The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-22 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING STREET ROBEEllsc.—A young woman named
Charlotte Watkins was brolight before Mr. Yardley,
charged with stealing a gold locket from the person of Mr.
James Green.

The prosecutor, a veteran mariner, said that he was at
the corner of Cannon-street-road and St. George-street,
yesterday morning about half-past seven o'clock, and was
in a crowd listening to two me 4 who were singing. The
prisoner was standing close to Um on the left hand side,
and pushed against him. He took no notice of this, and
directly afterwards.he felt a tuk at his guard chain, to
which a gold locket with a photographic likeness within it
was attached, and saw the prisoner with it in her hand.
He caught her hand and a little struggling took place, in
the course of which she passed the locket behind her to
another woman, who ran away. Ho held the prisoner until
a policeman arrived, and gave her into custody.
Police. sergeant Egerton, No. 11 H, said the prisoner was
a well known thief, and had been in custody for rescuing a
woman who was sentenced to four yeti's' penal servitude.
The prisoner said she was not guilty.
Mr. Yardley asked the value of the locket, to which the
man replied £2, and added, " My watch is under repair, and
I attached it to the guard-chain tempoiarily."
Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial.

TIIE DANGERS OF RIFLE PRACTICE.--Whilst a
lady, residing at No. 9, Tottenham-place, Clifton, was sit-
ting in her drawing-room, on Tuesday morning, a rifle
bullet came whistling through the window, carrying a pane
with it, and lodging in the woodwork on the opposite side
of the room. Fortunately the lady escaped unhurt, although
the bullet almost grazed her head. It it supposed that the
shot was fired from Brandon Hill.— Western 3fount News.
ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY, AT LEEDS.—At the
Hull Police Court, yesterday, an engineer, named Bam-
forth, belonging to Leeds, was brought up under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—lt was stated in evidence that, on
Tuesday last, a grocer, named Barker, residing in Pottery Fields, Hunslet, Leeds, left his home to go to Rich-
mond on business. He returned the same night, but
found that his wife had fled, and that a great quantity
of wearing apparel, gold watch, and about £lOO in
Bank of England notes, had been carried off. It was then
ascertained that the prisoner
.Bamforth, With Mrs. Barker,
had arrived at the William Hotel, Market Place:
Hull, on Tuesday night ; and that he had engaged
berths for himself and Mrs. Barker (under the as-
sumed name of Mrs. Ellen Bamforth), and a young girl,
to St. Petersburg, in the steamer Leopard. On Thursday
night, Mrs. Barker was discovered at an hotel at New
Holland, near Hull, waiting the arrival of her paramour
Bamforth to fetch her away. She was brought to Hull,
and, on account of her violent conduct, had to be locked up
in the Station House. On Thursday night Bamforth went
over to New Holland, in order to meet the lady ; but she
was, of course, ;one, and upon the arrival of the packet at
Hull the police were ready to take him into custody, on the
charge of stealing the money and articles. On being
searched, four five-pound notes were found upon him, three
of which Mr. Barker identified as part of the £lOO which
he had fnissed. On board the Leopard steamer were found
thirteen packages, many of them containing the articles of
wearing apparel which Mr. Barker had lost. The prisoner
was remanded.