The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-16 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Sarah Meyers, a good-looking female, 22 years
of age was brought before Mr. BENETT, charged with
having attempted to poison herself.
It appears that about three years ago she was seduced
by her own father-in-law, who three weeks since took her
into the country, and she came to London on Friday last,
when she wandered about until she met with a sweep
named Fountain, whom she accompanied to a house of ill-
fame, and subsequently met him on Sunday last, and walked
about with him until the evening, when, on proceeding
along Holborn, she complained to him of having a head-
ache, and said she would go and purchase something to
relieve her. She entered a chemist's shop and purchased
six-pennyworth of arsenic, and they then went together in
the direction of the New-road, and on their arrival in
Chad's-place she proposed having a pint of half-and-half,
and they entered the Star public-house. On being served
with it, Fountain drank the half of it, on which the pri-
soner mixed the arsenic with the remainder of the half-and-
half, which she swallowed, and shortly after she was seized
with pains and fell down in a state of insensibility. She
was brought then to the North London Hospital, where
she remained until yesterday, when she was sufficiently re-
covered to be brought to this office.
On Fountain being questioned, he gave a history of her
case, and after proper inquiries had been made he was
liberated.

Mr. BENETT asked the prisoner what could induce her
to make such a rash attempt upon her own life ? Prisoner
(in a tone of melancholy)—l left my mother, and lam
ashamed to go back to her. I went away with a man into
the country. I came to London, he left me, and I deter-
mined on destroyinc, myself,.
Mr. BENETT—Who is the man, where does he live ?
—He is a blacksmith, and resides in Lambethmarsh.
Mr. BENETT—Where does your mother live ? Pri-
soner—At No. 32, Lambeth-marsh.
An officer was sent to this address, and on his return said
he had been informed that the mother and father-in-law of
the prisoner got drunk and fought the night before, and
were taken to Queen-square Police-office, where they were
both locked up for fines.

Mr. BENETT—Ii is a most lamentable case, something
must be done to protect the unfortunate girl.
Serjeant Campbell stated, that in the course of a short
time the prisoner would be entitled to 2,000/., in the funds,
upon the interest of which the prisoner's mother was living,
and he had no doubt but they would be glad to get rid of
her for the sake of the money. He bad seen the mother,
who expressed ,a wish that the girl was dead.
The prisoner, in reply to the Magistrate stated, that she
had an uncle named Sweetman, a jeweller.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar, and a
a messenger despatched to desire Sweetman to attend at
the Office.

THAMES POLICE-atprcE.
Yesterday three young sweeps, nwied Connell, Chapman,
and 2'uft, were placed at the bar 'with Ann Smith and Mary
Burns, two young girls, ber':.)re Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr.
COMBE, charged with the capital offence of assaulting
Robert Lewis, a 'sailor, on the King's highway, putting him
in fear, and 'robbing him of his hat.
If`. sailor stated, that about two o'clock on Sunday
tr.orning he was on his way home along the Back-road, St.
George's, when he saw the three sweeps, and the girls in
company, standing on the pavement. He had just passed
them, when the two girls came up to him, and they each
laid hold of an arm. Directly afterwards two sweeps came
before him, and another behind him, who struck him and
shoved him down. He was severely beaten, and in the
scuffle he lost his hat, which was taken away by one of
the girls.
The master of the sweeps bore evidence to character, and
another sweep attempted to prove an alibi for the prisoners.
Mr. COMBE said, the prisoners had not helped their case,
and committed them all to Newgate for trial for the capital
offence of highway robbery.
A boy named Henry Shepherd, aged 15 years, was
brought before Mr. COMBE on a charge of stealing fourteen
sovereigns, and some silver, the property of Captain Wil-
liam Pinfold, the miter of a trading vessel bound to Con-
stantinople, .in.the London-dock.
The captain stated that in the early part of last week
the boy came on board, and said his mother could not keep
him and had turned him out of doors, and he was willing
to do anything for a living. Witness said that sooner than
the lad should starve he would keep him, and engaged him
as a cabin-boy, although he was really not in want of one.
The boy went on very well until that morning, when he
absconded, during his temporary absence on board another
ship alongside. Soon afterwards he had occasion to put on
his waistcoat, which had been hanging on a nail in the state-
room door, and missed the money from the pockets, where
he safely deposited it on Monday night.
King, a Thames police constable, stated that he received
information of the robbery from the last witness, and recol-
lecting that he had seen a boy answering the prisoner's de-
scription cross the water from Wapping to Rotherhithe, he
went in pursuit, and overtook him at Deptford. On search.-
irg, him he found 14 sovereigns and 9s. 6d. in silver, corre-
sponding within a few shillings with the amount stolen.
The prisoner had on a new blue jacket, which he had just
pttrobased with the remainder of the money.
Captain Pinfold said he did not wish to prosecute the boy.
Mr. COMBE said the robbery was attended with such ag-
gravated circumstances, that the case must go to the ses-
sions, and committed the bay. for trial.

Tho ikew species of hard labour lately introduced at
the borough gaol, Colchester, is found to be most effective,
several old offenders who have been the round of all the
treadmills in the kingdom, with a few exceptions, have de-
clared at the end of their day's walk that the tread-mill is
pleasure compared with prison pedestrianism. The silence
compelled to be observed is also very unpleasant, and as a
punishment, if any prisoner on his waU shall speak or rest
without permission, he is to I?,e iplaxisoned in a solitary cell
for three days, on la-gaol allowance per day.—Essex
Standard,

SURREY SESSION S-TUESDA •

Mr. JEMMETT made an application to the Court on the
behalf of the parochial authorities of St. Giles, Camber-
well, to compel a man named Thomas Dunn, one of the
beadles cf Lambeth parish, to maintain an ille,,ritn"ate
enqd born since the passing of the New Poor Law Bill. t,
On the 17th of July last a woman named Matilda It"
files was delivered of a child, of which the beadle above
named was the father, and she-was not in a condition to
contribute to its maintenance, being, in fact, a pauper her:
self; and now an inmate of the workhouse. By the 726
section of the New Pour Law Act the defendant
usval
liable as the putative father of the child to support it ntD
it. arrived at an age to provide for itself, and after appli
on to the next General Quarter Sessions after such elm'
t
shall have become chargeable, the Court had the power to
make an order on the putative father for its maintenance'
The Learned Counsel trusted that, under all the circinn'
stances of the case, the Court would exercise the llnwer
vested in it, and compel the beadle to support the child. ,
Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the beadle, contendea
that the Act had not been complied with, inasmuch as the
application had not been made at the General Quarter Seo"
sions, an omission which he submitted could not be got
over, unless the present motion was renewed at the next
General Quarter Sessions for the county. In fact the pro'
per time had been allowed to slip over by the parish offieol
—inadvertently, no doubt. The Learned Counsel then
cited that part of the clause in the Act to bear out the
construction which he put upon it, and said that if the Court
were of a different opinion his client was there prepared

enter into the case.
The COURT, after a short consultation, decided that
the application should be made at the General Quarter
t
Sessions ; and the case was, therefore, postponed for that
purpose.
James ilfoor, a young man in the employ of a farmer
near Kingston, was indicted for stealing a gander, the Pr?:
party of Abner Kelly, a shopkeeper, in the vicinity of Of
above town.
It appeared that, late on the night of the 12th of AllO4,
the prosecutor, hearing a noise in his poultry yard, got..-00'
of bed, and on going out found that some persons had beeak
within his premises, and had taken a gander from the flues,
of geese. He immediately repaired into the road., and sTe
the prisoner, and on going towards him he threw down tu
gander, whose neck he ha previously twisted, and attempt-
ed to run away. The prosecutor, however., caught Ili;
and a struggle ensued, during which the piisoner made t
most vigorous efforts to escape, and swam that if he e°o;
get out his knife he would stab him if h ,►le did not let d
go. He at the same time endeaver.red to put his
liL;
into his waistcoat pocket, as if with, the view of getting Toi
knife, upon seeing which' the prosecutor directly struck Ile
on the head with a stick and. If.nocked him down. 11l
the prisoner was on the grotrad he cried out for mereY,e
that he killed the gander k'or a lark, and offered the Plea
tutor 51. if he would let him go. The prosecutor ref° 04
to accede to any term,,, and left the prisoner for a nlosl,,.ettdo
in order to go for tilt dead gander, which was lying a' of
distance off in the road. The prisoner took advantage to
the moment, started upon his feet, and tried once rmare,
co.
get away. He was, however, brought down again 11 -_...0w.
ther blow of the stick, and was afterwards lodged in the
Evidence was adduced, on the part of the prisoner..o6
show that he had been drinking freely at the Figlitibe
Cocks, on the night in question, with others, and that i,
and another young fellow for a spree, as they ternaleto
twistingproposed twistingthe neck of one of Mr. Kelly's gallajoo
to make a pie of it, as they passed his house. It was,er
stated that the prisoner had been in the employ of a far-dl
for several years, and that he had never been in a'
before for felony.
A constable of Kingston stated that the prisoner 1t;
lazy indolent fellow, and was always considered one of
loose characters about that part of the country. Ivied
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He still aso
his innocence, declaring it was only done out of a 'lark. tbi
The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to twelve 1n°11,0%,
imprisonment and hard labour in Guildford. gaol, obser/- ce
that the case was clearly made out, and. that the offenthe
was aggravated, owing to the resistance he had made t°
prosecutor, and the threats he bad held. out to him. „tor.
John Smith was indicted for stealing a pocket-ha°'
chief; the property of a person unkn own. bad
Evidence was adduced to prove that the prisnnerao
been given into custody by a gevalleman at Itichmond;"jt
had his pocket picked of a silk pocket-handkerchief. _
subsequently turned out that the gentleman's name
Dawler, but he declined Coming forward to prosecute.
The prisoner was acquitted.
In the course of the day the Grand Jury found n,..trtie
oo
bill against Mr. Nathan, the composer, for an assault
Lore Langford.