The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—DanieI Maloney, a youth of about
16, was charged with stealing a purse and 101., belong-
ing to the wife of Colonel George Tomkins.
Jesse Tomkins, the prosecutrix, deposed that she re-
sided at 12, Taviton-street, Gordon-square. She knew
the prisoner, and had interested herself to get him a
situation. With that view she gave him a letter of re-
commendation a short time back, and on Monday after-
noon he called at her residence to see her upon the subject.
He was left in the hall while the servant went up stairs
to inform witness that he was waiting, and one of the
parlour doors was partly open. Witness went down and
hal some conversation with the boy, and then stepped
into the parlour, where she had left her purse, in a
reticule upon the table, to get him a little money. She
discovered that the silk fastenings of her reticule had
been drawn open, and the purse, containing two 51.
notes and some loose silver, was gone. She saw the
prisoner's cap on the corner of the sideboard, and it ex-
cited her suspicion slightly, as he had had no occasion to
go into the room. He said, however, that be went in
meraly to get an envelope. Witness said, " I cannot
give you any money now, for I have lost my purse and
rO/.', He replied, "Oh, my God, have you lost so large
al amount as that !" Witness remarked that it was
ju3t possible she had left it at a shop in Welbeck-street,
where she had been making some purchases, and told
the Iny to wait while she proceeded there in a cab. She
in the meantime desirel her man-servant to detain him
in the kitchen until her return, which was accordingly
done. Finding that the purse had not been left at the
shop, she sent for a constable to inquire into the matter.
Police constable 98 E stated that he went down
into the kitchen, and heard Colonel Tomkins
inquiring about the purse. The prisoner said he
had heard of the lady's loss, and was sorry for
it, but be knew nothing about it. The colonel asked
him if he objected to be searched, and he replied,
" Not the least in the world." Witness then
searched him, and found the lost purse concealed in a
fold inside the prisoner's stocking. The two notes were
still in the purse, but the silver had been taken out.
Witness afterwards found the silver in the prisoner's
shoes.

The prisoner—I picked up the purse in the passage,
Mr. Henry committed him for trial.

GT.TILDHALL.—A tall, forbidding woman was
placed at the bar before Sir Chapman Marshall, charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
City police-constable, No. 257, stated that between
six and seven o'clock last night the prisoner was drunk
and disorderly at Holborn-bridge. He requested her to
go away, but instead of doing so she took hold of him
and said she would serve him out on the first opportunity
for having been the means of transporting Jack Shep-
pard. He left her, and on returning shortly afterwards
he found her creating a disturbance, and she then fol-
lowed him about abusing him in a most offensive man-
ner. She has been custody before.
The prisoner denied having abused the constable, or
having done anything wrong. The policeman followed
her, and excited her by calling her the aunt of Jack
Sheppard.
The constable denied that he had done so.
Sir Chapman Marshall inquired if she was the aunt of
Jack Shepherd ?

Mr. Wood (the clerk) said she had been in the court
before; and it was then stated that she was called the
aunt of Jack Sheppard, and belonged to a gang of thieves
and prostitutes that frequented Pump-court, who went
by the name of Jack Shepherd's gang.
The prisoner denied that she had anything to do with
thieves or prostitutes, and that all that had been said
against her was false. _ _ .

Sir Chapman Marshall sentenced the prisoner to pay
a fine of 55., or be imprisoned for seven days.
In default of payment the prisoner was committed.

SOUTHWARK.—Henry Julian, a tall young fellow,
in the prison dress, was brought up on remand, charged
with defrauding Thomas Dando, a tailor, carrying on
business in Charlotte-street, Blackfriar's-road, of a vain-
ab'e suit of clothes.

It appeared that, on Monday week, the prisoner
called on the prosecutor, and honoured him with an order
for a new suit of black clothes, which he particularly
required on Saturday, as he was going to a funeral.
He gave his address at 110, Stamford-street, and told
the tailor to send them there, and the money should be
immediately paid. The prosecutor's lad took them to
the place directed on Saturday, where he saw the pri-
sioner, to whom he delivered the suit and the bill,
amounting to 5/. Bs. The prisoner immediately took
his old clothes off and put on the new ones, when he
complained about them, and refused to pay the lad for
them. The latter remonstrated with him, telling him
his master had told him he must not leave the clothes
without the money, but all in vain, as the gentleman
put on his hat and marched out of the house to the
prosecutor's followed closely by the lad. The prosecutor
perceiving him so near pulled him in and demanded the
money, when the prisoner in the most insolent manner
told him he should not pay him then, as he considered
he was entitled to six months' credit. Not wishing to
be on such intimate terms with a man who was a
stranger to him, and unknown at his lodgings, prose-
cutor called a constable, and handed him over to his
custody.
On Saturday Mr. Combe sent him to the gaol, where
the new and fashionable suit was substituted for an
unsightly suit of blue serge, supplied to him by the
county, and the former were handed over to the tailor.
On his being placed at the bar to-day, the prosecutor
said he had no wish to press the charge any further, as
he had got his clothing.
Mr. Combe then told the prisoner that he had better
mind what he was about, as on another occasion he might
not get off so well. He should order him to be dis-
charged ; but, before he was liberated, he must ex-
change the county clothing for the original suit at his
lodgings.
The prisoner, who did not much relish the idea of
losing his new suit, was then removed by the gaoler, to
undergo the exchange of garments.

THAMES.--Mary IValker, 28, a person of consider-
able attractions, described as a married woman, re-
siding at 16, Princess-street, Whitechapel, was charged
with stealing a gold watch, worth from 161. to 18/ , 11.
10s. in gold, and ss. or 6s. in silver, from the person of
Robert Barber, described as a " victualler" (whether
licensed or not the sheet did not say), of Plough-bridge,
Rotherhitbe.

The prosecutor, a portly, respectably dressed man,
stated that early on the morning of the 6th inst., he met
the prisoner and another woman, he did not exactly know
where, and at their solicitation gave them something to
drink. He then went to a house with them, and gave
some money for gin, after partaking of which he soon
became stupified, and did not awaken until two or three
o'clock in the afternoon, when he found that his com-
panion was gone, and his watch and money had vanished
with her. He called to a child who was in the room, and
asked where the person was who had been with him.
The child called her mother, Anne Simmons, who keeps
a brothel at No. 2, Ellen's-place, Shadwell, to whom the
prosecutor communicated the loss of his watch, and was
told by her that he would find the duplicate in his
pocket, which, on searching, proved to be the case, and
he perceived that it had been pawned for 41., at Mr.
Wood's in the Commercial-road.

Dutton, a constable of theK division, subsequently ap-
prehended the prisoner, whom he had seen coining out of
the house in Ellen-street on the day of the robbery,
and whom he recognised by the description given by the
proscutor.
A witness named Sneed, in the employment of Mr.
Wood, proved that the watch was pawned by the pri-
soner, and that in answer tojhis questions, she told him
that it was her husband's property, and that she was
compelled to part with it to pay her rent.
Mr. Yardley committed her for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—A quiet-looking elderly woman
solicited the magistrate's assistance under the following
circumstances.
Applicant complained that her daughter, a girl of
seventeen, had gone through the ceremony of marriage
without being blessed with a husband. It was of course
at the time of the nuptials supposed that she was being
united to one of the other sex, and they went to York
to spend the honeymoon ; but her daughter, to her
great surprise, discovered that she had been married to
a woman in male attire, and the mother of three
children.

Mr. Broderip observed that there was such a case as
this in the books, and inquired where the marriage took
place ?

Applicant replied at Highgate Church.
Mr. Broderip referred her to the magistrate of thai
district.

Applicant before leaving the court made the follow-
ing extraordinary statement in the waiting-room. That
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pseudo husband was first introduced to her in female
attire under the name of Mrs. Parton ; but after an in-
timacy of some months suddenly appeared in the cos-
tume of a gentleman, announcing himself as Mr. Albert
Guelph, and declaring that he was the son of George
the Fourth and Queen Caroline ; that from certain rea-
sons his existence had hitherto been kept a profound
secret ; but that his love for her fair daughter had
wrung it from his heart, and induced him to appear in
becoming habiliments of his own sex, in lieu of the
feminine attire he had been disguised in for years, by
direction of a very benign old lady, who met him perio-
dically in Park-lane, and supplied him with cash ad
libitum, As he dressed very fashionably, and always
Lad plenty of money, applicant, believing the story,
consented to their nuptials, particularly as the soi distant
Mrs. Panton and her daughter had, upon the occasion
of little visits, slept together before, and so Miss Robins
changed her name for Mrs. Guelph on the 12th of Sep.
tember, 1852, by license, at Highgate Church, but, alas!
soon discovered that Mrs.' Panton was but a woman,
after all, although endeavours were made for a consider-
able time to induce a contrary notion.

HAMMERSMITH.—Daniel Roach a tall, powerful
looking fellow, about 30 years of age, standing full six
feet in height, was charged with having: committed a
savage assault upon his wife.
Ellen Roach, the wife, whose appearance excited the
commiseration of the whole court, came forward. The
right side of her face, from the eye to the chin, presented
a most frightful appearance, and the whole of her head
was one mass of bruises. She had a bandage over her
right eye round her forehead, and she seemed scarcely
able to move her head, and appeared to be suffering most
acutely from the injuries she had received. The com-
plainant said—A little after nine o'clock on Monday
Light I went to my husband, at his brother's house, in
Xensall New-town. He first beat me about with his
hands, and while down he kicked me several times on
the head and face with his thick heavy boots on his feet.
He has destroyed every morsel of me, and I am now in
great pain. lie left me on Saturday last. I had tried i