The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A well-dressed middle.aged woman, named Sarah
Lee, was charged before Mr. Arnold with having
committed the following artful and systematic fraud
upon Mr. John Hagan, a nurseryman, at Upper
Clapton.
It appeared from the evidence, that about six
months ago the prisoner introduced herself to the wife
of the prosecutor, to whom she told such a plausible
tale of her respectability and expectations, amongst
which she mentioned that she was upon the point of
coming into possession of 7,0001. from an uncle at
Kensington, that the latter was induced to receive her
into her house, and treat her in every respect as a
member of the family. The prisoner continued to
reside there upon these terms, without having paid
anything the whole time, until about the 8d of Sep-
tember last, when she expressed her wish to Mrs.
Hagan to send for her father and mother, who resided
at Dover, and establish them in a house which she
represented as her own property, and at the same
time handed her a sovereign to defray their expenses
to town. Witness gladly accepted her offer, but
shortly before the arrival of her parents the prisoner
left home, under the pretence of receiving some divi-
dends at the Bank, and never afterwards re-
turned, and upon subsequent inquiries in the
neighbourhood, it was found that she had
obtained the sovereign alluded to from a tradesman
in the neighbourhood, and also a second one, in the
name of the witness and her husband, who, she as-
serted, had sent her to borrow them. They had since
instituted inquiries at Kensington, and having ascer-
trined that she had no relative residing there, and
that her entire statement was a pUre fabrication, ob-
tained the assistance of the police, who ultimately
succeeded in tracing her to another lodging, Where
they took her into custody, and received from the
landlady the duplicate relating to a shawl, which the
prisoner had borrowed from the witness on the morn-
ing of her departure.
Police-constable B7 N stated that, upon capturing
the prisoner, she made an acknowledgment to him of
the correctness of the charge, and, from information
he had since received, he had no doubt, if she were
remanded, that he should be able to establish several
other cases of a similar description against her.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner de-
clared that she had obtained the money by the authority
of Mrs. Hagan, to whom she afterwards handed it, but
the latter positively denied the allegation, and the
prisoner was ordered to be remanded for the produc-
tion of other cases.

The Magistrate announced his receipt of the fol-
lowing additional subscriptions for the relief of Mrs.
Charlotte Thomson, which were requested to be
noticed in the public papers :—From "R. H," one
half of a Si. note; " E. S. V., one half of a 51. note;
"P. 8.," 51.; " M. C.," 1/. ; and from Lieut. Oakes,
a cheque upon Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, for 2/.
The magistrate has also received Si. for the poor box
from "R. P.; and 1/. from "R.P.N. ;" 2/. 2s.
from Mr. Pigott, of the Travellers' Club ; and 105.
from " N. L.," for a poor widow named Margaret
Ives, the particulars of whose distressing case
we have before noticed.