The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This DAT.

JACK AMONG THE LAND SHARKS.—Mary Ann Herring,
aged 31 years, and Ellen Bryant, 21, were charged,
at the Thames Police-court, with stealing £9 from the
person of Henry Davis, an old weather beaten, sun burnt
mariner, who gave a very odd account of his adventure
among " those here land sharks," as he termed the
prisoners, and the vile gang with whom they
associated. He came to London on Thursday laSt
and- went straight from the Rai/Way Station
to Bryant's house, in Bluegate-fields in a cab,
took a nap, and at four o'clock in the afternoon went to
the shipping office on Tower-hill, and received £ll and a
few shillings for wages. He returned to Bryant's house
and saw both girls. He gave Bryant a so iereign, and
tied up 10 sovereigns in the corner of his handerchief for
safety. He treated both girls to the play, and changed
one sovereign. At that time Davis had two sove-
reigns belonging to him. He took them away,
and consigned the girl to perdition. He went home
to Bluegate-fields, in the latitude of Shadwell
again with Bryant, and went to bed. He put his necker-
chief and money under his pillow. The prisoner and a
lot of girls of light character began dancing in the room
he was in. He was smoking his pipe in bed, and laughing
at them, but they had the laugh at him. They hatched
up a row and a quarrel, and fought ; and while the row
was going on they took his goldfrom him. The " old one"
said, " Come, you get up and turn out," and he did so ;
and Ellen said, " Come, go out of the house and take your
man with you, and take your bundle." It was a planned
job, to get him out of the house. " Ah, the pretty little
Ellen, I love her still." (Loud laughter.) Directly he
got out of the house she said "You go to hell," and he
then began to suspect something wrong, He found all
his money was gone. He then addressed Ellen Bryant,
and said, " Now Ellen, I did what was tidy by both of
yon ; where is my money ? Give me £5 and say no more
about it." "I had only 13s. left out of the sovereign 1
changed. I am sorry to see a woman in'that here dock."
The prisoners were remanded for a week.
A CURIOUS CHARGE OF FELONY. Emily Stacey,
married, of lady-like deportment, was charged. at the
Westminster Police-court, before Mr. Woolrych, with
a silk mantle from the Victoria Coffee House, 8, Wilton-
road, Pimlico. Mr. W. D. Smith, of Rochester-row,
defended.. Mrs. Pedley, a widow, living at 231, Vaux-
hall-bridge-road, said she had lost several articles of dress,
viz., a, black silk dress, mantle, satin petticoat, and a
packet of black silk from a box in a room which the
prisoner occupied at 8, Wilton-road. Witness had
lived there, but left to attend a sick lady who has since
died. Goods were safe in prisoner's room on Saturday
afternoon, and in the evening they were gone, and she,
too. Mr. Woolrych asked if she knew anything of the
prisoner ? -Mr. Smith said she was a highly respectable
lady, wife of a gentleman, who was present. They were
staying at this house quite temporarily ou account of
changing their residence, and taking a house in
Pimlico. Eliza Notley, widow, keeper of the house No.
8, Wilton-road, proved Mg. and Mrs. Stacey taking a
furnished apartment. On Saturday witness saw this box
all safe, and prisoner intoxicated ; at half-past three
witness went into the room and found the box broken
open, and the things gone. The prisoner had left at half-
past two. Mr. Smith contended that there wasinot the
least probability a lady like the prisoner should commit
so paltry a theft ; her husband was a.man of means and
position; he analysed the evidence in its weakest points-,
and contended that although there was slight suspicions,
his client was perfectly innocent of the charge. Mr.
Woolrych said it was a case for enquiry, and remanded
prisoner till Wednesday, accepting bail.

Mr. Odo Russell, Assistant Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, has left England for the Prussian head-
quarters at Versailles.

The loath is announced this morning of Mr.
Charles Salisbury Butler, who was for many years M.P.
for the Tower Hamlets, for which he was elected in 1852.
He was 58 years of age.
LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. MARYLEBONE DlVl-
sioN.—Mr. Hepworth Dixon will address the ratepayers
of St. Pancras this evening (Monday) at the Milton Hall,
Hawley-crescent, Kentish-town-road. The chair will be
taken at 8 o'clock by John Rahles, Esq., churchwarden.
GENERAL VON MOLTKE AND THE WAIL—The
Liberte states for certain that Prussia has been preparing
for the invasion of France for the last ten years. She
had procured all the staff and register maps, and her plans
of invasion were so well done that she knew to the
minutest detail the population, and the habits and cus-
toms of the smallest villages. The great strategist,
General von Moltke, had explored as a tourist all the
roads and ways between the Rhine and Paris, and made
excursions in the various spots which the Prussian armies
now occupy in Alsace and Lorraine. The' General's
friends recount that he often came to France,
accompanied by his daughter, dressed quietly,
travelling on horseback or in a post - chaise.
They went everywhere after the fashion of tourists who
delight in exploring sites, and as great lovers of design.
His daughter always carried an album, which she filled
with landscapes, but she'served as assistant to her father,
in making annltations and revising maps. Often, indeed,
she played the part of spy to obtain some information
with respect to awkward undertakings. There is not a
tourist nor a hunter who knows better than General Von
Moltke does the countries which are the theatre of war.
The celebrated strategist was not only the organiser of
victory, but the GeneraLin-Chief of the spies. All the
halting-places, all the rencontres of the army, were fore.
seen beforehand.