The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-09 00:00:00

MAR YLEB ONE.

Yesterday Mrs. Theodosia Brown, a respectably-at-
tired female, about thirty years of age, was charged with
robbing Mrs. Mary Liest, a widow lady, of various sums
of money.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner took
apartments in the house of the prosecutrix, in Edward-
street, Portman-square, where they lived in some degree of
intimacy, insomuch that the prisoner had at all times ac-
cess to her apartments. Since this correspondence had
taken place between the parties the prosecutrix had fre-
quently missed sums of money from her drawers, which
never were locked up, but not suspecting her of being the
thief till lately, she was determined to watch her ; she ac-
cordingly put eight sovereigns and three half-sovereigns
into a drawer, having previously marked them, and soon
after she found that the half-sovereigns were gone. As
soon as she made this discovery she called in a policeman,
who, on searching the prisoner, found the marked money
on her person, and she was accordingly conveyed to the
statioa.house. Mrs. Liest said that she had been a sufferer
by the prisoner's pilfering system to the amount of up-
wards of 50/., and that she had bought some very expen-
sive dresses with the fruits of her plunder.
The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was
fully committed to Newgate.
DARING BURGLARY.—On Wednesday Jahn
alias Ingall, a young man about 20 years of age, was
charged with committing the following burglaries:—
Mr. T. P. Buckle, chymist, of No. 235, Oxford-street,
stated that about half-past three o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing he was disturbed by some rats in a neighbour's house,
which awoke him, and he remained awake until about a
quarter to four, when be heard the handle of the parlour
door (which adjoins his bed-room, and an entrance to
which is from a private door in the passage) turned
round, and some person enter with a light, which re
fleeted in his bed-room, the door in the parlour leading to
it being open at the time. Surmising that his servant
had mistaken the hour, and got up to light the sre, he
called out, " Is that you, Anne ?" when the prisoner, i❑
a feigned tone of voice, answered " Yes, Sir." The voice
differing from his servant's, he immediately jumped out of
bed, ran across the rosin, and would have succeeded in
capturing him had he not slammed the parlour door in
the passage in his face, slipped the bolt outside, and thus
prevented him from continuing the pursuit. Finding
himself thus foiled, he (prosecutor) ran through the shop
into the street with only his shirt on, and as the prisoner
decamped by the private door, he followed, shouting as
loud as he could, " Stop thief!" A policeman happened
to be coming up Oxford-street at the time, and the pri-
soner almost ran into his arms ; but, however, he proved
himself too nimble for a single constable, and got away.
The policeman followed, springing his rattle, and he re
turned home arid dressed himself. In about twenty
minutes afterwards several policemen returned to his
house with the prisoner in custody, and 011 inspecting the
premises he discovered that the prisoner had effected an
entrance by the staircase window, which he ascended by
climbing up a wall in Mr. Shackle's yard (a livery stable-
keeper, whose premises adjoin the prosecutor's, and run
through Oxford-street into Bryanston-street). A great
coat, silk umbrella, and other articles, were removed from
the drawing-room to the passage ready to be carried off,
and some trifling articles were purloined; but the whole
of his money and valuables he kept in the parlour, which
the prisoner was rummageing at the time he was fortunately
overheard.
Police sergeant Harrison stated that about twenty mi.
nutes before four o'clock be was on duty in Oxford-street,
when he saw the prisoner run out of a house followed by
the prosecutor, who had nothing but his shirt on. Ile
endeavoured to stop him, but did not succeed, and the pri-
soner exclaimed, " Oh, that mun's a fool, it's not me,"
and continued running. Witness followed after bin:, 1