The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

The girl on whom the robbery was committed is the
daughter of a green-grocer in Crisp-street, Bromley, and
is in the practice of attending upon her father's customers
and receiving money. She was so engaged on Monday
morning last, and deposited the money in a large pocket
outside her dress. In the afternoon she went out with a
baby, for the purpose of taking a walk, and she was then
wearing a pocket which contained about 505., which she
had received in her father's shop. Soon after-
wards she met with the prisoner, to whom
she was well known, and was invited by her to her house
to have a swing. The girl accepted the invitation, and
went to the prisoner's house, where other children were
playing, and got upon a swing suspended in the door-way
of the house. The prisoner put her arm round the girl's
waist while she was swinging, kissed the infant, and was
very attentive to both. All the time this was going on
the prisoner was cutting away the girl's pocket, and while
she was in full swing the girl missed it from her person.
The girl became alarmed, but the prisoner continued swing-
ing her for some time longer, and then told her to go home
and take great care of the baby. The girl on reaching
home communicated the loss of her pocket and money to
her parents, and they immediately called in a police-con-
stable of the K division, named Hudson, No. 262, who re •
paired to the house of the prisoner, who was from home.
The constable and father waited her return, and when she
came home they accused her of the robbery. She made the
most solemn protestations of her innocence, and called upon
her God to witness that she was guiltless of the robbery.
While Mr. Soames was looking about the house, the con-
stable called his attention to a hole in the floor of the pas-
sage, which was in a very defective state, and observed that
it was a capital place to conceal anything. Mr. Soames
put his arm down the hole, and discovered his daughter's
pocket under the floor, with 235. in it. The prisoner still
protested her innocence, and said she was a religious
woman, and walked in the ways of the Lord. She was
searched, and 10s. was found upon her. It was also proved
that she had paid 10s. 6d. to her landlady on the same
day. In the morning, when. the landlady called, the pri-
soner concealed herself, because she had no money, but in
the afternoon she waited upon her landlady, paid the rent
due, and said that she had just received some money.
In answer to Mr. Selfe, the girl said that she felt the pri-
soner taking her pocket off all the time she was on the
swing.

The prisoner, in a whining tone, said she was guilty,
and that the Evil One tempted her to rob the girl. If the
magistrate would forgive her, she would bring up her chil-
dren in the fear of the Lord.

Mr. Selfe—You have set your children a very bad
example, indeed.

Hudson said the prisoner was the wife of a very re-
spectable man, employed on the Blackwall Railway, but
that she had lately mixed with very bad company.
Mr. Selfe—The prisoner has committed a very artful
robbery, and I sentence her to be imprisoned for three
calendar months, and kept to hard labour.

THIS DAYS MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 46s 6d;
barley, 29s lld ; oats, 25s 3d ; rye, 40s 6d ; beans, 45s
10d ; and peas, 39s Bd.
THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 48s 2d ;
barley, 31s ld ; oats, 25s sd; rye, 37s sd; beans, 46s 3d;
peas, 40s 10d,
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 74,665;
barley, 1,108 ; oats, 3,118 ; rye, 10 ;' beans, 1,182 ; peas,
102 quarters.