The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

STEALING FROM A PAWNBROKER'S WINDOW.
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John Roberts, an elderly man, was indicted for stealing
a gold watch and some gold chains the property of Joseph
Harris.

The foreman of Mr. Harris, a pawnbroker at Deptford,
said on the evening of the robbery he heard a crash of glass
and saw a man's hand being withdrawn from the window.
He ran out and found the prisoner, whose hand was bleed-
ing, near the window ; a gold chain was lying at his foot
and a gold watch was in his pocket.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was drunk at the
time, and he had no recollection of the affair. He said ha
was very drunk, and fell down near the window, which was
broken by a stick which he carried.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Recorder sentenced him to twelve months' imprimi-
ment with hard hiker.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
MINT PROSECUTIONS.

Eliza Scott and Maria Williams pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging them with uttering counterfeit coin.
The learned judge, in passing sentence, cautioned the
prisoners against appearing at that court a second time for
a like offence, because then, instead of escaping with simple
imprisonment, they would most assuredly be sentenced to
penal servitude for a long time. He then sentenced there,
to 18 months' imprisonment.

Eliza Macarthy also pleaded guilty to a similar offence.
She was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
Sarah Warner and Sophia Haden were indicted for
having in their possession a plaister of Paris mould for the
manufacture of counterfeit shillings. The first prisoner
pleaded guilty.

Brennan, the policeman employed by the Mint; said he
went to 4, Caroline-place, Whitechapel, on the 12th March,
and-on entering the room he saw the prisoners Warner and
Haden. On a table which stood near a bright fire he found
a plaster of paris model for making a shilling, quite hot.
In a tea cup he found 56 shillings, -owe of them so hot that
he could not hold them. lie also found some white sand,
and all the materials for coining He asked for a marl
named Bill Wybrow. The prisoners said they did not
know him, and that thoy had both been picked up quite
drunk, and had been brought home there without their
knowledge. He went down for the landlady, when she,
said Haden was the person who took the apartment, She
said it was a lie.

Mr. Webster, of the Mint, proved the coin counterfeit,
and also that the whole of it had been made in the mould
produced.

Mrs. Lyon, the landlady, said 'she let the !room to the
prisoner Haden. She had only been there one day. TllB
first time she saw the prisoner Warner was when she W 0
taken into custody by Brennan.

Police-sergeant Elliot said he had seen both prisoners
constantly together, and knew that they lived together.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Brennan said he had Lnown. Haden for three years, and
he believed this to be her third conviction, and immediatelY
she came out of prison she started a business again, the
only stock-in-trade that was required to begin, being tl
pennyworth of plaster and a stolen pint-pot.
Haden said her companion Warner was entirely in-
nocent.

The Common Serjeant sentenced Haden to four years'
penal servitude, and Warner to 18 months' imprisonment.

POLICE---THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET THIS DAY.
ANNOYING THE MEMBERS OF TEE ARMY AND NAVY
01.-un.—Haruaah Campbell, a respectably-attired widow,
wearing two medals on her breast, was charged, with annoy"
ing the members of the Army and Navy Club by begging•
Shillingford, 141 A. said he saw the prisoner following
the members of the Army and Navy Club as they left the
clubhouse, and from her manner he believed she was beg'
ing of them. He cautioned her, and afterwards seeing her
again he took her into custody. She was Wearing at the
time two medals on her breast, and had a box with her with
some penholders and penwipers in it.
_ _

Mr. Knox asked if she was known, and received au all'
sorer in the negative.

The prisoner said she was a widow, and had a grand'
daughter to support. She had a hawker's license for which
she paid two pounds a year, and was obliged to sit up 100
of night to make her penwipers, and to enable her to g 4
her little stock together. She did not go out with the
tention of begging, and received no parochial relief. She
never asked any one for charity, but to buy her article.
She was told that she could not hawk her goods without a
license, and then when she got a license and did so she
was taken into custody. She had lost one son in the'
Crimea, and another in India.

Mr. Knox asked whether the prisoner had been seen 1/1
the officers of the Mendicity Society, and received
answer that she had been seen, but was not known.
Mr. Knox said that begging was carried on very largely
at this part of the town, and one—half of the persons were
impostors and thieves, who went about annoying people
under the pretence of selling bobbins, &c. She was seat
standing by the club-house with medals on her br2ast,
he had no doubt, to incite members to relieve her. xa
could not imagine anything more annoying than for a /et"
son to stop every person leaving the club and ste.ting that
she had lost two sons. He should discharge her this titre►
but would tell her that :he was now knowti, and had
better keep away from the clubs.
One of the prisoner's sons here stepped forward to IDA°
an application, but was not heard.

THAMES THIS DAY.
SAVAGE ASSAULT EY AN AMERICAN SAILOR.-3ol'
Burke, a tall and powerful fellow, who said he was a Yankee
seaman, and had lately arrived in this country in a ICe/1
York packet-ship, was brought before Mr. weelrycl3'
charged with committing a savage assault on Mary Dono'
van, a poor Irishwoman, and the wife of a coal-whipper'
dwelling at No. 3, Chancery-court, Shadwell.
The complainant, whose face was swollen and bruisedi
and her mouth cut, said that at three o'clock this morning'
she heard a loud knocking at her door, and believing it
be her husband, who did not come home last night, she
opened the door, and the prisoner immediately rushed ill'
Discovering who it was, she said to him—" You must e
out here ; this is not your place." The prisoner uttered a
savage oath, and immediately struck her a heavy blow with
his clenched fist on the side of the head and knocked ber
down. She got up again and called out murder, arid ba
struck her repeatedly about the face and chest, cut her lips,
and knocked out one of her teeth, and another was nearly
dislodged. She rushed into her front room, opened 01°
window, and dropped from it into the street, leaving til°
prisoner in the house:
Mr. WoolrYch—Did you ever see the prisoner before ?
Witness—l never saw him before in my life, sir. 19
hit me on the chest, and it is all black and blue.
A police-constable of the K division said he heard loud
screams and cries of murder proceeding from a woman I'l
Chancery-court, and upon going to the spot saw the cool,
plainant, llary Donovan, in her night dress and bleeding'
Pratisely from the nose and mouth. Be went into tb°
house, and found the prisoner there with a lucifer matchlll
his hand.

Mr. Woolrych—ls the complainant a person of good cha'
ratter ?

Witness—Yes, sir ; she is a very honest, inclustrioll°
woman.

The prisoner, in defence, said—As far as my recollection,
goes and gives me to understand, I bad no conversation
with that woman or any other person. I don't believe
struck her at all.

Mr, Woolrych—Have you any witnesses to call ?
The prisoner— I calculate I have no ono to say a word
what 1 did and what I did not.
Mr. Woolrych—You have been guilty of a most violent
and cowardly assault on that poor woman. I commit you
for an aggravated assault, and sentence you to twu ii.ontlo
imprisonment and hard labour.

Lord Hobart, who has been selected by Earl
Russell as British Commissioner to Turkey, takes his de-
parture to-day for Constantinople, to assume his diplotaati°
duty.as.
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