The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-01 00:00:00

residing at No. 43, Burford-street, St. Pancras, on sus-
picion of staling 3/, in qnl,3,
The prosecutor having Leda SWOI'II, in a .viid manner
said—l live at No. 43, Burford-street, St. Pancras. On
Tuesday, at two o'clock, the prisoner visited me, as she
was in the habit of doing. She prepared dinner, and
we dined. We went to bed together, and afterwards
she said her hand was bad, and she must go to a surgeon
to have it dressed. While we were in bed my trousers
were on the bed. I felt in the pocket, and I missed 11
sovereigns, but charged her only with stealing three. I
entreated her to return the money, telling her I could
not afford to lose so much, but she refused aed resisted.
I locked her in the room and brought a policeman, and
charged her with stealing three sovereigns. The police.
man went to make a search in the bed, and he found an
empty purse and several sovereigns on the carpet. I
complain of the policeman picking up three and putting
them into his coat pocket, which he refused to deliver
up to me.

Police-constable 92 E, sworn, said—l accompanied
the prosecutor to his house in Burford street. He said
he had been robbed of 101. He (Mr. Watkins) unlocked
the door. I then saw the prisoner sitting on a chair
near the fire. I told her she must consider herself my
prisoner on a'cbarge of robbery. I began a sdarch, and
saw several sovereigns lying on the carpet of the room.
She said nothing. The prosecutor was in the room at
the time. I did nct put any of the money in my coat
pocket. I put my hand behind to get my pocket hand-
kerchief, when he charged me with putting some sove-
reigns in my pocket. He wanted to search me, but I
would not submit until at the station-house.
Sergeant Chamberlaine, E division, was in the station-
house when the charge was brought there. The con-
stable was searched, and no sovereigns were found, but
only ss. in his purse. It was his voluntary offer to be
searched.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, after a long and patient investigation,
said a more unfounded charge was never brought before
a magistrate. He believed the poor girl to be perfectly
innocent. A more gross charge was never made, and the
police constable was free from any imputation. He
would discharge them both. It was evident the case
was brutal and sensual, and, addressing the girl (who
shed tears), told her never again to have anything to do
with such a fellow as the man Watkins.
Watkins addressed the bench insolently, saying,
"You are wrong," and the parties left the court.

SOUTHWARK.—CHARGE Or STABBING.—Henry
De Courcy was brought before Mr. Combs, charged
with maliciously stabbing James Clare, his stepbrother,
a young man about 16 years of age.
It appeared from the evidence of Hough, 112 M, that
on Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, his attention
was attracted to a court in Long-lane, Bermondsey, by
bearing cries of murder. He proceeded there, and saw
the injured lad bleeding from wounds on the left arm
and the right side of his face. The prisoner was given
into his custody, and the lad was conveyed to the hospi.
tal, where he remained until that morning. The pri-
soner was his step brother, and witness was informed
that he inflicted the wounds with a knife or other sharp
instrument, which could not be found.
The complainant, whose left arm was bandaged up,
and the whole side of the right face covered with ad-
hesive plaster, was sworn, but he had evidently been
tampered with, as he gave quite a different version to
the magistrate to that which he told the constable. The
father of the lad, however, positively swore that no one
else stabbed him but the prisoner.
The surgeon from the hospital was in attendance, and
he said the wounds were inflicted by a sharp instrument,
and the lad told him the prisoner was the person who
stabbed him.

Mr. Combe, after hearing that evidence, decided on
remanding him for a week for further examination.

LAMBETH.—ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—A CRIMEAN
MEDALIST.—Joseph Curtis, a private, belonging to the
Fusilier Guards, and the possessor of a Crimean medal
with one clasp for taking Sebastopol, was further exa-
mined on a charge of being concerned with another man
not in custody with robbing Mr. John Dougal Leap, a
respectable tradesman, residing at 10, Park-road,
Peckham, of three 51. notes and nearly Si. in gold and
silver.
From the evidence it appeared that on the sth of last
month the prosecutor got change of a cheque for 201. at
the Stafford-place branch of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank in three 51. notes and 51. in gold. On his
return he got drinking, and ultimately fell in with the
prisoner and a discharged railway porter at the Lord Hill
public-house, opposite the Waterloo station. There he
treated them and drank freely himself, and they ulti-
mately took him in a cab.to the Black Prince public-
house in Walworth-road, where they discharged the
cabman and induced the prosecutor to drink more ; and
ultimately he, with much difficulty, made his way home
covered with mud, and minus the whole of bis money.
On the same evening the prisoner exhibited two 51.
notes at the Queen's Head public house in Griffen.
street, York-road, which notes were two of those stolen
from the prosecutor, and which he left in the care of the
landlord's daughter. He subsequently obtained change
for one of them, and wrote his name on the back, eo that
there could not be a shadow of doubt of the prisoner's
guilt. The other suspected person, the discharged rail-
way porter, still keeping out of the way, and the wit-
nesses necessary to prove the identity of the notes not
being in attendance, the prisoner was again remanded.

CHARGE OF MURDER ON THE HIGH

SEA S.

On Tuesday, at the Plymouth Guildhall, Hugh
Orr, a robust looking man, with a profusion of
beard and moustache, was charged before the Mayor
(F. F. Bulteel, Esq.) and C. Cardew, Esq., with
causing the death of Edward Do Bugle on the high
seas, on the 3d of July.
Mr. Kelly said that he appeared for the prosecu-
tion under the instructions of the Board of Trade,
and the charge was brought under the 269th sec-
tion of the Merchant Shipping Act. The prisoner
was the master and part owner of the ship Hannah
and Jane. In the earlier part of the present year
he left Newcastle in this vessel, bound for the Cape
De Verd Islands and Rio Janeiro, and from thence
back to the first-mentioned port. De Bugh ship-
ped at Newcastle, as the cook and steward of the
ship, and sailed in her up to the 3d of July, when
he died. There was, however, no entry in the
official log stating the cause of death, but in look-
ing over it he found on the 4th of June Orr became
displeased with De Bugh, and he was fined 3t. 10s.
for insolence and waste of provisions ; and between
that date and the 3d of July there was also a large
number of entries and fines, the latter amounting
in all to 45/. There was also the following entry in
the log, dated the 3d of July, and signed by the
master :—" The cook is in the sulks, will not do
anything. 7.30 a.m., 3d July. The mate and crew
told me he was dead. I gave orders to lay him on
the deck, in the heat of the sun, to see if he was really
dead. Got a looking-glass to try if he could but steam
the glass, that I might really know if he was dead.
Found the glass not anything stained ; however I
gave orders to let him lay until afternoon, so that
I could make sure about it. At 1 p.m. he was
sewn up and buried, and all his effects thrown
overboard, being in a very dirty state."
Mr. Kelly then asked for a remand of the case
until the next day, on the ground that he was not
prepared for any investigation, as he had no time
to examine the men who were to be brought for-
ward as witnesses. He did not wish to inconveni-
ence any person, but it being in his opimon a case
for investigation that was the reason he wished to
pay particular attention to it.

Mr. Edraonds7wcoappeared for the defence,
objected to the remand, remarking there was no
evidence brought forward, which could warrant
them in keeping his client in gaol until the day the
case was adjourned to, and he wished to know why
it could not be at once proceeded with, as all the
witnesses concerned were in Plymouth, and in his
opinion it would not be right to keep his client,
unless they heard one witness who could give evi-
dence to the effect that the deceased had been
struck by the prisoner. The case was not brought
forward at Queenstown, where the vessel lay nin,,
days, but now when the crew were being fined and
certain deductions made from their wages, a
came forward with the statement which threwthey
facie - evi-
dence into prison. He was ready to answer his
der
~, the question
They
co
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statement, unless they brought prima
tdriedmparnisdonhmontuhre:
he was not prepared for this. a
dexincre. toK stlhlye fact.
Mr.
Mr. Edmonds said there had beenan
inquiry into
the cause of De Bugh's death in Rio
Ezra Atwill, the mate of the v Janeiro, when
the consul said he would esseli ran away, and
Board of Trade. report the vessel to the
Mr. Edmonds then re
Mr. Johns, the quested Mr. Kelly to call
bench should hear shipping master, in order that the
was acceded to what
he had to say.
re-
questT'endistha
he received the offic'' land Mr. Johnstau
of the crew
of the ship Hannah lad log and
drolmist the prisoner
who was mate of her, In jalcionsequence of entries
in the log, I
"le Was led make inquiries concerning
the cause of the death° of the deceased, who was
stated to have died on the 3d .3-11.1Y*
Mr. Johns then read those entries, one of which
is given in Mr. Kelly's opening address, and the
other is as follows ; The cook died 3d July. I do
s
not know the cause, if notulks. Latitude 28.52.36 ;
longitude 44.45. (Signed)
,Ezra Henry Atwill
and Joseph yong. He then further
(mate),
stated that having examined the crew, and finding
they accused
the master of the vessel of having
killed De Bee!, Ile wrote to the Board of Trade,
ii,- to have the prisoner taken into
who ordered h
cuMstodry.
Phillips asked this witness whether he
.
thought from what he knew that the deceased died
from foul play . ?
Mr. Johns answered in the affirmative.
Mr. Edmonds said that he did not want the
belief of people, but the evidence. He then asked
Mr. Johns whether the men who made the state-
ments alluded to by him were or were not in
Plymouth ?
Mr. Johns said ho believed they were.
Mr. Edmonds observed, if that Were the calve, he

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