The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-08 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH•STREET.

SHOCKING PROFLIGASY AT THE WEST END.—PAIN•
PIM CASE.—Mary Obern and Emily Dorrington, two
fashionably dressed girls, were charged before Mr. Bing-
ham, under the following circumstances.

Police.constable 85 C deposed that shortly before
12 o'clock last night, while on duty in the Haymarket,
he saw the prisoners stop several gentlemen. He cau-
tioned them, and finding that they would still per.
siet in annoying the foot passengers be spoke to them a
second time, when Obern said, " What have you to do
with it, the street is as free to me as it is to you!" Wit-
ness then took her into custody. The other prisoner
followed, and when a sergeant came up she was also re-
moved to the station-house.

Mr. Bingham (to the prisonera)—What have you to
say to the charge ?

Obern --We never stopped any gentleman, and what
the officer has stated is all false.

Mr. Bingham—How old are you ?
Obern —Sixteen years, sir.

Mr. Bingham—And how long have you carried on
this kind of life ?

Obern—About nine months.

Mr. Bingham—l really do not recollect, during the
whole of my experience, that I ever met with such a sad
case. You have been in this police•court before, and I
am afraid you are past all redemption ; for your brazen
manner convinces me that you spoke to the officer in a
tone of defiance. You say the street is as free to you as
to others—so it is, but not for an unlawful purpose. The
foot passengers must not be annoyed, and the police
must also be protected in their duties. Take my advice
and abandon such a wretched and wicked life of profli-
gacy, for, rest assured, if you do not, that in less than
three years you will die on a dung-hill. You (Obern)
must pay a fine of 10s. or be imprisoned for ten days.
The other prisoner is discharged.
ROBBERY IN OZFORD•sTREET.—'Mart Dixon, a pros-
titute, was charged with robbing James Hatcher, aged
55 years, of a crown piece.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who is a waiter, had been to a dinner at the Skinners'
Hall, City, and this morning while on the way home in
a state of half obliviousness, he met the prisoner near
the Marble Arch, Edgware-road. After some conversa-
tion the prosecutor left her and found that he bad been
robbed of a crown piece, which had been taken ont of his
trousers pocket. The prisoner went away, but was
stopped by police-constable 221 D, who found the money
and a silver comb down the area of a gentleman's house.
Mr. Bingham asked the prisoner what she had to say
to the charge, when she said, " The prosecutor gave me
the ss. to go home with me."
The police•constable said the prosecutor was not sober.
Prosecutor—l had only had a few glasses of wine.

M:, Diughan.l7l am afraid your evidence is too eligLt

o be taken, therefore the prisoner must be dis Charged.
The'. prisoner, to her great surprise, waif told to go
away.

SOUTHWARK.

FORGERY, FRAUD, AND FELONY.—ThOMAS Harris, a
middle-aged man, who has been in custody several
times for fraud, was brought before Mr, Combe charged
with being concerned with William Harris, his son, not
in custody, in obtaining a large quantity of timber from
the Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, by means of a
forged order, He was also charged with stealing the
same.

Mr. Druce appeared to prosecute on behalf of the
Commercial Dock Company.
James Gower, one of the foremen in the employ of
the Dock Company, said that on the 22d of July last
they had in their charge 450 spruce deals consigned to
Mr. Benjamin Groves, timber merchant, in the South-
wark-bridg,e-road. On that day the prisoner and another
yoanger person came with a van to the docks, and
stated that they were sent to fetch fifty of the deals.
The prisoner presented an order signed Benjamin
Groves, and witness perceiving a name of Groves on the
van thought it was all right, and delivered the goods.
Since then he had dissevered the order to be a forgery,
and he had seen the deals in question in the possession of
Mr. Pegg, timber merchant, Park•street, Kensington.
They were worth about 8/.

Francis Groves, carman, 47, Tower-street, Waterloo-
road, said that the prisoner hired a an of him on the
22d of July, as he said, to remove some timber.

Samuel Pegg, builder, Park•street, Kensington, said
that on the afternoon of the 22d of July the prisoner
and his son called on him with a van containing 50
deals. The prisoner said that they were his property,
and that he wanted to sell them, as his horse was sud•
denly disabled, and could not carry the load any further.
He asked witness 2s. 3d. a deal for theca. He, how-
ever, agreed to give him 2s. each for them, and paid
the prisoner's son a portion on account. On the fol-
lowing day the prisoner came for the balance, when
he told him that he suspected that the deals
were stolen, when he replied that such could
not be the case as the delivery note was signed previous,
land that the cart was his. He afterwards said that the
deals were not his property, but belonged to another
party. Witness then told him to bring the other party
and he would pay him. The prisoner then left, when he
followed and gave him into custody.
Mr. Benjamin Groves, timber merchant, Southwark-
bridge.road, said that the order produced was a forgery,
and he never authorised any one to go for the deals in
question.

Abraham Deavling, 38 M, alias Black Jack, an active
officer, well known to the thieves in the Borough, said he
apprehended the prisoner, when he said he was sent to
sell the deals by another party.

Edward Funnel], a city detective, said the prisoner
was sentenced to seven years' transportation, in August
1848, for felony.

The prisoner, who said he should reserve his defence,
was fully committed for trial.

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A MARINE.— TVilliani Onion,
a private, belonging to the Royal Marines, whose regi-
ment is stationed at Deptford, was brought before Mr.
Seeker, of the Greenwich Police Court, charged with a
variety of offences. Last night, about 10 o'clock, the
prisoner staggered into the shop of Mr. James B.
Nicholl, baker, of No. 9, Commercial-road East, and
demanded a penny cake of an old lady who was sow-
ing behind the counter. She informed him that• she
had not got a penny cake in the shop, on which he
abused her in the most scandalous manner, and used
language of the most filthy description. His boister-
ous conduct caused a mob to assemble in and about
the shop, the baker's property was in danger,
and the Marine refused to go away. A police-
constable was sent for, and John Bone, 181 H, soon
afterwards arrived, and had no sooner made his appear-
ance than he was knocked down by the prisoner by a
tremendous blow with the fist. Before the policeman
could rise the prisoner kicked him about the head and
body in a most savage manner, and completely disabled
B:ackwell, No. 57 11, came to the assistance of
his brother officer, and he was also knocked down by the
prisoner, who kicked him most brutally when he got him
down. Several other policemen soon arrived, and they
seized the prisoner, who made a desperate resistance and
injured several of them before he could be secured. On
the prisoner's arrival at the station-house in Leman-
street his conduct was so violent that Inspector
Weakford, of the H division, was compelled to take his
shoes off and handcuff his bands behind his back. The
prisoner was very drunk. He was making a hideous
noise all night.

An officer of the Royal Marines said the prisoner was
a person of very indifferent character.
Mr. Seeker said that a man in the position of the pri-
soner, and wearing the uniform of an honourable and
gallant corps, ought to have know❑ better. He con-
sidered the conduct of the prisoner to be most violent
and disgraceful, and he sentenced him to a month's im-
prisonment.