The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Thomas Carter and Jane Knight were placed at the
bar, before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of being concerned
with another person, not, in custody, in robbing a
gentleman, named Cowell, of three sovereigns and a
half, by the aid of chloroform.

The complainant, a young gentleman, who appeared
exceedingly ill, and who had left, his bed for the por-,
pose of giving testimony against the prisoners, de-
posed that on Monday night, while passing along
Albany-street, Camberwell, he turned into a dark
street for a few moments, and just as he was return-
ing the female prisoner came up to him, and asked
him if he was not going to treat her to something to
drink ? He replied, "Certainly not i" but she in an
instant managed to get her arm in his. He tried to
disengage himself from her, and, while doing so,
two men came up, and one exclaimed, "Hellos,
old girl, you must leave the gentleman
alone," and both approached nearer for the
purpose, as he believed, of taking the prisoner
away. On coming within reach of him, he (wit-
ness) felt a woollen rag placed before his mouth and
covering a portion of his face. He endeavoured to
call out for assistance, but found he could not, and
then struck out and kicked at those before him, but
one of the party gave him a violent blow on the
stomach, which felled him to the ground. On re •
covering from the state of insensibility to which he
had been reduced by the joint effect of the blow and
what he inhaled from the woollen rag placed to his
mouth and nose, he found that he had been robbed of
three sovereigns and a half. He with some difficulty
made his way home to his house in Queen's-row,
Walworth-road, and had not until that morning been
able to get out of bed.

The fe'male prisoner was spoken to by both Ser-
geant Quinnear and Constable Moss, two active
officers belonging to the P division, as being in com-
pany with two men a short time before the robbery a
short distance from where it had been committed, and
being subsequently seen in the male prisoner's com-
pany. Quinnear, however, admitted that Carter had
up to the present time borne an excellent character,
and was at present in the same employment in which
he had been for years.
Mr. ELLIOTT, under the circumstances, discharged
the male prisoner, and remanded the woman to a
future day.
This being the day appointed for the final examina-
tion of Mary Emily Neville, alias Roman, and at
least a dozen other aliases, who has managed to live
in excellent style for some considerable time past by
imposing on the benevolent, and obtaining money by
false pretences, and also victimizing lodging-house
keepers, the (court • was completely crowded with
persons whom she had swindled in various ways.
The prisoner, who was dressed in a dashing style,
held in her arms while at the bar a well-dressed
female child of about twelve months old, said to be
an illegitimate child of hers by a barrister in the
Temple. She laughed right out at her different
victims, as they related to the Magistrate in turn the
manner in which they had been imposed upon by the
prisoner, and the great losses they sustained in pro-
viding her with luxuries, while they themselves and
their families were satisfied with the most humble fare.
It appears she was not content to sit down even to break-
fast without tea and coffee, mutton chops, and bacon
and eggs ; and her only reply to each complaint was,
" 01), it is only a debt !" Two cases out of the num-
ber were, fortunately for the ends of justice, suffi-
ciently strong to send her fur trial. In one of these
the prisoner had engaged an apartment at the house
of a Mrs. hunter, in the York-road, and had not been
there more than an hour, when she left, taking with
her a valuable gold watch and other property, belong-
ing to M. Rousseau, a French gentleman, who lodged
in the house. Mrs. Hunter swore positively that she
saw the watch safe when the prisoner took possession
of her room, that she missed it immediately after she
had lsft, and that no one could have taken it but her.
The second charge was that of obtaining two frocks
for her child by fraud, and the evidence in both was
sufficient, particularly as she had been frequently
before convicted of various offences, to insure her
transportation. The prisoner, however, said that the
evidence in the former case had wholly failed, that in
the latter it was a mere matter of credit, and that the
whole arose from the vindictive feeling of the lodging-
house-keepers. She was, however, fully committed
for trial at the Old Bailey._

Mr. ELLIOTT directedthe officer to call upon some
persons in Bethnal-green, from whom he bad a letter
stating that a person answering the prisoner's descrip-
tion had succeeded in breaking open a dressing-case,
and stealing a gold watch, some plate, and 131. 10s.
in cash, and to take the persons who could identify
the thief to see the prisoner at Horsemonger-lane
Gael.