The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-26 00:00:00

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ROBBERY.—Yesterday Mary Lee, Sarah Shep-
herd, and Charles Hemmings, were charged with
r.ibbiag Mr. W. Burns, a chair-maker, residing at
No. 5, Tottenham-place, Tottenham-court-road, of
notes and gold to the amount of 1071., in a house of
ill-fame. in Nottingham-court, Long-acre, on the
morning of Saturday, the 12th ;natant; and Fanny
Allen was charged with receiving the notes, well
knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr. W. Burns, the prosecutor, on Friday, the
11th instant, hazing been din ng with a friend, was
returning home accompanied by Mr. Myddleton,
both being very much intoxicated, about two o'clock
on the following morning, when they met the pri-
t;onurs Lee and shepherd, whom they accompanied
to their lodgings in Nottingham-court, Long-acre.
They all went to bed, and on witness waking in
the morning, he discovered that a bag, containing
21. 10s. in gold, together with a pocket-hook, and
eight 101., one 51. and one 201. Bank of England
!totes, had been abstracted from his pocket.
Mr. J. Myddietort corroborated the former part of
the last witness's evidence.

Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, stated, that on
Sunday evening, the 13th instant, the prisoners
Shepherd and Hemmings were brought to the sta-
ion-house in Bow-street, in the custody of iergeant
Steward. The father of the prisoner Shepherd
having formerly been a policeman in his division, he
.•xpre saed his sorrow at seeing her placed in that
Situation, when she exclaimed that she was inno-

cent, and would state all she knew of the transac-
tion. She was then taken into a private room, and
went on to say, that when the prisoner Lee called
her out of bed, as described by Mr. Myddleton, she
took her to a watering-house, where they had some
neat, and from thence to " Mother Cummins's"
lodging-house, in St. Giles's, where she showed her
4 roll of bank-notes, which she said site bad got
from the old man. They went to bed, and in the
morning at about twelve o'clock, Lee conducted her
co a house, as she thought, in Whitechapel (the
situation of which she did not know, but which she
could point out), where they saw an old woman, a

From the statemens of the little girl, it appeared
that a few days since, her mother, who lives in
Dean-street, chastised her for some offence, and she
sent out crying. Upon going into Soho-square,
she met the female prisoner, who asked her what
she was crying about; having informed her
of the cause, the prisoner said that she had some
children of her own, and she should come home and
play with them. She accordingly accompanied her,
and there saw four or five children, with whom she
played for a short time. She was afterwards taken
up stairs into a room where there was a sofa, and
shortly afterwards the male prisoner came in (the
little girl here described what had taken place,.
During the whole of the time the female sat on a
chair by the sofa. On taking her down stairs they
desired her not to say anything, but. to come again
to the house. She accordingly went three or tour
times, the last visit was on Thursday. Every time
she went to the house the same act was repeated, and
the woman sat by her head each time. Owing
to some particular circumstances the mother was
induced to question the child, and her answers led
to the apprehension of the prisoners. Scholefield,
the officer, said the child pointed out to him the
sofa, room, &c. When he went to the house the
husband endeavoured to secrete himself. The pri-
soners (the wife had an infant at her breast)
strongly denied the charge.
Mr. CONANT said he could scarcely believe a
woman capable of such conduct; but he was in-
formed that houses did exist into which children
were entrapped for the purpose of being corrupted;
and when that was accomplished, those who had
initiated them hp() the dreadful system, found,
amongst the wealthy, persons who would pay them
liberally.
Mr. CONANT remanded the prisoners; and un-
derstanding that they had several children at home
of which they said they were the parents, he or-
dered the officers to make strict inquiries.
Johnson, the informer, appeared before Mr. CO-
NAN 7 to support a number of informations which
he had laid against coffee-shop-keepers, (or having
sold coffee before the hour permitted by Act of
Parliament.

A man, who gave his name John Sims, came
forward in character of informer's witness, and swore
that on a particular day he went into the house of a
coffee-shop-keeper, named Boreghey, at half-past 5
o'clock in the morning, and had half-a-pint of coffee,
for which he paid one penny.
The defendant, who employed an attorney, named
Flower, to conduct his defence, produced evidence
of such an unexceptionable character in contradiction
of what the informer's witness had sworn, that Mr.
CONANT immediately dismissed the charge.
A second infurmation met with a similar fate.

A third information, against the proprietor of a
coffee-shop iu High-street, Bloomsbury, named
Potter, was next called on. The witness Sims
again swore unhesitatingly that he went into the
defendant's shop, and was served with a cup of
coffee, at twenty minutes before six by the clock of
St. Giles's Church. _ . .

The defendant, with excusable warmth, declared
that the charge against him was wholly untrue. He
had purchased the Act of Parlia►uent, and having
informed himself of all its restrictions, he had rigidly
obeyed them, and in particular, he never permitted

HATTON-GARDEN.
THE CLERKENW ELL, MURDER. —James Martin,
who for several weeks past has been in custody on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the
late Mr. Henry Camp Sheppard, was brought be•
fore Mr. LiwiG, and discharged. Lee, the Lambeth-
street officer, who took possession of the prisoner's
clothes, under an erroneous idea that they were
spotted with blood, was ordered to return them, it
having been proved to the sa'isfaction of the Magis-
trate that such was not the case.
There is now no probability of any clew being dis-
covered to the murderers.

LAMB E TH- STREET.
BLTRKING A JEW WITH PORK—Yesterday, Mary
Goggin, a stout young Itishw iman, was charged
with assaulting Harris Lazarus, a diminutive mem-
ber of the Jewish persuasion. The complainant,
on Wednesday evening, stopped to listen to a row
between the defendant and another woman. This
gave great offence to the defendant, who spat in the
Jew's face, and challenged him to fight, but he said
be would meet her in another way, and on the fol-
lowing day he took out a warrant against her. As
he was returning from the Office, the defendant met
him with a wedge of perk in her hand, which she
s.uffed into his mouth, so that he really thought she
intended nothing short of Burking him.
Tne Magistrates ordered the defendant to find
bail.

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