The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

THAMES.

SINGULAR CBARGN OF ROBBERY.—Fanny Evan',
huge black woman, with large features and well known
in the port of London as a laundress for American cap-
tains, mates, and seamen, was brought before Mr. Sells,
charged with stealing a 10 dollar gold piece, two 5 dol-
lar gold pieces, an English sovereign, and some silver,
from the person of Henry Wilson, a seaman..
The prosecutor said he belonged to the American ship
Im'ogene, in the Commercial Dock. Last night he wag
drinking in the Red Lion public-house, Whitechapel,
and fell in with the black woman, who began talking
about the United States. He was rather the
worse for liquor, and he accepted an invitation
which the prisoner bad offered him, , who said,
she had good accommodation for him to go to her
house and have a bed there. On reaching her dwel-
ling he sent out for more liquor, and soon fell asleep.
When he awoke he missed a leather purse, which
contained a gold ten dollar piece, two gold five dollar
pieces, an English sovereign and a few shillings in
silver. He went in search of a policeman, and gave
the prisoner into custody.

The prisoner, in defence, said that she met the sailor
in the Red Lion, Rateliff Highway, not in Whitecbapels
and he changed a ten-dollar piece there. The landlady
asked him t 3 leave his money in her care, which be
refused to do. Several girls got about him, and would
have st )len all his money if she had not protected
him. She took him home, and as a great many bad girls
were about him, she took his money for the purpose of
taking sire of it, and nut with the intention of robbing
him. She offered the money, which consisted of 1 gold
piece, 1 sovereign, and a few shillings to the landlady of
a puqic house, but she refused to have any thing to do
with it.

Moseley, a police constable, No. 51 H, said that when
he took the prisoner into custody she dropped an Ame-
rican gold piece from her mouth, and he persuaded her
to give up an English sovereign, which was also in her
mouth. He took wale Eoglish bilver coins in her hand.
It appearing that the prisoner had actual y rifered the
imoney taken from her to Mrs. Fisher, the landlady of a
public house, and that she was never in custody before
for any act of dishonesty,
Mr. Solie said he could not accept the evidence of a
drunken man unconfirmed, and there was no doubt the
sailor had made a mi.take about the amount of hi*
money. He should have liked the case better it the pri-
soner had not denied possession of the mor ey when first
spoken to by the constable. Ho ordered the money to
be restored to the sailor, and discharged the prisoner.
Fanny. Ei,ans here made an appeal to the sailor to
give her a shilling to start with.
Mr. Selfe—Yes, do the handsome thing ; give her a
shilling. She has taken care of your money. I don't
believe she ever intended to steal it.

ACCIDENT AT EUSTON-SQUARE STATlON.—Yesterday
morning a very serious accident occurred at the Easton-
square terminus of the London and North-Western
Railway. Several of Pickford's vans were unloading et,
the station, when one 'of them containing four tons
weight, under the care of John Chapman, the driver,
suddenly got off the road, and going backwards down
the inclined baulk, jammed Chapman between the tail of
the van and the wall in so shocking a manner that at
first it was considered he was killed. The unfortunate
man was conveyed to tho University College Hospital/
when it was discovered that several of his ribs were
broken, and in other respects he was severely injured.
THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE AT CUMBERLAND.—During
the greater portion of the present year the ship-building
trade of West Cumberland' has been greatly depressed.
About three months ago the masters, in consequence,
gave their bands notice of a contemplated reduction of
wages cf from 53. to 4q. per day. A strike was the
consequence, nearly 400 hands voluntarily ceasing work
at Wnitchaven, Harrington, Workington, and Mary'
port. After a brief period the men resumed work at all
places except Whitehaven, where the strike bas coo-
tinned up to the, present time. ' Here about 120 men
have remained willing idlers for a period of 12 weeks,
As the masters are not in want of men, there is no
prospect of an early termination of the di.puteisre—StoP
Berland Herald.