The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-19 00:00:00

POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.-177iis

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CURIOUS CASE.—Sidney Garrett, the keeper of a general
shop, 56, Great Wild-street, and Sidney John Garrett, a
boy, father and son, were charged with being in posses-
sion of some brandy, supposed to be stolen from Messrs.
Fortnum and Mason, Italian warchousekeepers, in Pic-
cadilly.

Butcher, 137 C, proved on Saturday morning seeing the
boy conic up Duke•strect with an empty bag, and the elder
prisoner come up and take away the bag and presently re-
turn it to the boy. Seeing something bulky in it he went
after the boy and asked what he had got, an 3 he said some
brandy which his father gave him. He then took the boy
into custody, and afterwards went to prisoners' house in
GrEat Wild-street, and left a constable there, who took the
father into custody.

The elder prisoner said he bought the brandy at Messrs.
Fortnum and Masson's, at twelve o'clock, sending his
nephew in for it, but this was denied, it being stated that
none had been sold till after one.

Richard Garrett, the nephew, said he bought the
brandy at twelve.

The elder prisoner complained of not being brought up
till that morning, when his son was taken on Saturday
morning. He considered it very cruel.
Some questions were put to the assistants from Messrs.
Fortnum and Mason's by the magistrate with the view of
ascertaining whether there was any access from the street
to the cellars, but it was said there was not.

Mr. Mansfield said the cellarman and the person at the
counter seemed pretty positive as to the time the brandy
was sold. What they said was manifestly the truth. It
was clear the brandy they sold was not that found in the
boy's bag. He would discharge the boy, and remand the
other prisoner for a week, but would take bail—one in £2O
or two in £lO.

THE SUNDAY GAMBLING NUISANCE.—John Durkin,
Patrick Geary, and Richard Nisbet, three lads, were
charged with gambling in Ingestre-buildings, Soho, and
Durkin with also assaulting two constables—Harris, 184 C,
and Bagshaw, 237 S.
John Harris, 184 C, said —Yesterday afternoon, about
half-past two, I saw a gang of lads gambling, and on seeing
me they all made off. While pursuing them Durkin tried
to overthrow me by kicking
my shins. I secured the other
two, and a constable of the S division, who happened to be
coming up Wardour-street in plain clothes, secured Durkin.
On the way to the station Durkin again kicked me. There
were about a dozen lads, who went out cleaning boots of a
Sunday morning, and with the money they earned in the
morning they gambled away in the afternoon. There were
frequent and very loud complaints from the inhabitants of
the nuisance.

3 ohn Bagshaw, 237 S, proved being assaulted by Durkin,
his knees being then discolsured.

Durkin was fined 40s. or a month, and the others 58. each
or seven days. _ _ _

Percy Larkin, Harold Larkin, John Shortis, and Finlay
Robinson were also fined 2s. 6d. each.

THAMES.

A DANGEROUS THlEF.—Maria Fowler, aged 20, the
daughter of a superannuated Custom-house officer, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing a scarf
pin, value 225,, from the person of Samuel Ball, engineer,
of No. 5, Globe-road, Mile-end.
The prosecutor met the prisoner and another woman in a
dancing-room, and took a walk along the Mile-end-•road
with them. In the course of their moonlight rambles the
prisoner managed to possess, herself of the engineer's scarf
pin, for which a few days before he had paid 225. When
he charged her with the robbery she boldly denied it, and
threw the pin away. It was found a few hours afterwards
in the Coborn. road, Bow-road, by a police constable named
Dugand, 71 K, who now produced it. The prosecutor was
followed by the'prisoner's companion to his home, after he had
the charge against the prisoner, He was abused and
threatened, and it was hinted that he would know of it it
he pressed the charge at the police court.
Christopher Lloyd, a police sergeant, said the prisoner
was convicted six or seven years ago for a burglary and
robbery in her father's house, and that she had been it.
custody eight or nine times for as many robberies.
Mr. Woolrych—Then she was only 13 or 14 years eine
when she was first convicted.

Lloyd--That is all, sir.
Inspector Griffin of the K division said the prisoner had
been very successful in robbing men who did not dare to
prosecute. She once promised Mr. Selfe that she would go
to a reformatory, and pretended to be overwhelmed with
grief. She was the most dangerous thief in the Mile .end-
road.

Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had been
convicted under the Criminal Justice Act, but he was
not aware she had ever been convicted at the sessions.
The prisoner—lt is 18 months since I was hero.

Inspector Griffin—Oh no, oh no, not six months. She
has robbed many gentlemen in the road of their watches
and money. She has been a thief for seven years.
The prisoner implored of the magistrate to let her go,
and assured him she would reform and lead a new life.

Inspector Griffin--She has said the same thing to Mr.
Yardley and Mr. Selfe half a dozen times.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Woolrych—lf you are committed for trial and found
guilty, you will be sentenced for a long term of penal ser-
vitude. I will give you ono more chance. You are sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.

ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY MURDEIZ

BY A BOY.

Much excitement was created at Birkenhead on
Friday night by the committal of another extra-
ordinary outrage by a boy; and as the crime has
followed so closely upon the trial of two young
urchins for the murder of their playmate at Stock-
port, the present case has caused more than usual
painful sensation. Between seven and eight o'clock,
two boys were at play on the sands in front of the
house of Mr. Holland, a magistrate for the county of
Chester, residing near the Magazines between New
Brighton and Egremont, on this side of the Mersey,
when a quarrel arose, and one them pulled out a
knife and thrust it into the neck of his playmate
(a son of Mr. Holland's coachman.) It penetrated
the jugular vein, and it is said death was almost
instantaneous. The blood flowed in torrents, and
the deceased never spoke after being stabbed. The
boy assassin is only about nine years old, and his
victim is somewhat younger. The perpetrator of
the terrible outrage has been taken into custody.
This is the third case of a similar character which
has occurred within a few weeks.