The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Elizabeth Rogers and John Jennings were placed
at the bar, before Mr. Long, for further examination,
on the charge of having been concerned in plundering
the house of Mr. C. G. Ridout, 11, Wimpole-street,
Cavendish-square, of property to the amount of be-
tween 1501. and 2001.

The man Jennings was discharged, and Rogers
stands remanded till Thursday next.

A FEMALE BURGLAR.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE, OCT. 6.—Ann Cunniford
was charged at the Town-hall before F. Hutchinson
Synge, Esq., on suspicion of having committed a bur-
glary on the night of the Ist instant, at No. 2, Albert-
buildings, in this town.
The following evidence was taken :
Mrs. Mary Coles sworn—On Sunday night, the
Ist instant, went to bed about eleven o'clock, having
first locked up the house. A back window was left
partly open to prevent smoke. It opened from the
top. My servant, Elizabeth Stone, was the first down
next morning. She came and asked me if I had
heard anything in the night, as there was a great
mess in the kitchen. The fire had been lighted, and
the back door was open. My husband said he had
heard a noise, but thought it was a lodger about.
When I came down and searched the different rooms,
I found that from the china pantry some plate had
been taken away; it consisted of six small spoons, two
tablespoons, and six silver forks, which I had seen
there the evening before. The property described
belonged to my husband. I immediately gave notice
of the robbery to Mr. Hill, police officer, and heard
nothing more of them until this morning. The ar-
ticles now produced, found on the prisoner, I swear to
as being the afore-named property.
George Hobbs, of Bridgewater, policeman, sworn.
—On Monday evening, the 2d instant, from informa-
tion I received, I went to a beer-shop at Pig-cross,
Bridgewater, where I saw the prisoner. Immediately
on seeing me she said, " Oh, here is a policeman
cone, I will let him see what I have got." She then
took from her bosom a cloth or apron, in which I
found the articles produced—viz., two tablespoons,
two dessert-spoons, and two teaspoons, markedM.C.,
with the exception of one snarked 3. W. ; two placed
table forks, and two silver dessert-forks not marked.
Prisoner said they were her own property ; they had
'been given her by her mother. She refused to tell
me-her name. I then charged her with hiving stolen
the articles and took her into custody.
Elizabeth Stone, sworn=Monday morning last, on
coming down stairs,l found the kitchen in a very different
state to what I had left it on Sunday evening at ten
o'clock. Some kettles had been taken off the grate
and the fire re-lighted, and other things displaced.
I then found that the back door had been opened from
the inside. I went into the yard and found a bucket
turned upside down, under the kitchen window,
which had been left partly open, but was now shut
close. I then went and called my mistress. I told
her some one had been in the house and had lit the
fire and made tea. Half a bottle full of tea had been
taken that belonged to myself. I then found the
plate had been taken, and also two shawls and a
bonnet belonging to Fanny Thomas, an inmate of
the house, an umbrella, basket, and a pair of boots
belonging to myself, and a table• cloth the property
of my mistress. The articles of plate now produced
I believe to be the same that were stolen.

Fanny Thomas, sworn—On coming down stairs
on Monday morning I was told by Elizabeth Stone
that some one had been in the house. I immediately
found some articles belonging to me were missing.
I have not seen them since. The articles now pro-
duced I swear to as being those that I missed.
Robert Hill, police- officer, sworn—Yesterday, I
received information from my brother, an inspector of
police at Bridgewater, that he had a woman in cus-
tody on suspicion of having stolen plate, &c., at
Weston. I went down and saw the prisoner at the
gaol. She had on the bonnet and shawl now produced.
I said, "Are these yours ?" She replied, " I dare
say you know whose they are." I then took them
from her, believing them to be the things described
to me by F. Thomas.

Jeremiah Coles deposed to the plate being his own
property, and to having heard a noise in his house
during the night of Sunday the Ist, but supposed it
to be made by a lodger.
The prisoner declined to ask either of the witnesses
any questions. On being asked if she had anything
to say why she should not be committed, she replied
in the negative, but added she would now have a
home, which she had not at present.
She was then fully committed for trial at the next
March assizes.—Weston-super-Mare Gazette.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN
MIDDLESEX.
At the last meeting of magistrates for the transac-
tion of county business, a motion relative to the pro-
vision of houses of industry for the reformation of
juvenile offenders, was brought forward by Mr. Arm-
strong. In the course of the honourable magistrate's
observations on that occasion, he referred to a return
which had been furnished to him by Lieutenant Hill,
the governor of the House of Detention, by which
the history of twelve depraved boys, the number of
times they had been convicted, and the cost the
county had been put to in the various prosecutions,
were fully described. The following is an abstract of
the document. furnished by Lieutenant Hill
" John Williams, alias Mallow, alias Berry,!alias
Dexter, aged 10, was examined, committed, or con-
victed on nine separate charges of felony, in addition
to which he had been repeatedly summarily convicted.
He had the appearance of being a very hardened boy,
and was connected with the very worst thieves about
Sboreditch. He had a father and mother living;
could read imperfectly. The cost to the county
by the prosecution of this boy was 331. 6s. 11d.
Thomas Donovan, alias Richard Hill, aged ten ;
six times committed, and sentenced to transportation
for seven years; this sentence was commuted to im-
prisonment. He could not read ; he lived entirely on
the streets. His father deserted him, and he never
knew his mother. Cost to the county, 11/. 4s.
"John Cousens—This boy had parents, and was
welt educated, he was initiated by the low boys in
Spitalfields. Six times committed to prison for
felony, and cost the county 261. 2s. 6d.
" Edmond Lee, aged fourteen—Five committals in
addition to summary convictions. This boy was de-
serted, with a younger brother, by his father; he
could not read or write. Cost the county 151. 12s.
" Thomas Miller, alias Eldridge, aged eight years
—Was tried with another boy (Rowley), and each
was sentenced to be transported for seven years, in
order that he might be sent to Parkhurst. The sen-
tence in each case was subsequently commuted, and
Miller suffered three months' hard labour; and two
days after his discharge from prison he broke into a
silversmith's shop, and stole a silver cast of a bear, for
which he was again transported. Convicted four
times, and cost the county 231. ss.
" Villiam Williams, alias Poole, 14 years of age—
Six times committed, twice for robbing his father.
Cost of prosecutions 141.
" William Boston, 13 years of age.—Four convic-
tions cost the county 10/. 12s. 6d.

" Henry Rowley. This boy was committelfour
times. Had a brother transported—parents treated
him kindly. Cost 191. 15s.
Denis Burnes, alias Stevens, alias Gough, was
repeatedly committed for felonies ; acquitted on a
charge of stealing 71. 14s. from the person—sentenced
to six months' hard labour for stealing several pairs
of trousers; 14 days for stealing a coral necklace
from a child ; and, after other convictions, trans•
ported for stealing 21 yards of printed cotton. Was
a bold and hardened boy, ,and frequentlyibroke the
prison rides. Cost 121. ls.,
6‘ (Olin' 'Bryant, alias ' Harrison, four tithes 'com-
mitted, at a cost of 191. 15s. George Thorne, alias
Shippy, was five times committed, at a cost of 181. 6s.
James Sedden, alias Roberts, nine committals, cost
the county '291. 2s. 11d.—Total cost 2321. 13s. 10d.,
or 191. Es. Ofd. for each boy.
" The following is a return of boys committed in
one year, from September, 1846, to September, 1847,
to Westminster Prison :—Under 10 years of age, 32 ;
10 and under 12, 106 ; 12 and under 14, 271 ; 14
and under 16, 452 ; 16 and 17, 400.—Total, 1,267.
Of these 430 could read and write imperfectly ; read
only, 154; read imperfectly, 206; neither, 477.
Transported, 38 ; imprisoned with hard labour, 413 ;
acquitted at the bar and bills ignored, 72 ; committed
to Newgate, 107 ; committed to hard labour by ma-
gistrates, 637.

" The following is the classification of the offences :-
11 for house-breaking, 14 entering dwelling-houses
to steal, 825 stealing in dwelling-houses, 158 stealing
from the person, 139 for attempting ditto, robbing
employers and parents, 12 uttering base coin, 13 for
fraud, 2 for stealing cattle, 2 wilful damage, 16 dis-
orderly and idle, 13 riots and assaults, 1 administer-
ing poison, 5 acts of indecency.—Total, 1,267 ; being
an increase of 195 over the last year, and 494 over
the year previous."

SUDDEN DEATH.—Monday morning, as the boat
was leaving Exmoath, for the purpose of conveying pas-
sengers to S.arcross, to meet the train for Exeter, which
passes through the latter place about seven o'clock, a
gentleman was seen hastily approaching the beach ; the
boatman stopped and took him in, but he was scarcely
seated when he fell backwards as was supposed in a fit.
He was instantly carried back to the Railway Inn, but
before medical aid could be procured life was extinct.
The gentleman's name has not transpired, but he is
stated to be a merchant from Liverpool, and had a large
amount of money in his pockets. He appeared to be
about 65 years of age, and his death is supposed to have
been caused by the exertion used in reaching the boat,
whereby some internal rupture took place.—ExeterFlyiny
Post.

➢Zr. Samuel Lover, the distinguished Irish poet,
musician, and painter, arrived in London on Monday,
in the Europa, which made the passage from New York
to Liverpool in twelve days, after a most successful tour
throughout the aorthern and southern states of America.