The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-25 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Lucy Wadnell was yesterday brought before Mr. CHAM-
BERS for final examination, charged with having illegally
pawned some bridles and other articles, the property of
Wm. Murray, Esq., of Lower Grosvenor-street.
It appeared that the prisoner's husband lived as coach-
man with Mr. Murray, but having recently caused the
death of a valuable horse, and otherwise grossly miseon-
ducted himself, he was dismissed. His wife, who was
also in Mr. Murray's service, was allowed out of compas-
sion to retain her situation, and was otherwise very kindly
treated. When Mr. Murray returned to town he disco-
vered that the prisoner had taken several articles of his
property, and had pledged them in the name of one of his
other -female domestics. Considering her conduct as pe-
culiarly ungrateful, she having property of her own in the
house which she could have raised more money upon than
the amount obtained by pledging what was not her own,
he caused her to be taken into custody.
The prisoner said that the name in which she had pledged
the property was her maiden name.
Mr. CHAMBERS directed that the prisoner should pay a
fine of double the value of the articles pledged, or go to
prison for two months.

- William Beck was charged with having assaulted Jane
Bevan.

The complainant stated she was engaged a few days
as housemaid in the family of a gentleman named Fry, who
keeps the baths in St. James's-place. The defendant was
a servant also, and his place was to attend the baths. From
the day on which she had been in her situation up to a day
or two ago, the defendant had conducted himself with
great indecency towards her, although he was a married
man, and also knew that she was a married woman. Two
female servants in the establishment of Lady Clinton called
to pay her a visit, and the defendant conducted himself in
the same scandalous manner towards them. Complainant
told her master of the fellow's behaviour, but Mr. Fry could
not then attend to the complaint, as he was going out of
town. Complainant went out that afternoon, and in the
evening was accompanied home by her husband, as she
feared again being attacked by the defendant. When she
got in she found the defendant and his wife in the hall,
who both began abusing, and she was compelled to call
her husband to protect her. The defendant's wife (while
the husbands were fighting) attacked her, tore her bonnet
from her head, and used her with such violence that it was
necessary to call in the assistance of the police.
A witness proved the assault, and another female said
she could bring forward evidence that the defendant had for
some time been practising his filthy conduct towards the fe-
males in the house.

Mr. Fry, who was present, said he certainly would not
permit such a character as the defendant to remain under
his roof. He had no knowledge whatever of the defen-
dant's conduct until the complainant told him how he had
acted.

Mr. CHAMBERS said, as the defendant stood a chance to
lose both situation and character, he should not put a very
heavy fine on him. The defendant was ordered to pay 20s.
and costs. .

The defendant a short time since swept a crossing. He 1
was employed to carry boards, with the address of the baths
on them, and soon afterwards was promoted to the compa-
ratively-respectable situation of bath manager.
A personage of imposing exterior, whose velvet-faced
dress-coat, flowered silk waistcoat, and glittering neckchain
and brooch, in the chiaroscuro of the clerk's office pre-
sented the fac-simile of a swell of the first magnitude, in
a towering passion, applied to one of the officers for an as-
sault warrant, and having talked in a very magnificent
manner of an atrocious assault, ungentlemanly conduct, in-
jured honour, &c., he was shown into the Magistrates'
room, and the party complained against was immediately
sent for.

The defendant, with an air of prodigious consequence
entered the office—his dress, however, afforded a ludicrous
contrast to his lofty manner, for the short jacket which he
wore allowed more than one portion of his body linen to
appear through the numerous places for ventilation in his
never-to-be-mentioned femoral garment.
This unprovoked outrage, began the complainant, oc-
curred in consequence of the defendant telling me, the mo-
ment he saw me, that I owed three-halfpence for half a pint
of hot coffee.

Mr. DYER—Pray who are you ? Complainant—l am
a member of a celebrated fashionable establishment in Bond-
street, and the defendant is a coadjutor.
Officer—Your Worship, they are both journeyman
tailors.—(Laughter.)
The complainant, with great warmth, proceeded to detail
the rise and progress of the quarrel, and after much unpar-
liamentary language had ensued, the defendant committed
an assault, the particulars of which, said the complainant, I
am ashamed to state to your Worship.
MAGISTRATE—You must explain how you were assaulted.
Complainant—Must I ? Well, he pulled my nose, and
then he spit in my face.
Pardon me, your Worship, said the defendant, bowing
profoundly, Pardon me for trespassing on your Worship's
time ; but a duty I owe to the public hobligatos me to lay
a statement of facts before your Bench. That individual,
in the most ungentlemanly manner, wanted to chisel the
boy as supplies us with evening refreshment out of half a
pint of coffee. I taxed him with the charge, and he re•
plied, " You are a d—d liar." Dare, said I, to apply such
an übrupt epitaph to my character, and I'll instantly sacri-
fice you to my resentment. Will you, says he. You are
a nasty-nosed puppy. Now, your Worship, as a man and
a gentleman, I put it to you, would you not have acted just
as I did ? I seized his proboscis, and certainly I did ex-
pectorate on his countenance.
NIT. DYER—Have you any witness who heard the oppro-
brious names applied to you ?
Another tailor stepped forward to depose that the
names were applied ; and, clenching his fist, violently de-
clared that, bad the same names been applied to him,
he would have knocked a thundering hole through his ugly
carcass.

The case was then dismissed.
William Evans was charged with having stolen 701bs. of
lead from an untenanted house, kept possession of by a man
named Sheen.
The policeman, 42 C, deposed that he had found the

prisoner, at four o'clock on Saturday morning, at the corner
of Marshall-street, with clothes covered with mortar and
dirt. He inquired where he had been, and was told in
Marlborough-mews. A little time afterwards the lead was
found near the spot where he had been first by the policeman,
and the prisoner was taken into custody on suspicion of
stealing. Another man was with the prisoner a few minutes
before he was first seen, and it was thought that this man,
whose name is Sheen, had been concerned in having the
lead removed from a house of which he retains possession,
in spite of the landlord.
The officers are in search of Sheen, and the prisoner was
remanded for a week.