The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING CIGARS—BAD CASE.—Samuel Hotton, a
porter in the employ of Mr. Wilhelm Rohl, a German
tobacconist, of 22, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-square, was
chargod with stealing a bax containing 120 cigars, of the
value of £l4s.

The prosecutor said he commenced business at 22, Cran-
bourn-street, about a week ago, and engaged the prisoner
as a porter. At 12 on Thursday morning he had occasion
to 6 out, and left the prisoner in care of the shop. The
next morning he missed from the window the box of cigars,
but did not say anything to him till he was more certain ;
and by way of testing his honesty, • marked a 6d. and
placed it under a drawer, and, having gone out
for a short time, when he came back he missed
it. He (prosecutor) then asked him if he had found any-
thing, and he said he had, and pulled out the 6d. He then
told the prisoner that he had missed a box of cigars, but
he denied having taken them, but admitted taking the 6d.
On examining some of the other boxes he found, to his
annoyance, that ono or two had been taken from each of
several boxes, and which prisoner had secreted about his
body. He then again asked what he had done with the
box of cigars, telling him nobody else had been left alone.
He had only had the shop a week, and had lost quite £4
worth in that time.

145 C said prisoner admitted taking the 6d. and some o:

the cigars.

The prisoner said he would plead guilty to taking some,
but hoped his worship did not think he took the box.
Committed for three months, with hard labour.

THAMES.

rEitoclottS DOIXGs IN TIGER BAT.—Ann Mead, a
vulgar-looking and bloated woman, and Frances Butler,
keeper of a house of bad repute, were brought before Mr.
Selfe, charged, the former with assaulting and beating
Margaret Fleming, and the other with attempting to rescue
Mead from the custody of the police. I'ho parties are in-
habitants of Frederick-street and Brunswick-street, Back-
church-lane, St. George's-in-the-East, better known as
Tigerb-ay, from the ferocious and abandoned disposition of
the people located there. The woman Mead and the com-
plainant belong to a degraded class of females called unfor-
uates, and had been recently quarrelling night after night.
On Thursday evening Mead, who was intoxicated, com-
menced abusing the complainant, and made use of
very sanguinary threats, and followed this up by
beating Fleming, tearing the, hair from her head,
and kicking her. A struggle took place, and the prisoner
got one of the complainant's fingers into her mouth, and
nearly bit the top of it off. A police constable named
Boggis, 73 H, separated the parties, and took the prisoner
Mead into custody. Mrs. Butler made an attempt at rescue,
dragged the policeman and his prisoner into her house and
closed the door upon them ; and Butler's husband assisted
in the affair, and tried to drag Mead away from the po:ice-
constable.,A dreadful struggle ensued. The police-constable
at length opened the street door, and took his prisoneraway.
Mrs. Butler was taken by other police-constables, and an
attempt was made by the infamous inhabitants of Tiger-bay
to rescue her, which tailed. The complainant was removed
to the London Hospital, and her finger was dressed. The top
of it was nearly severed. Mead said she was deeply in
liquor, and that Fleming abused and threatened her, and
also bit her arm. She then bared her right arm, which
was fearfully swollen. • _

Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner's arm
appeared to have been bitten.
Boggis, the police-constable, said that was done in an-
other quarrel. He said the state of Tiger-bay, consisting
of Brunswick-street, Frederick-street, and adjacent courts,
was fearful, disturbances, outrages, and robberies were of
hourly occurrence there.

Mr. Selfe said the prisoner Mead was a most incorrigible
and disorderly woman, who had been at that court for some
offence almost every week for some time past. He sen-
tenced her to six weeks' imprisonment and hard labour for
an aggravated assault. He discharged Butler, and recom-
mended her to abandon her nefarious trade.