The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-29 00:00:00

Mr. Abrams asked the witness if she went into the rooms
after they left, and if she had missed anything. •
'Witness replied that ;she did, but that nothing was
taken away. That circumstance did not allay her suspi-
cions, as she could not tell what property gentlemen who
occupied the rooms might have left lying about.
Thomas Allen, a porter, said he had occasion to go into
one of the rooms, No. 87, and found it bolted inside. At
the same time the last witness opened the door of 88, and
the prisoners came out. [There is a door between the two
rooms.] He asked them what they wanted, and they mad•
no reply. From the appearance of the two men, he felt
satisfied they had no businesS, and ho immediately called
the detective officer attached to the hotel, and when they
saw witness speaking to the officer, they made their way
quietly to the pla+form.
Constable Tobey said ho was called by_the last witness,
and his attention was directed to the two prisoners, who
were coming down the grand staircase, and immediately
they saw he was watching them they made a dish at the
side door, and attempted to make their escape. He pursued
them, and ,succeeded in securing Hodgin, whom he took
back to the hotel, where Marshott had been detained. Wit-
ness asked them if they had been in the hotel, and
Marshott said, " Oh, yes, I and my friend have been in
the coffee-room." On the way to the station Hodgin said
to witness, " You've got me tight, but what can you
do ? The most you can do is to give a drag [a slang term
for three months' imprisonment]." He then put his right
hand into his coat pocket and took out a jemmy (a small
crowbar), and said, "I'll monk your eye out." Witness
struggled with the prisoner and got the jemmy from him, but
not before he struck him violently on the knee. At the
station-house- witness searched the prisoners, and on
Hodgin he found some Austrian coins, a silk handkerchief,
a knife, and 7s. 6d. in money. On Manshott he found
a silk guard and an imitation gold chain, which was
attached to a pocket comb in his waistcoat pocket, it hav-
ing the appearance Of being the appendage of a watch.
Marshott gave his address at Liverpool, and Hodgin said
he hadn't any.
Mr. Abrams—Was anything missed from the room?
Witness—l cannot say.
Inspector West said he had to apply for a remand, but
Mr. Abrams objected to the detention of the prisoners, as
there was no evidence against them.

Mr. Vaugham differed from Mr. Abrams. The posses-
sion of the jemmy by Hodgin, and his energetic attempt
to escape, were sources of great suspicion, and quite suf-
ficient of themselves to warrant their detention.

The prisoners were then remanded for a week,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OBTAINING GOODS BY MEANS OF A FORGED ORDER.—
John Watson, of No. 3, John's-place, Farm-street Mews,
blacksmith, was charged before Mr. Knox pith obtaining
some hair brushes, razors, &c., from Mr. Thos. Douglas,
hairdresser, No. 44, South Audley-street, by means of a
forged order.
Mrs. Ann Douglas, wife of the prosecutor, said that be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock on the morning of the 13th Sept.
the prisoner, who was'known to her, came into the shop
and asked for some sponges, stating that it was for a gen-
tleman. She gave the prisoner a sponge of the value of
10s., and he left, but returned in a few hours, and said the
sponge suited very well. He also stated that she had been
very kind to his friends, and he wished to give them a turn,
-and that he had got a situation with a gentleman, at
the same time handing her an order for goods purporting
to be signed by Colonel J. p. Guisett, of the Albany.
In payment for the goods the prisoner handed her• a cheque
for £3 4s. on the bank of Messrs. Glynn, Mills, and Co.,
and bearing the signature J. Guisett. The goods amounted
to £1155., and she handed the prisoner the balance of the
cheque. On the 15th Sept. the prisoner called again and
had more goods; and on calling a third time for more
goods suspicion was aroused. The goods were not de-
livered, and on the cheque being presented at the bankers,
it was returned marked "No account." The police were
then communicated with, and the cheque handed to a
constable (Dawson, 301 A).
Police-ctinstable Henry Dawson, 301 A, said that about
nine o'clock last night he went to No. 3, John's-place,
Farm-street-mews, and on asking the prisoner if he was
John Watson, he said, "No, he is upstairs—l'll call him,"
at the same time getting up to do so. He told the prisoner
that he need not trouble himself to do so as he was the
man he wanted. He then told the prisoner that he should
take him into custody-en-the-eharge of obtaining goods by
means of a forged order, when he made no reply. He
afterwards presented the cheque at the bank, •and it was
marked "No account."

The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was remanded.

THAMES.

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Mr.A Partridge,Gilm.—ll GlRL.—Henry
said that
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was detained by a woman named Newman,
of 5, Rodney-terrace, Bow-road, and he believed there was
some foul play in the matter. He could not explain, in
answer to the questions of the magistrate, in what the
foul play consisted. The girl was taken as a companion
by his wife's sister, who would give'no account of her, or
say where she was to be found.
Mr. Partridge said, if there was any suspicion of foul
play, information should be at once given to the police at
the nearest station-house, and inquiries made. If the girl
was detained by any one against her will, a writ of habeas
corpus from one of the superior courts would compel the
parties with whom she was staying to produce her, and
explain the reasons for detaining her. It was a case in
which he (Mr. Partridge) could not interfere. The appli-
cant had better wait upon Inspector Kerresey at the Bow-
road station-house.

CRUEL ROBBERY.—MaIi• Ann Bennett, a most notorious
thief, and well-known in the district by the inelegant
soubriquet of " Cast Iron Poll," was charged with stealing
£l7 19s. in gold from a poor woman, named Mary Ann
Marshall, of No. 3, Hainswell-ternee, New-road, Ham-
mersmith.

The prosecutrix is the wife of a sailor, and a very indus-
trious woman. Her husband has left her his half-pay
allotment note, and she has been receiving her monthly
money and hoarding it, but instead of investing it in a
savings bank, where it would have been safe and accumu-
lating at interest, she carried it in her pocket and never
went away from home without her gold. On Tuesday
night last she was in a publichouse in Well-street, opposite
the Sailors' Home, and looking at a man playing a concer-
tina, when two girls of light repute asked her to treat them
with liquor, and she did so. Her refusal to do so a second
time brought upon her their hostility, and they struck her,
She returned the blows and fought with them. Prisoner
interfered on behalf of the prosecutrix, and took her home
to that infamous place Bluegate-fields, which has become
proverbial for robberies and outrages. There were
two other women in the room to which she
was introduced. They all asked her for some drink,
and when it was brought into the room, a glass of what
appeared to be gin was giv3n to Marshall, and she drank
it. She had no sooner done so than she felt very ill and
stupid, and threw herself on a bed. Her pocket, contain-
ing £l7 10s. in gold, was immediately cut from her dross
by the prisoner. She knew all that the infamous woman
was doing, but was unable to resist her. The money was
wrapped up in a white handkerchief, With a green border
to it. Mrs. Marshall was taken into the street again, and
left there by the prisoner. -She went into a public-house
and partook of a bottle of ginger beer which revived her,
and meeting with a sympathetic woman, to whom she re-
lated that she had been plundered of her gold and had no
means of reaching Hammersmith, she was sheltered,by her
all night, and next morning the case was put into the
hands of the police. The prisoner was captured yester-
day, and it was proved that she had made several expen-
sive purchases since the robbery.
Nathan Jones, 213 K, said the prisoner was a most
desperate character, and well known by the name of " Cast
Iron Poll."

William Walker, a police-constable, No. 488 K, produced
a largo and showy new dress and crinoline, which she had
purchased since the robbery. He also put on the witness-
box a pair of handsome new Balmoral boots, with military
heels.

The prisoner—l have had those blots a week or more.
The police made me walk here without boots.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, and provided
with a pair of very old boots for her feet, instead of the
new ones which she had only worn a few hours.

SOUIIIIWARK.

MURDEROUS AssAuLT.7--Daniel Sullivan, alias Collins,
a ruffianly-looking fellow, who was-brought up on remand,
was charged with a most brutal assault on a man named
Colston, who is at present lying in the hospital in a dan-
gerous state from the injuries he received from the prisoner.

Mr. W. Crawley, proprietor of the Swan and Sugarloaf
publicheuse, Dockhead, said that on the afternoon Of
Tuesday Colston was in his house with a friend who came
with him in a cab, and had some drink. There *as some
dispute about the cab far, and when Colston was leaving
the house ho was attacked in a savage manner by the pri-
soner, when ho struck him and knocked him down, when
ho fell on his head.
Remanded till Thursday next.

STEAM-ENGINES EXPORTED.—From a return yes-
terday printed it appears that the declared value of steam-
engines exported in eight months, ended the 31st August,
was £1,290,538, against £998,125 in the same period last

year.

The current number of the " Edinburgh" presents
us with a pleasantly varied table of contents. It
opens with a notice of Watson's " Life of Bishop
Warburton," in which it is remarked that the lives
of scholars usually present few incidents for either
biographers or readers; but this cannot be said of
Warburton. His biographer says of him :—"Though
his writings produced no permanent effect either on
literature or theology,• yet the variety of the sub-
jects of which he treated, the display of intellectual
energy in his pages, the number of eminent persons
with whom he was brought into contact, and the
scornful defiance with which he answered all that
opposed him, render his life a career which cannot
be surveyed without interest." The life of Warbur-
ton, says the critic, is, on the whole, a disappointing
one, and its close is profoundly saddening. His
only child, a son of much promise, died prematurely,
and thenceforth his interest in life was gone. His
powers had for some time been failing him, and his
grief put the finishing stroke. The last question
which he asked, " Is my son really dead, or not?"
gives affecting evidence of the tenacity with which
he still clung to the cherished memory. An essay
on " Idiot Asylums," though unattractive in title, is
full of most interesting reading. No work of
charity or duty was longer neglected or more pain-
fully discouraging than this, and none has more
richly repaid the labour spent on it. Many isolated at-
tempts to improve the condition of the idiot were made
in this country prior to the organised and united
efforts which resulted in the erection of the noble
asylum which has produced so much good. In the
year 1850 a number of benevolent persons resolved
to institute an asylum, and hired Park-house, High-
gate, for the purpose. The first gatherings of the
inmates at the openings presented such a terrible
spectacle that, in the words of, the report, " some
who witnessed the scene retired from it in disgust
and others in despair." "It was," adds the same
authority, " a spectacle unique in itself, and not to
be forgotten by any." In six mouths even a mar-
vellous change was produced by the new mode of
treatment, and all became order, obedience, and
cheerful occupation. Very soon the building became
too small for the applicants,eand it was resolved to
establish a large national asylum. This pur-
pose has been happily carried out at Earlswood,
Redhill, where the most astonishing effects have
been produced. One of the most remarkable cases
was that of a boy who exhibited a striking talent for
drawing, and whose pictures excited the admiration
of no less eminent judges than Sir Edwin Landsper
and the late Prince Consort. His Royal Highness
could hardly believe that the artist whose works he
admired could ever have been an idiot. He was
told, in confirmation, that it was six months before
he could be taught to know a dog's head from his
tail ! The same boy has made a model
of a man-of-war, and several other inge-
nious works. He can also frame and glaze his own
pictures, being one of the regular carpenters. An-
other boy who, on entering the asylum, was so help-
less that he could not feed himself, is now an adept
at making mats with fancy borders: 4P One of these
matmakers lagged behind in one of the walks ; and
when asked what he was doing, lie replied, " I was
thinking of a new pattern for my mat ;" an answer
which, as the writer justly observes, shows the plea-
sure which useful work gave to the poor vacant
mind. In many departments of industry the pupils
excel, only they need a superintendent. With this
condition, they become admirable tailors, shoe-
I makers, and carpenters. Some reclaimed idiots who
have left the asylum earn five shillings a day as jour-
neymen carpenters. In the shoe-shop no one has
been found able to cut out the shoe or measure the
foot, but when this is done they can make them ex-
cellently. One boy at Earlswood can make a pair
of boots a day, and declares he could make seven
pairs in six days if they would let him have his
tea stronger. • Many quaint sayings are heard by
the visitors, and some of the inmates come up to
the old Scotch notion of the " daft," or silly
body, who was half a wit. One of them
being reproved by the clergyman for inatten-
tion in church, replied, " If you had been looking at
your own, book you would not have seen ine." The
farm is another great source of delight, and to be
employed upon it the height of ambition. It is
noticeable that these poor creatures never fail in
care and kindness to the animals under their
charge—a striking example to more highly-gifted
beings. Now and then prizes have been gained at
neighbouring shows by the Earlswood farm and
garden produce, and great has been the joy thus
occasioned. It is observed in this article that many
persons going to the asylum fancy it is an abode of
gloom and misery, and are astonished at the univer-
sal merriment. All these wonders are wrought by
the happy system on which it is conducted, the un-
failing love and kindness with which the unhappy
beings are treated instead of the former brute force.
Judicious prowess and authority are exercised, but
in a mild and soothing manner. The greatest care
is paid to each individual case, and care for the mind
is coupled with care for the body, for it must always
be remembered in dealing with idiots that both body
and mind are affected. The alternations of indus-
trial work, play, and lessons are constant, no em-
ployment being suffered to become wearisome. This
hint, it is justly said, should be taken by the guar-
dians of healthy children as well. The assiduous
attention paid may be guessed by the fact that one
boy, who was thought hopeless, was one day ob-
served playing with a straw by himself, and from
that trifle his instructor had hope of him. The
labour of love so zealously undertaken has been
abundantly rewarded, and it is to, be hoped that
soon all these afflicted creatures may be brought
under its influence, since something can be done to
ameliorate the condition of the very lowest.
An essay on ." Early Italian Art" is full of interest
of another kind, and the writer justly observes
in treating of the difference between the various
schools that there is an intolerance in matters of art
as in other things, and that neither painting nor
poetry can be rightly understood unless the critic
will take the trouble to enter into the spirit in which
the artist painted and the poet wrote. " The
Tunnel through the Alps" is discussed in an able
paper, in which it is justly ranked as one of the
foremost among the " imperial works and worthy
kings " which this engineering age has produced.
In an essay on our relations with China and Japan,
it is remarked that the worst danger with which
the European Powers have been menaced of late
years in both these countries has been the anarchy
and disorganisation in them which threatens to
weaken treaties by leaving no central authority to
hold responsible for their infraction. Mr. Swim-
' burne's " Atalanta in Calydon" receives well-de-
served praise ; and another critical notice is equally
commendatory of Lady Duff Gordon's delightful
" Letters from Egypt." The remaining articles
would be, of course, incomplete without a political
essay on the merits of Whiggism, but that does not
diminish the characteristic interest and ability of
the number.

STATUES BY MR. NOBLE.—A statue of the late
Sir James M'Grigor, Bart, who was ,Director-
General of the Army Medical Department from 1815 to
1851, and who died in 1858, has just been placed in front
of the new barracks at Chelsea, and will shortly be unco-
vered. It is the result of a public subscription, and has
been done full justice to by the sculptor, Mr. Noble. The
same artist has iilso nearly completed two other important
works commemorative of the naval and military services,
which will shortly see the light. First in melancholy in-
terest is the statue of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic ex-
plorer, which has been commissioned by the Government,
intended
to the consent of the House of Commons, and is
to be placed in the garden behind the Athenaeum Club, in
a position so as to face the west side of the United Service
Club. The fig-are of the devoted hero, eight feet high, and
clothed in the fur-lined cloak appropriate to the bitter
climate to which he succumbed, is manly in bearing ; the
likeness is said to be admirable. The material is bronze,
in which material also a small bas-relief will adorn one of
the sides of the pedestal, representing the burial of the
lamented explorer in his ice-bound grave. The other work
to which we refer is the memorial to Sir James Outran),
destined for Westminster Abbey. It consists of a simple
bust, with a tablet beneath, representing the meeting of
Sir James Outram and Lord Clyde at Lueknow. On each
side of the principal subjects are two figures, partly seated,
and very ably studied as to character and expression, of
native chiefs, two chieftains of the Scinde and Mile tribes,
mourning as for a departed friend. The whole is in
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