The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Asmartly-dressed young woman, Emily Taylor,
was charged with robbing her employer, Mr. Richard
Harvey, a licensed victualler in the Kingsland-road,
and Mary and Frederick Taylor, her mother and
brother, were charged as accessories to the fact.
The prosecutor stated that the first named prisoner
had been in his service as barmaid for about three
months, and that no suspicion was entertained of her
honesty till about a fortnight since, when he examined
his stock, and discovered a deficiency to the amount
of nearly 401. Feeling satisfied that the prisoner
must have been instrumental in its• substraction, he
marked a quantity of silver money, and placed it in
the hands of two policemen in plain clothes, with
directions to pass it over the counter, which they did
upon three separate occasions, and a portion of the
money being missed in each instance, the prisoner
was taxed with the robbery. She at first denied the
accusation, but afterwards confessed it, pulled out
two of the marked coins from her pocket, and offered
to immediately leave the house if he would forgive
her, The policemen, however, were directed to
search her bedroom and that of her mother, who re-
sided upon the premises, and, bottles containing
brandy and other spirits having been discovered in
each, they were given into custody.
Ball, Ball, one of the officers so employed, stated that
while engaged in the search he detected the boy
Frederick Taylor attempting to get rid of part of the
spirits, and that upon asking him his motive, he said
he had done so to save his sister ; the mother, upon
being asked to account for her possession of the stolen
property, alleged that a portion of it had been sold to
her by her daughter.
When called upon for their defence, the prisoners
protested their innocence, and the daughter stated
I that she had simply taken two of the marked pieces
to exchange them for another, and with the intention
if she had not been interrupted, of restoring them to
the till.
The boy was discharged, but the mother and daugh-
ter were ordered to be brought up again for the com-
pletion of the evidence against them.
CLERKENWELL.
Eliza Saxton, a respectably- dressed young woman,
was charged with having purchased a quantity of
oxalic acid, with intent to destroy herself. I'here was
also a charge contained in the police-sheet against
Charles Williams, for having attempted to destroy
his life by taking poison.
Sergeant Lister, 10, G, on the prisoner being
placed at the bar, said that the circumstances of the
case were very extraordinary. The young man Wil-
liams, who was 24 years of age, was in the Royal
Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane, in a dangerous state,
and unable to attend; but he was there in custody of
the police until his fate was known. He (Sergeant
Lister) produced a certificate, signed by Mr. Cooke,
the surgeon, stating that he was in danger, through
having taken a quantity of oxalic acid, and was un-
able to attend.
Mr. CO MBE inquired whether there was any evi-
dence to produce ?—Sergeant Lister replied that Mr.
Davis, chymist, of Acton-place, Bagnigge• wells-road,
who sold the poison, was in court; but he (Lister)
had made himself acquainted with the whole of the
particulars.
It appeared that the woman was a servant out of
place, and Williams, who formerly had some horses
and cabriolets of his own, was reduced, and his em-
ployment uncertain. For some time past he had paid
his addresses to the prisoner, and had promised her
marriage, but their union was postponed in conse-
quence of their not having work. On Saturday week
Williams saw her walking arm in arm with a young
man, which excited his jealousy, and he determined
to have no more to do with her, and kept her at
a distance until Saturday night last, when she
called upon him, and endeavoured to cause him
to make it up with her, as she meant no harm in
walking with the young man he had seen her
with. He, however, refused, and said he would
have nothing more to do with her. She said if that
was his determination she would go and destroy her-
self, and she left him. After doing so, it would ap-
pear that she proceeded to the shop of Mr. Davis in
Acton-place, I3agnigge-wells-road, and asked for a
pennyworth of oxalic acid. Mr. Davis, who knew her
as formerly being in the service of a family in the neigh-
bourhood, and having served her with it before, to be
used properly, served her without any suspicion of
anything wrong, and she left the shop. She returned
to her mother's house, where she found the young
man Williams, to whom she showed the poison, and
said she intended to take it, when he snatched it out
of her hand, and, chewing paper and all, swallowed
the whole of it, about half an ounce. The prisoner
was greatly alarmed, and called for assistance, when
he was conveyed to the hospital, labouring under the
symptoms of the poison, in great pain ; the stomach-
pump was immediately resorted to, and he was put
to bed.

• Police-constable 128 G said, that on Saturday
L night, about twelve o'clock, he received information
that a young man named Williams had taken poison
at a house in Lamp-office-court; and on proceeding
thither he found Williams very
ill. Witness asked if
he had taken it of his own accord ? The prisoner
said he snatched it out of the woman's hand and
took it. It was oxalic acid, and she bought it at Mr.
Davis's,
in Acton-place. Witness took Williams to
the hospital, and the prisoner to Mr. Davis's, when
'
he identified her as having purchased a pennyworth
of oxalic acid. He took the prisoner to the station-
house ; and she was locked up on the charge.
Mr. Counn asked Sergeant Lister if ho had seen
Williams ?—Sergeant Lister said he had seen him that
morning, and his face was swollen dreadfully, and he
was in great pain.
Mr. Counn asked the prisoner if she wished to say
anything ?—The prisoner said she could not deny
having purchased the poison, or what had been stated. !
She was very sorry for what had happened.
Mr. ComnE—l suppose you would have no objec-
tion to marry him now? Prisoner (smiling)—No, Sir.
Mr. Davis was in attendance to identify the pri-
soner, and gave evidence.
Mr. COMTIE ordered the prisoner to put in her re-
cognizance to appear on a future day, when the fate
of Williams may be made known.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
William Smithson was charged with having
ob-
tained some copper wire and copper saucepans under
false pretences.
' John Ray stated that he is the son of Jeremiah
' Ray, of No. 42, Broad-street, Golden-square. The
prisoner on Saturday last came into his father's shop,
and stated that he came from Mr. Keith for a quan-
tity of bell wire. As there was a customer of the
' name of Keith witness let the prisoner have the pro-
perty, in the belief that his message was true.
John Jones, shopman, said the prisoner came a
second time to Mr. Ray's shop and asked for a hank
of stouter wire and some cranks. He was allowed to
take the property out of the shop, but, as suspicion
was entertained that he had not been sent by Mr.
Keith, he was watched, and ultimately given into
custody.
A second charge was brought forward against the
prisoner.
Ann Davis, servant to Mr. Sevilly, of No. 23,
George-street, Hanover-square, stated that the pri-
soner called at her master's house and obtained some
copper kitchen requisites from her under pretence
that Mr. Keith, his master, had sent him for them, to
do certain repairs.
Mr. Keith proved that in neither case had he sent
the prisoner for the property in question.
The prisoner was fully committed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Matilda Dexter, a tall, masculine-looking woman,
was charged with stabbing Denis Callaghan, an Irish
labourer, employed in the docks.
The prosecutor, whose head was partially enveloped
in bandages, stated, that at eleven o'clock on the pre-
ceding night he repaired to a house in George-yard,
Whitechapel, at which a ball and concert took place
every Sunday evening, for the purpose of inducing
his cousin, who had attended it, to return home to
her family. Upon entering the passage of the house
he accidentally stumbled against the prisoner, who
was standing there, and, without his being afforded
the slightest opportunity for explanation, was in-
stantly knocked down by her husband, who kicked
him in the most savage manner while lying upon the
ground, and afterwards trampled upon his body. Ile
was struggling to disengage himself from his assailant
when the prisoner made a rush at him with a table-
fork and drove it repeatedly into his head, until he
was rescued by several of the bystanders, who dragged
her away from him, and sent for a constable, into
whose custody the prisoner was given, and the witness
conveyed to the hospital, where his wounds were
dressed, and of which he was then an out-patient.
A young woman, named Anne Weaver, stated that
seeing the prisoner and her husband ill-using the
complainant, whose face was streaming with blood,
she entreated them not to murder the man, upon
which the prisoner flew at her, and after tearing off
the whole upper part of her dress, stabbed her with
some instrument in the arm, but was forcibly removed
before she could renew the attack. (The witness
here exhibited her arm to the magistrate, which pre-
sented three punctured wounds evidently produced
by the prongs of a fork.)
Mr. Vann, who appeared for the defence, expressed
his intention to reserve his answer to the charge for
another occasion, and the prisoner was ordered to be
remanded for the production of the medical testi-
mony.