The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

' Eliza Clarke, a very genteely dressed young woman,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with
having, by means of false and fraudulent representations,
obtained goods from linendrapers, &c., and it is imagined
that the prisoner has recently victimised tradesmen to a
very considerable extent. At the station-house she
stated to the inspector on duty that she was a dress-
maker, residing in the Strand.
Mr. T. E. Evans, high-street, Hampstead, deposed
that on Wednesday afternoon last the prisoner came to
his shop, stating that her mistress, Mrs. Collins, of
Heath-street, required a shawl, and that she wished
some to be sent for her to choose from. The
(prisoner) selected four, remarking that she thought
one of them would suit, and while he (prosecutor)
was putting them up in paper he asked her
how her master and mistress were, to which she replied
that her master was always better in winter than at any
other time of the year, and she also made some observa-
tions with respect to her mistress being a cross•tempered
woman who could not bear to be contradicted. Believ-
ing that all was right, and having been in the habit of
supplying Mrs. Collins with drapery, &c., he gave the
prisoner the parcel containing the shawls, and she
then went away, when, hearing nothing respecting :the
goods lie had (parted with, he, after some time had
elapsed, went to Mrs. Collins, from whom he ascertained
that no one answering the description of the prisoner was
in her service, neither had she authorised any person to
call upon him for shawls or any other article on the day
named. It further appeared that on Friday the prisoner
also called at the shop of Mr. Naylor, in Hanby-street,
Kentish Town, and asked for some plaid shawls for her
mistress, a Mrs. Brown, of Hanby-place, to whom Mr.
Naylor immediately applied, and, finding the statement
was false, he followed the prisoner to Camden Town
into the shop of a staymaker, and gave her into custody.
The prisoner denied having been into either of the shops,
and it being understood that other charges of a similar
character would be brought forward against her, she was
remanded until Thursday next.
THAMES.

PROSECUTION BY A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—Robert
Clement, formerly an Excise officer, and lately a dock
labourer, was charged by Mr. William Verey, Railway
Tavern, Wellington-place, Commercial-road, with steal-
ing a suit of clothes. The prosecution was brought by
the Poplar Licensed Victualler's Protection Society.
The circumstances were as follows :

The prisoner, who had been his customer for several
months, called on him in August, saying he had ob-
tained a situation at Liverpool, and required the loan of
1/. 155., for which ho offered to leave a suit of clothes
as security. The temporary accommodation was
granted, and a receipt given that they were to
be retained till the money was repaid. Three
months after the prisoner again called at his house,
and, stating that he had a friend in the parlour
who was ready to purchase the clothes, asked Mr. Veroy
to oblige him with them. lie was afterwards discovered
to have quitted the tavern with the clothes, which he
pawned the same day for 18s. lie was apprehended on
the charge a week after.

A discussion ensued between the counsel engaged as
to whether the offence amounted to a larceny.
Mr. Verey and his waiter were called, but they were
both unable to say whether any one accompanied the
prisoner or waited for him in the parlour.
Mr. BRODERIP committed the prisoner for trial, re-
marking that Mr. Verey wished to proceed with the
case as one of importance to licensed victuallers, and it
was one of that class of cases which it was best to leave
to a judge to charge a jury, whether the prisoner took
the clothes animofurandi or intentionally.

The sham parcel impo3iton was played off on
Friday night and Saturday morning upon two respect-
able 11 rceaal
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and presented
parcel, with a printed bill, as if from
Scorell's wharf, and by steam packet and railroad. The
housekeepers at once paid the demand, and the trick
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having so easily succeeded on Friday, in walked a couple
of parcels, as neatly bound up, and with all the usual
forms, next morning. The thing was managed before
any of the clerks arrived, and the principals had to pay
between fifteen shillings and a pound for pieces of board
and waste paper.
I."DUDLEY.--AWFUL MINE ACCIDENT.—FOUR MEN
BURIED ALIVE !—On Friday week, an accident of a
very dreadful nature occurred in the coal mine of Messrs.
Phillips, Williams, and Co., situated between West
Bromwich and Oldbury, near the Union Furnaces, which
instantly hurried four persons into eternity, and narrowly
perilled the lives of several others. Four men named
Harvey, Harpwood, Cashmore, and Moss, had sat down
to their mid-day meal, when the roof of the pit fell in
with an awful crash, and the poor fellows were instantly
covered by a mass of solid coal, and three hours of in-
cessant labour had elapsed before the whole were extri-
cated. One of them evinced slight signs of life, but in
a few moments was numbered with his lifeless com-
panions. Others in the pit had a most providential
escape.— Worcester Chronicle.