The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

IMPUDENT STREET ROBBERY.—A woman, between 30
and 40 years of age, giving the name of Emma Leach, who
has been often charged at this court, was charged with
robbing Richard Harris, a groom, of a silver watch, value
£5.

Prosecutor said he was walking up Grosvenor-place last
night, when the prisoner came up to him and spoke to
him, and remained by his side addressing him for two or
three minutes, and then left him. He had only proceeded
a few yards farther when he discovered that his watch,
which he had worn in his waistcoat pocket, had been cut
from his guard, and was gone. He went in the direction
the prisoner had taken, accompanied by a policeman, and
overtook her with two other women. He recognised and
charged her with taking his watch, which she denied, but
the policeman suddenly seized her hand, and witness then
heard the crashing of glass.
Police-constable Wilson, 42 B, said that he was told of
the robbery, and, suddenly seizing the prisoner's hand,
took the watch from her, the glass of which was broken.
On her being searched at the station a handsome gold pin
with a green stone set in its head was discovered in her
possession.

Prisoner—l say nothing about the watch, but he gave it
me, and the gold pin belongs to my husband that ought to
be and aint.

Prisoner was remanded until Wednesday.

THAMES.

"GATHERING THE SNOW."— John Grant, an old offender,
who has been a thief several years, and is not more than
20 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with
stealing a bundle of linen, the property of Mr. William
Theodore, of No. 3, South-Grove, Mile-end.
Joseph Simmonds, a police-constable, No. 127 K, stated
that he met the prisoner yesterday evening, in the Mile-
end-road, with a bundle. He stopped him, and demanded
of him what he had got in the bundle, and to whom the
property belonged. The prisoner said "It's linen ; it be-
longs to me." He took the prisoner into custody, and
found the bundle to contain a shirt, night-dress, a pair of
drawers, a chemise, and other pieces of linen, all wet.
Mrs. Grace Humphreys Theodore, the wife of the prose-
cutor, said the whole of the articles produced were the
property of her husband, and were taken off the lines in
her garden yesterday evening between five and six o'clock,
and in her absence from home.

The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Paget com-
mitted him‘for
Simmons stated that the prisoner was convicted and
sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour
for being in a garden in which there was a large quantity
of wet linen hanging on lines to be dried.
Mr. Paget—You will not fail to mention that to tho
judge upon the trial.
AX AWKWARD ACCIDENT.—Robert Higgins, aged 60,
landlord of the Gosseth Arms, Gosseth-street, Bethnal-
green, and Alfred Shirley, aged 36, barman, of No. 40,
Gosseth-street, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with being drunk while• in charge of a pony and chaise
last night in the Commercial-road.
Henry Pratt, No. 277 K, said that both prisoners tumbled
out of a chaise, and were lying on the ground intoxicated.
Shirley said the pony he was driving stopped suddenly,
and he was thrown upon his head.

Higgins, who appeared to be very ill, said he was not
altogether himself.
Mr. Paget—You are not yourself by your own intempe-
rance. It is most disgraceful for persons, in a state of in-
toxication, to be driving horses and vehicles about the
streets of London. This is the cause of many accidents.
People are run down and maimed or killed by drunken
people. You have brought upon yourselves a larger
punishment than the law can inflict upon you. You are
each fined ss. for being drunk and incapable of taking care
of yourselves.

MARKETS—This Day.