The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 16.

MANSION-HOUSE.—William SuttonjWilliam
King, and Patrick Collins, very small boys, were
charged, before Alderman Cubitt, with having
robbed a lady of her purse.
Miehael Hayden, the detective officer, said—
Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, I saw
the prisoners opposite the Bank of England
watching different ladies out. They followed
one lady up Cornhill to the corner of Gracechnrch-
street, and then one went in front of her, another
behind her, and the third on her right side. Sut-
tun placed both his hands beside the lady's dr se,
having a coat over his arm to conceal his hand. She
felt him, forced her way by them, and they left her.
I followed them for nearly two hours along Pen-
church-street, Leadenh al 1-stree Gracechurch-
street, and King 'William-street. At 3 o'clock a
lady was passing along, King William-street, and
outside a shop there was a crowd, and the three
prisoners got round her. Sutton put his hand to
her dress, and he then withdrew it, and all three.
walked quickly away. I spoke to the lady, gave
her certain directions, and went after the prisoners
through Monumet-yard into Pudding lane, where
I found them sidling under a gateway and dividing
some money. I waited until they left that place,
and then followed them to the corner of Eaetcheap.
Collins and King tossed with a shilling for some-
thing, and the formerapparently lost, for he pulled i
out a purse, which I produce, and gave it to Xing,
who put it in the waistband of his trousers. I gut
assistance from two gentlemen who were pasAng,
and took the prisoners into a plumber's shop. Col-
lins put some silver into his mouth, and with some
difficulty I got ss. 6d. out of his mouth. On King
I found a five-shilling piece and a purse, on Sutton
a half-crown, a florin, and 2e. I took the prisoners
to the station-house. I afterwards saw the lady,
and in consequence of a comtnunicatinn with her, I
went back to the gateway in Pudding-line and
there I found a portion of a first-class Greenwich
Railway ticket, and opposite I found, torn up into
small piece?, three parts of a first-class railway
ickets of the same company/
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Mrs. Nash, of London street, Greenwich, said
that she had come by rail from Greenwich,
Wednesday, with some ladies, and lost her purse,
containing about 17c 61, and three and a half re-
turn tickets of the company. She identified the
purse, for which no doubt, two of the prisoners had
tossed in the street, and the tickets as her property.
Sutton said, " We are guilty," and the other two
nodded in a.:;quiescence, but upon being informed
that the case was one of t,,0 s?riou4 a nature to b 3
disposed of anywhere except at the Old Bailey,
they said, "No, we are not guilty."
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor requested that the press would
acknowledge the receipt of Bs. for the poor-box,
from Mr. Rough, the foreman of the jury at the
Secondaries' Court, being the fees ieceirel by them
for attendance on two trials at that court.

CLERKENWELL.—Richard Genns, a dirty,
ill-conditioned looking Hlow, about 18 years of
age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with setting fire to a cowshed, at 40, Mil-
dltFß;x-street, Somers-tows, the property of Mr.
Thomas Ha rri-.

Mr. L •wis appeared for the prosecution.
The premises in which the fire commenced were
about seven months since burned and seven v4lll-
- rows destroyed. Al luntgli there c_uld be no
doubt that the fire was eau ed by an incendia y, no
one was apprehended for it, yet s rong suspicions
were entertained.. . Since then the prisoner has
been in custody on the charge of committing a rape
en a little girl of weak intelltct, but although Mr.
Snelling, the divisional surgeon of the S divisi
proved that violence had been used, Mr. Currie,
discharged the prisoner on the ground that no one
knew anything of the matter but the gill.
The first witness called was
Mr. Thomas Harris,• who am the occup er
of part of the yard at the r,ar of 46, Mildlesex-
street, Somers-town. About four o'clock on the
afternoon of the 6th inst. I saw SGMC hay, in flami s
in the yard. The flames were not in my shop.