The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

W OR S HIP-STREET.

John Larney and James Lepine, one aged but ten
years, and the other scarcely a twelvemonth older,
and bothr diminutive for their respective ages, were
charged with committing a series of robberies at the
shops of various tradesmen in the neighbourhood of
Hackney.
Police constables Clarke and Francis, of the N
division, were passing through the Cambridge-heath-
road at five o'clock on the preceding evening, when
they met the two prisoners, who were evidently
trying to avoid observation, and noticing that Larney,
the youngest, had something bulky secreted beneath
his jacket, they stopped and searched him, and dis-
covered a lady's shawl, of a valuable description and
nearly new, rolled up in a bundle, while concealed in
his trousers were a new pair of women's shoes and a
pair of French clogs. Larney accounted for his
possession of the articles by stating that 'they had
been given to him by his cornponion to carry for him,
and :the other said that .he picked them up in the
street, but from subsequent inquiries they had ascer-
tained that each of the articles formed the produce of
a separate robbery.
21r. James Abbott, a dyer, in Mare- street, Hack-
rey, identified the shawl, which he said was worth at
least two guineas, and stated that he had seen it safe
behind the counter less than two hours before the
prisoner's apprehension, and the theft had been com-
mitted so cleverly he had no notion he had been
robbed until, to his surprise, the officers brought the
shawl back for his identification.

Mr. Richard Cole, a haberdasher in Sussex-place,
in the same neighbourhood, recognised the shoes
produced as his property • they must have been stolen
about the same time as the shawl from Mr. Abbott's,
but, as in that person's case, he was not aware of his
loss until asked if the shoes were his.

It was intimated by the constables that if a remand
were. granted they should be able to establish one or
'more other charges against the prisoners, one of
whom had been before in custody, and the other was
known to have been for a long time past a most inde-
fatigable young thief,:and generally etfected;his robbe-
ries without suspicion by watching the shopkeeper
out of his shop, then darting in with a box of Lucifer-
matches, which he presented for sale with a distressed
tale and face if detected, and if not, disappeared with
whatever he could lay his hands on.
Alderman, the gaoler, proved that :Gamey, young
as he was, had been twice previously convicted of
felonies, and each time sentenced to a lengthened term
of imprisonment, both of them having occurred since
the month of March last.

The prisoners now mutually recriminated upon each
other, each declaring that his confederate had stolen
the goods and handed them to him, while the other as
stoutly denied it, and
Mr. HAMMILL at length ordered them both to be
committed qupon the two cases at pre ient gone into,
and directed them to be brought up again for the pro-
duction of the others deposed to by the officers.
A morose-looking fellow named Joseph Jebb, a
marine-store dealer in Spitalfields, was next charged
with the following brutal conduct to his wife :
The wife, whose clothes were much stained with
blood, and who exhibited a fearful triangular ctit
across one of her eyes, sufficiently deep to admit the
end of a finger, said that her husband had been for
a long time past in the habit of beating her cruelly
with a rope as thick as her wrist, and having on the
night before refused to allow her to go to bed, and
compelled her to sleep on the floor, on the following
morning suddenly seized her, without the slightest
provocation, by the neck, beat her about fthe head
with his fists until she was stunned, and finally struck
her a blow in the face, which produced the cut then
visible, and which she felt satisfied must have been
inflicted with some instrument. Her husband was
then proceeding to beat her with the rope before-
mentioned, but was deterred by a neighbour whom
her cries of " murder " had alarmed, and she availed
herself of that opportunity to escape into the street,
and place herself under the protection of the police.
• The prisoner generally denied all that had been
stated against him, but the magistrate gave no cre-
dence to his assertions, and sentenced him to pay the
full penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment, and
in addition to put in bail for his good behaviour for
the next three months.

He could not do either, and was carried off in the
van.

THAMES.

A tall and powerful man, named Paul _Darlington,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with steal-
ing a card of gold rings from the shop window of Mr.
R. Carpenter, pawnbroker and jeweller, in Charles-
street, St. George's-in-the-East.
Yesterday morning Mr. Carpenter was in his shop,
and saw the prisoner in the street passing his window,
and as he did so he pushed his elbow through a large
pane of plate glass, which he smashed and drew some-
thing through it. The prosecutor immediately went
out, and called " Stop thief." The prisoner was running
as hard as he could, and Mr. Carpenter pursued him,
and although he did not see him stopped, he came up
with him directly he was stopped, and found him in
charge of a police constable in the Commercial-road,
Mr. Carpenter took hold of him and saw a card with
some gold rings attached to i t in his coat pocket. Mr. Ca-
rpenter took ,it out of the pocket, and the prgoner
struggled hard and said, "Let me go," at the same
time dropping some gold rings on the road. They
were picked up and handed to the police constable.
On the prisoner's arrival at the station house he
was searched and 10 more rings were found loose in
his pocket. On Mr. Carpenters return to his shop
he missed a card from the window which had con-
tained 27 gold rings, worth 61.
George Simpson, who heard the window break,
and saw the prisoner running with the card in his
hand, and Bagley, a police constable, 140 K, who
caught the prisoner as he was running, and took from
him a card on which were 13 gold rings and found
10 more in his pocket, were next examined.
The prisoner, who offered no defence, was com-
mitted for trial.
LAMBETH.

Two gentlemen, whose names did not transpire,
applied to Mr. Norton for his advice and assistance
urder the following circumstances :
For sotue time' past a nuisance of the pest in-
tolerable and dangerous description has existed in
Thomas-street, Lock's-fields, through the accumula-
tion and mixing up of night soil, dung, and tan, and

allowing this matter to remain i -.here in large open
pits for a length of time. The ni tisance thus creates
is in the midst of a densely poi iulated neighbour-
hood of the snore humble and ind igent classes; and
the consequence is that fever and disease are raging
to a most frightful extent in the it nmediate vicinity,
and the removal of the nuisance 'was not only ne-
cessary but absolutely urgent. lln application had
been made to- the board of guardittns of the parish of
St. Mary's, Newington, who weret the only parties
.under, tl-,le,,,t.kct of Parliament that co uld do so, to take
the necesary means to put down the s iuisance, but the
answer received was, that they (the guardians) did not
feel justified in going to the expense o. f medical certifi-
cates, which were necessary as a j-reparatory pro-
ceeding, and which expense could in vt be recovered
from the offenders. That the m sdical certificate
should not be an object or an obstacle they (the ap-
plicants) nob only offered to pay the e: tpense, but sent
to the clerk of the board the certificat es of two pro-
perly qualified surgeons, and hoped t hat this would
have the effect of moving them in ft 3 matter. In
this, however, they were disappointed, for, on next
applying, they were handed a resolution 1, passed at a
meeting of the board of guardians, and of which the
tbllowing is a copy :
" That, taking into consideration the difficulty
attending the carrying cut of the Act of 9th and 10th
Victoria, chap. 96, for the more speedy removal of
nuisances, andithe fact that its operatic n ce;ases at the
expiration of the present session of E 'than-lent, this
meeting is of opinion that the board would not be
justified in taking proceedings in the mi stf.er."
So that thus they (the applicants) were left without
the means of getting speedily rid of t oo nuisance ;
and therefore it was that they had d a termined on
waiting on, and taking the advice of, th:d 3 magistrate
of the district.

Mr. NORTON, on referring to the A c t commonly
called the Nuisance Act, observed that the board of
guardians of the parish of Newington ANA ere certainly
the parties to put the law into motion -iii the matter,
and he could not account for their refus a l to do so in
a case like the present, where disease Iv: as engendered
and human life endangered by the miss ame, and more
particularly when the expenses atter idant on their
proceedings were offered to be defrayed. by the appli-
cants. He (Mr. Norton) had no doubt whateretr
that by mandamus they could he con, spelled to act .;
but, as he was always an advocate for znild and con!-
ciliatory measures, he would send an officer belonging
to the court, with the applicants, to thie clerk of the
guardians, to state to the gentlemen that it was his
(Mr. Norton's) opinion that the case ws s one in which
the board of guardians should interfere to put down
the nuisance.

The applicants (one of whom said he was the
owner of some houses in the vicinity ,of the nuisance,
and that at that moment fever was r aging amongst
the tenants) expressed their thanks to the magis,
trate for his kindness and attention., and left the
court in company with Redford, on e of the sum-
moning officers.

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LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.
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—North Staffordshire, % dis.—South-Eas.ter n and Dover, -
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dis.

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