The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A young female, named Ann Burgess, was yesterday
brought to this office in the custody of a constable. William
Henry Burton was on board an oyster boat about twelve
o'clock the previous day, when be heard a noise, as if some
one had fallen into the river. On turning round he saw the
female at the bar sinking, but he, after considerable exertion,
succeeded in saving her life.
The poor creature was evidently of unsound mind, and she
continued to call out " Poor Tom—poor Tom," while Burton
gave evidence. The constable said that a young man with
whom the poor creature had lived had been sentenced to be
transported at the Sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
She was allowed to depart with her mother, who engaged
to take care of ber for a few days, to see whether she would
get better. It she did not, the Magistrates ordered her to
apply to the parish.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Daniel Cross, a young man very respectably connected, was
charged by Policeman Carson, C 127, with having been con-
cerned in the felonious abstraction of a bale of grocery from
in Regent-street, on Wednesday week.
a waggonTi
statement of the policeman was, that when about fifty
yards from the waggon he saw several persons at the tail of it.
He went forward, and when within a few yards of the waggon
a
boy
either in a flannel or a fustian jacket gave an alarm, and
aman who had a package on his shoulder which had been just
handed to him from the waggon, threw his load down and ran
off, The boy also made his escape, and a third man, who at
the moment of the alarm jumped out of the waggon, tried to
do the same, but according to the statement of the witness was
stopped and taken into custody by him. The prisoner was
brought to this office the following day, and the charge against
him was made.
On the prisoner's behalf a host of respectable friends came
forward to prove the utter impossibility of the prisoner being
concerned in the robbery. The accused also in the strongest
manner asserted his innocence, and gave so clear an account of
the manner in which he had spent his time up to the minute
when he was taken into custody, that the bench evidently had
a favourable opinion of his defence. The police:nan, how-
ever, insisted that he had not been mistaken, and :Ir. Conant
consented to postpone the inquiry for a week, and' to relpase
the accused on bail.

Yesterday the case came on for final hearing.•
The policeman repeated his charge, and persisted in declar-
ing that he had never lost sight of the person who jumped out
of the waggon, and that this person was the prisoner.
On the part of the prisoner respectable witnesses proved
that he was confidentially employed by Messrs. Grissell and
Peto, the builders in the capacity of painter. That on the
day of the alleged robbery, he left his work at the usual
hour (six o'clock), and that he made an appointment with
one of the witnesses to meet him in Jermyn-street by eight
o'clock at his club. That he was obliged to be at the club by
eight o'clock or he would become subject to a fine. That
after leaving his work he took tea with a friend in the Bel-
videre-road, Lambeth. That he left about a quarter before
seven o'clock, and went into the Westminster-road to pur-
chase a pair of drawers, which were found on him when taken
into custody. That after leaving the shop he had no more
time than would suffice to enable him to reach the club in time
to save his fine, and that be was on his road to Jermyn-street
a few minutes before eight, when he was laid hold of by the
policeman and accused of having attempted to steal the truss
of grocery. All these facts satisfactorily proved, coupled
with the circumstance that the night was dark and that three
persons must have been confederated, even according to the
policeman's statement, in the felony, inclined the Magistrates
to believe that the policeman in the hurry of the moment had
laid hold of the wrong person.
The policeman, however, persisted in his first statement, de-
claring that he had a full view of the person who jumped out
of the cart, as a gas lamp was near the spot.
Mr. CONANT said he was inclined to believe that the police-
man was mistaken. He should' call upon the prisoner to put
in common bail in case his attendance at any future period
might be required. Bail was immediately given, and the pri-
soner was liberated.