The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-07 00:00:00

MARY LEB ONE.

CHARGE OF ROBBERV.—EITRAORDINART IN-
VESTIGATION.— Walla in Brett, driver of the hackney-
coach, No. 923, was yesterday placed at the bar be-
fore the sitting Magistrate, Mr. HostoNs, charged
on suspicion of stealing a gold chain set with ame-
thysts, one diamond ring, one emerald ring with
diamond centre, and a cornelian brooch from the
person of Mrs. Elizbeth Wood. No. 2, Claremont-
place, Judd-street, Brunswick-square.
The prosecutrix (a dashingly-dressed female of
extreme beauty, about twenty-five years of age)
stated that on Tuesday night she went alone to
Drury-lane Theatre, which, not feeling very well,
she left at a quarter to eleven. On reaching the
outer door she met a gentleman whom she k
ass new,
and who, on learning the state of her health, isted
her into a hackney-coach, the driver of which was
the prisoner, who was desired by her to drive to
her residence. The gentleman then left her. On
their way home she pulled the check-string, and
desired the prisoner to draw up at the next public-
house, when he stopped at the corner of Leigh-
street, Burton-crescent, and on his alighting she put
sixpence into his hand, telling him to get her a little
drop of brandy in some cold water, as she felt very
faint.jfiHe went in and got the liquor, which she

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Prisoner—The lady got into my coach, as she
stated, near Drury-lane Theatre, and at her desire
we stopped at the Hercules public-house, Great
Queen-street, where we had sixpenny worth of rum
and shrub, which I, at her request, paid for, she
saying that she would return me the money when
she got home. The next house we stopped at
was the corner of Leigh-street, where we had
two more quarterns of rum and shrub, which we
had just finished when a gentleman came up to
the coach door and entered into conversation
with the prosecutrix. Thinking that they were ac-
quaintances I fell back, when the gentleman in a
short time called to me, saying, " Here, coachman,
here's a shilling; get the same as you have been
drinking." He (prisoner) then procured another
quartern, of which the prosecutrix partook. The
gentleman then went away, and the prosecutrix
having taken sixpennyworth of brandy and water
he drove her home, when on opening the coach
door she was found to be in the state described by
the servant. He knew nothing at all of the rob-
bery. The prisoner further added, that on one
occasion he drove the prosecutrix home from Drury-
lane, and on the following day returned
_a pair of
combs to her that she had left in his coach.
Mr. HOSKINS (to prosecutrix)—You did not say
any thing about your having stopped at the first
public-house ? Prosecutrix—l have no recollection
of any thing of the sort. I only stopped at the
corner of Leigh-street, and drank but the brandy
and water.
Mr. Idosxms—How do you account for your
clothes being so wet ? Prosecutrix—l imagine
that he must have taken me to some house, and
having plundered me, became alarmed at my state
of insensibility, and threw some water over me,
thinking that it might be the means of my partly
reviving.
Prisoner—I deny having done such a thing. I
know nothing about the water.
William Tuck, potboy to the Norfolk Arms,
Leigh-street, deposed to the prisoner driving up to
the door, and having three quarterns of rum and
shrub and a glass of brandy and water, which wit-
ness took to the coach, in which was a lady. lie
saw no gentleman come up or near the spot, but
just at the moment the coach drove off he heard the
lady exclaim, " Oh, dear me !" and saw her fall
back on the seat.
Police constable E SI said he took the prisoner
into custody on Thursday evening, but could find no
property in his possession.
The prisoner was then remanded till Thursday
next, it being intimated that if he could in the
meantime find bail, himself in 501. and two sureties
in 251. each, it wo
QUuld be taken.
EEN- S U ARE.
CAUTION TO THE DRIV_:RS OF OMNIBUSES AND
OTHER VEHlCLES.—Considerable interest was ex-
cited amongst the proprietors of omnibuses, coaches,
&c., in consequence of the police constables having
adopted a new method to prevent the obstruction of
omnibuses and other vehicles in the King's high-
way, which it appears they are empowered to do by
the Act of Parliament, if they think proper, without
either taking out a summons or a warrant for the
apprehension of the offender.
Thomas Hooper, the driver of a Hammersmith
omnibus, was charged by Police Sergeant Thatcher,
of the B division, No. 17, under the Act of Parlia-
ment of the 3d William IV., cap. 19, sec. 24, with
obstructing the highway, and refusing to move his
omnibus when desired to do so.
It appeared from the sergeant's statement, that
about five o'clock on the previous evening he saw
the defendant, with his omnibus, standing opposite
to Mr. Harvey's door, Lowndes'-terrace, Knights-
bridge. He was on his wrong side of the way, and
witness desired him to go on. After some persua-
sion, he did go on for a few vard4, but refused to
go any further. Witness, finding him obstinate,
and determined to obstruct the road, took him into
custody. During the time, the defendant cut hint
several blows with his whip.
Several other policemen confirmed the above
.ty referred to :
statement.
The following is an extract of the clause in the
Aohti his of
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Actthu.ay, and, ParliamentLj
" That if the driver of any carriage or vehicle shall,
by negligence, wilful misbehaviour, or any other miscon-
duct interrupt the passage of any other carriage or vehicle
'oonsubbjeing
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boybsatrnoyetpoalincye
csotnresetatboler
or peace officer to pass on or move, shall continue to
obstruct the same, eve!), person so offending in any of the
cases aforesaid, within five miles of Temple Bar, and on
being convicted by any Justice of the Peace of any such
offence, either upon confession or oath of a credible wit-
ness! shall, for every such offence, forfeit any sum not ex-
ceeding 405., or be committed for any terra not exceeding
two months; and any such offender shall, and may, by
authority of this Act, with or without any warrant, be
apprehended by any person who shall see such offence
committed, and shall be conveyed or delivered to a police
constable or peace officer, in order to be conveyed before
a Justice of the Peace."
The defendant denied that he was obstructing the
highway, and said that if he struck the constable it
was unintentional.
Mr. GREGORIE said that the charge appeared to
him to be clearly proved, and he saw no reason to
mitigate the penalty. The defendant would there-

A DESPERATE VIRAGO. Margaret Nicholls,
a woman of very abandoned character and habits,
was brought before Mr. BRODICRIP and Mr. COMBE,
charged with committing a most violent assault on
Catherine Harvey, an elderly female, who keeps a
fish•srall in Ratcliff-highway.
It appeared in evidence that on Monday last the
complainant and a boy had been to Billingsgate to
purchase some fill), and on their return went into
the Duke of York public-house in Shadwell High-
street, to obtain some refreshment; and while Har-
vey was drinking out of a pint of beer, the prisoner,
without any provocation, struck the bottom of the
pot with great force, and the edge of it caught her
eye and cut it open. The blood flowed profusely
from the wound, and before the poor woman could
recover herself from the first attack she was again
struck over the eye with a pot, which rendered her
senseless. As soon as she recovered she went into
the street, and requested a policeman to go into the
house and take the prisoner into custody, but he
said his duty did not allow him to do that, and ad-
vised her to obtain a warrant.

Witnesses proved the assault to be quite unpro-
voked, and that the woman's eye was so severe]}
cut, and she bled so profusely, that it was not
expected she would recover.
The complainant appeared with her bead tied up,
and said she could not see out of her eye, and she
was afraid the sight was gone for ever.
John Barton, a policeman, No. 40 K, said the
woman came out of the public-house with her eye
cut open, and streaming with blood. She was in
a most deplorable state, but 'his instructions wool,'
not allow him to enter the public-house.
Mr. BRODERIP—Do you mean to say that when
you see a woman come out of a public-bouee in the

INTERESTING ANTIQUITY.—A few days
since, a gentleman of thia town, while out shooting,
chanced to rest under a clump of venerable fir trees on a
lofty hill, about a mile and a half to the east of Shurding-
ton. He observed that the trees were planted on a raised
mound resembling the tumuli known on Salisbury Plain
by the name of " harrows." On the highest point, which
is the centre of the mound, be remarked a large flit stone,
nine or ten feet in length, and about four feet in breadth,
with one end imbedded in the earth, and the other raised
on a broad, upright atone, about three feet from the ground.
The form and time-worn appearance of these stones struck
him as remarkable, and seeing an old labouring man in an
adjoining field, he asked him whether he knew for what
purpose the stones had been placed there ? The old man
replied, that he remembered, when a boy, having heard a
curious story about the stones, which was then commonly
related by old people in the neighbourhood. It was, that
a great many years ago there were other stones of the same
kind art up in a square form, with a large flat one at the top,
the side stones being much earthed up on each side. Some
people who were curious removed the flat stone, and, in
the square, hollow place beneath it, they found bones,
which had been the skeleton of a man, in an iron chair.
The gentleman to whom the old man told his tale, though
he deemed it extraordinary, if not fabulous, then inquired
if his informant knew what had become of the iron chair
The labourer replied, he rememtered being told it was
token to Coberley church.—Perhaps some of our readers,
versed in antiquities, can throw a further light on this not
uninteresting local tradition.--Cheltenham Journal.
Every new improvement of the telescope
brings within the range of vision countless multitudes
which human eye bad never -e
sn before. Some stars are
double and even triple ; that is to say, they appear to us
within a barely distinguishable distance of each other.
Upwards of three thousand double stirs have been already
is
discovered, and it justly supposed that even this number
by no means exhausts the fertility of the heaveus in three
twin productions, some of which have been actually o'ir-
served to move round each other in orbits requiring for
their entire completion 1,200 of our years. Such gyve us
as these give the mind a fa'nt glimmer of eternity.
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