The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

THAMES.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—James Scanlan, a youth
about 19 years of age, and recently a pot-man in a
bar-house, was brought before Mr. Benson charged
with stealing a small barrel of ale, the property of
➢ir. Robert Henry, brewer.
Charles Fisk, drayman, said that on the Bth of
the present month he was in Lambeth-street, White-
chapel, with his dray, laden with stout, ale, and beer.
He left his dray and horses is the street for a minute,
and was returning, when he saw the prisoner leaving
the dray with a cask of ale on his shoulder. The
prisoner carried the ale into a common lodging-
house, No. 25, Lambeth-street. He left a boy in
charge of his dray, and went to the station-house
in Leman-street and returned with two policemen.
The cask contained six half gallons of bitter ale,
and was valued at 11s. He saw the prisoner again
last night.

Hugh Andrews, a police constable, No. 62 H,
said he went to the house, No. 25, Lambeth-street,
on the Bth of August, and found the cask of ale
stolen from the dray in the kitchen.
Police-sergeant Dunaway, No. 1.1 H, said he
arrested the prisoner last night at a shop in Well-
street, near the Sailors' Home, He put him among
the others about his own age and size, and Fisk
picked him out in a moment.
The prisoner said he was innocent of the rob-
bery, and called two witnesses, who knew nothing
of the matter.

Mr. Benson said the prisoner had been in cus-
tody before.

Th 6 Prisoner—Yes; you fined me sa. for being
drunk.

Mr. Benson committed the prisoner for trial.

FALL OF PART OF A HOUSE,

Shortly after seven this morning much excite-
ment was caused in Marshall-street, Golden-square,
and the neighbourhood by what at first was sup-
posed to be the fall of a house. It appears that
several houses in the above street have recently been
pulled down by Messrs. Patrick, the contractors
of Westminster, for the purpose of erect-
ing some warehouses, and about the time
stated the party wall of the house, No. 23, which
had adjoined those pulled down fell with a heavy
crash, leaving „the interior of the whole of the
rooms, and the inmates, and one of whom was in
bed, exposed. Fortunately the occupants of
the different) rooms sustained no bodily harm.
Inspector Harrison, of the G division,
was shortly after the occurrence on the spot, and
took every precaution to prevent accidents, and
Messrs. Patrick have taken the necessary steps for
securing the s Ifety of the house by shoring it up.

A murder of peculiar atrocity has lately been
committed near Limoges. A shoemaker's wife,
named Babinaud, strangled her husband in his
sleep and afterwards cut his body in pieces. For
four days successively she went into the
woods and lanes about Limoges scattering
little bits of her husband's body in various
directions far and wide. Every night she re-
turned to her house, and lay down to sleep by the
side of what was loft. Six days after the murder
she put on her best gown and danced at a village
fete. She has been sentenced to penal servitude for
life. This " cold" cruelty would seem to be pecu-
liarly French, as it is found in nearly every French
murderer we hear of. But, doubtless, this is
because we are presented with none but the selected
cases.