The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

• MANSION-HOUSE. Emma Jones was charged
with having robbed Alexander Groesman of a watch.
The complainant, who is a foreign Jew, said, on Fri-
day night as I was going down Fenchurch-street, the
prisoner came up and addressed me familiarly. When I
got to Jewry-street she wished to be more familiar, but
I repulsed her ; and when we got to the corner of a
court she put her arms round me, and immediately after-
wards said, "As you won't come, good night," and
suddenly disappeared. When I first saw her I had four
watches about me, and when she left me I missed one of
them. I told a policeman of the robbery, and he and I
went round to a great many public houses to look for the
thief, whose appearance I recollected, bnt could not find
her. On Saturday night I disguised myself, and went
again to look for her, and after some time I met her in
the Minories, when she came up and addressed me in
exactly the same language which she used the night be-
fore. I answered her, and in a very short time she re-
cognised me, and endeavoured to get away, but a po-
liceman coming up, I charged her as the thief,
The Lord Mayor—Was she accompanied by any one
when you saw her the second time ?—Witness—Yes.
She had a partner with her, who dashed my hat from
my head when she discovered me.
The prisoner—I never saw the man in my life before
the night he gave me in charge. I don't know what he
means.
The prisoner was remanded.

for refusing ----
GUILDHALL.—Mr. J— o_ Tracey, of No. 1, Old
'Fish-street, was summoned by Mr. Godwin, the collec-
tor,quar-
terly assessments in lieu of tithes towards the mainten-
ance of the rector of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene,
to pay 4s. Bd., the amount of two
Old Fish-street.
Mrs. Tracey attended, and explained that she objected
to pay any rates as long as a most intolerable nuisance,

in the form of a common brothel, was continued next door
to her. She had been living there now nearly three
years, and she had frequently been called out of her
business by her children to turn people out of her pas-
sage who had mistaken it for the nuisance adjoining her
own house. She had complained to the parish, and she
thought it was disgraceful that nothing had been done to
turn those people out of the house.
Mr. Godwin said it was at present in the hands of the
vesty clerk, and steps had been taken to remove the
nuisance.

Alderman Wilson said the existence of such a nuisance
was no answer to an application for the parish rates, and
if that was the only objection, the defendant must pay
the present claim for tithes.
Mrs. Tracey said she had a double reluctance to pay-
ing tithes, arising from the following circumstance :
During last winter two of her children died, and as she
was at the time in very indifferent circumstances, she,
by the advice of a lady in the neighbourhood, applied to
the rector to forego his fees for the interment of the
poor children, and the answer she received was, "Oh
no, certainly not. I never give my fees away to any
one." After receiving such an answer from a minister
of the Church of England, she could never contribute to
his support with that willingness that she otherwise
would have done had he displayed a m•re charitable dis-
position.
Alderman Wilson explained to Mrs. Tracey that the
rector's refusal to forego his fees would not excuse her
from payment of the tithes, upon which she arranged to
pay the collector.

BOW-STREET.—Catherine Taylor, a middle-aged
Irish woman, who had a child at her breast, was charged
before Mr. Jardine with obtaining money and wearing
apparel from two servant-maids, under the pretence of
telling their fortunes.
The case afforded considerable amusement to a crowded
court.

Mary Dignam stated that she was in service at 2,
Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. A few days ago the
prisoner came to the door with earrings for sale, and she
took the opportunity of asking witness, if she would like
to have her fortune told for 6d. Witness thought she
should, and paid the woman 2d. on account, but she
insisted on 6d. also. The prisoner then told her a num-
ber of things, and crossed witness's hand three times
with the 6d., after which she made an appointment with
her to call again two days afterwards, after consulting
"The Book of Knowledge." On the occasion of her
second visit, the prisoner asked witness how much money
she had, to which she replied, a half-sovereign and a shil-
ling. The prisoner said, " The more you have the better,
the charm."; Witness, by her direction, held the money
in her hand a minute or so, and then the prisoner took
it from her, and appeared to wrap it up in a piece of
blue paper, tying it round three times with a piece
of enchanted string, and once more with a piece of hair,
which witness had to pull from the left side of her head
with her right hand. The woman next desired her to
place the money in her bosom, on her right side, and
allow it to remain three minutes ; after which it was
taken out again, and placed in the centre of a white
handkerchief, which was tied in four or five knots, each
knot being tightened by witness, and the prisoner pull-
ing the corners of the handkerchief with all their might.
After this process, witness had to take off her garter,
and have the handkerchief bound round her right leg for
two hours. It was then two o'clock, and while the
prisoner was tying the handkerchief to her leg she pre-
dicted that witness would be married twice, and would
meet with many misfortunes. The prisoner then told
her fellow-servant's fortune, and left the house, promis-
ing to return again in a few days. Precisely at four
o'clock witness went down into the kitchen, and took
off the handkerchief, and, after untying all the knots,
she discovered, to her dismay, that the half-sovereign
and shilling had been changed to a couple of farthings.
She confessed all to her mistress when she returned
home, and was advised to give a description of the wo-
man to the police inspectors at Bow-street, which she
accordingly did the same evening.
Jane Gore, another girl in the same service, after cor-
roborating the above statement, deposed that she also
consented to have her fortune told. At the request of
the prisoner she fetched her shawl, a shift, a petticoat,
and an apron. The prisoner wrapped them up into a
bundle, and crossed it, and then placed some white
powder in witness's left hand, and some black powder in
her right boot, after which she was to throw nine grains
of salt into the fire and wish three times. (Laughter.)
Mr. Jardine—Were all the wishes to turn up, or only
one ? Witness--they were all to come true. She told
me to blow into the shawl nine times, and stick three
pins into each corner of it. She then said that she should
go away for twenty minutes, and during the interval I
was to take a hair out of the right side of my head, and
put it into a tumbler of cold water. I was also to cut
off three pieces of toe-nail, and throw them into the fire.
(Roars of laughter.) When she went away she took the
bundle of clothes to be " charmed." I did what she
desired me to do in her absence, and expected her back
again, but I never saw her again till last night, when
she was in custody.
Mr. Jardine asked the girls (who gave their evidence
with perfect gravity) if they ciuld read and write ?
They replied in the negative.
Mr. Jardine—How did the prisoner get into custody ?
Inspector Mackenzie stated that she was brought to
the police station for being drunk and breaking a win-
dow in Holborn, and her appearance corresponded so
exactly with the description given by the two servants,
that they were both sent for, and they at once identified
her.

The prisoner denied that she had ever seen the girls
before, and kept up a whining appeal to the Divinity .to
establish her innocence throughout the examination.
She "ailed a man, one of her companions, who said he
had known her for 16 years as a respectable woman, de-
serted by her husband, with four living children, and
three lying dead at one time with the small-pox ; but he
admitted that she got her living by travelling the country
as a hawker of combs, &c.
Mr. Jardine, after expressing his astonishment that
such dupes could be met with in these enlightened times,
informed the pi isoner that persons were liable to a very
severe punishment for imposing on ignorant people by
pretending to tell their fortunes, and his worship then
sentenced her to three months' hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Edmund Bragg, clerk
in the service of the Great Western Railway Company, was
brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with various rob-
beries.

The first charge was for stealing a volume of Scott's
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, the property of the di-
rectors of the Great Western Railway.
The second was for stealing a snuff-box, the property
of the Great Western Railway Snuff Club.

The third was for stealing a coat, the property o:
James Spencer.

The prisoner was fully committed upon all the charges,

WORSHIP-STREET.— William Betlicll, a journey-
man blacksmith, was placed at the bar before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, charged with a murderous assault upon his
mother, an infirm and aged woman, with a hammer,
whereby her life had been seriously endangered.
The prisoner was ordered to be remanded for a week,
to afford an opportunity of ascertaining the result of his
unnatural violence.

LAMBETH.--Last evening, as Mr. Elliott was about
to leave the bench, Frederick Butler, a well-dressed per-
son, and who is well known to the police as an expert
member of the swell mob, was brought i-ito the court in
custody of Sergeant Quinnear, and placed at the felon's
bar, on a charge of being concerned, with others not in
custody, with burglariously breaking into the premises
of Mr. Thomas Prince, the keeper of a fancy bazaar in
Beckford-row, Walworth-road, and stealing therefrom
property of the value of 7001.
Superintendent Lund requested a remand upon the
plea that he would be prepared with evidence upon a
future occasion.—The prisoner was remanded.

SOUTHWARK.—Elizabeth Ford and Harriet Jones,
two women of the town, were placed at the bar before
Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing 401. in Bank of
England notes and sovereigns from the person of Mr.
Charles Roberton.
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Policeman Atkinson, M division, stated that the pri-
soners were given into his custody on the previous night,
by Mr. Roberton upon the charge of having robbed him
of the above sum of money at a house of ill-fame in
Orange-court, Gravel-lane, into which one of them (Ford)
had inveigled him. The complainant was present at the
station-house when the charge was preferred, and inti-
mated his determination to be in attendance at this
court the next morning to prosecute the prisoners, but
he (the policeman) had not seen him since.
The magistrate inquired where he was, and why he
did not attend.
A gentleman, who said his name was Roberton, and
described himself as the brother of the complainant, stood
forward, and said that he saw his brother the previous
night subsequently to his having given the prisoners into
custody, and that he was then labouring under great
mental depression. He (applicant) had not seen him
this morning, although he called at his house and had
made every inquiry, and he was fearful that he had de-
stroyed himself.
Mr. A'Beckett asked the applicant if the prisoners were
detained, did he think that evidence would be produced
to show that they had robbed his brother of 401. at a
house of ill fame in the place mentioned.
The applicant, in reply, said he heard his brother state
that he had been robbed of the amount specified in a
house into which he had been decoyed by a woman while
he was under the influence of liquor. He ( applicant)
knew nothing further of the transaction, and therefore
would not wish to take the responsibility upon him of
having the prisoners detained on the charge, as he had
no evidence to offer against them, and was fearful that
his unfortunate brother had committed suicide, owing to
the condition of mind under which he laboured in con-
sequence of the unfortunate circumstances connected
with his having accompanied the prisoners.
Ford ejaculated that she would explain the whole
matter if she was permitted, and that there was no
foundation for the charge as affected herself.
Mr. A'Beckettlsaid that at present she was not called
upon to make any statement, as there was no evidence
against her or her fellow prisoner. He should therefore
discharge them, and if the gentleman who had given
them into custody, and was supposed to have committed
suicide, should re-appear, they would be again taken
taken into custody.
The prisoners were then discharged.

STILTON.—Much mystery has been attached to the
movements of this horse. We understand that he is
entered in the Chester Cup by Count Hahn, and that he
is now being trained at Royston by C. Marson. If the
weight pleases the ideas of his present owners he is to
start for the Cestrian Trade Plata—Doncaster Gazette.

FROJI THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDA T.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 11, 1853.
It is hereby notified, that the Right Honourable Lord
John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has received from Colonel Hugh Rose,
her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople, a dis-
patch, bearing date the 17th of December last, inclosing an
official note dated the 15th of December last, addressed to
him by Fuad, Effendi the Ottoman Minister for Foreign
Affairs, announcing the establishment of the blockade of
the coasts which extend from Dulcigno to the extreme
Turkish frontier, by the naval forces of his Imperial Ma-
jesty, the Sultan, for the purpose of preventing munitions
of war or provisions from being landed upon the said
coasts.