The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

POI= INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 16.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Samuel Armsberg, a re-
spectable-looking young man, 19, a foreigner, living
at 3, Princes-street, Finsbury, was charged with
robbing his master of £l7 10s.
The complainant, Edward Keil, a courier-bag
maker, 26, Bush-lane, had a bank post bill for £lO,
and also £7 in gold and 10s. in silver in a purse, which
he kept in a private room of his house in a locked
drawer, the key of which hung at the side of the
mantel-shelf. The prisoner, who had been in
his service two months, had occasional access to
the room. The money was last seen all safe in the
drawer by the complainant on Wednesday afternoon,
about 4 o'clock. The prisoner worked in a room un-
derneath, and the complainant in one immediately
over that in which the money was. Between 4 and
5 o'clock he heard the prisoner come up stairs and
enter the room, and when complainant shortly after-
wards went there to take his tea he perceived that
the drawer was open and the money gone. Sus-
pecting the prisoner had taken it he went to his
lodgings, where he found him, and charged him
with the robbery. At first prisoner denied it, but
afterwards admitted having taken the money. He
went with the complainant, at his request, to the
place of business in Bush-lane, and on the way of-
fered to give complainant the money, but he refused
to take it, and afterwards gave him into custody.
At the police station he said the money was at his
lodgings ; and an officer who went there found 9s
4d. on the top of a picture-frame in his bed room,
and £l7 under some old carpets in another part of
the house. The complainant had received the £l7
10s. in question from the prisoner's father in Ger-
many only the day previous, in payment for some
goods supplied to him, and the prisoner knew that
he had received it.

The prisoner said what his master had stated was
all true, and he was guilty. Yielding to the temp-
tation of a moment he had been induced to take the
money, and this was the first time he had commit-
tPd a crime.

A respectable-looking man stood forward and
stated that the prisoner had lodged in his house
since the early part of January last, and had uni-
formly conducted himself with the greatest pro-
priety. He had had during that time the range of
his house, and no single thing had been missed.
• The prisoner held down his head and cried very
much as his landlord volunteered this character of
him, and, on the question being put to him, he
elected to be sentenced by the court instead of being
sent for trial.

The Lord Mayor said he would take time to con-
sider what sentence he should pass upon him.
John Rogers, a cigar-maker, was charged with
an aggravated assault upon his wife.
The wife, though she gave prisoner into custody,
did not attend to' state the charge; but a young
woman, a stranger to both of them, who happened
to witness the assault, came voluntarily forward to
speak to it. She said she was in Bishopsgate-street
on Monday night, and hearing a cry of " Murder"
and " Police," she ran to the spot, when she saw
the prisoner dragging a woman along by the hair
of her head. A gentleman who saw the assault
broke an umbrella over the prisoner's head ; and a
policeman who came had the greatest difficulty in
forcing him to release his hold of the woman. At
her request the witness went with her to the police-
station, when she gave the prisoner in charge.
There she said she was his wife, and they had been
married some years, but that she could not live with
him by reason of his ill usage, and had left him four
or five times. Her face was very much swollen,
and a great deal of blood was upon the front of her
dress.

• The prisoner said tile blood had flowed from his
own face, from a wound which his wife inflicted
with a large door key. Three weeks ago she sold
everything he had and left the house, and he had
not since seen her until Monday night, when he
met her in Bishopsgate-street, and taunted her
with her ill-hehaviour, and they had a quarrel.
The Lord Mayor said as the prisoner's wife was
not in attendance, he should discharge him.

WESTMINSTER.—.John Grant, a prize-fighter,
and Frederick Coney, a brushmaker, were charged
with riotous conduct at Cremorne.
Constable Potter said between 7 and 8 in the
evening he was called by Mr. Keeley, one of the
money-takers, and found the defendants, who were
drunk, endeavouring to force their way through
the turnstile. The money-taker refused to allow
them to enter, but they insisted upon having
admittance or preventing anybody else enteriug.
Upwards of twenty persons were waiting to pass
through the turnstile, and after some trouble w.t-
ness succeeded in removing the defendants, but
they shortly after again returned to the place,
and conducted themselves very disgracefully.
The steamer had just landed a number
of ladies and gentlemen and children who were
about to enter the gardens, when defendants, at the
top of their voices, called them thieves, and other
epithets, and called out, " Mind your pockets."
Some ladies alarmed went away, and others stood
on one side, waiting till they could get into the
gardens. Witness then procured assistance and
conveyed defendants to the station.
Mr. Paynter—You must pay ss. each.
One of the defendants—We have not got any
money.
Mr. Paynter —Then you are committed for seven
days.

141ARLB.OROUGH-STREET.--Edward Byrne,
9, Tichborne-street, described as a ladies' dress-
maker, was re-examined on the charge of long-con-
tinued ill-treatment to Hannah James, his young
servant g;rl, and for an assault on Sunday, the sth
inst. The court was much crowded, and Viscount
Raynham, M.P., as on the former occasion and the
previous application, occupied a seat at the magis-
trate's table.

Mr. Edward Lewis, as before, attended for the
defence, and at his request the witnesses (there
were several present) were ordered to withdraw.
Mr. Tyrwhitt having asked if the girl, as com-
plainant, was present, a young poorly clad girl,
who, though stated by a witness to be 19, certainly
did not look more than 13, came forward and was
sworn.
Previous to her evidence, Mr. Levis sulaaile,(l
that the summons being for an assaultthat was the only affair the court ought to go into,
above, an
The girl gave her name as on tbe.o to P
and her
Ula.he! pre.
sent address Praderyn, near Merthyr Tya
morganshire, with her parents. She
,stated that
Christmas.
day, entered the' defendant's' service las. uhristmas-
day, and that,Mr. and i
s. Byrne beat her every
day.
Mr. Lewis—What , d he do on the sth.
Complainant—H?
truck me with the handle of
the sweeping broo,
Mr. Tyrwhitt
Complainant
my clothes, an,
in his room a

used to find

tell a lie,"

back of

_low was it ?
Mrs. Byrne found a live thing on
/old Mr. Byrne, w,l I.
o spoke to me
illt it. I told him my
mother never
ach things on me, and he said "Don't
nd struck me with a handle over the
hand, which hurt Inc Tery much, and it

swelled up. I screamed out, and Mrs. Warren came
up to me—•-if she hadn't, he would have beaten me
more. The next morninc, I was sent home, and
did't know I was to go till then. He took me to
the station, and sent me off.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Do you know :the girl Ellen
Wing ?

Complainant—Yes, sir. She is Mr. Byrne's
work-girl.

Mr:Tyrwhitt—Have you had any quarrel with
her ?

Complainant—No, sir; bat she calls me bad
names.

In reply to the magistrate, complainant said her
father had brought her a frock, but she hadn't many
things, and what she hads he washed herself. She
was 17 last birthday.
The witnesses as to previous ill-treatment and
beatings were not ea:led, Mr. Lewis, immediately
on the conclusion of the complainant's evidence, and
some little cross-examination, observing that he
did not think he need make any observations on the
case as it stood.

Mr .Tyrwhitt said it had very properly been
brought before him. He had adjourned the case
for the purpose of hearing the girl's own version of
it, and the feelings of her friends and relatives on
the subject, if not sooner satisfactorily settled.
The girl now attended, and, he must say, had given
her evidence in the simple and unvarnished style of
the poor of the principality. As to the assault itself,
ho could understand a man's getting in a passion,
which we were• all more or less liable to do, and
his striking a blow, but in this he was by no
means justified, and his doing so was likely to ex-
pose him to remark out of doors. The girl evidently
was of the poorer class, and did not appear in age
more than 13. It was fortunate for the defendant
that the case had come out so mildly. If the girl
was dirty it was to be traced to her poverty and
her want of proper clothing. For the assault of the
sth August he should fine the defendant 10s. or
fourteen days in the House of Correction.