The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-27 00:00:00

id per 81b.

1851

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A RUSSIAN COUNT CHARGED WITH FRAUD.—Eugene
Milkiewicz, about 20 years of age, described as a Russian
count, of Morris's Hotel, Dublin, was brought beforo Mr.
Tyrwhitt on a warrant charging him with obtaining tho
sum of £5 by false and fraudulent pretences from Mr.
Unwin, court hairdresser, of Piccadilly.
Mr. E. D. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, for
the defence.

On the case being called on, no prisoner was in attend-
ance.

Mr. Lewis, jun., said he saw the prisoner at the police-
station last night, and he thought it then being 12 o'clock
that the prisoner ought to be brought before the court. lie
had actually been in custody two days.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho did not see why the prisoner
should not be brought up.

Mr. E. D. Lewis said they were not ready to go on with
the case. They were waiting for a witness from the
Russian embassy. There were several charges against the
prisoner for defrauding West-end tradesmen.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could not see why the man should
be detained. If a man was in custody, and brought before
the magistrate who was then sitting, there would be a
serious responsibility attaching to the persons detaining
him.

Mr. E. D. Lewis said the prisoner was only taken into
custody at Dublin yesterday, and they had had great diffi-
culty in getting him, having boon engaged ten days in
doing so after advertising him in the papers.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that what he should always resist was
the keeping a person at the station when he ought to be
produced in court.

Mr. Lewis, jun., said that what he proposed was that
the prisoner should be sent for and the evidence given, and
if not sufficient, then that he should be discharged.
After some conversation the prisoner was sent for, and
Mr. Levitt, of the firm of Thompson and Co., No. 8, New
Bond-street, having given some evidence,
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he certainly should not think of dis-
charging the prisoner, and that the case had better be put
back till a later hour of the day.
After some further conversation, Mr. Lewis, jun., said
he would consent to a remand, and asked that bail would
be taken for the prisoner, suggesting £2O.
Mr. E. D. Lewis, said there would be six or eight cases
against the prisoner.
Mr. Tyrwhitt then fixed the bail at £5O, with the usual
notice.

The prisoner said his father was postmaster at Warsaw,
and a noble, and he therefore had a right to the title of
count.

THAMES.

ROBBERY ON BOARD SRlP.—Robert George, aged 19, and
described as a Frenchman, late of the ship St. Paul, in the
West India Dock, was charged with stealing 10 sovereigns,
the moneys of Mr. Allen Brown Dunham, the mate of the
vessel. _ _ _ _

The prisoner had been a seaman on board the St. Paul
for 20 months. On Thursday last he was left in charge of
the vessel at four o'clock in the afternoon. On the follow-
ing morning he was missing, and the mato at the same
time found his chest in the cabin open, and missed 10
sovereigns from it. He gave information to the police, and
on Saturday night the prisoner was captured in the City of
London Theatre by Robert Biddle, a police-constable. The
prisoner was seated between two loose women, with whom
he had expended a portion of the prosecutor's money. The
constable found 6 sovereigns and 3s. 6d. in silver upon him,
and he admitted that it was part of the money ho had
stolen from the mate's chest.

The prisoner was asked if he would plead now or prefer
being tried by a jury. He selected the latter alternatiTe,
and was committed for trial.

A DRUNKEN MOTllER.—Fratices Shepherd, a haggard,
pale-faced woman, half-palsied, and with a babe in her
arms, who gave the name of Day, was charged with being
drunk and incapable. She was found last night in the
snow with her child under her, and one would have
perished from cold and the other would have been suffo-
cated but for the prompt assistance of a police-constable,
who took mother and child to the station-house. It was
stated that the child was 10 weeks old, and that the pri
senor was in custody seven weeks ago for being drunk and
incapable, and then was in danger of perishing.
Mr. Paget—What is the woman ?
The prisoner—l am a cab-driver's wife.
Mr. Paget—And you are killing yourself as fast as you
can by indulging in this horrible vice, and you aro endan-
gering the life of that helpless babe.
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finement. Your child was then three weeks old. Your
drunkenness has brought on premature old age. Your
appearance is quite shocking. I believe you are a con-
firmed drunkard. Go away.
The prisoner, who is a young woman, crept out of the
Idock. She appeared to be labouring under delirium
tremens.

AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE THIS WEEK.-
There are three steamers due at Liverpool this 'Week with
the American and Canadian mails. The City of Baltimore
from New York, and the Belgianfrom Portland, with dates
to the 18th of March, may be expected, the former at
Queenstown and the latter at Greencastle, in the course of
Wednesday next. The Cunard steamer Cuba, with dates
from New York to the 22d inst., will, no doubt, reach
Crookhaven or Queenstown in the course of Friday night
or Saturday next.