The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-02 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH- STREET.

Louisa Shaw was yesterday brought before. Mr. CHAM-
BERS, charged with shoplifting. In defence the prisoner said
she was in liquor or she would not have so acted. She was
fully committed.

QUEEN- SQUARE.
Mary Davis, alias Fasey, was yesterday placed at the bar,
charged with burglariously breaking and entering the dwel-
ling-house of Mrs. Margaret Isabella Davis, and stealing
therein a cash-box, containing three 101. notes, five 51. notes,
forty-one sovereigns, and other monies.
Mrs. Margaret Isabella Davis, proprietor of the Shakspeare
Tavern, Eaton-street, Pimlico, stated that the prisoner for..
mcrly lived in her service, and had quitted it the beginning
of last November. At one o'clock on Sunday morning, the
at't of March, the prosecutrix retired to her sleeping apart-
ment, which was on the second floor, leaving the doors and
windows of the house properly secured, and taking with her
up stairs a cash-box and a tin hoz, the former of which was
locked and the latter left open, having no fastening. Haling
locked the door of her sleeping-room she placed the two boxes
on the drawers. The cash-box contained three 101. notes, five
5/. notes, forty one sovereigns, five half-sovereigns, six half-
crowns, seventy-three shilling, ninety-three sixpences, some
tourpenny-pieces, and twopence halfpenny in copper money.
There were seven pound's worth of silver in parcels in the tin
box. Prasccutrix immediately afterwards went to bed, and
after she had laid down a few minutes heard a noise under her
bed, which did not create any alarm in her mind, as she
thought it was the kitten at play, and she then fell asleep.
At about six in the morning, on her awakening, she was
much surprised at finding her bedroom door, which she had
locked the previous night, open ; and on turning her eyes
towards the drawers found both boxes gone, and also seven
and sixpence, which had been in her pocket the previous
night. She gave the larm, and her brother came down stairs
and also the servant. While they were engaged talking, pro-
he,,r t the ,a,,h ~f tin; drawing-room window open,
and a :lois:, in the Ttrcr2t, as though some person lied jumped
out, They all hastened to :he spot, but could not dLcera
any body, it being only just daybreak. The tin-box which
had contained the seven pounds worth of silver was found lying

on the floor. The fastenings of the lower part of the house
had not been broken.
Mrs. Letitia Johnson, of No. 42, St. John's-square, Clerken-
well, stated that the prisoner resided in her house as lodger,
and had done so for nearly three months prior to the begin-
ning of March. On Saturday, the 3d of that month, prisoner
went out in the evening, first informing witness that she should
be late that night, or might not return home until the morn-
ing. Prosecutrix saw nothing of her until about nine the fol-
lowing morning, when she came in with something under her
cloak, and went to hor box in the back parlour, which she un-
locked. She then went out, and did not again return. In a
few hours afterwards a police constab!e named Fowl, r,
and on making inquirica, was sb,..xn the prison Cr'S box, which
he sealed. On.thq following day he again came, and broke
the box open in the -,resence of witness, who saw him tale out
the cash-box no x produced, and seven parcels of silver money
which here lying looge in the box.
The prisoner declined saying any thing in defence.—She
was fully committed for trial for the capital (fllttice.