The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-11 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FOREIGN MENDICANTS.—Three lads, named Guiseppi
Germano, Vito Michell, and Antonio Porelti, who are in
the practice of going about the streets, one playing, while
the others jump about, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with begging.
Worraker, an officer of the Mendicity Society, proved
seeing the lads on the pavement in Oxford-street, follow-
ing ladies and begging of them, by holding out their hands
and saying something he could not understand. The lads
then went into Norfolk-street and Brook-street and did the
same thing, and he then took them into custody, having
seen them receive money. _ _

Signor Luciano, the secretary to the Italian Benevolent
Society, now attended at the request of Mr. Tyrwhitt.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked whether the lads wished to say
anything.
One of thorn, through Sig. Luciano, said he was playing
his pipe.
Signor Luciano said there was a man in attendance, he
had just found out, who would send them away if they
would go.
The lads refused to go back to their native place
(Parma it was understood).

Signor Luciano said the lads might go somewhere else,
perhaps to France.
The lads still declined leaving England.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said as it was well known the lads came
over here with the avowed intention of begging it would
be his duty to send them to prison for a month. They
were sent from a great distance to infect us, and if some-
thing was not done more would be sent over.
The man spoken of above stepped forward, and said he
lived in Engine-street-hill, and would send the lads away,
but he did not say where he would send them to.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the man talked of sending the lads
away, but ho would probably merely send them into the
provinces, and tot to their own country.
After some further conversation between the magistrate
and Signor Luciano,

Mr. Tyrwhitt said, as it was the first time he had had
to deal with the prisoners, he would deal leniently with
them. He would discharge them, but if they were brought
before him again he would send them for a month, and he
hoped the case would be noticed by the press, as if not
during the next six weeks they would be having a num-
ber of these lads sent over from Parma.
SYSTEMATIC SHOPLIFTING BY A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
—Mary Meking and Mary Meking, mother and daughter,
were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following rob-
beries, there being little•doubt that the elder prisoner has
been bringing up her daughter as a regular shoplifter.
Mary Ann Buck, assistant to Mrs. Charlotte Watkins,
of 47, Wardour-street, shoemaker, said the prisoners came
into the shop and looked at some boots. The boots did
not fit and the prisoners were leaving, when she saw the
younger prisoner take a pair of boots and put them under
her arm. The elder prisoner, seeing that her daughter
had been noticed, took the boots from her and gave her a
slap. She then sent for a constable, and gave the prisoner
into custody.
Wm. Parson, 121 C, said that when he took the prisoner
into custody the elder prisoner had a bag, and in it were
a pair of new boots, five yards of mohair, a pair of drawers,
and a night-dress. He went to the address the prisoner
gave, and there found 13 handkerchiefs (silk and cotton),
some of them in a piece, a brush, a pair of stays, a quan-
tity of flannel, a leather bag, four bracelets, and other
articles. The elder prisoner said that her husband gave
her the boots, but the husband, who appeared to be a re-
spectable man, denied all knowledge of them and also of
the other things.

Emily Winter, assistant to Mr. Mundy, of No. 15, Old
Compton-street, trimming dealer, identified the mohair.
She remembered the prisoners coming to the shop to look
at some shirts, and the mohair was taken from the back of
the shop where the prisoners had been.
The prisoners, who reserved their defence, were com-
mitted for trial.