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and saw a man's hand being withdrawn from the window.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 pii.oner, in his defence, said he was drunk at the.
time, and he had no recollection of the affair. He said 1-10
was very drunk, and fell down near the window, which was
broken by a stick which he carried.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
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The Recorder sentenced him to twelve months' in'Aprison-
ment with hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Serrgeant.)
MINT PROSECUTIONS.
Eliza Scott and Maria Williams pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging them with u.tt'dring counterfeit coin.
The learned judge, in passilig 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 them
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 tho
manufacture of counterfeit shillings. The first prisoner
pleaded guilty.

Brennan, the policeman employed by the Mint, said. ho
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, some of them so hot that
he could not hold them. He also found some white sandy
and all the materials for coining. He asked for a Lem
named Bill Wybrow. The prisoners said they did not
know him, :and that they had both been picked up quite
drink, 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 Van
prisoner Haden. She had only been there one day. 7:10
first time she saw the prisoner Warner was when she was
taken into custody by Brennan.
Police-sergeant Elliot said he had seen both p risoners
constantly together, and knew that they lived together.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Brennan said he had b nown 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 is
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' impriBol3lnent,

POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET THIS DAY.
ANNOYING THE MEMBERS OF THE ARMY AND NAvir
aux—Hannah Campbell, a respectably-attired widow,
wearing two medals on her breast, was charged wi+.h annoy
ing the members of the Army and Navy Club by begging.
Shillingford, 141 A, said be saw the prisoraer 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 ale
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 as an_
ewer in the negative.

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

Mr. Knox asked whether the prisoner had been se en by
the officers of the Mendicity Society, and recehred an
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 seen
standing by the club-house with medals on her breast, and
he had no doubt, to incite members to relieve her. He
could not imagine anything more annoying than for a per-
son to stop every person leaving the club and stating that
she had lost two sons. He should discharge her this time,
but would tell her that she was tow known, and had
better keep away from the clubs,
One of the prisoner's sons here stepped forward to make
an application, but was not heard.