TIGER BAY.—Johanna Bryant was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with breaking the
nose of Eliza Desmond.

The parties are locatel in that horrible place, Brunswick-
street, better known as Tiger-bay, St. George-in-the-East.
They quarrelled last night about a "sailor chap" whom
both were desirous of robbing. From words they proceeded
to blows, and the prisoner struck her adversary a terribl
blow on the nose with a street-door key, and knocked her
down. She lost a large quantity of blood, and the bridge
of her nose was broken.

The prisoner, who had a surgical bandage across her
nose and face, said Desmond stabbed her with a knife, and
said " I would as soon murder you and stab you as th©
Spaniard stabbed Norah Scannell."

A woman of the same profligate class, with her eyes
swollen and blackened, said " We are all Irish and fought,
but no knife was used. Johanna struck Eliza with the key,
and broke her nose."

Mr. Woolrych sentenced the prisoner to one month's im-
prisonment, and hard labour, which was followed by a
moaning and howling among the Irish women in court.