The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
MANSION-HOUSE.

Three young men, named iliotisiras, Leo. and List
`were brought before Alderman Wire by George Scott,
the officer, charged with having prowled about the
streets for the purpose of picking pockets, and appropri-
ating any property which might tempt their skill and
experience.
The prisoners had made various unsuccessful efforts
upon the careless pas.ers-by in the crowded streets, and
at last they fixed their attentions upon a shop-window
in which there were several valuable articles, and one
of them in an instant, with the hand of a master,
" starred the glaze " (cut out a piece of glass) while the
others covered him, but not from the vigilance of the
officer. Just as the hand was introduced at the broken
pane a young lady stepped down from the top of the
shop, and the three thieves slipped aside, but were im-
mediately secured.
Alderman WIRE—Are these men known to the
police ?
Finnis and several other officers particularized se-
veral occasions upon which the prisoners had operated
together in collecting silk handkerchiefs and been com-
mitted. and each of them was described as being rapid
in his movements whenever an opportunity occurred.
The prisoners said they were hardworking men at
trades very different from that which they were accused
of exercising by the police, but they did not deny that
they might have been falsely accused upon former occa-
sions.

Alderman WIRE sentenced each of them to be impri-
soned fur six weeks in Bridewall, and to hard labour.
MfARYLEBONE.
Thomas William Thomas, alias Williams, alias Johnson,
was placed at the bar, charged with the following rob-
bery:—

Several witnesses were examined, an it appeared
that about a month ago, the prisoner entered the
shop of Mr. Harris, Union-place 4 New-road, and re-
quested to know what he should pay for the making up
of a suit of clothes. He was told that the price would
be 305., and upon his receiving that information he
quitted the place, promising to call on the next morning
and bring with him the cloth. In a short time after his
departure a coat, value 3/. 10g., was missed from the
counter, and information of the robbery was communicated
to the police. Tottman, 393 A, apprehended the pri-
soner on Saturday afternoon last, from private informa-
tion which he had received, and found the stolen coat
upon his (prisoner's) back.
The prisoner was asked what he had to say, and he
alleged that he bought the ooat of a man whom he met
with in a skittle-ground.
It was shown that the prisoner was an old offender,
and had previously been convicted.
He was sent to Newnate for trial.
THAMES.

Rosina Herbert, a sempstress, whose name has been so
often before the public, was brought before Mr. Yardley,
on remand, charged with pawning six linen blouses,
value 4s. 6d. each, the materials of which were given to
her to be made up by a poor woman named Elizabeth
Mercer, of No. 10, Storer-street, Stepney.
In answer to questions by Mr. YARDLEY,
The prosecutrix said she first became acquainted with
the prisoner last April, and gave her slop-work to make
up. Last July the prisoner raised money at the pawn-
broker's upon a coat which the witness gave her to make
up, and as she did not redeem it or make good the loss,
she refused to employ her any longer, and lost sight of
her until a few weeks ago, when the prisoner called upon
her and paid the value of the coat which had been
pawned, and said that, owing to the publicity given to
her examination at this court on a charge of illegally
pawning seven cotton shirts more than 201. had been
sent her by various benevolent persons, which she had
expended in providing a home and clothes for her-
self, her husband, and children. The prisoner also
said that she was most anxious to obtain employment as
a needlewoman and keep her home about her. The wit-
ness, who had just buried her husband, and was OR the
eve of her confinement with a posthumous child, took pity
on the prisoner and gave her more work. Tho prisoner
had made about two dozen blouses since the latter end
of November, and on the let of February she had six on
hand, which never had been returned. The prosecu-
trix had sent for them previous to and in the course of
her confinement with her last child 20 times, and at last
went to Somesford-street, Mile. end, where the prisoner
and her husband had lodged, and found they bad ab-
sconded. Subsequently to this the prisoner's husband
sent a letter to Mrs. Mercer, intimating that the blouses
had been pawned. The prosecutrix, who was in utter
despair at the prospect of losing her employment, and
who was obliged to give unexceptionable security,
sought the prisoner in all directions, and met with ber
on Wednesday morning in Rosemary-lane, when she
taxed her with her ingratitude. The prisoner accom•
panied Mrs. Mercer to ber dwelling, and said the blouses
were not pawned for much, but refused to give any clue
to the place where they could be found, and the conse-
quence has been that Mrs. Mercer, who only obtained a
profit of Id. each on the blouses, has been entirely de-
prived of employment. •
Police-constable Smith, 415 K, said, he had been un-
able to trace the blouses pawned by Rosins Herbert, but
he bad brought forward a woman, her landlady, of
whom the prisoner bad borrowed a shawl under the
pretence that she wanted to raise money upon it for the
purpose of redeeming the blouses. The prisoner raised
84. upon the shawl, sent her landlady the duplicate, and
then ab'conded with the money,
Mr. YARDLEY asked the pi osecutrix if she had heard
of the prisoner's conviction at that court in October lust,
when she last employed her and intt usted her with the
blouses.

Mrs. Mercer said she knew all About it, but as the
pris•)uer had made good the lc ss of the coat pawned last
July, and had been originally recommended to her as a
poor and deserving woman, she took pity on her, and
gava her another chance. She was the more disposed to
do this as she was very poor herself, and had just lost
her husband.

Mr. YARDLEY—Do you know anything of the pri-
soner's husband, or how he and his wife contrived to get
rid of so much money in so short a space of time?
Mrs. Mercer said she did not. The Herborts had only
two young children, and the husband had been employed
in the docks since his wile's last conviction.
Mr. YARDLEY said the prisoner had committed this
offence under circumstances of very considerable aggra-
vution. The prosecutrix, who was almost as poor as
the prisoner herself, wished to give the prisoner number
opportunity of getting her living, and had kindly forgiven
a tormer wrong. The prisoner, however, who was de-
void of the common feelings of gratitude, pawned the
property. The prisoner was a most shameless woman,
who had repeatedly committed a similar 'offence, and was
totally unworthy of the sympathy which had been ex-
tended towards her, or, indeed, of any pity whatever.
The publicity given to the proceedings in October last,
when the prisoner was charged with illegally
pawning seven cotton shirts, caused a large
SUM of money to be sent for her relief; but
it was proved that she had been convicted more
than a year before of a similar offence, and he and
his colleague did not think proper to be made the
medium of giving money to a woman twice convicted of
crime, and theretore hold out a premium to others to
commit offences. They withheld the money, which was
transferred to the poor• box. Notwithstanding this,
many benevolent but ill-judging persons—kind-hearted,
Bo doubt, and disposed to do good, but very weak-
minded—had forwarded money to the amouut of 20/.
through other sources, and clothes and food were also
forwarded to her dwelling. Within a few weeks the
prisoner was again found committing a similar offence,
and acting with the most black ingratitude. Most pro-
bably she had done so under the idea—ho hoped a mis-
taken one—of again arousing public sympathy in her
behalf. Sitting in that court as he did for the preven-
tion of crime, he felt bound to visit this case with great
severity, and he sentenced the prisons r to pay a fine of
51. for illegally pawning, and 275., the value of the
goods pledged, and in default of payment committed
her to the House of Correction for two mouths, and to
be kept to hard labour.

LAMBETH.
Edward Williams alias George Miller, the companion
in several desperate robberies of George Hackett, who
effected so extraordinary an escape from the Model Prison,
Clerkenwell, was placed in the dock before Mr. Elliott
on the charge of stealing an easy chair, of the value of
2L, from the shop door of Mr. Charles Kedge, a furni-
ture broker and salesman, in the Kent-road, as far
back as the 21st of September, 1849. From the
evidence it appeared that the robbery in this instance
was effected in the same daring manner as many others
by the same gang, namely, by two men driving up in a
light cart, a third man handing in the property, and all
driving off at a speed that insured escape. In the month
of November following the prisoner made an attempt to
get a portmanteau from the top of a cab, in Bond-street.
but having been closely watched by a constable, he
could not effect the robbery, but succeeded in getting
into the cart with his companions. In driving away
at a desperate rate the cart came in contact with
a lamp-post, and the prisoner, who was much stunned
by the tall, was secured, but his associates, George
and John Hackett, succeeded in getting off. For this
offence the prisoner was brought to Marlborough-street
Police-court, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment. At that time the prisoner was fully identified as
being one of the persons who had stolen the chair from
Mr. Kedge'a, and it was the intention of the officer to
have taken him when released from prison, but he mis-
calculated the time, and by this means the prisoner again
became at large. On Friday night he was tskeu in
Mint-street, in the Borough, on a charge of being con-
cerned with a young fellow named Goodwin in the com-
mission of two acts of sacrilege in breaking into the old
Protestant church and a Dissenting chapel at Croydon.
On these charges the legal evidence as to his identity
was not sufficiently strong, and he was discharged, but
his companion was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment. The testimony as to the prisoner having stolen
the chair, the property of Mr. Kedge, was quite conclu-
s iry present
Storey,
the
aCityofficer, in aidttion, said he was
prisoner and John Hackett had been
andnt
whoa
convicted of felony, and when the former was sentenced
to nine months' imprisonment.
The prisoner was fully c munitted for trial.

THE MARBLE ARCB.—The extraoriinary exer-
tions which have been made to erect the marble arch in its
• tedplace, at the Oxford-street entrance to Hyde-park,
appointed
in
_
are visibly evident in a very remarkable dogri.e. The arch
is in a very advanced state, and is in fact last approaching
towards completion. The workmen have frequently been
employed until a late hour at night, when practicable, and
the opilrations have been visible, owing to the glare of light
thrown, around by tie gaslights at the vet), top of the
works. The works are so far advanced that the massive
gates have been fixed in their places, and the whole of the
superstructure is in a very forward condition. It is the
generally expressed opinion that the arch shows to greater
o_
advantage than in its former position, in consequence f
the present site being much more elevated, and,owing
to
its prominent position, the elaborate ornaments au
on the front of the arch art now heap to the greatest pot'
titbit advantage.