The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

Yesterday Mary Ann Langford, a young woman
of respectable appearance, who refused her address,
was charged with attempting to pick pockets on the
platform of the Great Northern Railway, King's-
cross, and with having been concerned, with others,
in picking the pocket of Miss Mary Ann Maskell, of
3, Glasshouse-yard, Alderegate-street.
Mr. Roberts, solicitor, attended on behalf of the
prisoner.

It appeared from the evidence of Sergeant Williams,
No. 11, and Constable Hiladen, 92, employed on the
line of the Great Northern Railway, that on Satur-
day evening, between five and six o'clock, they saw
the prisoner, evidently with the intention of picking
pockets, pushing against ladies who were on the plat-
form, waiting for the arrival of the train. Sergeant
Williams, who was first attracted by her manoeuvres,
intimated his suspicions to Hilsden, and on being
watched, the prisoner was joined by two females and a
man, who on the arrival of the train from York fol-
lowed the prosecutrix to the luggage department,
where the prisoner took her position by the side of
the prosecutrix, her two female companions, in thieves'
phraseology, " covered" her in order to facilitate her
movements, and the man stood immediately behind
them. The prisoner and her companions subsequently
proceeded some distance from the spot, when an alarm
was made that the prosecutrix bad been robbed, and
the prisoner was apprehended, but her associates
escaped.
Hilsden, in cross-examination, said be found a
purse (now produced) near her feet. Saw her band
near the pocket of the prosecutrix. When the pri-
soner was near the luggage he questioned her as to
her business there. She said, "Oh, my dear, lam
waiting fur my luggage."
The prosecutrix deposed that she resided in Glass-
house-yard, Aldersgate-street. On Saturday evening
sbe arrived by the train, and went to the place on
the platform where the luggage is delivered out. The
prisoner came and stood by her side. She felt her
press against her side where her pocket was in ber
dress, on the right side. She subsequently missed
her purse containing 2s. 6d. from her pocket, on
which she Ingle an alarm, and the prisoner was ap-
prehended.

The prisoner, who is rather a good-looking
woman, shed tears and refused to say where she lived,
and positively denied the charge. She had her gloves
on at the time, and her parasol in her hand.
Mr. COMBS told her that her crying would have no
effect upon him. If she wished to serve herself or
show her respectability she had better tell where she
lived and send for her friends.

A Voice here said—She lives over in Lambeth, be-
,ween Gibraltar-row and Elliott's-row.

An officer said he had seen the prisoner in the
neighbourhood of Lambeth.

Mr. COMBE directed that the person who seemed to
know the prisoner should stand forward, and he step-
ped into the witness-box ;he had evidently been drink-
ing freely.
Mr. Cosine inquired what he knew of the prisoner ?
Answer—She is my sister. She lives in Elliott's-
row, Lambeth, No. 22. lam a dentist •surgeon.
Mr. COMBE—Where do you live ? I don't know
exactly the name of the place, but it is somewhere in
Lambeth. When I am at home I live in Philadelphia,
in America. I am an illegitimate child, and my name
is Tekeli ; but her name is Langford. Could'nt your
worship deal with the case in a summary way ?
Mr. COMBE said certainly not ; she had refused her
address, and gave so unsatisfactory an account of her-
self, that he should send the case before a jury for trial.
Hilsden said the prisoner had stated that she came
on the platform to await the arrival of her sister from
Leeds. The prisoner, however, would not say who or
what her sister was.

Mr. Tekeli said he would take the prisoner to
America if she was discharged.
Mr. COlll3 8 said he would remand her for a week,
in order that proper inquiries should be made about
her, and to ascertain whether she could be identified as
being a visitant at other railways, and during the in-
terim she would have the benefit of communicating
with her friends.

She was then remanded and conveyed to prison.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF ROBBERY
BY A SERVANT.
At the Borough Court, on Wednesday, a man
named Stone was charged with stealing a quantity of
goods from the warehouse of Mr. James Atkinson,
30, Faulkner-street. Mr. Cobbett appeared for Mr.
Atkinson, and Mr. E. Bennett for the prisonsr.
The prosecutor in this case is a manufucturer,
having his manufactory at Colne, and a warehouse
in Faulkner-street, Manchester. The prisoner has
been in his employ as a porter and warehouse-
man ; and lived in a house immediately behind
Mr. Atkinson's warehouse. The case for the pro-
secution was, that on the afternoon of last Mon-
day week, while Mr. Atkinson was at Colas, the pri-
soner removed from the warehouse to his own house
a number of pieces of de laine goods, some grey
shawl cloths, some sheeting and some twine ; and
that when Mr. Atkinson subsequently applied to him
for them he refused to return them. After witnesses
had been called who spoke to these facts, the pri-
soner was remanded until the following day, in order
that the case for the defence might then be gone into.
On Thurday morning Stone was again brought
up, when Mr. Bennett called Henry Foulds, a
young man who has been in the employ
of the prosecutor about 'three months. Re
said that he had no authority to order the delivery of
goods, but sometimes sold them. The goods were
removed from the warehouse to the prisoner's house
last Monday week. He assisted in their removal.
When Mr. Atkinson left Manchester, on the pre-
vious Saturday, he ordered Stone to take the
goods to Pearce Brothers, on Monday morning.
When he went to the warehouse, on Monday, he
asked Stone if he bad not better take the goods
where Mr. Atkinson had ordered him. Prisoner ad-
vised that the goods should not be s- nt there • saying
that, if they were, not a penny would be got for them,
and recommended th it they should be taken to his
(Stone's) house. The reason he gave for this was,
that there was " law out" against Mr. Aqtinson, and
if the goods were left in the warehouse, they would
be taken away. After they had removed the goods
witness repented of having done so; and went to
Colne, where he saw Mr. Atkinson, and informed him
of what had taken place. Mr. Atkinson told him that
he ought not to have allowed the goods to go to
Stone's house. Witness then returned to Manchester ;
but, owing to an accident upon the rail way, did not
arrive in Manchester until the warehouse was
closed. On the following morning Foulds'told Stone
what Mr. Atkinson had said ; when Stone answered
that he would not take back the goods to the ware-
house for any one. The goods which witness as-
sisted in removing to the house of the prisoner did
not include any shawl pieces, twine, or sbeetings.
In answer to Mr. Bennett, he stated that the firm
of Foulds and Co. consisted of himself and his father,