The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-05 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBING A GENTLE-
MAN.—Catherine Monlan, a well-known chief, was
charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a £2O and
a L 5 bank note, the property of Mr. John W.
Ridge, of No. 2, Craven-place, Bayswater, gentle-
man.
Mr. E. Lewis, of Oat Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor said—l met the prisoner in Soho
last night, and went with her to a house. I was
not sober. I had two notes—one for £2O and the
other for £s—loose in my pocket, and on my leiv-
ing the house, and while walking along the street,
the prisoner snatched them out of my pocket and
ran away. The prisoner had another young woman
with her, and she ran away too. I ran after the
prisoner and stopped her, and gave her into custody,
when she said she had not got the notes. I did see
the notes safe a minute or two before. I lost £7 or
£8 besides in the house.

By Mr. Lewis—l can't say where I first met the
prisoner, but it was somewhere in Soho. Ido not
know whether I had anything to drink in the house.
I was not sober. I went into the house with the
prisoner and her companion. I never saw them be-
fore. I gave her into custody at the corner of the
street. I will swear the prisoner put her hand into
my pocket. I don't know what the prisoner did
with the notes, but should like to know. I will not
swear that I did not kiss the prisoner at the corner
of the street. She did not accuse me of pulling her
about.

Mr. Knox—Are you sure you did not drop the
notes ?

Prosecutor—l am sure I did not.

Police-constable Fish, 152 A R, said—At half-
past 5 o'clock this morning:l was in Princes-street,
Soho, and heard a cry of " stop thief," and saw the
prisoner and another female running. The pro-
secutor caught the prisoner, and while -the prose-
cutor was struggling with her I took hold of her
hand, but she drew it away from me. She said the
prosecutor had been fumbling her about for
an hour. The prosecutor said the prisoner
had robbed him of a £2O and a £5 note. I took
the prisoner to the station, but did not find the
notes upon her. I afterwards went to the spot
where I had seen the prosecutor and the prisoner
struggling together, and saw a boy pick up some-
thing, whieh turned out to be the prosecutor's
notes.

Mr. Lewis submitted that there was not sufficient
evidence to convict theprisoner, the prosecutor being
drunk at the time and not knowing what he was
about, and it beingquitelikely that, while struggling
with the prisoner, the notes dropped from his pocket
and he thought the prosecutor might think himself
fortunate that he had subsequently fallen into such
good hands.

Mr. Knox said that he thought Mr. Lewis's con-
tention that the notes fell out of the prosecutor's
pocket would not hold, as it was shown that the
prisoner ran away, and the notes were not picked
up where the struggle took place. Ile would re-
mand the prisoner.

Gordon, 33 C, said that the prisoner was a well-
known thief.

CRUEL TREATMENT OF A lIORSE.—Robt. Oxtoby,
a vendor of fire-wood, residing at Deptford, ap-
peared to answer the complaint of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of :Cruelty
,to Ani-
mals, for ill-treating a horse.
Mr. John Burge, a gentleman, residing at Cam-
den-hill-road, said that on the 21st February he
saw the defendant driving a horse attached to a
van Eden with fire-wood along Piccadilly. The
defendant continually struck the horse with a whip
stock in a cruel manner, the blows being generally
given the horse about the ribs. He expostulated
with the defendant on his cruelty, but he took no
notice, and merely laughed at him. He then gave
information to the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.

Joseph Dobie, officer of the Society, said that the
defendant told him the horse occasionally jibbed,
and that it jibbed on tho occasion in question, and
that he struck it a few times.

The defendant was fined 10s., or a month.

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THAMES.

The _Egress of Bluegate Fields, Mary Ann Mul-
cahy, a corpulent Irishwoman, about forty years of
age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with
assaulting and wounding Catherine Cronin, whose
head was enveloped in surgical .bandages, with
" London Hospital" printed upon them.
The prisoner's husband is the landlord of several
infamous dens in the vicinity of that horrible place
called Bluegate Fields, Ratcliff Highway. The
quarrels of the prisoner and her husband have been
frequently investigated at this court, and both have
been fined and imprisoned for assaulting cacti other.
The prisoner is a perfect fiend, and has been re-
peatedly convicted for committing savage assaults
on people of both sexes, and she has not been par-
ticular in her choice of weapons. She is now under
recognisances to keep the peace. She is known in the
district as the "Tigress of Bluegate-fields." This
morning, at 3 o'clock (said the complainant, who
had lost a great deal of blood), I was at 3, Victoria-
place, Bluegate-fields, and I heard that my sister
was having a row with the prisoner. I heard a dis-
turbance in the court and went there. I saw the
prisoner and a girl named Honora Murphy beating
my sister. They were holding her by the hair of
her head. I said, " Mother Mulcahy, leave her
alone." The prisoner turned round and struck me
on the side of the face with her fist. I hit her back
again, and we both fell on the ground, and the pri-
soner bit me on the arm and on the finger, nearly
biting my finger through. I said, " Mrs. Mulcahy,
you,are biting me." She let go of me and went in
doors. A young man named James O'Hara came
out with a knife and said he would run me through
in two minutes. The prisoner then came out and
said, " I have been bound over to keep the
peace for six months, and my six months
is nearly up, and I'll cut and scar any ono that
comes before me." She struck at me with the
poker, and the blow fell on James Murphy. I said
to the people who were standing by, " Look out, or
she will cut you." While I was talking to the
young man she struck me on the left side of the
head with a poker,:and I was wounded and stunned
by the blow and taken to the London Hospital.
The Prisoner—Did you not tear into pieces like
this. (Her gown was torn.)
Witness--No ; I did not.