The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-09 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF STEALING BANK NOTES.—George
Stephenson, a servant out of place, living in Mason's-yard,
Duke-street, St. James's, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
what with stealing three .£5 bank-notes and a shirt, the
property of John Ward, a servant lodging in the same
house.

The prosecutor said that he lodged in Mason's-yard, and
the prisoner occupied the next room. On Thursday last
he placed a .£5 note along with two others which were in
his pocketbook, and he placed his pocketbook in his port-
manteau, leaving it unlocked, and on going yesterday to
take out a £5 note he missed the three notes.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prosecutor what caused him to
suspect the prisoner.

The prosecutor said the prisoner had been laid up with
rheumatics for a fortnight, and had not been out of
the house during that time, and had been borrowing
money, having none of his own ; but on Friday last he
said that ho was going to the City to cash a cheque for
£9, and went out, and on his return he paid for his board
and lodging. Thinking the prisoner's conduct very sus-
picious, he got a policeman yesterday, and then asked the
prisoner to let him search his room, and on doing so he
found in a drawer a shirt belonging to him, and which had
been taken off the top of the clothes in the port-
manteau, from which the notes had been taken. The
prisoner said he knew nothing of the shirt, and that
he had not placed it where it was found. He said that ho
received the cheque from Mr. Baring, and that he cashed it
at Glyn's, in Lombard-street ; but ho ;prosecutor) had
ascertained that no such cheque had been cashed at the
bank, and when the prisoner was searched nearly £l3 wore
found upon him.
Sergeant Stevens, 24 C, said that on taking the prisoner
into custody he said he received the cheque for £9 from
Mr. Baring, of Berkeley-square, and that ho changed it at
Glyn's bank, in Lombard-street. On noarohing the pri-
soner, who denied putting the shirt whore found—in the
drawer of a washstand—he found upon him £l2 in gold
and lls. in silver. On making inquiries at Mr. Baring's,
ho was informed that the prisoner was a servant to Mr.
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WESTMINSTER.
MAGISTERIAL REPROOF OF POLICE MALPRACTICES.—
Clara Harris, a married woman, about 30 years of age, was
placed at the bar charged with stealing a greatcoat from
the shop of Mr. Slone, 8, Leader-street, Chelsea.
Mrs. Slone said that the prosecutor came there on Mon-
day, and, telling her a long story of distress, asked her to
buy an umbrella, which she brought with her, and prose-
cutrix was at length persuaded to do so. Yesterday th•
prisoner again came and offered a box for sale, which she
refused to bay, and, turning her back for a moment in the
shop, her husband's greatcoat disappeared from the coun-
ter, and with it the prisoner.
James Strathlee, 225 B, said ho was called last night to
take the prisoner into custody. He found her at her lodg-
ings, when she denied that she had been to Mr. Harris's
that day. Witness hero produced a num her of duplicates
and photographs,which he had brought from the accused's
husband's room.

Mr. Arnold—What can these things have to do with the
charge. Is there anything relating to the property stolen ?
Policeman—Nothing but the ticket of a coat.
Mr. Arnold—you were justified in taking that, but had
no right whatever to take the other things. The police aro
getting to exceed their authority very much. It is most
absurd to bring these duplicates and photographs here.
You might as well have stripped the man and woman's
house. It is a gross excess of your duty. Take the things
back to the husband,
Prisoner was remanded.

THAMES.
THE HYDROPATHIC SYSTEM—STEALING WET LINEN.—
George Smith and John Tribe, each about 19 years of age,
were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being con-
cerned with another in stealing a quantity of wet linen.
Yesterday evening two officers of the K division, named
Briden and Venables, root the prisoners in the Globe-road,
Mile-end, with a third man. Tribe had a bundle under his
arm, and Briden seized it, and said to him, " That contains
wet linen," to which Tribe replied, "No, it ain't, it's calico."
Briden opened the bundle, which consisted of two bed
gowns, a shirt, and other articles, quite wet. The articles
had been recently taken off a line. Briden searched the
prisoner at the station house, and found two large table-
cloths and a wet bed gown fastened round his body.
Venables took Smith into custody and searched him.
There was a wet chemise and a wet pinafore fastened
round his body. The prisoners alleged they were under the
treatment of a professor of hydropathy, but this was a
fallacy. They adopted the hydropathio treatment to con-
ceal the linen, which the officers had no doubt had been
stolen out of a yard or garden. This system of robbery
had been carried on to a considerable extent in the
suburbs.
Mr. Paget inquired if an owner had been found for the
property.
Briden—No, sir, we have not had time to do so yet.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoners for a week to enable
the police to trace the owner of the property.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We are pleased to find
that the attractions at the far-famed wax-work ex-
hibition, in Baker-street, continuo to meet with their full
share of patronage during their present festive season.
The hall of kings, which contains the series of life-size
effigies of the monarchs of this country, froms also those the Normanoseof
tomcoonsqtuoefstthe p
trheastenotf presentih.oeyralfamily, a s Majesty,well as the greatest a
of the European statesmen, appear to be highly attractive
to the hosts of visitors who daily throng the magnificent
galleries of the exhibition.
GREAT FLOODS.—The sudden thaw and the sub-
sequent rain have greatly swollen the waters of the Thames
at Windsor, Maidenhead, and Staines. At Windsor the
water rose very rapidly, the rise being estimated at about
two inches an hour, and by yesterday morning the river
was quite 2ft. higher. A strong westerly wind has been
blowing, accompanied by showers of rain, and as a large
volume of water has yet to come down from the Oxford-
shire hills it is not unlikely that the inundation of last year
may be repeated. in the north of England the streams
have been also much swollen by the thaw. Yesterday by
noon the rivers Rye, Iliccal, Hodge, Seven, Costa, and
Derwent, with all the tributary streams, wore in flood.
At 3 p.m. they had overflowed, and, as the rivers were
still rising, a far larger flood than any of the four preced-
ing ones which have occurred since midsummer is looked
for. Farmers aro driving their stock from the lands in
danger.