The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

street. When I Went to the bank I was asked for a de-
scription of the man. I said he had no whiskers, or very
little. I told %Ir. 11luilens I could riot give a des,Tv.ion
of his foe. I nave not the lia,t doubt now that the p:-i-
-son,:r is the man by his appearance a'.t.izether. The
cross-examination of the witness occupied a considerable
time.

Mary A. Fennell raid— I live with my mother at 6,
Oakley-crescent, City-road, and we are accustomed to let
off a portion of our house. We let the drawing room off
about the 18th or 19th of February to a Mr. Hammond.
He was two mornings with us. I saw him the first
morning. He asked ale to give him a pen and ink. I
let the apartment to him. I only saw him when I let
the apartment, and the next morLing, but I only saw
his back when he went away the following morning.
I think I should know him again. I saw a man at
Marlborough-street Police office very like him. The
prisoner is so like 'the man that if I had met him on
the street I should say he was the man, but he is not qulte
so stout as he then wfts. The pris ner is very like the
man, but he is differently dressed. I believe the prisoner
is the man.

Cross-examined—There has been a discussion about
the business. I was more confident than my sister was
as to his identity.

After a very-long cross-examination of this witness,
the prisoner, upon being asked in the usual terms whe-
ther he wished to say anything, said, "I know nothing
about it, so help me God."
He was then committed for trial.

GUILDHALL. John Smith, a militiaman, was
charged with being concerned in a garrotte robbery in
Golden-lane.

George Gough, a steward on board the Argand, said
he was going past Golden-lane about 12 o'clock last
night, when he saw the prisoner and two females talking
together. They wanted something to drink from the
public-house at the corner and so did witness, but the
man would not admit any of them. One of the women
said, "I know where to get something to drink," and
they all walked up Golden-lane. The observation ap-
peared to be partly addressed to himself, so he followed
them, and when he got into a court leading out of
Golden lane the prisoner turned back and put his arm
round witness's neck so as to throttle him. The women
almost instantly drew his gold ring from his finger, and
his money from his pockets, and they then made their
escape. When he recovered he communicated with the
police, and two of them took him into some houses in
Golden-lane, in one of which he identified the prisoner
in a room out of 15 men. He had been drinking, but
knew perfectly well what he was about.
Police-constable 113 apprehended the prisoner, and
stated that the prosecutor unhesitatingly picked him out
from among a number of men that were in the room at
the time he took him. The prosecutor ha i been intoxi-
cated in the early part of the evening, but he was so-
bered by the time witness saw him.
Several officers identified the prisoner as being an
associate with thieves, and S.r Peter Laurie remanded
him for further inquiry.

WESTMINSTER.—AN INHUMAN MOTHER—JuIia
White, a dirty, dissipated-looking woman, who had an
interesting little child, five years of age, by the hand,
was charged with the following inhuman treatment of
it :

George Bradford, a labouring man, said that on last
Saturday afternoon, about half-past five, he was going
down Great Peter-street, Westminster, when he saw the
defendant beating the little girl she now had by her side
in the most unmerciful manner. He remonstrated with
her, but it was unavailing, and she continued her bru-
tality to the child. On his feeling it his duty again to
interfere she attacked him, struck him twice, and tore
his coat, but he male no charge against her for anything
she had done to

Mr. Payntor inquired the particular nature of the il
usage to the child.

Witness replied that she repeatedly struck it with her
clenched fists, and when she had knocked it down kicked
it. She also used very disguAing language towards it.
William Ashley, 281 A, said that he was on duty in
Great Peter-street, when the previous witness called
upon him to protect the child from furth. r violence,
and he took the defendant, who was drunk, into cus-
tody. She was very violent to the child in his presence.
Mr. Paynter inquired whether the child had sustained
any serions injury ?
Mr. Siamonds, an inspector of the B divi.ion, replied
that the poor little thing fortunately had not.
Defendant, in reply to the charge, said she was very
sorry, but she was so drank that she did not know
what had occurred.

Mr. Simmonds, in reply to a question from the magis-
trate, said that the defendant had repeatedly been at that
court for drunkenness. The child had been taken care
of in the workhouse since Saturday night, which ac-
counted for its neat and cleanly appearance.
Mr. Paynter animadverted in becoming terms upon
defendant's disgraceful conduct, and called upon her to
find sureties for her future good behaviour.
In default she was committed to gaol, and the little
girl, who is fatherless, was sent to the workhouse.

WORSHIP-STREET.—EXTRAORDINARYY CASE OF
BURGLARY.—A young fellow named Edwavcl Towers, an
unemployed groom, was brought up for examination be-
fore Mr. D'Eyncourt ; and William Plecicart, describing
himself as an engineer, was now placed at the bar with
him, charged with having been concerned, with others,
in breaking into the house of Mrs. Isabella Humphreys,
an aged widow lady of property, at Stamford-hill, and
plundering it of 1221. in gold and silver,and two 51. notes,
besides a considerable quantity of plate, a gold watch,
jewellery, and other articles.
Hy. Hortvood, brother-in-law of the prisoner Towers,
and Mary Ann Perkins, a dressmaker, connected with
Fleckart, were also charged at the first examination, "but
afterwards discharged for want of sufficient proof: The
man Fleckart has been upwards of a week in custody
under police surveillance, being too ill to be removed
until yesterday, and was still in a very feeble state, with
a consumptive look.
Mr. Lewis attended as solicitor for the prosecution.
The facts, as already proved, were briefly these:—
About two months since a man and a woman called at the
house of the prosecutrix, with an urgent request for her
to immediately visit Mrs. Rush, of Austin-friars, whose
husband, a legal friend who had the management of the
old lady's affairs, was said to have taken suddenly ill at
Salisbury ; but the prosecutrix herself was then so un-
well that neither she nor her servant could go, and sub-
sequently a letter was brought, purporting to be frmn
Mrs. Rush, requesting the servant to be sent. The pro-
secutrix, however, then rode herself to Austin-friars, and
discovered that the message and the letter were fictitious,
and that nothing whatever had happened to the gentle-
man, who was perfectly wed. Fortunately the servant, who
had remained at home, had her father to stop in the house
with her during the absence of her mistrese, and the de-
predation, which had no doubt been planned, was for the
time frustrated ; but early in the morning of the 25th
ult. the house was entered by breaking through a wall
to the kitchen, and the robbers, who used very serious
violence towards the prosecutrix and her servant, carried
off the large amount of property above mentioned.
Upon investigation, it appeared that a sister of the pri-
soner Towers had formerly been in the service of the
prosecutrix, and afterwards married to Horwood—cir-
cumstances which led to the apprehension of those three,
and of Fleckart and Mary Akin Perkins. The servant
of the prosecutrix believed Perkins to be tie woman
- ho first came with the fictitious message, but could not
positively swear to her identity, as her features were
imperfectly seen through a veil. Perkins and Horwood
were therefore liberated,
Sergeant Langdon, of the N division, eteted that he
fir., apprehended the prisoner Fleckart at his residence
in Paris-street, Palace-road, but found him too ill to he
removed, and left a constable in charge of him. He
afterwards took Towers, who, when told the nature of
the charge, denied at first all knowledge of it, bet after-
vards said that be could tell a little about it, and pra-
ceecled to state that his sister had talked to. F eckart and
Perkins about what a good old lady Mrs. Humphreys
was, and how rich she was, and they agreed to meet
Towers and his brother-in-law, Harwood, and go to the
old lady's house to take what she possessed. That was
five or six weeks before his apprehension, he said, and
they all went accordingly to Stamford hill, where Towers ;
and his brother waited outside while Perkins and Fleck-
art went to the house, from which, however, they in a
short time returned, saying that they could not do the
job. They then separated, and Towers declared that
neither he nor Horwood bled anything to do with the
subsequent burglary and robbery.
Eliza Cook, a remarkably pretty and respectable-look-
ing young person, who had been two years in the ser-
vice of the prosecutrix, now identified the prisoner
Fleckart as the man who called in the first instance with
the female with the fictitious message and letter purport-
ing to be from Mrs. Rush. The prosecutrix was unwell
at the time, and entered the room to speak to them,
leaning upon the arm of the witness, and the woman
wished the witness to go with her and Fleckart, but she
declined to leave her mistress, who was then so ill, and
said that either of her brothers would go if her mistress
desired it. She remarked that the man appeared to be
ill, and in fast he asked for and was going to drink some
water, and witness seeing him so ill advised him to take
a little spirit in it, and was about to pour out a little
but he declined it. While there he entered the yard
where the wall was that was afterwards broken through
to the kitchen. The evidence given by the witness, and I
now again read over, as to the burglary, was to the fol-
lowing effect :—About half-past 9in the evening, after
having secured all the fastenings about the house, she
went to bed in the same room as her mistress, who awoke
her about daybreak, and sitting up in bed to listen, she
heard a noise, but bearing nothing more she lay down
again till 6 o'clock, when she went down stairs, and
found one of the parlour doors ajar, and two men then
rushed upon her, and knocked her down by a blow on
the head. 'When she recovered, she found one of them
kneeling by her side, with a knife in his hand, and a
chopper and piece of wood near him on the ground. She
screamed at the sight, but he in athreatening way asked
her to be quiet, and she promised that she would if he
did not ill use her. He and another then took her by
the hands and feet down to the kitchen, where they
placed her on a chair. They then asked her where the
plate and money was kept, and upon her answering
evasively, the one with the knife put it to her throat and
said he would cut her throat unless she told, awl she
then said that all she knew of was in the parlour. They
then got possession of the property, and left her bound
hand and foot in a chair, but some time after their de-
parture she contrived, with her teeth, to untie her hands,
and at length to free herself, and running up to the
bed-room found her mistress tied to the bed, so as
nearly to double her up, and with a handkerchief round
her mouth. She was almost suffocated, and nearly dead,
and the witness was convinced that she could not have
lived five minutes longer iti that state, and she was now
very ill. , The witness said that she saw four men alto-
gether in the house, but neither of the prisoners.
Sergeant Langdon nowstated thathavingleft Fleckart