The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

John Bavister, labourer, was indicted for burglariously
entering the dwelling house of Henry Marriot, at Enfield,
and stealing therefrom a quantity of articles, his pro•
perty.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence. eighteen months' imprisonment.
MORE GAROTTING.

Two men named Johnson and Brown, alias Pratt, were
indicted for garotting and burglary. It appeared that they
had garotted a gentleman in John-street, Goodge-street,
Tottenham-court-road, and afterwards attempted to commit
a burglary in the same street.

As soon as the police-sergeant to whom the capture of the
ruffians was due had finished his evidence, Johnson took
eff his great heavy shoe and threw it at the officer. For-
tunately the fellow missed his aim. The dock was soon
filled with officers who handcuffed the prisoners for the re-
mainder of the proceedings.
The Common Sergeant said it was evident that the pri-
soners were ruffinly follows, whom it would be dangerots
to allow to go at large, and he would therefore sentence
them to penal servitude for 15 years.
The prisoners, who affected to be astonished at the leni-
ency of the sentence, exclainaed.—" Is that all P Oh,
thankee."

THIRD COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)
ROBBERY BY A TRAVELLER.
William Trowbridge, 43, traveller, was indicted for steal-
ing 94 dozen of linen shirt collars and 288 shirt fronts, the
property of his employer, Charles Lea.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
On being asked what he had to say in arrest of judgment,
The prisoner said he was driven to commit the offence
through distress. His income was but twenty shillings a
week, out of which he had to provide for nine persons.
Commissioner Kerr told him that was no excuse, and
sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.

GARDIVER'S SISTER AN ALLEGED

L UNA TIC.

One very pa'nful circumstance has resulted from the
trial of Gardner, the sweep, who was convicted at the Old
Bailey for murder, but whose sentence was recently com-
muted to penal servitude. The convict has a sister named
Susannah Jacobs, whose husband is stated to be in a very
good position in life. It appears that the poor woman went
to hear her brother's trial, and, as a natural consequence,
she felt very much for the terrible position in which he was
placed . According to her story, however, there were some
who did not feel the matter quite so seriously, for she
says that the evening was spent at a Music Hall,
notwithstanding her entreaties. At length medical certifi-
cates were obtained, and the poor creature found herself re-
moved from a home of comfort and her two little children
to the lunatic ward of the Bethnal-green Workhouse. Her
only offence appears to have been brooding over the fate of
her brother, and a day or two since she was taken to one of
the metropolitan police courts, attired in workhouse cloth-
ing (despite the alleged means of her husband), to await an
examination before the magistrate. During the interval,
and although in a place which would naturally associate
itself in her mind with the cause of her melancholy, she con-
versed most lucidly, detailing her harrowed feelings
at being taken to a music hall to hear comic
singing (a somewhat fearful climax to the episodes
of the day) and she complained that they gave
her nothing to do at the workhouse. "If," said she, " they
would only give me a little sewing I should be all right, but
they will not; and so I sit and think, and then I get ex-
cited, and then they are sharp to me," There was some-
thing inexpressibly touching in the manner in which she
begged to be allowed to take a last farewell of her dear
children before she was put away; and, looking down at
her livery, she asked "Not to be taken back to that place.';
The poFce magistrate conducted his inquiry in a private
room, and he refused to grant any order for Mrs. Jacobs'
removal to Colney Hatch, and after this refusal perhaps the
Poor Law Board may feel inclined to investigate the matter.

SELLING INDIAN CHILDREN.—The Alta Cali-
fornia says :—" Mr. August Hess, who has returned to
this city from a prospecting tour through the lower part of
Lake county, informs us that he saw a number of men
driving Indian children before them to sell in Napa, So-
lano, Yolo, and other counties of the Sacramento basin.
In one instance he saw two men driving nine children; in
another,, two men with four children ; in another, one man
with two girls, one of them about 14 years of age, appa-
rently. The age of these children varies from six to 16
years. Rumour says that about 100 children have been
taken through Lake county this summer for sale. They
do not follow the main roads, but usually take by-paths.
Rumour says, further, that the hunters catch them in Men-
docini and Humboldt counties, after killing their parents.
If the children try to escape, and are likely to succeed, the
hunters shoot them."
About three weeks ago the life of Grand Duke
Constantine was attempted by an officer in the Guards
The Grand Duke happened to be walking in the palace
gardens, when the officer, dressed in a military cloak, fired
a pistol at his Imperial Highness from the window of a
neighbouring house. The ball missed the noble mark, nor.
were any of the suite wounded. NO trace of the assails=
could be discovered.—Letto from Warsaw.