The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.-ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

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William, Sadler, alias Stokes, and Mary Clarke, alias
Phillips, were brought up for final examination, charged
with having been concerned in violently assaulting Mr.
Charles Stensberg, a tea-dealer at Mile-end, and steal-

ing from his person a pocket handkerchief and nine
sovereigns, and a showily-dressed woman, named Anne
Stokes, who was stated to be the wife of the male pri-
soner, was now also placed in the dock and included in
the charge. a a a

The proceedings of the former examination of the two
first-named prisoners have idready appeared in this paper.
It may be recollected that while the prosecutor was
passing through the Cambridge-heath-road, • on the
night of Thursday last, he was suddenly set upon
by two women, one of whom clasped him round
the waist and dexterously abstracted from his
pocket the handkerchief containing his money,
which he was endeavouring to recover, when he
was assailed by the male prisoner, who knocked him
down and beat him in an unmerciful manner, in which
he was actively assisted by the woman Clarke, who held
him fast until the woman who had robbed him had ef-
fected her escape. The prisoners Clarke and Sadler,
however, who passed at the time as man and wife, were
apprehended on the spot, and both of them stoutly dis-
claimed all knowledge or connection with the woman
who had actually committed the robbery.
The case against Ann Stokes was now gone into, and
the circumstances which led to her detection and capture
were of rather a singular character. It appeared that
on the morning after the robbery, while the other pri-
soners were under detention at the station-house, in
Arbour-square, the woman Clarke presented herself at
an adjoining coffee-house, and ordered some refreshments
for her husband, Mr. Stokes, who was locked up with a
woman for having taken part in a street brawl, at Cam-
bridge-heath. The order was promptly executed, but
the male prisoner having given (the fictitious name of
Sadler to the inspector on duty, the articles were
brought back to the coffee-house, the landlady of which
proceeded herself to ascertain the reason of their not
having been delivered, and having been there apprised of
the real nature of the charge against the prisoners, she
hastened home, and communicated what she had heard to
the woman Stokes, at the same time intimating her sus-
picions that she was a party to the robbery. On hearing
the accusation, the female prisoner coolly admitted that
her conjecture was quite correct, and hastily throwing
her apron over her bonnet, so as to shroud her
the
features,
hurried out of the neighbourhood. Information of .
circumstance was at once conveyed to Sergeant Smith,
who subsequently proceeded to the House of Detention,
to which the two first prisoners had been remanded, and
after waiting about for some time, the woman Stokes at
length made her appearance, with a hand-basket, con-
taining a supply of clean linen, which she was in the act
of sending
in to the male prisoner, when the officer
pounced upon her, and took her into custody.
In answer to the chtrge, the woman now earnestly
denied all participation in the robbery, or that she had
the slightest knowledge of either of her fellow prisoners,
and accounted for her visits to the station and the House
of Detention by declaring that her husband, who, it
seemed, was a namesake of the male prisoner, had dis-
appeared in an unaccountable manner, and having acci-
dentally heard that he had been incarcerated somewhere,
for creating a disturbance in the streets, she proceeded
to those places in the hope of finding him, but that she
had obtained positive intelligence that morning that the
information was unfounded, and that her husband had
gone into the country.
The prosecutor, however, positively identified the pri-
soner as the woman who had stolen his handkerchief and
money, and
Mrs. Catherine Williams, the coffee-house keeper,
having also deposed to her admission of the robbery,
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that there could be no doubt
prisoners
whateverasto
to
beher committedcomplicity, fo
arntdria. ordered the whole of
the

A BRACE OF BORES.—In every society you will find
a person who will talk and a person who will interrupt.
The worst is, the one is not a corrective of the other, for
the talkative bore inevitably talks when he is not wanted
to talk, and the interrupta,tive bore will interrupt at the
very period when he is least wanted to interrupt.—
Punch.