The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

EXTARORDINARY DECISION.—EIIen Diggin, before con-
victed'of felony, was charged with being concerned with
her brother in robbery from the person with violence on
the 25th of June last.

Mr. Thomas William Baker, a clerk, residing at 184,
King's-road, Chelsea, said that on the 25th June, late at
night, ho was going home, and the defendant accosted him ;
he tried to avoid her, but she followed him and continu-
ally forced herself upon him, until, as he went into King-
street, he was suddenly seized by several men, who rifled
his pockets and then escaped.
Mr. Selfo asked how he connected this woman with the
man now awaiting his trial?
Bloomfield, 248 A, said he was the brother of the pri-
soner, and had been seen with her all that night.
Police-constable 345 T said that on the night in question
he saw the prisoner and three or four others following
the prosecutor. He watched them into King-street, and
then lost sight of them ; in a quarter of an hour Mr.
Baker told him he had been robbed, and they caught the
prisoner in Bond-street but prosecutor declined to give
her into custody, because he did not wish his father to be
bothered about it.
In reply to Mr. Selfo, the prosecutor said the constable
was incorrect about his father, he did not wish to be
troubled with the ',prosecution, as it took so much time,
and he would now be probably detained three or four days
at the trial ; the police, however, having caught one he
determined to prosecute the prisoner, so as to deter
such characters in future. He would swear the prisoner
held bim at the time of the robbery.
Watts, 252 B, said the prisoner had been several times
convicted of felony.
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Mr. Solfe said he did not think a jury would convict,
the prosecutor had abstained from charging her at the
timo, and then having got one resolved to have the lot.
He cautioned the prisoner, told her it would bo re-
membered of her, and then discharged her.

LIVERPOOL COTTON lIIARICE7—This Day.

Market opens quiet, but steady. Sales probably
10,000 bales.

AN EXECUTION AT HONG KONG. —Cheong-Po-sang,
the only ono convicted of the five men engaged in the mur-
der of the clothseller in Tank-lane, and three of the four
pirates convicted at the May sessions for piracy and murder
on the high seas, were on the 24th of June executed at Hong-
kong, at the usual place in front of the gaol. As the bell
struck six the prisoners wore led forth to the scaffold, near
which were a number of Europeans, one or two companies of
police, and 50 penal servitude convicts ranged on ono side of
the compound. Cheong-fook had to be pushed up the scaf-
fold ladder by main force; and when all the condemned
men had reached the platform, thero followed a scene which
will not soon be forgotten by those who witnessed it. Po-
sang was as cool as a statue, with his painfully drawn-up
features ; but the other three swayed about uneasily, look-
ing behind over the wall as if meditating escape, now
noisily resisting the executioner, and again moaning and
groaning as before. Cheong-fook stamped and danced upon
the platform, and cursed and swore at the crowd below, until
it was feared some accident might happen to the scaffold,
and he had at last to be bound round the ankles with a
rope. The voice of the Roman Catholic padre was
drowned in the torrent of abuse from the scaffold; and it
need hardly be said that the exhortations of the ministers
of religion seemed to have not the slightest effect upon
any one of the doomed men, excepting perhaps Po-sang,
who now and then during the morning had listened to
what was said to him. At five minutes past six, at a
signal from the sheriff, the holt was drawn, the fatal jerk
given, 0.0 the miserable Tictivas Were left dangling in the