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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW STREET.—lnspector Sheppy, of the A divi-
sion, accompanied by the mother of a little child who was
cruelly stabbed by an unknown hand, and is now lyinc,
at Charing-cross Hospital, attended before Mr. Jardine
to state the particulars of the horrible occurrence, and
of the inquiry which had been since instituted respect-
ing it.
It appeared that the mother, a widow named Lam-
den, in humble circumstances, was passing through the
Horse Guards one evening last week, at about half-past
7, in company with her two little girls, one of them only
four years of age. They were near the entrance to the
War office, when the youngest child stepped aside for a
private purpose. In a few minutes afterwards the
mother was alarmed by a loud shriek from the child,
who had been stabbed in the most delicate part of her
body, while stooping over the horizontal grating of
one of the kitchen areas in front of the War-office.
The child, who was bleeding profusely from the wound,
was immediately conveyed to the Charing-cross Hos-
pital, and placed under the medical treatment of Mr,
Adkins, the house-surgeon, who, from the depth of the
incision, at first entertained but slight hopes of the child's
recovery. In the meantime, inquiry was made at the
War-office, and it was ascertained that the office-keeper,
his wife, and daughter were taking tea at the time in
the kitchen adjoining; but they denied all knowledge of
-the circumstance. There was a pool of blood under the
grating, but no instrument was found near, nor anything
which could justify the supposition that the occurrence
was the result of accident. The daughter stated that
she heard a scream, and that she told her mother at the
moment, that she thought some one must be hurt; but
no further notice of the circumstance was taken at the
time.

It being difficult, therefore, to implicate any one di-
rectly in the transaction, it was deemed advisable for all
the parties to attend before a magistrate to answer any
questions which might be put to them upon the subject;
and, consequently, the office-keeper at the War-office,
with his wife and daughter, consented to accompany the
Inspector and Mrs. Lamden to the court. They repeated
their ignorance of the affair, and, as there was nobody
in the house but themselves at the time, they appeared
wholly unable to account for it, unless it was done acci-
dentally, or by some person passing above, who might
have maliciously stabbed the child while in the position
already adverted to.
Mrs. Lamden said that her other little girl, who was
also with her, told her that she was near the grating at
about the time, or immediately after the occurrence, and
that she then saw an elderly woman look up through the
grating from below, and heard her exclaim, "Be off,
you little -" finishing the sentence with a low word ;
but the office-keeper's wife indignantly denied that any-
thing of the kind did, or could have, happened.
The house-surgeon of the hospital, Mr. Adkins, stated
that the child was now progressing favourably. There
could be no doubt that the child had been stabbed by a
knife, or other sharp instrument. The child was too
young to give any account of the occurrence herself
which could be relied on as evidence ; but she had told
her mother that she was hurt by something being pushed
up through the grating while she was stooping over it.
Mr. Jardine said it seemed quite impossible, at pre-
sent, to form any judicial opinion as to the true origin
of this wicked and cruel outrage upon the child. That
it was done by a human hand, and by some one under
the grating, appeared most probable ; and he could only
say that it was fortunate for all parties that the child's
life was likely to be spared. As the matter at present
stood no further proceedings could be taken.

WORSHIP -STRERT. A woman of abandoned
habits, who gave the assumed name of Mary Ann
Williams, was charged with having assaulted and rob-
bed Mr. Edward Richard Delavante, a student in
Divinity at King's College.
The prosecutor stated that between seven and eight
o'clock on the prey ions evening he had occasion to pro-
ceed, in the company of his aunt, to the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, in Shoreditch, on reaching which he met
one of his fellow-students, with whom he remained for
some minutes in conversation outside the station. On
leaving his friend he hastened on to rejoin his relative,
who had walked slowly forward in the direction of the
Hackney-road, but not having overtaken her after he
had proceeded some distance, he was about to retrace his
steps when he was accostated by the prisoner, who en-
deavoured to insinuate herself into his society. He
sharpely repelled her importunities, and crossed the
road in order to avoid her, but was quickly followedby
the prisoner, who instantly caught hold of him, and clasp-
ing him tightly round the waist, dealt him a smart blow on
the left side. The prisoner then suddenly released him,
and made rapidly off, and suspecting that she had robbed
him, witness at once felt for his purse containing about
21., which he kept in the side-pocket of his coat, and dis-
covered that it had disappeared. Witness immediately
pursued the prisoner, who had turned down an obscure
passage, where he speedily overtook her, and was in the
act of forcing her back into the road, when two men sud-
denly presented themselves in front of him, and after
charging him with an attempt to take improper liberties
with the woman, dragged him from her with great vio-
lence, and held him fast till she had effected her escape.
His assailants then relinquished their hold of him, and
started off in the direction she had taken ; but immediate
information of the robbery, together with a minute de-
scription of the prisoner, having been communicated by
witness to the police, she was subsequently traced out,
and taken into custody. The witness added that he had
no hesitation in swearing to the identity of the prisoner,
although she had contrived to change the dress she had
worn at the time of the robbery previous to her appre-
hension.

Police-constable Parsons, N 276, stated that the pri-
soner was in the nightly habit of frequenting that part
of the road, where witness had seen her in the early part
of the evening wearing the same dress which the prose-
cutor described she had on at the time of her attack
upon him. On learning the particulars of the robbery,
witness proceeded in search of her, and having at length
met her near the same spot in the dress in which she now
appeared, he charged her with having shortly before
robbed a gentleman, which the prisoner positively denied,
but after lodging her in the station-house he proceeded
to her apartments, on searching which he found the dif-
ferent portions of her other dress scattered in confusion
about the place.
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The prisoner, who stoutly disclaimed all participation
in the robbery, was ordered to be remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Catherine Johnson
was charged with having,. been concerned in robberies of
jewels, &c., at various times, to the amount of between
1,3001. and 1,5001., from the premises of Messrs. Hunt
and Roskell, jewellers, New Bond-street.
The prisoner and her husband came over from
America to visit the Great Exhibition. The prisoner's
husband, among other shops, visited Messrs. Hunt and
Roskell's extensive jewellery establishment in New
Bond-street, and made occasional purchases. A short
time ago, when stock was taken by Messrs. Hunt and
Co., a large quantity of valuable property was missed,
consisting of diamond rings, diamond necklaces, diamond
bracelets, and other expensive articles of jewellery.
Suspicion fell on the prisoner's husband, who still kept
up his visits to the shop, and he was watched. Nothing
of a definite nature could be brought home to
him to warrant the police taking him in custody,
but a sufficient amount of evidence was collected
to justify the police in keeping watch on his move-
ments. About a fortnight ago the husband
of the prisoner left England and went to
Paris. Immediately after this event, two 101. notes
were traced to have been paid by Johnson into the Bri-
tish Bank, where he had opened an account, which notes
had been paid to Johnson by a pawnbroker, named At-
tenborough, of Newington-causeway, as part of a sum
of 401. advanced on two diamond rings, which formed
part of the property stolen from Messrs. Hunt and Co.
The prisoner was about to follow her husband last Fri-
day, but was taken into custody by Inspector Whall, of
the C division, at the South-Eastern Railway.
Susan Baker, No. 4, Hanover-terrace, Islington, said
the prisoner and her husband occupied furnished apart-
ments at her house. The prisoner on one occasion
showed several diamond rings and a bracelet, which she
said were worth 1501. The bracelet was in the shape of
a snake, with large diamonds in the head and smaller at
the tail.

Mi: John Hunt said this description answered the
make of a bracelet stolen from his shop.
Alfred Good, jeweller, Islington, produced a snake
bracelet, which he said had been borrowed by Johnson,
from him about two months ago.
Mr. Hunt said this bracelet could hardly have been
mistaken for the bracelet stolen from his stock.
Mr. Lewis, for the prisoner, made a forcible appeal to
the Court, contending that no evidence whatever had
been brought forward to connect the prisoner with the
robberies.
Mr. Humphries, for the prosecution, did not ask the
Court to commit, but only to remand for a few days
longer.
Mr. Hardwick said the case, as it at present stood,
was certainly one of suspicion only.
Mr. Humphries said the value of the property, up-
wards of 1,5001., was so great, that he hoped the Court
would give the police time to get Johnson, if possible.
Inspector Whall said he had hopes of securing John-
son....s The circumstances of the case had been telegraphed
to raris, but Johnson had contrived to evade appre-
hension.
Mr. Hardwick decided on a further remand till next
Friday.

HAMMERSMITH.—Major Hall, of Phillimore-
place, Kensington, made the following complaint :
On Thursday morning his family was very much
alarmed by some shots being fired into the windows of
his house. Some panes of glass were broken, and one
of the shots entered his bedroom window and struck the
wall. If he had not got up at an earlier hour that
morning than usual he would probably have been struck.
He was afterwards informed that a young man had been
amusing himself at the back of Newland-terrace, by
firing at some birds upon a tree, and that, instead of the
shots killing the birds, they entered his windows.
Mr. Paynter inquired if the person was in custody
Fisk,• a police constable, said he was not.
Mr. Paynter said it was too serious an offence to be
passed over; and he should direct that a summons be
taken out and the person indicted at the sessions.
Major Hall said the inhabitants were also much
alarmed, as the shots actually crossed the street before
they struck his windows.
Mr. Paynter could assure the applicant that he would
put a stop to such a dangerous pastime.
Inspector Havill said the young man was very respect-
ably connected, and had offered to make an apology to
Major Hall and also pay for the panes of glass that had
been broken.
Mr. Paynter said such an offence could not be looked
over, and if it was, there was no telling what the come-
sequences might be.

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* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or
cans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines.

A NEW COMPLAINT.—A strange disease has made its
appearance amongst children in some parts of the fens :
it is not contagious; but appears to arise from atmos-
pheric causes or from the condition of the earth. The
disease is accompanied with great prostration of strength
and glandular swelling, and the parties attacked very
slowly recover from the effects : some have been taken
off suddenly.