The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-29 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

OBTAINING GOODS BY MEAISS OF A FORGED ORDER.—
John Watson, of No. 3, John's-place, Farm-street Mews,
blacksmith, was charged befoin Mr. Knox pith obtaining
some hair brushes, razors, &c.. from Mr. Thos. Douglas,
hairdresser, No. 44, South Aulley-street, by means of a
forged order.

Mrs. Ann Douglas, wife of the prosecutor, said that be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock on the morning of the 13th Sept.
the prisoner, who was known to her, came into the shop
and asked for some sponges, stating that it was for a gen-
tleman. She gave the prisoner a sponge of the value of
10s., and he left, but returned M a few hours, and said the
sponge suited very well. He also stated that she had been
very kind to his friends, and he wished to give them a turn,
and that he had got a situation with a gentleman, at
the same time handing her an order for goods purporting
to be signed by Colonel J. C. Guisett, of the Albany.
In payment for the goods the prisoner handed her a cheque
for £3 4s. on the bank of Messrs. Glynn, Mills, and Co.,
and bearing the signature J. Guisett. The goods amounted
to £1 155., and she handed the prisoner the balance of the
cheque. On the 15th Sept. the prisoner called again and
had more goods ; and on calling a third time for more
goods suspicion was aroused. The goods were not de-
livered, and on the cheque being presented at the bankers,
it was returned marked "No account." The police were
then communicated with, and the cheque handed to a
constable (Dawson, 301 A).
Police-constable Henry Dawson, 301 A, said that about
nine o'clock last night he went to No. 3, John's-place,
Farm-street-mews, and on asking the prisoner if he was
John Watson, he said, "No, he is upstairs—l'll call him,"
at the same time getting up to do so. He told theprisoner
that he need not trouble himself to do so as he was the
man he wanted. He then told the prisoner that he should
take him into custody on the charge of obtaining goods by
means of a forged ho made no reply. He
afterwards presented the cheque at the bank, and it was
marked "No account."

The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was remanded,

THAMES.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION OP A GlRL.—Henry Nathan, a
bootmaker, came before Mr. Partridge, and said that a
girl, an orphan, was detained by a woman named Newman,
of 5, Rodney-terrace, Bow-road, and he believed there was
some foul play in the matter. He could not explain, in
answer to the questions of the magistrate, in what the
foul play consisted. The girl waS taken as a companion
by his wife's sister, who would give no account of her, or
say where she was to be found.
Mr. Partridge said, if there was any suspicion of foul
play, information should be at once given to the police at
the nearest station-house, and inquiries made. If the girl
was detained by any one against her will, a writ of habeas
corpus from one of the, superior courts would compel the
parties with whom she was staying to produce her, and
explain the reasons for detaining her. It was a ease in
which he (Mr. Partridge) could not interfere. The appli-
cant had better wait upon Inspector Kerresey at the Bow-
road station-house.

CRUEL ROBBERY._Mary Ann Bennett, a most notorious
thief, and well-known in the district by the inelegant
soubriquet of " Cast Iron Poll," was charged with stealing
£l7 19s. in gold from a poor woman, named Mary Ann
Marshall, of No. 3, Hainswell-terraco, New-road, Ham-
mersmith.

The prosecutrix is the wife of a sailor, and a very indus-
trious woman. Her husband has left her his half-pay
allotment note, and she has been receiving her monthly
money and hoarding it, but instead of investing it in a
savings bank, where it would have been safe and accumu-
lating at interest, she carried it in her pocket and never
went away from home without her gold. On Tuesday
night last she was in a publichouse in Well-street, opposite
the Sailors Home, and looking at a man playing a concer-
tina, when two girls of light reptte asked her to treat them
with liquor, and she did so. Her refusal to do so a second
time brought upon her their hostility, and they struck her.
She returned the blows and fought with them. Prisoner
interfered on behalf of the prosecutrix, and took her home
to that infamous place Bluegate-fields, which has become
proverbial for robberies and outrages. There were
two other women in the room to which she
was introduced. They all asked her for some drink,
and when it was brought into the room, a glass of what
appeared to be gin was given to Marshall, and she drank
it. She had no sooner done so than she felt very ill and
stupid, and threw herself on a bed. Her pocket, contain-
ing £l7 10s. in gold, was immediately cut from herNdress
by the prisoner. She knew all that the infamous woman
was doing, but was unable-to resist her. -The money was
wrapped up in a white handk.mhief, with a green border
to it. Mrs. Marshall was taken into the street again, and
left there by the prisoner. She went into a public-house
and partook of a bottle of ginger beer which revived her,
and meeting with a sympathetic woman, to whom she re-
lated that she had been plundered of her gold and had no
means of reaching Hammersmith, she was sheltered by her
all night, and next morning th 3 case was put into the
hands of the police. The prisoner was captured yester-
day, and it was proved that she had made several expen-
sive purchases since the robbery.
Nathan Jones, 213 li, said the prisoner was a most
desperate
pperaotl.,
el,character, and well fi-nown by the name of " Cast
Iron

William Walker, a police-constable, No. 488 K, produced
-a largo and showy new dress and crinoline, which she had
purchased since the robbery. He also put on the witness-
box a pair of handsome new Balaoral boots, with military
heels.

Tho prisoner—l have had those boots a week or more.
The police made me walk here without boots.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, and provided
with a pair of very old boots for her feet, instead of the
new ones which 0110 had only Worn a few hours. •