The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-09 00:00:00

WANDS WORTH.

Thomas Simpson, alias Swansey, a powerfully-made
man, about 22 years of age, and Mary Green, were
finally examined before Mr. Beadon, upon a charge of
robbery, committed in Battersea•fields, under very
aggravated circumstances.
The evidence taken in the case was very lengthy,
but the brief facts were these:—On Saturday night,
the 21st ult., about nine o'clock, Alfred Lainson, the
prosecutor, who is a joiner employed at Cubitt's,
Thames-bank, was walking from Nine-elms to Bat-
tersea-bridge, and had got some distance across the
fields, when the female prisoner came up and accosted
him. He told her he wanted to have no conversation
with her, and passed on. After walking a few yards,
he was !stopped by the male prisoner, who said,
" You've been with my wife all the evening, and I'll
punch your head if you don't give me something.'
The prosecutor, believing he would carry his threats
into execution, ran off, followed by the prisoner
and a large ferocious dog, which the prisoner
continued to excite, by calling out, " Seize him"
—bite him." As prosecutor was trying to clear
a mound, he fell down. He then heard the
prisoner whistle, and almost instantly he was
surrounded by 10 or 12 men, to whom the prisoner
addressed him3elf, saying, the prosecutor had taken
liberties with his wife. The prisoner and the other
men demanded money. Prosecutor asked them to
accompany him to a public-house, and he would treat
them to whatever they liked. The men, however,
would not go, but said it was money they wanted,
and they should have it before he left them. One of
the party sounded his waistcoat pockets, and pro-
secutor took out all the silver that was in them, which
amounted to 4s. Gd., and gave it to the male prisoner,
who divided it. The prisoner then told the prosecutor
to be off, and never:ito come there any more. Pro-
secutor added that he took no liberties with the
female prisoner or any other woman.
Police-constable Birt, 95 V, proved apprehending
the prisoner Simpson in the Wandsworth-road, on
Thursday last ; he informed him of the nature of the
charge against him, when he denied being in Bat-
tersea-fields on that evening.
Police-constable Wallis, 293 V, said he appre-
hended the female prisoner on Friday night last; at first
she denied all knowledge of the prisoner Simpson,
but afterwards acknowledged that she knew him, and
cohabited with him.

The male prisoner denied having threatened the
prosecutor or robbed him.

The female prisoner entered into a long statement
the effect of which was to charge the prosecutor with
having met her in the fields, treated her, and then
given her money; that she walked with him about the
fields some time, when he made improper proposals to
her, and she declining to accede to them, he demanded
his money back, which she refused to give him ; that
he struck her, and she called out " Help," when
Simpson came up and called the prosecutor a good-
for-nothing scoundrel, who then walked off, and she
afterwards treated Simpson for protecting her. She
added that she met the prosecutor on the following
Tuesday, and because she would not submit to his
Wiislie 119 Said he would do for la-a 3zd man.