The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILD HALL.
Two genteel-looking young women, named Mary Rand
and Patience Barker, were brought before Mr. Alder-
man ANSLEY yesterday, charged with shop-lifting. They
were so much affected at their situation that they could
hardly stand up at the bar.
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his shop on the previous afternoon, and inquired the price
of a printed muslin in the window. After looking at a
great many prints, Mary Rand seemed bent on one, which
however she raid she could not afford to buy, but she
offered to leave a deposit if witness would cut off and re-
serve a length for a gown. This be could not agree to,
and she then purchased a yard and a quarter of calico.
While he was serving Mary Rand, he observed the other
prisoner fiddling about with her bawls under the heap of
prints on the counter, and suspecting she had tht ust
something into her reticule, he followed them into the
street, and requested them to return to the shop. Upon
asking Patience Barker what she had in her reticule, she
said she had a piece of print which she had purchased
elsewhere, but on producing it the witness identified it by
a private mark. On re-entering the shop, one of them
threw away two duplicates, which were found to relate to
a new silk shawl and two pairs of new silk stockings
which had been pledged that day for 18s. Four new
small crape handkerchiefs were also found in a parcel they
brought into the shop, and suspecting, from these circum-
stances, that they were common shoplifters, Mr. Baker,
notwithstanding their entreaties, gave them into custody'.
In answer to a question from Mr. Alderman Ansley, the
wittiests said he could not fix Mary Rand with having a
guilty knowledge of and participation in the robbery.
Mary Rand claimed the stockings as having been her
property twelve months. She had purchased the shawl
from Mr. Venables, a linen-draper, in Whitechapel, and
she was carrying the crape handkerchiefs as a prevent to
her sister.
The other prisoner alleged that the piece of print rolled
off the counter and got into her reticule by mistake.
The shopman said it was very unlikely that a whole
piece of print, lying breadthwise across the counter, should
assume a rolling form, and more so, that it should get un-
perceived into a bag which it could scarcely be squeezed into.
Mr. Corkin, of Walworth, said he had known the pri-
soners some years, and he was never surprised more than
when he was informed they were in custody for shoplifting.
They belonged to a respectable family.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, after conversing some minutes'
with the prosecutor, discharged Mary Rand, and remanded
the other prisoner till the following morning, that she might
bring forward evidence as to her character, and that the
articles which bad been pledged might be claimed if they

ha l bccii ,tolen from any rison. Ahici mao warn I
her never to carry so large a reticule again.

MARY LEB ONE.

Yesterday Mr. Thomas Pike, a hackney-coach master,
who resides at Little Grove-street, Lisson-grov.e. together
with Rebecca East, was mummoned by his wife, Mit v
Pike, for deserting her and her child, a very pretty girl,
of abGnt eleven year: of age, and turning the child out et
doors, after he had taken her nude r his protection.
It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Rke, that si e
had lr_.cn married to the defendant Pike about four year.
.igo, hut they had separated, she living at Stockhrhhze-
terrace, Pimlico, and her husband at Lisson-grove, coha-
biting with Rebecca East. Wednesday last she went t,,
see her little girl, when she was struck upon her neck by
Ea,t, and pushed do,':n staire by her husband. She tui
derstood from the neighbours that her daughter was after-
wards put into the streets, and obliged to take refuge ;it
a ft hou,e in Grosvenor...square.

Mr. GRIFIATHS-Well, Sir, yutt hear what ynur wilt
has got to say, and now c; hat have you to say to it ?
Thomas Pike said that his wife had absconded from him
four years ago, and he produced a new•paper in which he
had advertised her, cautioning the public not to trust her
thereafter.

GRIFFITHS—WeII, ma'am, you have heard why
your bus!,and says. What have you to say ?—Mts.
in ans.ver to the Magistrate's tiuestion, sail she had f eco
ii,ed most krutally bv her hushand, who wished her to I),
come an instrument of sensuality to other men ; that he
had frequently left ber whole nights on the stair case, and
b,at her terribly, when she accidentally met with a friend,
who, pitying her condition, had maintained both herself
and child. The latter had been sent to Margat, fir the
benefit of her health, hut her father would not let her re-
-111141 tittle, though it never co,t him a far! hing expense.
He had taken her home to his apartments, where the wo-
man East repeatedly heat her, and she wished to have her
under her own care.
Pike—l want her too.

Mr. GRIFFITII—I dare say you do, Sir, but I not
allow the child to live under the same roof with your con-
cubine. You must provide a prorr place for her ;
in the mean time, I expect you to find bail to keep th,
peace towards your wife, who, I nul,t sat', did wrong (hut
I suppose she could not help it) :n going to your lodging
at all.

Burridge, the officer, who had been intrusted with the
warrant, fund that the girl would not consent to accmn-
ploy her father, and, under these circumstances, h e di-
rected that she should remain with her mother, to whom
she piteously clung, till such time ps her father could pro-
vide her with a home, or else a boat ding-school, where
she might live unpolluted by the cx.imple of prostitution.