The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-07 00:00:00

ABDUCTION OF YOUNG GIRLS.

The Hull magistrates were yesterday (Wednesday)
engaged in the investigation of a case in which a
foreigner, named Christian Shantoff, was charged with
having decoyed over to England a young German girl,
named Auguste Heinroth, for purposes of prostitution.
The prisoner was dressed as a sailor, and professed to
be one, but it was stated by the police that he kept a
house of ill-fame in Hull. A warrant was issued for his
apprehension a fortnight ago, but he absconded and was
only taken into custody on Tuesday night. The girl he
is charged with bringing over to England is about 17
years and a half old, and is intelligent-looking, with
very pretty features. From her statement it seems that
she was born at Staffenhaven, Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
and in May last was in service in a public-house kept by
a person named Albrecht, at Altona. While there the
prisoner frequently visited the house, and often told her
that she would earn much greater wages in England
than she did there. At length he announced that he
and his Wife were going over to England to keep pub-
..dy
lic-house, aid offered to engage her as servant. a She
consented, and came over with him and his so-called wife
in the Prince stean:er,to Hull. When they arrived, he fur-
nished a house in Agn:4-place,a and t
told thehither thcoy e all went.
s het
After the expiration of Bomb. d that she must go on to
that his money was all gone,
any such course, but ultimately was
,r 1 protested against
the streets or starve. The poor 8_ taken out by the
n the streets,
prisoner's wife, who spoke to several men
ouse with
and one at length went to the prisoner's 12
them. Arrived there, drink was sent for, and t,e • com-
plainant being made drunk, her ruin was effected. fter,
this she was again and again driven by the threats an,:'
abuse of the prisoner to the same course. About a fort-
night afterwards she saw hate ate of the Britannia
steamer trading to Hamburg, ndm be offered to take her
home, but the prisoner would not allow her to have her
clothes, and the result was that she was obliged to be-
come a common prostitute for a subsistence. These
facts were very clearly stated, and a register of her cha-
raote r, such an all domestic servants in Germany are
obliged to keep, was put in, and showed tahat in her na-
tive country she had borne an irreproachable character.
A remand was asked till Monday for the production
immense of
. further evidence, and granted. There is an
number of German rostitutes in Hull, and it is stated
that a regular trade has been carried ou in the bringing
of them over.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A YOUNG MARRIED FEMALE.--
Yesterday Air. Langharn held an inquest at St. George's
Hospital, on the body of Mary Tann, aged 18, a remark-
..bly fine young married female, wife of a paper-hanger,
living at Belgra,ve Cottages, Pimlico, who was burned to
death. On Tuesday morning last deceased was in the
kitchen, about eighteen inches from the fire-pace, stoop.
ing down, when a lighted coal shot out from the grate,
and falling on her back set her gown on fire. In one
moment she was in a complete blaze, and rushing up
stairs into the garden, crying " fire, fire," the attention
of a neighbour was called to her, when, seizing a carpet,
he threw it round her, and succeded in extinguishing the
flames. She was found to be shockingly burned in the
back, neck, and face, the skin from which and her arms
peeled off to her fingers' ends in unwrapping her. She
was immediately placed in a cab and conveyed to the
hospital, where every possible aid was rendered, but she
lingered in the Most, excruciating agony till Monday
morning last, when she died. "Verdict, " Accidental
death."