The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

THAMES.

Inn TWO SISTERS.—SANGUINARY AFFRAY.—Ann
Kaylor, a masculine•looking woman, aged 21, was brought
before Mr. Selfe charged with assaulting and wounding
Ellen Holmes, ler sister, at 3, Lamb-court, Rateliff.
Lamb-court has been a fearful place for quarrels and dis-
turbances, and the magistrates have more than once ex-
pressed an opinion that the place is misnamed, and that it
ought to be called Lion-court. The prisoner and her sister,
who keep a disorderly house, were quarrelling last night
about money matters and began fighting. The prisoner,
who was armed with a stone, beat her sister about the head
with ft in a very savage manner, and laid her prostrate on
the floor. She was found in that state by a police-constable
named Isaac Pawsey, who conveyed her in an insensible
condition to the London Hospital, where she is now under
medical treatment. Pawsey said the room in which he
found the sisters was like a slaughter-house. There was a
pool of blood on the floor, and the head of the woman
Holmes was cut in a frightful manner.
Mr. Selfe remanded the prisoner until Friday next.

A DISHONEST GlRL.—Emma Rolt, aged 14, who was
called Roach, and whose parents are dwelling at No. 4,
Labour-in-Vain-street, Shadwell, was brought before Mr.
Selfe, charged with stealing a gold chain and a locket,
value £7105., the property of Mr. Jacob Schiller, a German.
The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Schiller for
a few days only, and he recently missed a watch chain and
locket from his bed-room. Suspicion fell on the prisoner,
and a police constable, named Edmund Conley, was em-
ployed in the matter, and on calling on the prisoner's sis-
ter she admitted that the prisoner had stolen the property,
and told him where it was to be found. The watch, chain,
and locket were recovered.

The prisoner, a sullen girl, pleaded guilty. She would
give no explanation of her conduct. She had a good situa-
tion, and was comfortably provided for in Mr. Schiller's
house.

Mr. Selfe sentenced the prisoner to three months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.

WESTMINSTER.

UNNATURAL CONDUCT OY A FATHER.-WilliftlO Clark,
an artisan, was charged with deserting his children.

01r. William Thomas Tubbs, relieving officer of St.
Luke's, Chelsea, stated the particulars of the case. He
said that on Wednesday, the 10th of September, two chil-
dren, respectively aged 2i and 6 years of age, were brought
to him in a destitute condition by a poor woman who minds
children for some trifling gratuity per day. On his making
some inquiries, he learned that the children had been left
with her a fortnight before that; nobody had been to pay
for them and take them away, and she could not afford to
keep them any longer. Witness took the children into the
workhouse. On the following Saturday the porter at the
workhouse met the prisoner drunk in the streets, at Chel-
sea, and brought him to the workhouse. He was then
informed that his children were there, and that he must take
them away. To enable him to do so, when sober, defendant
had a bed given to him in the workhouse that night, but
when they were preparing to start him with his children in

the morning it was discovered that he had got out of a win-
dow during the night and absconded. Nothing was heard
of him until Monday night, when he was met with and
given into custody.
Defendant entered into a long rambling story, by which
he endeavoured to excuse himself.
Mr. Dayman told him that the long story he had told
was nothing whatever to do with the case.
Defendant—l am quite willing to support my
children.
Mr. Dayma—That does not seem to be the case.
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Defendant—l io.d not the means to support there.
means
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!lance of your children. Are yoU prepared top Y
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Mr. Dayman—You have deserted
iasYlard labour in the
therefore committed for three o(4'4
House of Correction.

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—Mrs. Brougham,
LORD BROUGHAM'S Ilt..kr).
was .a most excellent and
mother of the ex-Chancellor,
thrifty housewife. On one occasion she
was much troubled
with a servant addicted to dish-breaking, eid who used to
allege, in extenuation of her fault,
" it was cr:ackit before."
One morning little Ilarry tumbled down stairs, when th
fond mother, running after him exclaimed, " Oh 1 boy, have
, said the fatur:li.
you broke your head?" " No, ma "
cello", "it WON crackit before."