The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-18 00:00:00

G UILDHALL.

A young woman, named Elizabeth Tootall, was
finally examined yesterday, before Mr. Alderman
BROWN, charged with stealing some silver table-
spoons and other articles from the premises of her
master, Mr. Edkins, a silversmith, in Salisbury-
square.
The prosecutor stated that she had been in his
service five years, and since the death of his wife,
about a year ago, she had been his housekeeper.
Her wages were 101. a year. On Thursday last a
circumstance occurred which induced him to suspect
her honesty, and he examined an open box under
the bed, in which he found a number of duplicates.
He immediately called in an officer, and a further
number of duplicates were discovered in a drawer in
the kitchen, which was under the prisoner's con-
trol. There were altogether 71 duplicates, 64 of
which related to property which belonged to him,
but he had not discovered all the property he had
missed. Of 44 sheets he had traced only 26, of 34
pillow-cases he had found only 22, of 24 towels only
two were recovered, of 44 table-cloths he could
trace hut 24. She had raised 201. on the articles
she had pledged, but his loss was not less than 100/.
The pawnbrokers having produced several ar-
ticles (some pledged in April, 1831), which Mr.
Edkins identified,

Mr. Alderman BROWN intimated to the prisoner
that if she wished to say any thing in reply to the
charge, he was ready to hear her.
The prisoner replied that she did not intend to
steal the things, but she pawned them to make up
her accounts, as ever since she bad the housekeeping
book, some how she had been losing money every
week.

Mr. Edkins said, that as she had adverted to the
book, he wished to explain that it was his custom
to give her money every week to pay all the trades-
men. This, however, she had not done, and the
bills were now coming in every day.
Mr. Alderman BROWN said this case must go for
trial, and she was committed accordingly.
William Dyne,- was charged with feloniously as-
saulting, with intent to rob, Mrs. Stevens, of North-
ampton-square, as she was walking through New-
gate-street about five o'clock on Monday afternoon.
It appeared that the lady was bustled by four or
five men, and just before the prisoner attempted to
snatch away her reticule, she received a violent blow
on the stomach ; but as she could not swear the pri-
soner struck her,
Mr. Alderman BROWN summarily convicted the
prisoner as a suspected person frequenting the streets
with intent to commit felony, and committed him
to Bridewell for three months.

An Irish gentleman, whose name we did not
catch, attended a summons for refusing to pay Rht.
Johnson, the driver of the cabriolet No. 192, the
legal fare for the hire of the cab.
The defendant, it appeared, got into the cab in
Oxford-street, at noon, and alighted about two
o'clock on Ludgate-hill, at the end of the Old
Bailey, up which street he walked a few yards, to
make an inquiry. When he returned he saw a
vacant cab standing at the end of the street, and
concluding the complainant bad moved round the
corner for some reason or other, he jumped in and
dallied off to the Castle and Falcon Hotel, where
he stopped, giving the driver Is. or Bs. as his fare,
with which he seemed perfectly satisfied. The

complainant, bower, remained on the spot where he
was left, expecting the gentleman to return, till ten
o'clock at night, when he gave it up, and he now
summoned the defendant for his fare, by time
from noon.

A street-keeper swore that he saw the cab wait-
big from two or three o'clock till past seven.
The defendant vehemently insisted that there
had been a contrivance between the cab-drivers to
trick him. He had been served so before.

The Magistrate, however, thought that the gen-
tleman should have protected himself by taking some
notice of the number of the cab, or the person of
the driver, and adjudged him to pay 12s. Bd. as the
fare, 3s. for loss of time, and 2s. expenses.
The gentleman paid the amount immediately.
WORSHIP. STREET.

Yesterday a carter in the employment of Mr.
Lyons, a carrier, residing in Studd-street, Islington,
appeared before Mr. Twyford, in answer to a sum-
mons obtained against him by a toll-collector, named
Cotton, who is in the service of Mr. Forbes, the
lessee under the Metropolitan Trust of Highgate
and Hampstead. Both Mr. Forbes and Mr. Lyons
were present, in support of their respective servants,
and it appeared that the summons was obtained
under the General Turnpike Act, 3 Geo. IV., c.
12G, and which inflicts a penalty of 101. for using
any forcible opposition to any person employed in
the collection of toll.

The toll-collector stated, that on last Thursday
evening, the 12th instant, about six o'clock, the de-
fendant, who was driving a cart, came up to the
gate, and on being asked for the toll, he attempted
to force his way through, when he (witness) seized•
the horse by the bridle. The defendant still per-
severed, and lashed on the animal. 'Witness, how-
ever, still kept hold of the bridle for a considerable
distance after they passed the gate, until at length
he succeeded in turning the horse and cart into a
gateway; upon which the defendant leaped from
the cart, and seizing witness by the breast, with his
clenched hand struck him a violent blow on the
nose, that had the effect of extracting nearly a pint
of blood, and afterwards went away without paying
the toll. The Magistrate considered it a very
serious charge, and called upon the defendant as to
what lie could say in his defence.
Mr. Lyons said, that when his servant arrived at
the gate, and to satisfy the collector he had previ-
ously paid the toll, he called out the number of the
ticket, 180.

The toll-collector positively denied the assertion.
Mr. Lyons then said, that the animal was of that
spirited kind, he wondered much it did not leap on
the collector who seized hold of the bridle.

The Magistrate said, that as Mr. Lyons's servant
must be aware of that fact, it tended more to ag-
gravate than mitigate the punishments so justly
deserved.

Mr. Forbes said, that as the defence set up, and
the exemption claimed, were based upon the de-
fondant's calling out the number of the ticket, he
might, for the sake of argument, admit that he did
call out, although his servant positively swore to the
contrary. Still the calling out of the number could
not be set up as a legal defence, for by the Act of
the Metropolitan Trust, 7th Geo. IV. c. 142, it is
enacted that no person shall be entitled to any ex-
emption by reason of any previous payment of toll,
unless he shall prove such previous payment by pro-
ducing the ticket.
The Magistrate was about to visit the defendant
with a penalty of 101. when
Mr. Forbes interfered, and said it was not the
extent of punishment the law afforded him that he
looked for. At the same time he wished to show
the supremacy of the law, by timely stopping such
outrageous proceedings in future, and Ire trusted
Mr. Lyons would take a warning, and profit by his
experience that day : and although his servant was
grossly and brutally abused, if Mr. Lyons paid the
costs, and put a small sum into the poor-box at the
office, he would be perfectly satisfied.
It was at length agreed that Mr. Lyons would
pay the cost., and put 16s. into the poor-box in a
fortnight.
Mary Brown, a woman of the town, was charged
with robbing an elderly man named Baughton; of
Gravesend, under the following atrocious circum-
stances :

The prosecutor, who is afflicted with lameness,
stated that he arrived the evening before from
Gravesend, and was on his road to Cambridgeshire;
that about dusk he accidentally met the prisoner in
Whitechapel, and seeing she was decently dressed,
he asked her if she could inforni him where he could
be accommodated with a bed. She said yes, and
took him to a house where having ushered him into
a room on the first floor, which, from its appear-
ance, he suspected was not right, he requested to
leave; but instead of being allowed quietly to de-
part, the prisoner knocked him down, knelt upon
his breast, put her hand into his pocket, and ex-
tracted from thence his purse, containing two sove-
reigns and some loose silver, during which some
person entered the room ytho blew out the candle,
and, after receiving the purse, walked away, followed
by the prisoner, leaving the proscutor on the floor.
Sergeant ITWiiliarns, of the H division, stated
that having been attracted to the spot by the cry of
t"he police,"empty he
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dropped on the stairs. He afterwards apprehended
the prisoner, but found nothing upon her. The
prosecutor was quite sober.
The prisoner denied the charge, and was com-
mitted to Newgate for trial.