The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Aug. 3.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.)
CIIILD STEALING.

Sarah Taylor, 38, a dirty, dissipated-looking
woman, was indicted for feloniously and maliciously
by force leading and taking away a child of the age
of 12 months, with intent to deprive Mary Leed-
ham, the mother of such child, of its possession.
The mother of the child said that she was a single
woman, cohabiting with a man named Thomas
Wiggins, in Charles-street, Drury-lane. On the
30th of March she and Wiggins had some words,
and she went out with her baby in her arms, and
sat down on a doorstep in Lumber-court, and then
went into a public-house in Dudley-street. There
she found the prisoner, whom she had not known
before, and they got drinking together. First they
had beer, then rum, and, after conversing some
time, the prisoner gave the child some barleysugar,
and said if she would allow her to take it home to
her own place, which was close by, she would give
it some sop. She gave her permission to take the
child, and did not go with her, as she had no
stockings on, and the prisoner promised to bring
her a pair back. After the prisoner had been gone
some time and did not return she went in search
of her, but she was nowhere to be found. She had
told the prisoner where she lived. She saw nothing
more of the prisoner until she met her at the exe-
cution of Adams at the Old Bailey, and she had
then the child with her, and was given into custody.
From other evidence given it appeared that the
prisoner had been begging with the child, and when
she was taken into custody she had some boxes of
lucifer matches with her.

The prisoner said, in her defence, that the mother
lent her the child of her own free will to take into
the country for a week, and told her where she
lived, but when she wanted to return it she could
not find the place. She did take the child into the
country, tended it well, fed it, and kept it clean.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Assistant Judge said there could be no doubt
that the prisoner kidnapped the child for the pur-
pose of going about to excite the sympathy of chari-
table persons, a purpose for which, it was well
known, a great many children -sr ere hired at a good
price in this metropolis. There was no evidence
that the prisoner had ill-used or injured the child
still further to excite sympathy, or the punishment
would be a most severe one ; on the other hand,
there was ground to believe she had been very kind
to it, for which reason the sentence would be a very
light one, three months' hard labour; for any
future offence of the kind the sentence would be a
far different one.

(Before Mr. Payne.)
Paul Decuzpere, alias Thuillier, 32, described as
a merchant, and Amelic Decuzpere, 28, his wife,
were indicted for stealing an oil painting and a
plated coffee pot, the property of David Gardener
Bevon, in his dwelling-house, and four pictures,
value £l5, the property of Henry Magner, in his
dwelling-house, and a timepiece and other articles,
value £2O, the property of Raymond Collins, in
his dwelling-house. It was clear from the evidence
that the prisoners had carried on a system of
plundering furnished lodgings to no little extent.
They were indicted on three charges only, but
at least a dozen could have been brought for-
ward by the police. The prisoners took well fur-
nished lodgings, and decamped with every portable
article of value at the first opportunity. They were
convicted on two indictments. In the course of the
trial a question arose as to the prisoners being man
and wife legally. They had lived together and
passed as such ; and the constable in the case, Lam-
bert, E, handed in a marriage certificate which he
found in a box belonging to the female prisoner,
and which both prisoners said was the certificate of
their marriage. It was an extract from the Re-
gistre des Actes de Marriages, and signed by the
maire of the fourth arrondissement of Paris, and it
certified that Antoine Thuillier, of the department
of the Haute Marne, was married on the 20th of
June, 1849, to Louise Claudine Marguet, lace
worker, of the eighth arrondissement of Paris. The
learned judge held that this document, with which
the prisoners had identified themselves, taken with
the other circumstances, was prima facie evidence
that they were man and wife, and left it to the jury
to say whether she had acted under the control and
exercise of her husband, or had taken a principal
and independent part in the robberies. They came
to tne latter conclusion, and consequently found her
guilty.
Jonathan Whicker, the inspector of the Metro-
politan Detective police, stated that in March last
a picture of the Holy Family, worth, it was said,
£2,000, was stolen from the Museum at Amsterdam,
and information being transmitted to the London
police, measures were taken. and the picture was
traced to Mr. Attenborough's, in the Strand, where
it had been left by the prisoners the day before,
who asked £1,500 for it. On the following day the
prisoners were apprehended in Cockspur-street, but
as there was no extradition treaty between this
country and the Netherlands they were discharged,
the felony having been committed in that country.
Since the prisoners had been in custody on the pre-.
sent charges, information had been received from
the police authorities in Paris that the prisoners
had been tried there, in their absence, for swindling
and fraudulent bankruptcy, and condemned the man
to
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in penal servitude for eight years, the woman to
six years.

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