The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-17 00:00:00

LAW AND. POLICE.

THE COUNTRYMAN AND HIS BOOTS.—Anne Howe and
Sarah Bryant were charged, at the Westminster
Police-court, with unlawfully possessing a pair of
boots, supposed to have been stolen. Charles
Chuch, 367 B Division, said at half-past eleven last night
he was on duty in Belgrave Square and saw the two
prisoners together, Howe was bulky and had something
under her arm ; he passed them a few paces, and on
turning saw them both run away as hard as they could ;
at length he caught them, and they said first that they
had picked them up, and then that a man had given
them to Howe to, mind, while he went somewhere
with Bryant for an improper purpose. He took them
both to the station and charged them. About half-past
two in the morning he met a countryman, very drunk, in
the same spot, and asked him if he had lost anything,
and he at first said " No," but afterwards that
he had lost a pair of boots, and identified them.
He lived at Croydon, and was not in attendance.
The prisoners made the same statement, and that a man
gave Howe the boots to mind while he went with the
other, and that they then both ran away with the boots.
Mr. Arnold said they had no business to run away with
the boots, and remanded the prisoners till Friday.
WIFE BEATING.—John Miller, a boot-closer, of No. 99,
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, was brought before Mr.
Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, charged
with assaulting his wife, Harriet Miller. Mr. Moore, f
the Associate Institute for Enforcing the Laws for the
Protection of Women, watched the case. The com-
plainant, who appeared to have suffered rough
usage, said that at two o'clock that morning,
the prisoner, her husband, and to whom she
had been married 23 years, having had nine
children—came home and asked for 6d. She told him
she had not got it, and ho then called her very bad names,
and took up a knife and threatened to cut her head off.
He had threatened her and assaulted her before. Police-
constable James Wright, 82 E., said that on taking the
prisoner into custody he found him to be drunk, and
the complainant had marks on her face. Mr. Knox
committed the prisoner for two months', with hard labour.
and further ordered him to find a bail in the sum of £2O
to keep the peace for three months at the expiration of
his term of imprisonment.

A DESPERATE STREET ROBBER.-At the "uildhall, an
Irishman named Maurice Goggen was charged with steal-

ing a silver watch and gold chain, of the value of £2O, the
property of Mr. Francis Cave, under circumstances which
shewed that he was one of the most desperate class of
the street robbers. On the previous evening, between
seven and eight o'clock, the prosecutor was passing through
Fleur-de-Lis-street, when the prisoner, emerging from one
of the courts which abound in that locality, suddenly
snatched at his waistcoat pocket, and rushed away with
the watch and chain in his possession. The prosecutor
raised a cry of " Stop thief," and Detective Ker-
ridge ran in pursuit, but did not succeed in capturing
the prisoner until half a mile had been traversed, and
not even then, until after a severe struggle, in which the
accused nearly overpowered two policemen. Just before
being caught prisoner also threw away a life preserver—
a formidable instrument, the top of which was composed
entirely of lead. The stolen property was found in his
possession. On being asked if he had any defence to
offer, the prisoner replied that he did not use any
violence. Committed for trial.