The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

CLEARING OUT A SAILOR.—EIIen Carey, aged 30, and
Margaret Fitzgerald, 20, were brought up on remand be •
fore Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing £5 in gold and silver,
a £5 Bank of England note, a silver watch and gold chain,
a coat, waistcoat, and black silk neckerchief, the moneys
and property of Thos. M'Robb, a seaman who was paid off
with £36 on Thursday, the 20th inst., and 12 hours after-
wards was without a farthing.

Mr. Selfe—Well, Wltelb, you are a Scotchman be-
longing to Aberdeen, and you appear to have left all your
shrewdness and wit there, for without exception 3ou are
the most stupid sailor I have met with for some time. As
to that woman Fitzgerald, she ought to be branded as the
most incorrigible thief that ever indulged in the practice of
robbing sailors. She never took a man home without rob-
bing him. _ . .

M'ltobb, a tall, sun-burnt mariner, with a pair of huge
red whiskers, said he was with the Irish woman Fitzgerald
nearly all night of the 20th inst. at the house of the woman
Carey. The other woman Carey came into the room F event:
times. She brought his boots and trousers about 10 o'clock
on Friday morning, and told him he must leave the house,
and she gave him a pawnbroker s duplicate relating to his
coat and vest. He asked where the rest of his clothes were,
and she said she knew nothing of them. His pocket-book,
all his money, £5 in gold and a £5-note, and his watch were
gone, and when he asked for them the woman laughed at
him.
Mr. Selfe—Well they might. These audacious women
would have stolen you if they could have made anything of
you.

Fit zgeraid said she was sent for to join the sailor at 11,
Frede-cick-street, and did not see him until after 1 o'clock
in the morning.

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Mr. Selfe—Yes; I know it. You were in bed with
another man whom you robbed. You left him in Glass-
house-buildings, Rosemary-lane, and then went to Frede-
rick-street and robbed the Scotehman. Two hauls in one
night. M'Robb was cleaned out.
neckerchief,morn anythingi
Joseph Sinson, assistant to a pawnbroker in Ratcliff-high-
way, produced the prosecutor's coat and Test pawned by
Carey—l did pawn them. Fitzgerald sent me to pawn
them, and gave me 6d. for my trouble.
Elizabeth Toser, female searcher at the Lemon-street
the prisoner Carey on Fitosrissdialoyky
station-house, said she found a black silk neckerchief on
the prisoner Fitzgerald. She said it belonged to M'Robb,
an
questions by Mr. Selfe, said he could not stay in London
answer to
any longer. He wanted to go to Aberdeen to join his wife
and tell her all about this matter. (Loud laughter.)
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Francis Kelly, a police-constable, No. 130 H, said he
apprehended Fitzgerald in that court on Friday morning
last, after she wog liberated on another charge. He had
been unable to trace the sailor's money and watch.
Nr, self—And never will. It would be useless to send
the priscners for trial, as this unfortunate man is about to
leave London. I shall, therefore, convict the prisoners of
clothes,
illegally pawning his and, in default of paying £7
each, flip), 4re sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
and hard labour.

TRIAL or Taß 300-POUNDER ARMSTRONG GIIN,
—The 300 pounder Armstrong gun was tried at Shoebury-
ness on W i
ednesday n the presence of the Ordnance Select
Committee of Woolwich Arsenal. Not being yet rifled, it
was used with a solid spherical shot weighing 1501 b.. and
with a charge of 401 b, of Powder, This tremendoiaweapon
was worked with great facility by a small number of men,
and the experiment was in every respect completely success-
ful. It is intended to try the Power of the gun as a smooth
bole against armour plates, after which it will be finished
8a rifled gun adapted for projectiles of 3001 b, and upwards.