The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-17 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday Marrffal;,aie;entiokinc, woman, was
placed at the bar, charged with stealing a silk gown from the
shop of Messrs. Morrison and Denning, pawnbrokers,
No. 21, Upper York-street, Marylebone.—Committed.
Charles Millar alias Newell, a lad about sixteen years of
age, well known to the police as a notorious thief, was
brought up for re-examination on a charge of stealing a re-
ticule (in which was a purse containing two half crowns, a
smelling bottle, two keys, and, a pocket handkerchief) from
the person of Mrs. Mary Ann' Clarke, a lady residing at
No. 19, Church-row, Hampstead.
The prosecutrix, about five o'clock on Saturday after-
noon, was walking on Hampstead Heath, accompanied by
by her sister and servant, when she felt her reticule sud-
denly cut from her arm ; she turned round, when she saw
it in the hands of the prisoner, who was making off; she
cried " Stop thief," when a gentleman who was passing pur-
sued the prisoner, who threw the -bag away ; the prisoner,
however, was secured, and a policeman shortly after coming
up, he was given into custody. The bag with its contents
was then picked up.
Committed to Newgate for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
WORKING OF THE NEW POOR LAW BILL.—Ann Tho-
mas, a healthy middle-aged woman, complained to Mr.
CHAMBERS, That _ the parish of St. James, to which she
belonged, had refused to give her suitable relief. She had
been for many years in the workhouse, and now she had
been turned out of it quite destitute. •
Mr. Bryant, the overseer, said this was one of the nu-
merous cases 'of habitual pauperism which the. new Poor
Law Bill was expected to remedy. The woman ever since
1819 had been a claimant on the parish, and for the last
seven years had been wholly supported in the workhouse.
She was strong, healthy, and not past the , age of labour,
therefore the Board had determined that she should sup-
port herself by her industry.
The applicant had- broken her arm some time ago, and
she was not able, in consequence, to get her own living.
Mr.'Br,ant replied that the arm had been broken in
1822, and in order to give her a fair trial, he had given her
an order to see the doctor, and if the result was that she
was pronounced incapable of maintaining herself, the parish
would do something for her.
Mr. CONANT remarked that such applications to Magis-
trates were now useless, as the new Act took away all
power to interfere in the matter. He thought, however,
that the parishes in adopting the provisions of the new
Act, ought to use their power with humane discrimination.
lie wished to know why the applicant had been suffered to
remain so many years in the workhouse, the inevitable con-
sequence of which was that she must have lost all other re-
sources and connexions, except those of the workhouse.
Mr. Bryant replied, that the answer he felt bound to
give would not perhaps be very agreeable to him as a Ma-
gistrate. It vas one consequence of the defects in the old
system, that the woman, who was of very indifferent charac-
ter, had been able for so many years to gain a subsistence
from the poor rates. She had been sent out of the work-
house to earn her own bread, but an overseer, or a Magis-
trate, had always been found ready, the one to order her
relief on her application, and the other to give her an ad-
mission into the workhouse. The Board, he was happy to
say, had taken the cases of the paupers into their conside-
ration, and had acted with humanity in legitimate cases, and
with decision in cases of habitual paupers and impostors.
A small tradesman brought his daughter, a young wo-
man, five months advanced in her pregnancy, before Mr.
CONANT, to ask what was to be done in the situation
which the bastardy clause of the new Poor Law Act had
placed the unhappy girl.
This clause, which has excited such universal reprobation,
relieves the putative father from all responsibility, and
throws the whole of the expense upon the mother, until
after a certain period; and in this case, as in numerous
others, it appears to have all the injustice of an ex post facto
law.

The father said his daughter had lived in the service of
a tradesman (a mal-ried man with a family) for the last 17
months. She had recently been turned away, five months
gone in pregnancy by her master, who refused to do any-
thing for her or for his offspring.
Mr. CONANT applied to Mr. Bryant to know if the
Dower was not taken from magistrates to order relief in
such cases of inhuman conduct.
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exempt from all liability until one month after the birth of
the child, at which period, if it became chargeable, the
parish could apply to the sessions for an order on him, if
the mother, by corroborative evidence, could satisfactorily
establish the paternity.
Father—But what is my poor girl to do ? There is no
place for her but the streets. I have a family, and it is
with the utmost difficulty I can keep them from starving.
I cannot either give her shelter or subsistence.
Mr. CoNANT—I have no power to interfere. The
young Nyman must take the consequences of her conduct.
She knew her master was a married man.
Father --Then is the villain who seduced her entirely to
escape ?
Mr. CONANT replied, that it was so ordered by the legis-
lature, and therefore he could say nothing further on the
subject. The parties then left the office.

Q UEEN-SQ UARE.
Private John Hutchinson, of the third battalion of the
Third Rigiment of Scots Fusileer Guards, whose name is
fresh in the public memory, was brought up in the custody
of a sergeant and corporal of the Guards, charged with hav-
ing deserted from his regiment. The prisoner was dressed
in sailor's clothes, and had absented himself from his regi-
ment some days ago. Yesterday he went to the barracks
and voluntarily gave himself up. It is understood that he
had been endeavouring to get a passage to America, but
had failed in his object.
The prisoner was conducted by the sergeant and corpo-
ral to the New Tothill Prison for the night, previous to his
beinc, delivered up to the military authorities.
William Carter was placed at the bar before Mr. WHITE,
charged with obtaining a trunk full of linen, by false pre-
tences, from the servant of William Floodgate, Esq., No.
6, Queen-square, Westminster, under the following cir-
cumstances :

This system of robbery has existed for a considerable

time, and hitherto almost without detection ; scarcely has
a day elapsed for some months past but informations have
been giVen of similar robberies.
It appeared from the evidence that for nearly the last
twenty years Mrs. Couchman, a laundress at Hammer-
smith, has washed for the family of the prosecutor, and a
man generally calls every week for the linen, which he car-
ries to Charing-cros, and it is sent down to Hammersmith
by the carrier. On Monday afternoon, about one o'clock,
the prisoner called at Mr. Floodgate's, and said that he had
come from Mrs. Coachman's for the linen. The door was
opened by the servant girl, and she asked him what had
become of the man who usually called for the linen ? He
replied that he was very ill in bed, and that he had sent
him. The servant then brought the linen down in the
trunk, and in the passage the prisoner assisted in cording
the trunk. When he got it on his shoulder he reminded
the servant that she had forgotten to pay for the carriage ;
and, it being always the custom to pay the man who took
away the linen two shillings, she instantly gave it to him,
.and he left the house. About two hours afterwards the
man who usually called arrived, and the robbery was then
discovered. The trunk contained a large quantity of linen,
together with a sovereign. Information of the robbery was
immediately sent to the different station-houses, with a full
description of the 'prisoner, and yesterday morning he was
apprehended by a police constable of the T division, N 0.12,
in George-street, Hammersmith. None of the stolen pro-
perty was found upon him.
On being placed at the bar Mr. Floodgate's servant
identified the prisoner as the person to whom she delivered
the trunk.

It was mentioned to the Magistrate that since the pri-
soner had been apprehended the police had discovered that
he had been concerned in various similar robberies, and he
was ordered to be remanded.

Shortly after the prisoner was locked up he made a full
confession where he had sold the property, and the police
were immediately despatched to the house where the pro-
perty was.