The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

Several witnesses were examined, who proved
seeing the. prisoner assault complainant as described.
In defence, the prisoner (who• appeared to be in
liquor) said he was a little tipsy when he accidentally
fell against the complainant, and touched her bonnet.
She called out police for ten minutes, and tore his
waistcoat. He hoped the magistrate would let him
go. He was sure he was a just magistrate, and if he
would let him go, he (the prisoner) would never
meddle with any woman again.
Mr. BINGHAM said he most assuredly should not let
him go. It was a case of the grossest description.
He had only the power to fine him V., or commit
him to prison. He should advise complainant to go
to the quarter sessions.

Complainant's husband said he wished to punish
defendant to the utmost the law allowed, and would
rather take the case to the sessions.

The depositions were then taken, and the prisoner
committed.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY

George Wells was charged with stealing a table,
the property of Mr. G. Willis, the landlord of the
George the Fourth public-house, New North. road,
Islington.
Attached to the prosecutor's house was a long
range of gardens, furnished with tables and seats.
The prisoner walked into the gardens from the road,
and after sauntering about for a short time took one
of the tables, and placing it upon his shoulder walked
off with it. In consequence of information given to
the landlord he followed the prisoner and overtook
him with the table on his shoulder. He was com-
mitted for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Carter, fancy netting manufacturer, of
No. 8, Crown-street. Finsbury, was brought up for
re-examination, charged with intermarrying with
Emiline Pettot, his former wife being still alive.
The defendant, who was married to his first wife
in May, 1836, at St. Andrew's-the-Less, Cambridge,
has had by her eleven children, and she is now preg-
nant. He is in the habit of employing at his business,
males and females, 300 hands. On one of the latter,
however, it would seem, he had recently cast an eye,
and although the lady knew that her suitor
was already a married man, she consented to be-
come his duplicate wife, and they were married
at Hackney Old Church, on the 13th of September,
last, and bride the second was conducted to No. 4,
Frederick-place, Kingsland-road, where the defen-
dant, from that time, past his nights, leaving it in
the morning to attend his business at No. 8, Crown-
street, where his first wife resided. The cause of
the nightly absence became known, and hence the
present prosecution.

- Both -certificates were produced, and both mar.
riages proved.

The defendant appeared to imagine that he was
fully justified in what he had done, inasmuch as he
had married his first wife in the name of Webb,
whereas her real name was Le Mayne.
He was committed for trial.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY:)
Thomas Crowney, a notorious young thief, was
charged on suspicion of having stolen a lamp, value
203., the property of Mr. Barber, Rose Quay,
Thames-street, City.
It appeared that Kelly, 119 H, one of the most
active officers of the detective force, received private
information from a marine store dealer in Rosemary-
lane that, on the 27th ult., the prisoner had brought
him a lamp, which he offered to let him have for is.,
but seeing that that was but the twentieth part of its
value, he declined purchasing it. He, however, knew
that Jacob Vantroppen, No. 33, Rosemary-lane, had
bought it for the small sum of ls. Kelly went to
Vantroppen's shop, and, walking quickly through the
front shop, entered a back room, and there, on a side
table, was the identical lamp. Kelly concluded his
statement by saying, that if the magistrate would
remand the prisoner, he could secure the attendance
of the owner of the property, and also the marine
store dealer who had given him the information, so as
to complete the case.
Vantroppen entered the witness-box, and acknow-
ledged having purchased the lamp, but said that he had
given 2s. for it. He added that the prisoner had
brought it to his shop in broad daylight, without any
covering over it.
Mr. YARDLEY (to the witness)—l am not asking
you for your defence at present, sir, and I am by no
means satisfied with the way in which you became
possessed of it. I shall remand this man for a week,
in order to give Kelly an opportunity of thoroughly
searching into the matter.
As Vantroppen was leaving the witness-box the
prisoner, who had previously denied all knowledge of
the matter, exclaimed, "Is that man to escape? He
bought it of me for ls."
Mr. YARDLEY—At present I am not justified in
detaining him, but the officers will make all necessary
Inquiries.

HOUSEBREAKING EXTRAORDI-
NARY IN GLASGOW.
Between Wednesday night and Thursday morn-
ing, the shop of Messrs. M‘Leod and Polluck, 164,
Argyle-street, was broken into, and a number of
articles carried off. Yesterday forenoon some well-
known thieves were apprehended by the police, with
Part of the stolen property in their possession. The
above is all the information that the chief superin-
tendent (Mr. Pearce) would allow the criminal officers
to give us when we called on Thursday, at the Cen-
tral Police-office.
The following additional particulars are gleaned
from other sources :—A little farther west than the
shop there is an entrance by a wide court to the back
premises. The thieves broke open the door of the
workshop of Mr. Younger, wright, situated at the
back of the range of one-story shops, one of which is
occupied by Messrs. M'Leod and Pollock. From
Mr. -Younger's premises they helped themselves
to a few suitable tools, and having removed
the slates from the top of Messrs. M'Leod
and Pollock's shop, used a saw in cutting through
the roof. This being successfully accomplished, they
then broke through the plaster, and thus, without
ennnunicating any alarm to the policeman on the
beat, were enabled, by means of lowering one of
their number into the shop, to carry away whatever
could be laid hands on most readily. The robbery
t:las not discovered till yesterday morning, when
"le premises were opened at the usual hour,
and an alarm immediately conveyed to the
central office. The articles stolen too nu-
Inerous to mention in detail consisted of all
sorts
of jewellery, brooches, breast-pins, guard-
e; &c., amounting to a considerable value. It
;3_ conjectured that the thieves bad been scared, else
the robbery would have been far more extensive than
it really is. It is but justice to the police force to
urnit that as soon as the information was communi-
cated,
der no time was lost in endeavouring to secure the
dells and recover the property if possible, and
8: successful were they in the pursuit that before mid-
ay they had the thieves in custody, with the greater
Part, if not the whole, of the plunder in their posses-
!". The seizure was effected in a horrible den,
Situated in the High-street, where no fewer than ten
well-known.l thieves were congregated at the time.
an," apprehended they made a desperate resistance,
ofrin it required a strong force to convey them to the
ce. We understand that one of the party is
ta__ notorious character, named Matheson, a re-
sired convict. He is a most daring fellow, and
Posed to be the leader of the gang. This
the e Matheson was picked off the streets on
picioPurevious Saturday, being found under sus-
opp r
s circumstances, and kept in durance till Tues-
day,hen he was discharged, to give him another
.watchman the unity of following his vocation. It is said that
individual h •
on the beat was informed of this same
though it
secure in having been seen to enter the close ; and
Za:/lis duty to see that all the property was
yet back 3-5 well as the front of the street,
no re as made of Mr. Younger 's shop having
been broken
at six o'clock into although the door was standing open
their svork.Yesterday morning, when the men came
to
Messrs. Al`Leod and Pollock's shop was broken into
about nine months ago, by forcin a back door. To
prevent the recurrence of a sim.ilagr mishap, they. were
at the expense of nin an iron door instead of the
wooden one, but hanging •
yet to learn that, under thethyr precautions they had
roof was no less essential f
property than an iron door, rresent regime, an iron
the security of their
wwoerell
A contemporary of Wednesday, h
mouredly remarked that " the thieves, -hu-
to bed, or had left the city," must have heenagone
dream-
ing, for the rascals were never more wide awake than
at the present moment. It is the police, not the
thieves, who have gone to sleep !—Local paper.

THE MAGPIE AND THE RING.— On Thursday last
a magpie flew into the open window of a dressing-room,
at Skene House, and ingeniously contrived to pick a
belonging to Lady Agnes Duff, from the upright
stalk of a ring stand, and fly off with it in his bill. Lady
Agnes' maid, who was alone in the room at the time,
and witnessed the theft without being able to prevent it,
Was filled with consternation. The ring, she knew, was
a valuable one—worth forty guineas—and she naturally
feared that the story of the magpie would hardly be ac-
cepted as a satisfactory account of its disappearance. A
workman to whom she communicated the alarm, had
seen the bird fly out, and observed that it first perched
on the top of a rack of wood. By great good fortune
they found, on going to the place, that the ring had been
cropped and was lying; on the ground. This incident
Will remind our readers of the dramatic piece entitled
The Maid and the Magpie, but they must not, therefore,
Alrnagine that our story is either fictitious or coloured.—
Aberdeen Herald.
INCONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES.-- Creditor " Sir,
Rita you are drunk now ! You have wasted your substance
tippling; and have turned everything that be-
°"ged to you into liquor." Debtor—" Pardon me, sir
everything except zny debts, which, I regret for your
'axe well as
. , as my own, I see no prospect of being
I ciate. —Leeds intaiiyencer. able