The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

SUFFERING INNOCENCE.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF
FELONY.—Mary Ann Cosgrove, a servant girl, aged 14,
surrendered on bail to answer a charge of stealing a 45
Bank of England note, the property of her master, J. W.
Snowden, a druggist, of No. 15, Gloucester-terrace, New-
road, Stepney. The prosecutor, on the first examination,
made a statement that it was with great regret he appeared
against the girl, who was very saucy and petulant, and also
self-willed, and that he should be glad if an asylum or re-
formatory would open their doors to her, and she might
become a good girl. He then formally charged her with
stealing a £5 note, which he missed from a desk in a room
to which the girl had access. The note had not been traced,
but he could not fix his suspicions on any one
else but the prisoner, who, he was afraid, had
fallen into very bad courses. The girl, who was
in a state of great agitation, loudly protested her innocence,
and said she had never been dishonest in her life.

Mr Selfe had held her to bail in her own recognisance
lis day.

The prosecutor now said he had found the bank-note he
charged the prisoner with stealing. He discovered it in
his pocket-book on Sunday evening last, and he must have
put it there. His wife had been to the girl's mother to
assure her of her perfect innocence. He was very sorry for
having made such a rash charge. He had made compen-
sation to the girl, and would continue to interest himself in
her behalf.

Mr. Selfe was glad there was this termination to the
case ; and could not help remarking that the prosecutor
should have been more careful, and that on the first exa-
mination he (the prosecutor) had said many things to the
prejudice of the girl which he ought ought not to have
done. There was not the least disgrace or discredit at-
tached to the girl. She was perfectly innocent, and he had
great pleasure in discharging her free from taint and sus-
picion.

A Mosr EXPENSIVE SMASH IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—
Julia Mahoney, 31, a most reckless and desperate woman,
who looked 60, and was in a wretched plight from disease,
dissipation, and drink, was brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged with destroying £24 worth of plate glass in front
of the Angel public-house, Back-road, Shadwell. The
prisoner has spent many years of her life in the Middlesex
House of Correction for drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
petty robberies, and assaults, and it has been often stated
to the magistrates of this court that her conduct in prison
was most orderly, correct, and proper, and that she was
very useful. Out of prison, however, she is a complete
nuisance and a terror to the publicans in the district, whose
windows, she has smashed, and created great disorder and
confusion.

R. Stone, barman at the Angel, said prisoner was there
on Friday for several hours, and demanded liquor, with which
he refused to supply her. She was noisy and intoxicated,
and he removed her several times from the house. When
he ejected her at one door she came in at another, and
threatened to smash everything in the place. He removed
the pots and glasses off the counter to prevent mischief,
and a man, on her promise to leave, gave her a pint of
porter. This made her worse instead of better, and she
continued her disorderly conduct. She obtained possession
of a piece of wood, and was about to break the windows,
but was prevented, and he took the piece of wood away
from her. After a series of rows, and the use of most in-
famous and blasphemous language, ho put the prisoner out
of the house and closed the doors upon her. He was
obliged to open them again for business, and the
prisoner, in spite of every obstacle, rushed into the
house again, took up a pint pot and smashed the
plate glass windows.

Mr, Selfe—What is the value of them ?
Witness—£24. here is a piece of one window (produc-
ing a piece of thick plate glass).
Mr. Selfe—£24. I am only empowered, under the Act
of Parliament, to order £5 or two months' imprisonment.
Is it profitable in this district to have plate glass windows P
Witnesi—All the plate glass is insured.
Mr. Selfe—l have heard many of these cases, and the
premium ought to be high.
The prisoner said the barman told her she might break
as many windows as she pleased. This was denied by
Stone.

James Stockley, 56 K, saw a great part of the disorderly
conduct of the prisoner. who struck him violently.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner behaved well under diScipline
in prison, and that was the best place for her. He ordered
her to find bail, herself in £2O, and two sureties of £lO
each, to keep the peace for three months ; and as no one
would become bail for her, that would keep her in prison
for three months.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Australian Mail
just brought home in the Teviot contained 94,000 letters.
If the Victoria mail steamer had arrived out at Australia
before the Teviot's mails had been despatched, it is expected
that she would have brought home ten or fifteen thousand
more letters than she did, in answers to the Victoria's cor-
respondence.
SUICIDE OF A FEMALE 68 YEARS OLD.—Yester-
day a suicide of a lamentable character occurred at No. 4,
Church-terrace, Waterloo-road. The police and several
of the neighbours immediately proceeded to the house, and
on entering the front kitchen perceived a fearful spectacle,
for on the floor was lying a female named Humphries, 68
years of age, with her throat cut almost from ear to ear,
the boards covered with gore, and a largo tableknife at her
side, smeared with blood. The poor creature was evidently
just breathing her last. Medical aid was at once sent for,
and Mr. Young, the assistant to Dr. Johnson, of the York-
road, promptly attended, but not in time to be of any
assistance, as the poor creature expired a few seconds after
his arrival. There being no one m the room at the time
beyond the deceased, not the least doubt can be entertained
but that she committed the rash act herself. The body has
been taken charge of by Mr, Adamson, the beadle, to await
an inquest