The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-10 00:00:00

The defendant here made a rush from the end of
the dock towards the witness -box, exclaiming "I'll
stick a knife i❑ her. RI can't at one time, I will at
another."
Mr. Preadee, the tutor to the school, corroborated
the evidence of the first witness.
The defendant again burst into a violent rage.
At the desire of the Learned Chairman, Mr.
Hedger, the surgeon of the workhouse, was ordered
to be. called ; and, in answer to questions put to him,
said the defendant was occasionally very irritable, hut
he could not say that she was in an unsound state of
mind.
Mr. Sawyer, the officer of the House of Correction,
bat.h, fields, said the defendant had been frequently
in that prison, once for felony, and the other occasions
for assaults and wilful damage.
The master of the workhouse said he bad obtained
a list (which he handed in) of seven convictions of the
defendant before various magistrates of the metropolis
for wilful damage.
The defendant again made another attempt to take
off her shoes, but was prevented by the officer in the
dock with her from doing so.
The jury having found the defendant Guilty,
Tne Learned CuaiumAN sentenced the defendant
to be imprisoned for one month, and then to enter
into recognizances, herself in 201. and two sureties
of 101. each, to keep the peace towards all her
Majesty's subjects, and to Miss Isabella Grace
Mountford in particular, for the term of twelve
months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
John Collins,Ba BOW -STREET.
teSrTißa
EthEeT'
service of Mr. W.
Blomfield, a carrier in the City, was re-examined on
a charge of stealing a truss of cloth, worth 1201.
A cartload of parcels, including the stolen pro-
perty, was 'intrusted to the prisoner for delivery.
Tee truss of cloth was taken from the cart on its way
to St. Martin's-lane, and the prisoner said he was
unable to account for it. A reward was, offered for
the detection of the thief, and this brought forward a
young man, living as a domestic servant at 13, bin-
cole'e Inn-fields, who said that he saw the cart on the
east side cf Lincoln's Inn• fields (where he had no
right to be) in the middle of the day in question ;
that it yes brought to a stand by the driver, while a
cab drove alongside of it ; and• that he then saw a
man move a heavy parcel froua the cart into the cab,
afterwards getting on to the box, and proceeding at a
rapid rata into the City.
The suspected cabman, named Thomas Drewe,
was placed at the bar at the present examination, and
identified by the servant. He declared he was not in
the square at all on the day of the robbery; but this
Witness, was contradicted by a second•
a labouring
man, who saw him drive out of it.
Both the carter and the cabman were remanded for
farther examination.
Richard Shail and Hannah Shail, his mother, were
charged, the former with stealing, and the latter with
receiving, a quantity of silk, clotns, sze
the t
proper y
of Mr. Hewett, linendraper, in Ilieh lio'lborn.
The male prisoner bad lived in the prosecutor's
service for ten years. On Tuesday he
of appropriating some linen dusters- was suspected
,
and a piece of
silk, and, a detective officer being
narrowly watched. He left
the
sent for, he was
shop in the evening
with a parcel under his arm,
eianid was followed by
Sergeant Thompson to Shad; , where he resided,
and where the officer took him
into custody with the
articles in his possession. Next morning the officer
went to the prisoner's house, at 25 S t,
and found a quantity of stock, e
eine , p
ified ncershstrAr.
ele
Hewett, which the prisoner's mother ident y h
said had been
brought home, from time to time, h
The manager of the business suidYtheart the.
prisoner
had represented his mother as in possession of a hand-
some annuity ; it now appeared that she had been de-
pendent upon him for her support, and both had lived
in a good style.
Mr JARDINE remanded the
prisoners, accepting bail
for the mother.
MARYLEBONE.
James Worthin,zton Livesey, a man
of
gentlemanly
exterior, described as a law student of the Inner
Temple, was placed at the bar before the sitting ma-
gistrate, Mr. Broughton, on a charge of robbery.
Mr. Davies, solicitor, of Dorset-street, attended for
the prisoner.
Mrs. Mary Ann George, a widow lady, residing at
No. 1, Priory-street, Camden-town, deposed that in
June last the prisoner, who represented himself as a
lawyer, entered upon the occupancy of apartments at
her honse, and that at the expiration of three weeks
he suddenly left without paying the rent due from
him. She soon afterwards missed from her sitting-
room 16 part of a work entitled Old England.
She of course suspected the prisoner as the thiet, and,
on seeing the report in the newspapers a fortnight
ago of his having been sent for 14 days to the House
of Correction from this court, in default of his paying
a fine of 50n for a violent and unprovoked assault
upon a respectable married woman, she gave such in-
formation as led to his apprehension ; the index to
'he work in question was found under the prisoner's
bed.
Bowle, 383 S, said that on the same morning he
took the prisoner into custody as he was leaving the
House of Correction, his incarceration for a fortnight
having expired. Witness told him what he was
charged with, when he heaved three deep sighs and
said nothing.
In reply to the magistrate, witness said he had not
as yet had time to trace the
missing property ; he
might be able to do so in the event of a few days
being allowed him.
Mr. Davies remarked that his client was a man
very respectably connected, and that the case, as it
stood, was merely one of suspicion'
The prisoner was, in default of procuring bail, re-
manded for a week.
WORS HIP- STREET.
Gasper
Wasner, a middle aged German, and his
wife, Deborah Wasner, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Arnold, charged upon suspicion ofk having caused
the death of their infant child, six wees old.
Pelice•const able Gifford, H 89, stated that in con•
sequence of information he received that the prisoners
were believed to have murdered their child, which
had died under sudden and suspicious circumstances
on the preceding dey, he repaired at one o'clock that
morning to their house in George-street, White-
chapel, and, upon entering a lower room, observed a
coffin upon the table containing the dead body of an
infant. He questioned the female prisoner as to the
time and circumstances attendirar its death, when she
, told him that it had been affectedb with violent purg-
ing for two or three days, v.hich had terminated
fatally about eight o'clock on the preceding morning,
Site further stated that she herself had administered to
it a teaspoonful of castor oil, but that no medical gen-
ttaman had been called in to attend it. He then
asked the husband if he had lately had any quarrel
with his wife or others in the house, but he denied
that' anything o the kind had taken place. Oa
examining the person of the pbild he observed a small
1 bruise at the side of the head,upon which there was
an abrasion of the-skirt about the. size of a sizpoace,

The annexed interesting details relative to the loss
of the ship Mary Florence, on the Arabian coast, have
been furnished by Messrs. Henry and Calvert Tonn.
min, of St. Helena-place, City, owners of the vessel.
The Mary Florence lef; London for Aden on the
16th of February last, with coals, which she had
taken on board at Shields. She was quite a new
ship, coppered bottomed, and this was her first voyage,
her cargo being for the detait of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company at Aden. Her
master, Captain Christopher Short, it seems, had a
small share in the vessel. He was accompanied by
his wife, a lady of very respectable connexions re-
siding at Blythe, in Durham ; the crew, consisting
of first and second officers, carpenter, steward, and
12 seamen. The ship, we understand, sighted the
Comoro Islands, in the Mozambique Channel, on the
25th of May, and Cape Guardafui on the 3 d of June.
The latter is a headland forming the extreme eastern
portion of the African coast, a few hundred miles
south-east of the port of Aden and the entrance of the
Red Sea. It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
when the cape, as the master 'supposed it to be, was
sighted, though, from what has since transpired, it is
evident he was mistaken, and that he had taken the top
of a high mountain inland for the headland at the
point. The course of the ship was north-west by north,
while the point of land round which they had to bear
stood north north •west. Shelled her topsail single
reefed, topgallant sails set, and was running about
nine miles per hour,with a smart wind blowing south-
west. She continued in this course till about twenty
minutes after ten o'clock at night, when the crew
were startled by the ship striking heavily, and dis-
covered, to their utter amazement, that she had run
ashore. The impression on their minds just before
was that they had rounded the Cape, and were bear-
ing up for Aden. Attempts were instantly made to
get the vessel off, but wiJiout success. A heavy sea
and a strong current running in from the Indian
Ocean swept the ship in towards the land. Next
morning some of the natives swam off to the vessel,
and appeared friendly, offering to render assistance.
The master, finding he could not get the vessel off,
accepted their aid, and with some of his crew con •
trived to get an anchor ashore, and bent a hawser to
it, securing the other end to the masthead. On the
following day, the sth, the sea increasing and heating
over the stern of the ship, the stores and sails were
got ready to send ashore, and by means of the hawser
the first officer gained the beach, and two seamen
followed, when those on the deck commenced floating
the stores to them. The natives exhibited every desire
to assist, and in the course of the afternoon large
numbers came down to the beach. Moat of them
were armed, and a chief headed them. The latter dis-
played the same feeling as the others, and appointed a
guard to protect the property that had been got
ashore. The next day the same friendly spirit being
evinced, the master continue-4 to send his stores
ashore, and in the afternoon it was determined to
effect a safe passage along tha hawser for Mrs. Short,
as the weather was becoming boisterous. By means
of slings attached to the hawser she was conveyed to
the shore in safety. Captain Short was about to
follow, when the unfortunate lady, notwithstanding
the protection of the first officer and seamen, was at
once seized by the Arabs, and, apparently to those in
the ship, was carried away, the natives at the same
time attacking the crew with spears, and driving
them into the sea. The chief officer got hold of the
hawser that communicated with the ship, and was
making an attempt to gain it, when the natives
rushed forward and cut the rope. He was conse-
quently precipitated into the sea, and must have pe-
rished had not one of the seamen swan to his as-
sistance, and brought him into shallow water.
Captain Short had the pinnace instantly launched,
and was in the act of jumping into it
with one or two of his men, to go to his wife's
assistance, when a sea struck the boat, and broke
her away, and she_ was carried ashore. The moment
the boat touched the shore it was seized by the natives,
who got into it, and endeavoured to push off, as it was
supposed, to board the vessel, but, owing to a very
heavy groundswell, as soon as they got off, the boat
was carried back again further up on the beach.
Already had the plunder commenced. The stores and
goods that had been landed were scattered in all di-
rections, and a general scuffle took place among the
natives in their endeavours to possess themselves of
the property, amidst yells and cries of exultation.
Captain Short was most anxious to afford assistance
to his unfortunate wife, but it was impossible, with
the few hands be had with him, to make any endea-
vour to rescue her, all the firearm and ammunition
having been sent ashore. The captain and the men
who remained on board were on deck the whole night
in the hope of meeting with an opportunity to gain
the beach in the longboat, but they were deterred
from making the attempt in consequence of the hos-
tile attitude assumed by the natives.
In the course of the night shrieks were heard from
the shore, which were supposed to proceed from Mrs.
Short and the men belonging to the ship. Next
morning the chief and his followers were seen strut-
ting about in the articles of European clothing they
had stolen from the ship's stores. Captain Short, ex-
pecting an attack would be made on the vessel, re-
solved to launch the longboat and abandon the wreck.
This was accordingly done, and putting into the
boat all the provisions that remained, the crew
shoved off, and anchored about 300 yards from the
ship. The natives soon afterwards swam off to the
vessel in great numbers, and boarding her proceeded
to strip her of everything that was saluable. Having
completed this outrage they attempted to gain posses-.
sion of the longboat, and would have succeeded had
not the crew immediately put out to sea. Having .a
Lair wind for Aden, the boat in two days gained
eighty miles up the coast, when, the wind veering to
the north-west, she was driven back. An effort was
then made to obtain fresh water from a place called
Cape Felix,, but the natives came down to the
beach, and drove the helpless mariners away. About
ten miles lower down, however, they succeeded in
getting ten gallons of water at the price of a gold
watch and other valuables. They then took a course
down the coast of Africa, enduring horrible privations.
The allowance of water was only one gill per nay
each man, with hardly anything to eat. On the 19th
of June they anchored about 300 yards from the
shore, in a small bay about 100 wiles south-east of
Cape Guardafui. In this bay it appears, a vessel
named the Dewan was lying, though the crew of the
Mary Florence were not aware of her proximity.
The natives swam to the boat, and plundered the un-
fortunate seamen of their money, a chronometer,
sextant, and other articles. One of the natives, who
could speak a little English, offered to apprise the
people of the Dewan of the condition of the unfortu-
nate sufferers. Captain Sfn immediately wrote a
note, which the native undertook to deliver. and on
the following day the master (Mr. J. Reed Jefferies)
came overland to the assistance of his country-
men. In weighing the long-boat anchor a sudden
squall capsized it, and one of the crew was unfortu-
nately drowned. Mr. Jefferies at once obtained
a supply of food for Short and his men, who

were almost reduced to a state of starvation. Mr.
Jefferies, hearing of the infamous conduct of the
natives, sought out the chief and complained,' but
he found that the chief participated 'in the plunder.
Indeed it was found necessary to pay a ransom of 4/.
for the boat before the natives would deliver it up.
As soon as possible Mr. Jeffries got the crew over to
hii vessel, and in a few days sailed for Muscat.
There Captain Short and his men received the greatest
kindness and hospitality, the son of the Imaum placing
120 dollars at their disposal, and other parties
affording every assistance that was desirable.

As soon as Captain Short had partially recovered
from the exposuro and privation he had endured
during the 15 days and nights he had passed,at Sea ip
the longboat, he olitained a passage to Bombay, and
on his arrival there he at once comrounigated the cir-
cumstances of the wreck to the Government authori-
ties, and prevailed on them to dispatch a steamer 'to