The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-30 00:00:00

WOOLWICH PETTY SESSIONS.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Hob-ler—Answer for it ! Why, look at her. Do
not her tears and agony answer for it ? Don't you think
she has ❑ot suffered enough ?—Miss Cressy remained in-
flexible ; and

Alderman PIRIE directed that the prisoner should be
again remanded, and expressed a hope that a few days
more of thought upon the part of the complainant, and
punishment upon the part of the prisoner, would terminate
the disagreeable affair.

Yesterday, when the prisoner was put to the bar, Mr.
nobler read over the evidence to Alderman Thomas Wood,
who asked whether the complainant was in attendance.
Miss Cressy immediately stepped forward.
Alderman THOMAS Woo D—l have heard your evidence
read, and, if you insist upon it, I must, as a Magistrate,
perform my duty by committing this unfortunate young
woman to Newgate upon this charge ; but I hope you will
think better. Come—l think you will agree with me that
she has had punishment enough.
Miss Cressy intimated a readiness to take the book in her
hand.

Alderman T. WOOD—Do you really wish me to send
her to trial P—Miss Cressy—l do.
Alderman T. WOOD—Think of it once more. You ad-
mit that you had no previous misconduct to accuse her of,
and you would be yourself called upon at her trial to give
her a good character, and if a conviction should take place,
which is impossible in so slight a case, the utmost punish-
ment• inflicted would be two nr three days' imprisonment.
You would then have to reproach yourself with having con-
signed to the horrible tontamination of a gaol a fellow-
creature who had not offended before. Will nothing less
satisfy you ?—Miss Cressy—l insist upon prosecuting her.
Alderman T. WOOD—Then I must commit her for trial.

I have no alternative ; but let me say a word to you—(to
the complainant, in a lower tone)—you sometimes say the
Lord's prayer?
Miss Cressy—l do.
Alderman T. WOOD—III future, when you pray, pass
over the words "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive
them that trespass against us." You have nothing to do
with those conditions, and can have no claim to pardon.
The complainant was affected at this touching address,
which /Alderman T. WOOD followed up with a great deal of
judgment, by saying that he was convinced she was in-
fluenced by some motives which appeared to her to be not
unworthy in persevering in.

She replied that it was not without the greatest suffering
that she brought herself to the determination to prosecute ;
but she had been goaded to it by the reproaches of the pri-
soner's relations and friends, who traduced her character,
heaped the foulest epithets upon her, and were doing all in
their power to ruin her, because she dared to accuse the
person who had plundered her.

Alderman T. WOOD assured her of the protection of the
Magistrates, severely reproved the rash and foolish friends
of the prisoner, and told Miss Cressy that the change which
bad, as it were in the twinkling of an eye, taken place in
her opinions, would be the source of abundant future gra-
tification to her.

The complainant then retired, and the prisoner will be
liberated from prison this day.

POLICE COMffITTEE, GUILDHALL.

THE GAOL OF NEWGATE.-Mr. Cope reported, amongst
other matters connected with Newgate, that - Coles,
one of the turnkeys, had for some minutes abandoned his
post in the capital convicts'-yard, from which Williams, the
chimney-sweeper, had made his wonderful escape.
The Governor stated that the turnkey about a fort-
night ago, left the same post, for the purpose of gossipping
in another part of the prison, and had been reprimanded
for the offence, and upon the repetition of it had been sus-
pended. _ _ _

The turnkey had only gone as far as the next gate, and
during his absence it was impossible that anything could
have taken place. He hoped the Committee would take
it into consideration that for twenty-one years he had been
turnkey in that prison, and that no complaint had ever be-
fore been made against him by any Governor ; that he had
a wife and children ; and that there was no man in the
world, except Williams, who was able to escape from that
yard. _

Alderman VENABLES-You ought to know that from
the moment of a prisoner's entrance into that place, it is
always considered to be his business to endeavour to get
out, and that dismissal is the first punishment of neglect
upon the part of those who have charge of the prisoners
confined.

Alderman THOMAS WOOD—We may be disposed to re-
instate you, on account of your long services, and your fa-
mily, and good character ; but it will be quite impossible
to retain you a moment after a third offence.
The turnkey was then reinstated.

BOW-STREET.
After two or three dozen of drunken and disorderly cases
had been disposed of, Ann Bailey was charged by Mary
Ives with stealing from her shop in Lombard-court, St.
Giles's, two pounds and a half of beef, which was taken
from under her cloak before she had time to make her
escape.

The prisoner, who was a miserable-looking old woman,
and lame of an arm, said that she was compelled to take
the meat through distress.
Sir F. ROE said that as she was so afflicted, and inca-
pable of undergoing hard labour, he would mitigate the
punishment to 15 days in the House of Correction.

111ARYLEBONE.
Yesterday Samuel Peckham, a demure-looking middle-
aged man, was charged before Mr. Rawlinson, with having
plundered his employer, Mr. Robert Richardson, the pro-
prietor of the Red Boot, Judd-street, New-road, of a num-
ber of boots and shoes.
Mr. Richardson, on being sworn, had from time to time
missed a number of boots and shoes from the premises as
above, but little suspected the prisoner to be the thief, as
he always maintained the most sanctified character and ap-
pearance. He had, however, been undeceived a few days
ago from receiving an intimation that the prisoner had been
in the habit of carrying off his goods and disposing of
them to a Jew named Lazarus, whom he was to meet that
morning by appointment in Titchfield-street, for the pur-
pose of getting rid of more of the plunder. Prosecutor,
on repairing to the spot at the hour mentioned, detected
the prisoner in the act of selling one pair of valuable lady's
boots and two pair of shoes to the Jew alluded to. The

Yesterday a youth named Charles Wright was placed at
the bar, charged with having, in the early part of last
November, stolen in the house of his master, Gabriel Shaw,
Esq., at Lea, a 101. Bank of England note, the property of
William Cleave.

Morris, constable of Plumstead, apprehended the pri-
soner as a vagrant on Shooter's-hill on the 25th inst. He
was ordered by the Magistrates to take him to his father
at Greenwich, and havinehad a description of the young
man and an account of the robbery, he asked him if he had
stolen a note from his late master's house at Lee. The
prisoner admitted the fact.
He was fully committed to take his trial at the next sit-
ting of the Central Criminal Court.

A younc, woman named Rebecca Crawley, was brought
before Alderman THOMAS WOOD for a third examination,
charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief, and em-
bezzled three shillings, the property of her employer, Miss
Cressy, a milliner in Artillery-place, Bishopsgate. The
case was one of some interest, and illustrated the danger
to be apprehended from the interference of injudicious
friends.
Miss Cressy had employed the prisoner in needlework for
some weeks, and was satisfied with her services and conduct
until that she discovered that an embezzlement of three
shillings out of nine, which the prisoner had received from
a customer, had been committed, and about the same time
a handkerchief bad disappeared.
When the prisoner was remanded after the first exami-
nation by Alderman Pixie, who it was evident felt the
greatest reluctance to commit to Newgate a young woman
whose previous conduct had been irreproachable, for an
offence which a conviction would not subject to a punish-
ment of more than a week's imprisonment, it was expected
by those who understand the meaning of remanding persons
accused of slight offences that the complainant would not
appear upon the day to which the case was postponed, and
that as a matter of course the prisoner would be discharged.
The moment, however, the prisoner was placed at the bar
on the second day the complainant stepped forward and
stated her readiness to prosecute.
Alderman PIRIE asked the complainant whether she
would not take into consideration the awful consequences of
the disgrace of a trial at the Old Bailey to a young woman
beginning the world, and, who seemed to be for the first
time accused of dishonesty, and to be surrounded by re-
spectable friends ?
Miss Cressy had already taken the whole matter into
consideration, and was determined to prosecute.
One of the friends of the prisoner here addressed a few
words to the Alderman, who then asked the complainant
whether she had not received the things she had lost ?
She replied that it was true they had been sent back to
her in a mysterious manner, but she immediately delivered
them to the officer, having resolved not to give up her in-
tion of prosecuting.
Alderman PIRIE—What do you want ? You have re-
ceived all that you complain of having lost ; will nothing
but the destruction of this poor girl, wo has already in a
great measure lost her character, answer your purpose ?
Miss Cressy, whose countenance but ill accorded with the
sentiments she uttered, replied that the prisoner had acted
ungratefully, and should answer for it.

articles having been stolen from his shop, he called a po.
liceman and gave him into custody.
Mr. Richardson having identified the property, the pri
soner was fully committed to Newgate.

THE WRONG PIG BY THE EAR.—Yesterday two work-
ing men, named John Williams and Marmaduke Richard-
son, were charged with having on the previous (Sunday)
morning, seized a pig by the car and tail, in front of St.
Mary's Church, Bryanstone-square, which caused the ani-
mal to squeak so violently as to disturb the congregation
there assembled.

Police constable No. 150 D, was on duty near the spot,
when information was brought to him that the prisoners
were having " a lark " with a large pig close to the above
church. On proceeding
.thither, he saw the two prisoners
pulling the animal by the ears and tail, which caused
it to squeak most terrifically, to the great annoyance of
every one in the neighbourhood. On being desired
not to make so much noise, they jocosely replied that it
was the pig and not them, that cried out. As they did
not desist, he took them into custody.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Was the pig's tail soaped ? Con-
stable—Not that I know, your Worship.
The prisoners, in their defence, said they kept a pig,
which unfortunately escaped from the sty on Sunday morn-
ing. The animal being a joint concern, they both pursued
it, when seeing one of the swinish multitude very much like
it making its way into the church, they seized it by the cars
and tail, in order to bring it away ; but unfortunately, on
examination, the pig turned out not to be theirs. The po-
liceman, then, through the mistake, took them into custody.
They were both discharged, with a caution not to take
the wrong pig by the ear again.