The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

to be taken up last night ? The complainant—l was
not aware before how to act.

The Prisoner—Please your Lordship he knows I
never was guilty of robbery. I made the beds and
cooked the victuals, and cleaned the house, and did
everything that day and the next, and the next after
that, and the next after that.

The LORD MAYOR—Is that the case, complainant?
Complainant—She never slept in the house after I
discovered the robbery.
The LORD MAYOR—Pray what wages may you be
indebted to this woman who has robbed you?
The Prisoner—Please your Honour, he owes me
between 41. arid 5/.

Complainant—l never made any agreement with
her about wages, but I know she committed the rob-
bery. I have got a witness here.
The LORD MAYOR—Let him be produced.
James Smith came forward at the desire of the
complainant _ _

The LORD MAYOR—WeII, what have you to say
about the robbery ? Smith—Nothing. All I can
say is, that I was in Mr. Taverner's service, and he
put me away because I used to have words with the
woman at the bar.

The LORD MAYOR—Have you any other witness ?
Complainant—l have the boy who saw me take the
things from her box.
George Higler, pot-boy to the complainant, said
his master called him up stairs to the prisoner's
room, and took the articles yroduced out of her box.

Tee LORD MAYOR—Is that all you have to say ?
Bigler—lt is, my Lord.
The LORD MATOR—WeiI, prisoner, what have
you got to say to this charge of robbery?
The prisoner, in a very innocent and artless man-
ner, informed his Lordship that she had entered the
service as maid of all work, and a great deal of hard
work she had to do; but she did not think half so
much of the hard work as she did of the dirty work,
for her master's house proved to be a house used for
the purposes Of double accommodation. It went to
her heart to wait upon the ladies and gentlemen who
sometimes remained in the house all night, and when
she complained, her master not only called her out
of her right name but beat her, so she was deter-
mined to leave the concern ; but as her master had
refused to pay her the wages due to her, she deter-
mined to summon him, and she accordingly gave him
notice to that effect.

The LORD MAROR —Did you summon him after
the sth instant, when he says the robbery was com-
mitted ? Prisoner—l came here, your Lordship, the
other day to take advice upon the subject, and I was
told to summon him to the Court of Requests. Your
Lordship told me to do so, and the hearing is ap-
pointed for Saturdity next.
The LORD MAYOR—And after you summoned him
he charged you with the robbery? Prisoner—Yes,
my Lord ; he doesn't want to pay me for my hard
work.
The LORD MAYOR asked the policeman whether he
knew anything of the prisoner 7—The policeman re-
plied that she had been servant at one of the station-
houses, where she had an excellent character, and
which she had left to go to the complainant's house.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I shall discharge the
prisoner. The circumstances and the mode of the
accusation are very suspicious. You may, Mr. Taver-
ner, indict the woman if you please ; but I shall cause
inquiry to be made into the character of your house,
and perhaps you may have cause to dread next
licensing day.—The prisoner was then discharged.

CLERKEN WELL.
Mr, John Lamb, a respectable tradesman, residing
in Clerkenwell, was charged with assaulting police-
constable 32 G.

The constable deposed that, on the previous -
he was on duty in John-street, at ,111c.gh,t,
when he saw the prisoner and a o
on the other side of the st-
.emaie passing along
at a window, and
-.vet. Saw the prisoner stop
soon after heard the iron bar be-
longing to tl. ...
..e window fall upon the pavement. The
pristine,:
the lady passed on. Witness went up to
and, without looking at the window or the bar,
asked the prisoner, who had got about forty yards
from the window, to return to the window to see
what he had done. He refused, and called witness a
d—d vagabond. Witness attempted to remove him
to the station-house, in doing which the prisoner
struck him twice ; prisoner was not drunk.
The prisoner said he had been most grossly ill-
treated by the policeman. He was returning home
with his wife,_ and within a few yards of his own
house, when he saw an iron bar projecting from a
window over the footway, and which he had nearly
struck his head against. Knowing that the projec-
tion was illegal, and fearing somebody else might
knock their head against what he only by chance
avoided, he took down the bar and left it on the pave-
ment; he had advanced about forty yards, his wife
leaning on his arm, when the constable came run-
ning up, and seizirg him by the collar, shook him
violently, and peremptorily demanded him to return
to the window. Witness explained to him what he
had done, told him where he lived and his name, but
nothing would satisfy the constable; he called him bad
names, and was most rude, and used offensive lan-
guage.
Mr. COMBE (to the constable)—Why did you ask
the gentleman to go back ? The constable—To ascer-
tain what he had done.
Mr. COMM—What right had you to ask the gen-
tleman to do so ? Policeman—Because he knocked
down the bar.
The Magistrate's Clerk—But the bar, as it stood,
was illegal, and a nuisance.
Policeman—lt could not be a nuisance, for it was
five feet from the ground.
Mr. COMM—That exactly makes good what' the
gentleman states, for that is just the height which is
dangerous, and which would catch one's head. It
does not answer to take a roan into custody because
he will not comply with such a demand.
Policeman—lie assaulted me.
Mr. Coats—You had no business to meddle with
the gentleman. He did not strike you until you
seized him.
Prisoner--I am ready to swear I never struck him.
My wife is in :court ; I hope you will examine her.
She will prove that the constable used the worst lan-
gunge towards me.
Policeman—l took him back because there have
bees several robberies committtil in the neighbourhood.
Mr. COMBE—Wk-
r, do you mean to say you sus-
]) fed this -
•r, person of intending to commit a robbery ?
Ane policeman admitted he did not.
Mr. COMM discharged the gentleman.
BOW STREET.
Zert Hatt) who keeps a coffee-shop in Drury-lane,
was brought up in custo iy, charged with violently
assaulting William Smith.
The complainant, who appeared in Court with a
frightful cut on his eye, state that the defendant (little
to the Craven Head, Drttry•line, last night, and called
witness out, and immediately commenced beating him,
whereby his race had been so severely injured.
The defendant, in a highly excited state, said, in his
defence, that the complainant had, for some time past,
been endeavouring to seduce his (defendant's) daughter.
Hearing of the attempts, ho went to the Craven Head
last ni ht, where he heard the defendant was, and
aecused him with his dishonourable conduct. The com-
plainant admitted that he had attempted to seduce the
young woman, and said he would yet succeed In doing
so, 13vti this he (defendant) knocked him down.
JAittitNE said he eould sympathise With a father's
feelings under such circumstances, but still persons must
not be allowed to take the law into their own hands.
lla must, therefbre; fithB ha defendant 814 or, in default
tii paytiieht) etitethit hied „f tlirtt
The defendant was locked up.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Baron 2lforits Dam Vander Pforte was again
placed at the bar befbre Mr. Hardwick, charged
with obtaining money under a false representation.
Dr. Swaine, physician to Baron Gersdorf, stepped
forward and said he had waited on the magistrate, in
the report of the prisoner's examina-
tion, which he had read in the morning papers. He
begged to say that he knew him to be the person he
represented himself. He was related to some of the
highest families in Saxony, but he had given a great
deal of annoyance, not only to Baron Gersdorf, but
also to the Saxon Court, and his conduct had not
been such as to justify them in assisting him. He
(Dr. Swaine) denied, however, that the prisoner was
on terms of intimacy with Baron Gersdorf.
The prisoner declared that he was not only on
terms of intimacy with the Baron, but was his cousin
also.