The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-03 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Edward Evaqs and W. Wood were yesterday placed at
the bar, charged with entering the house of Mr. Chalner, of
No. 23, Grafton-street, Soho, and stealing a quantity of
lock fitttings and other fixtures.

The property was identified, and the prisoners were fully
committed for trial.

Q UEEN- S Q UA RE.

Yesterday William Jollift the driver of the cabriolet
No. 1,552, was brought before Messrs. BURRELL and
WHITE, charged with being drunk, furiously driving a ca-
briolet, and killing the horse by his negligence, the property
of his employer, Mr. West, of Artillery-place, Strutton-
ground, 'Westminster.
The Magistrate said that all they could do was to punish
the defendant for his negligent conduct, and be must pay a
penalty of 40s. for the offence.—The defendant was then
removed in custody.
A middle-aged woman, named Jane Mil Janus, late of
No. 2, Symond's-street, Chelsea, was placed at the bar,
charged with stealing a large quantity of sheets, shirts, and
other linen, of the value of nearly 20/., the property of Fre-
derick Shaw, Esq., Recorder of Dublin, of N 0.149, Sloane-
street, Chelsea.
The prisoner was regularly employed as a laundress at
the prosecutor's house, and paid so much per week. About
ten days ago she took a quantity of linen home with her to
iron, with which she absconded and left her lodgings. In-
formation was given to the police, and yesterday morning
she was met in the streets by a police constable, who took
her into custody:
Several pawnbrokers attended, and produced some of the
prosecutor's linen which bad been pledged by the prisoner.
Mr. WHITE strongly animadverted on the conduct of
the pawnbrokers in taking in such property from a person
like the prisoner. He was firmly of opinion that if there
were no pawnbrokers' shops there would not be one-half of
the robberies committed. He wished that Byers or some
of his men would look after the pawnbrokers, and he would
be ready to hear their informations.--Remanded.
An unfortunate hen-pecked man, somewhat advanced in
years, named John Pawson, of No. 6, Castle-lane, West-
minster, charged his better half, Lydia, a stout masculine-
looking woman, many years younger than himself, with
threatening to murder him, and from which threat he hourly
went in danger of his life.
The complainant, with a heavy sigh and in a most mourn-
ful tone, commenced the story of his woes, from which it
appeared that he had been a soldier in the Guards for up-
wards of twenty-one years, when he was blessed with one
of the most amiable wives in the world, by whom he had a
boy and a girl. When he left the army his boy fell off the
top of a house and was killed, which had such an effect
upon his first wife that she died shortly after, leaving him
with one little girl, who also had an accident by tumbling
out of a hay-loft, which caused her to lose one of her eyes.
The Magistrates desired him to come to the point.
Husband—Well, then, I thought I would have another
wife to take care of my little girl, and in an unlucky hour
I became acquainted with this woman and unfortunately
married her ; and I can safely say that from the day I mar-

ried her to the present hour, which is nearly two years, I
have never had a happy hour. My life is a scene of misery,
morning, noon, and night, so help me G—d.
Wife—l try every thing I can to be happy ; but there
is no pleasing him.

Husband—Then pray try everything you can to make
me miserable ; you cannot be further from the mark.

Wife—l try to be happy and to make you happy. What
can you want more ?

Husband—She is always abusing the poor girl, though
she promised to be like a mother to her, knocking her about
and threatening to dash her brains out. She has taken a
refft'ular spite against her.
Mr. BURRELL-But what has your wife done to you
that you have taken out this warrant against her ?
Wife—Done to him ! Why, everything to make him
happy.

linsband—Yes, happy •enough, knocking me about with
a poker, and seizing hold of a knife to rip me up, and using
such horrid language that I am forced to run out of the
house. Oh, what a difference to my first poor wife !
Lydia commenced her defence by expatiating upon her
own amiable qualities, her virtue, good temper, industry,
and keeping the house sweet and clean, which was her chief
study, and improving the mind and morals of her daughter-
in-law, who, she was sorry to say, did not mind one word
she said, and thought nothing of calling her an old cat.
The poker chastisement she entirely denied. The only
thing she ever did in that way was a few days ago, when
she caught him at a public-house drinking a pint of ale, and
finding that he had drank plenty she drank one glass, and
flung the.remainder in his face.

Husband—That was only one of her pleasant methods to
make me happy.

Wife—YOU - deserved it, John. You know I try night
and day to make you happy.
Mr. BURRELL recommended them to separate.
Husband—A separation is the very thing I want, but she
sticks to me like a leech.

Wife—l'm your best friend, and will never leave you
until death.

Husband—Oh dear ! that won't be long first.
Mr. BURRELL dismissed the charge, and told them to
adjust their matters themselves.

MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday James Hyland, a young man, porter in the
employ of Mr. Wild, haberdasher, &c., No. 31, Rathbone-
place, was placed at the bar, charged with the following
'robbery :
Mr. Wild stated that the prisoner had been in his em-
ploy as porter for some time past, and always slept in the
shop. The prisoner went out on Sunday, and not return-
ino. on Monday witness made inquiries, when one of his
shopmen informed him that he had seen the prisoner in the
act of pilfering money from the till. Witness accordingly
suspected that the prisoner had robbed him and stopped
away, and having a key which fitted his box he opened it,
when he found the ticket of a veil pledged on the 18th of
August, for 10s., and also a pair of gloves, which belonged
to him.

The prisoner, who said he picked up the veil between
Rathbone-place and Newman-street about three weeks back,
was fully committed for trial.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Mary Lee and Elizabeth her daughter, a little
girl eleven years of age, were brought before Mr. WEDG-
WOOD and Mr. TnAILL, charged with uttering counterfeit

coin.

The elder prisoner went into a public-house, called the
Bull's Head, at Rotherhithe, and in payment for half a pint
of beer, which she drank at the bar, tendered a counterfeit
sixpence, which was not discovered to be so until she had
left the place. Not satisfied, however, with her success in
the first instance, she afterwards went into several other
houses in the same neighbourhood for a similar purpose, at
some of which she succeeded in passing the spurious coin,
and at others the attempt was detected. She also employed
the child to utter money of the same kind, and generally
sent her alone, so that, in the event of detection, the girl,
on being questioned, uniformly refused to give any infor-
mation as to the name and address of her parents, so as to
bring them to punishment. On the present occasion, how-
ever, both the prisoners were taken into custody together
immediately after an uttering had been effected, and on
examining them both, although no bad money was found on
the elder, in a pocket which the child had on at the time
were discovered a great number of well-executed base six-
pences._ _

Mr. Powell, the Solicitor of the Mint, who attended the
examination, stated that the whole family were common
utterers, and that Mary Lee's husband and son were re-
cently convicted of a similar offence at Liverpool. The
father and son had left London a short time ago, with a
small cart drawn by dogs, for the purpose of uttering coun-
terfeit money, and in most instances the boy was the party
who was employed to pass it off. A week, however, after
their arrival they were both taken into custody, upon which
occasion the remaining portion of the stock of base coin,
which they had procured in London, was discovered at
their lodgings. When Mary Lee, the wife, and daughter,
were apprehended, the former contrived by some means or
another to remove all the base coin from her apartments at
Bermondsey before the officers arrived there. In the course,
however, of the examination of the premises several letters
were discovered from Mary Lee's husband, while confined
in Lancaster Castle, to his wife, and although they were
written in a guarded manner, yet the contents showed that
they had been for some time engaged in the unlawful pur-
suit, and that the husband was in the confidence of a gang
of coiners at Birmingham. whose agent was frequently
mentioned in the letters. The discovery of these letters
has put Mr. Powell into the possession of information which
will be most useful.
The prisoners were committed.