The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 22.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge, at
Westminster.)
Mary Ann Burrows, 22, was indicted for stealing a
purse containing money, the property and money of
Neave Lewis Hart, from the person of Mary Ann Hart,
his wife.

This was an ordinary case of pocket picking. It took
place in the Strand, and the evidence clearly established
the charge against the prisoner, and the jury found her
guilty.
The Assistant Judge- -What is known of the prisoner ?
A stentorian voice, at the back of the witness-box—
I'll tell you, my lord. (A laugh.)
The Assistant Judge—Well, what have you to ray ?
The person stepped into the box. He was an officer
known among the thieves as the "Surrey Wolf." He
said—l'm William Coonihes, late No. 10 L, now un-
attached, having a three months' leave from the Secre-
tary of State through a bad leg. I know the prisoner
well, my lord. She had 12 months from the Surrey
Sessions for picking pockets at the execution of the
Mannings, and after that she had two months for pick-
ing the pocket of a Thames policeman at the Victoria
Theatre. She is a regular trainer of juvenile thieves
from their cradle, and has always a gang of them about
eight years of age with her, and she shelters them while
they thieve. She takes poor Irish boys without shoes,
puts good clothes on them, trains them, and sends them
to thieve for her. There are a lot of thieves waiting
outside who belonged to her ; one called "Alligo,"
another "Shongo," and so on ; and I could bring
twenty—or fifty for the matter of that—constables, if
necessary, to prove that she is the regular trainer of
thieves. I have been on duty in plain clothes at the
theatres and have seen her there with boys—at the
Lyceum and Adelphi in January, February, and March
this year.
The Assistant Judge said this was the Surrey account
of her. She was well known in the prisons of this
country as well as those of Surrey. He should like to
hear her Middlesex history.
The prisoner declared she had never been convicted.
Coombes reiterated his statement. The prisoner was
a regular thief, had been convicted, and was a regular
trainer of young thieves.
The Assistant Judge said be should stop her pro-
ceedings for some time at least. The sentenc was tat
she be kept in penal servitude for six years.
(Before Mr. Witham.)
Sarah Smith, 25, was indicted for stealinc, the sum of
Ds. from the person of James Broderip.
The prosecutor, a cabinet-maker residing at Chelsea,
on Saturday evening, the sth inst., was on his
wa
home through Eaton-square, when he was accosted by
the prisoner, who laid hold of his arm. In a minutey
afterwards he felt her hand in his waistcoat pocket, and
he missed some money therefrom. He at once accused
her of robbing him, and thereupon she threw herself
on the ground near the garden enclosure, and screamed
out police and murder as loud as she could. A police-
constable came up and the prosecutor gave her in charge
for robbing him, she protesting that she had not touched
his money. A search was made in the enclosure, and
the identical coins the prosecutor said he had lost were
found. On the way to the station she said to the po-
liceman, "If I did rob him you won't find it on me,
and that licks you." Before the magistrate she accused
the prosecutor of the most immoral conduct and lan-
guage, and said that as he was giving her some money
some of it fell on the ground, and as he could not find
it he gave her in charge. However, she now pleaded
guilty to the charge, and also to a former conviction for
felony.
Mr. Witham sentenced her to four years' penal ser
vitude.

The prisoner, on hearing the sentence, uttered a loud
scream, upon which a tall ruffianly looking fellow, sup-
posed'to be her paramour, who was sitting in the front
seat of the gallery, made a sudden leap therefrom to-
ward the dock, and had nearly succeeded in making his
way into it, when the officers interposed, prevented his
accomplishing his object, and with some difficulty re-
moved him from the court. This attempt caused a good
deal of excitement in the court.

In the course of the day Lord Ernest Bruce took the
oaths of qualification as a magistrate for the city and
liberties of Westminster.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTMINSTER.
—Sir Robert Peel. Bart., 111.. P ,
appeared to complain
• —of the misconduct of a cabman
named Philips, b he had compelled, after much
difficulty, to drive
to this court.
Sir Robert stated'
theat a little before four that after-
noon he engaged"I
defendant near Knightsbridge-bar-
racks and ordered him
drive to Parliament-street.
He started at an extremely
did not at all mend, he called to the defendant y slow pace, and, as
the speed
defendant to drive
that, as as the fares were now
faster. Defendant replied
abated to sixpence per mile
not increase his
give
take him faster
speed. Witness said that if he weould
he should have no objection to
eighteenpence per mile, as he wa,-ivnehhaila a shilling or
did not quicken his speed, but said sttle: Defendant
to the new law, be ought to be pair, according
Witnesa told the defendant that lie beforehand
pose that story upon some poor woman, ;m-
-pose
he knew better; and he immediately
directed the defendant to drive him to the nearest police
station. Defendant refused to do so, and said he did not
know where there was one. He then drove to Parlia-
ment-street, where the appearance of a police constable
bad the effect of inducing him to discover the situation
of this court, which he then admitted he knew, and
whither he drove the hon. baronet. Defendant's con-
duct was very dogged and offensive.
Mr. Broderip asked if defendant was sober.
Sir Robert could not say that he was otherwise, hut
he had to be fetched out of a public-house.
An inspector of the B division considered him sober.
Sir Robert remarked, that in the course of his expe•