The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

CLEARING OUT A SAILOR.—EIIen Carey, aged 30, and
Margaret Fitzgerald, 20, were brought up on remand be-
fore Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing £5 in gold and silver,
a £5 Bank of England note, a silver watch and gold chain,
a coat, waistcoat, and black silk neckerchief, the moneys
and property of Thos. M`Robb, a seaman who was paid off
with £36 on Thursday, the 20th inst., and 12 hours after-
wards was without a farthing.

Mr. Selfe—Well, M'Robb, you are a Scotcbman be-
longing to Aberdeen, and you appear to have left all your
shrewdness and wit there, for without exception )ou are
the most stupid sailor I have met with for some time. As
to that weman Fitzgerald, she ought to be branded as the
most incorrigible thief that ever indulged in the practice of
robbing sailors. She never took a man home without rob-
bing him.

ICl'Robb, a tall, sun-burnt mariner, with a pair of huge
red whiskers, said he was with the Irish woman Fitzgerald
nearly all night of the 20th inst. at the house of the woman
Carey. The other woman Carey came into the room several
times. She brought his boots and trousers about 10 o'clock
on Friday morning, and told him he must leave the house,
and she gave him a pawnbroker s duplicate relating to his
coat and vest. He asked where the rest of his clothes were,
and she said she knew nothing of them. His pocket-book,
all his money, £5 in gold and a £5-note, and his watch were
gone, and when he asked for them tho woman laughed at
him.

Mr. Selfe—Weil they might. These audacious women
would have stolen you if they could have made anything of
you.

Fitzgerald said she was sent for to join the sailor at 11,
Frederick-street, and did not see him until after 1 o'clock
in the morning.

Mr. Selfe—Yes ; I know it. You were in bed with
another man whom you robbed. You left him in Glass-
house-buildings, Rosemary-lane, and then went to Frede-
rick-street and robbed the Scetchman. Two hauls in one
night. M'Robb was cleaned out.
Joseph Sinson, assistant to a pawnbroker in Ratcliff-high-
way, produced the prosecutor's coat and vest pawned by
the prisoner Carey on Friday morning last.
Carey—l did pawn them. Fitzgerald sent me to pawn
them, and gave me 6d. for my trouble.
Elizabeth Toser, female searcher at the Lemon-street
station-house, said she found a black silk neckerchief on
the prisoner Fitzgerald. She said it belonged to M'Robb,
and begged of her not to say anything about it.
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M'Robb identified his silk neckerchief, and in answer to
questions by Mr. Selfe, said he could not stay in London
any longer. He wanted to go to Aberdeen to join his wife
9 No. 130 H, said he
apprehended
courtleon Friday morning
last, after she was liberated on another charge. He had
and tell her all about this matter. (Loud laughter.)
Francis
Fitzgerald
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been unable to trace the sailor's money and watch.
Mr. Selfe—And never will. It would be useless to send
the prisoners for trial, as this unfortunate man is about to
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leave London. I shall, therefore, convict the prisoners of
Illegally pawning his clothes, and, in default of paying £7
each, they are sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
and hard labour.

TRIAL OF THE 300-FOUNDER ARMSTRONG GUN.
—The 300-pounder Armstrong g'un was tried at Shoebury-
ness on Wednesday in the presence of the Ordnance Select
Committee of Woolwich
Arsenal. Not being yet rifled, it
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ful, Tt is intended to try the power of the gun as a smooth
bore against armour plates, after which it will be finished
as a rifled gun adapted for projectiles of 3001 b, and upwards.