The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-01 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday Jkfary Saunders, one of the assistant nurses
employed at the London Hospital, who has been in cus-
tody for the last week on a charge of stealing a 101. note,
belonging to the governors of that institution, was brought
up for further examination.
The case against the prisoner was excessively clear.
Some days ago, a 101. note was handed to one of the
nurses belonging to the London Hospital by Mrs. Nelson,
the matron of that establishment, to pay some small bills in
the neighbourhood, and the nurse, by some accident,
dropped it before leaving the institution, and though an im-
mediate search was instituted, it was nowhere to be found.
Suspicion subsequently fell upon the prisoner, and she was
taken into custody. It was clearly proved, on the last
examination, that the prisoner, a few days after the note
was missed, had changed it at the shop of a haberdasher in
Ratcliffe-highway, where she purchased a silk dress, and
other articles, so that the case was clearly established
against her. Yesterday Mr. Lang, the solicitor to the
Hospital, and all the witnesses, were in attendance, but,
previous to their arrival, a County Magistrate, who is also
a Governor of the Hospital, attended at the office, and
authorised, or rather sent, Davies, one of the officers of the
establishment, to the lock-up room to the prisoner, to offer
terms of pardon to her, provided she made a full confession
of the matter. The prisoner at once admitted having found
the note, and concealing it, aster the fact of its having been
dropped was known, and also to having changed it, as has
been stated, in payment for a silk dress ; and she concluded
by saying that on some inquiries being made at the Hospital
she threw the change into the Thames. The confession,
the latter part of which was not believed by any person
who had heard it, having been obtained under a promise of
forgiveness, it was found would be a bar to a prosecution,
and the examination, therefore, was not gone into in the
ordinary way.
Mr. COMBES observed that the witnesses would not be
required for the present, and therefore they might be dis-
charged from further attendance.
The prisoner was subsequently brought before the ma-
gistrates, and the instant she entered the felon's dock she
dropped down on the floor, apparently as if in a fit, but her
fall was so well managed that she was not in the slightest
degree hurt, and it was quite apparent to all present that it
was a bit of acting, or as Shelswell, one of the officers, who
is an excellent judge of these matters, said, " a bit of gam-
mon." After being taken up she was told that she was re-
manded for another week. _

It was however finally understood that when next brough
up she will be discharged.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday several cases of picking pockets at the scene
of the late calamitous fire near London-bridge were investi-
gated before the Magistrates, and amongst them a charge
was brought against two lads, who were charged with rob-
bing a gentleman close to the ruins of Fenning's wharf, of
silk pocet-handkerchief.
The prisoners were both seen together for some time,
one of whom, with great dexterity, tried the pockets of
several persons before he succeeded in getting any pro-
perty, while his companion, who is much taller and stouter
made, walked behind, for the purpose of covering the prin-
cipal delinquent, and concealing him from the view of the
different parties of police who were patrolling about, for the
protection of the spectators, collected in great numbers
about the spot, to witness the devastation occasioned by the
conflagration.
The charge, as affecting both the prisoners, having been
proved by the evidence of two policemen,
The MAGISTRATES committed both the prisoners to
hard labour for three months.
A girl named Finn was charged with inveigling a young
female of prepossessing appearance from her home, and then
robbing her of her clothes.
The complainant went to the late Camberwell Fair,
and while walking about, amusing herself with looking at
the different shows, the prisoner entered into conversation
with her, and ultimately prevailed upon her to leave home,
arid come up to town, where, she said, that she would live
like a lady. The complainant, being enchanted with the
description she had received of a London life went home
directly, and having packed up her clothes, left the house
without the knowldge of her parents, and came up from
Camberwell with her new acquaintance. She was then
taken to a house in Mint-street, and remained there for the
last five weeks.
Upon inquiry the Magistrate was informed that Mint-
street was the abode of the most depraved of both sexes,
and that a worse place could not be selected in town to
take a young and inexperienced female to.
The complainant, in continuation, said that, having re-
mained in Mint-street until she could stay no longer, she
left the house with her clothes tied up in a bundle, accom-
panied by the prisoner, and walked about the streets until
they were tired. The prisoner at length complained of ex-
haustion, and said that she should sit down on the 'step of
a door to rest, and offered to hold the bundle belonging
to the comploinant while the latter walked forward at an
easy pace, adding that she should follow her. The'com-
plainant having adopted this advice, when she turned round
to look for her acquaintance she found that she was gone,
and the bundle with her.
MAGISTRATE (to complainant)—l suppose you have had
quite enough of a lady's life in London, as the woman at
bar told you that you were to have ? The complainant's
mother, who was very much affected at the foolish vanity
of her daughter in being inveigled from home under such
circumstances, said that no girl had a more comfortable
home, and that she had no earthly reason that she (the mo-
ther was aware of) to quit it as she did.
Evidence having been produced that the prisoner had
pledged the articls she had stolen from the complainant
under the circumstances we have detailed, the Magistrate
inflicted a penalty upon her for illegally pawning, and in
default of payment she was committed to Brixton to hard
labour for 3 months.