The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

GUILDHALL,.

Two persons who had been masquerading in female
attire, were brought before Mr. Alderman Musgrove,
charged with stealing a pin from Frederick New•hurst;
of Newcastle-street, Strand. One of them appeared at
the bar i❑ walking costume, the other had thrown away
the false curls, and torn up the bonnet and dress, and
appeared in a shirt ; but he had still the shawl to pro-
tect him from the cold, and from the waist he was still
clothed like a woman. Amongst the articles they had
cast off in the cell were a pair of stays and two napkins.
Mr. Alderman 'MUSGROVE required the prisoners to
give their real names.

The one %;,ho still wore the complete dress, and who
gave the name of Emma Anderson at the station, now,
said his proper name was John Anderson, ar:d Jane Wil-
son beeline Edward Sullivan. The latter was recognised.
as a strolling tumbler.

Ternp'clean, a City policeman, stated that he saw the
two prisoners standing on Holborn-hill with a gentleman
about half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday night. After
walking a few yards up the hill, Sullivan stopped for a
couple of minutes, and then overtook his companion
again. They immediately left the gentleman, crossed
the street, and turned up Shoe-lane. From their leaving
the street he suspected they had rubbed the gentleman.
In a few moments a constable came up with the gentle•
man, and said he had been robbed of a pin, and the pri-1
Boners were overtaken in Shoe-lane. The pin was not
found. One of them wore silk stockings, and had very
long back hair ; and, their true sex not being suspected,.
a woman wss directed to search them thoroughly. The,
searcher very soon cried out—" Officer ! come in • they
are both men !" and she was relieved from further
trouble. The gentleman did not appear that morning'
to support his charge.
Mr. Alderman WiLsort (who was also on the bench)'
asked how Sullivan's dress was torn so much ? The
officer said the prisoner had done it himself. He was
now ashamed to be dressed as t woman.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE asked the prisoners why
they had assumed this disguise ? Anderson, who has f
rather a feminine voice, said it was altogether a false
charge preferred by the gentleman, because, knowing
they were not women, they would not let him pull them
about. They dressed as women by way of a juke, to
prove that they would dare to walk to the Angel at Is-
lington in that dress. They had been as far as that place,
and were returning, without speaking to any one, when
the gentleman accosted them.
Mr. Alderman MusoaovE asked if any of the police
had seen them or either of them in women's clothes be•
fore ?

George Ham, a policeman, said he had seen An-
derson walking up and down his beat, in St. Martin's-
le-Grand, three or four times during the last three weeks.
He always wore the veil, and was always alone.
Mr. Alderman MuscßovE expected to hear such in-
formation. The training of Anderson's hair was not a
momentary act. He should be happy to be convinced the
whole thing was a joke, but lie was apprehensive that
they really intended to lure men to their haunts, under
the pretence of being women, fur some dreadful purpose.'
Such gross outrages upon the public decency and feeling
liltie hycir were
est conveyed lives and
t ho tI
gaolinto in a cab amidst the jeers
of the crowd.

TVORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Henry William Wilson, landlord of the De Beau-..
voir Arms Tavern, Kingsland, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Bingham, on the charge of furious driving,
and assaulting the police when they attempted to sE-
cure him.

The case was clearly proved ; and, it appeared, that
when a policeman attempted to secure the prisoner, the
latter dashed him back against a lamppost, and being
grappled with, both fell heavily upon the pavement. The
prisoner then forced his knuckles beneath the police-
man's stock, and held him so tightly that he was almost
strangled, but, with the assistance of several other con-
stables, the prisoner was ultimately overpowered, and
conveyed to the station.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that he had
been dining with some friends, and was quite uncon-
scious of having committed himself in the manner de-
scribed by the witness.
Mr. BINGHAhi said, that he made it an invariable rule,
when persons in affluent circumstances were brought ,