The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-29 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mary .11erry,;11risi;;oin;n:wflo has been repeatedly
at this office, charged with various petty robberies, and who
is at present remanded to Tothill-field prison, on suspicion
of felony, was brought before Mr. CONANT, charged with
having attempted to steal a blanket belonging to the prison.
Mrs. Cooper, the matron of the prison, said she had lent
the prisoner some articles, of wearing apparel during the
period for which she was remanded, and wishing to get
them back on Tuesday, as the prisoner was on that day to
have a second examination, she went into the ward, and
asked the prisoner to return the clothes. Perceiving some-
thing bulky about the prisoner's person, she made her
strip, and then found one of the prison blankets wrapped
about her.

Mr. CONANT asked the prisoner, who pretended to be
labouring under a severe attack of cholic, how she came to
steal the banket ? Prisoner—(groaning)—Och! plan yer
Honner's Wurtchip, the doctor told me in the infirmary
that it was something warm which 1 must take for my
complaint in me inside, and plaze yer Wurtchip, I tuck the
blanket.

The prisoner was ordered to stand remanded for a few
days on both charges, in order to procure additional evidence.

WORSHIP STREET.
Yesterday a young urchin, not more than 10 years old,
named Robert Durham, but who has frequently been
charged at this office, and once convicted of felony at the
Old Ll.aileY, and sentenced to be well whipped, was placed
at the bar to:re-examination before Mr. GROVE, charged
with stealing a piece of pork, weighing four pounds, from
the shop of Mr. Barnes, pork-butcher, in the Haekney-road.
Mr. GROVE fully committed him to Newgate for trial,
and informed him that very likely he would be this time
sent out of the country.
The prisoner said he hoped not : be had a statement to
make, which he wished the Magistrate to allow the clerk
to take down in writing, so that it might go before the Judge.
Mr. GROVE directed Mr. Bayles to let any statement
that he had to make follow the depositions of the witnesses
against him.
Mr. Bayles then took down verbatim the following from
the mouth of the prisoner :---" I wish it was written down,
that I hope the Judge will take compassion on me this ,
once. My mother is near her confinement, and lam but it
little boy, but I have been a wicked one. If I can but get
off, then shall no boy eat more honest and worthy bread,
but if the Judge can't let me off, I hope he will let me go
into the Penitentiary, where I will become good, and I pray
to God to have mercy on me."
As the prisoner was being removed from the bar to the
lock-up he again seriously, and in tears, addressed the Ma-
gistrate, and said, " I hope your Worship don't consider
what the generman has just taken down from me is untrue.
I mean it—on my soul I do ; for my poor dear mother's
sake do what you can for me."
Mr. GROVE told him that what he had said would go
before the Judge at the Old Bailey, and would be read by
him to the Jury, and if they considered that he was penitent,
he would perhaps be got into the Penitentiary.
The prisoner's mother was present and cried bitterly
while the depositions were being read over against her. son.
She was; by her appearance, far advanced in pregnancy.

QUEEN SQUARE.
Mary Ann Cameron, a very respectably-dressed female,
was charged before Messrs. GREGORIR and BURRELL with
shoplifting.
The prisoner on being removed from the bar appeared
dreadfully affected, and was with some difficulty conveyed
to the lock-up cell. On searching her she had plenty of
silver in her pockets.