The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE r.
A CHANGE IN TILE MODE OF BRINGING AC-
CUSED PERSONS TO THE COURT.—The unseemly
exhibition of strings of persons charged with
offences being walked through the streets from the
different stations to this court, often accompanied
by crowds of turbulent followers, has now been
put an end to, and this morning for the first time,
by order of the Commissioners of Police, the police
van was employed for the purpose.
ROBBERY AT THE ALHAMBRA. —Arthur Gray, a
young man, described as a clerk, was charged be-
fore Mr. Knox with picking the pocket of a young
woman named Sarah Riley, a servant living in
Great Portland-street, of a purse containing some
silver. _ _ _

The prosecutrix was at the Alhambra Palace las
night with some children, when the prisoner and
another man picked her pocket of a purse.
Henry Parsons, employed at the Alhambra, said
that hearing a cry of " Stop thief 1" he seized the
prisoner.
David Pilmer, 54 C, proved taking the prisoner
into custody, and said that while the prisoner sent
one of the children across to look through, his com-
panion committed the robbery.
Gordon, 33 C, said that he saw the man who was
with the prisoner the previous night in court.
Mr. Knox ordered him to be brought forward,
but as the prosecutrix was unable to identify him
as the one who was with the prisoner no charge
was preferred against him.
Gordon said he believed the prisoner had been
previously convicted.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
A VOCALIST IN TROUBLE.—Richard llairland, a
boy, describing himself as a vocalist, was charged
with picking a pocket in the Haym trket.
Gordon, 33 C, having proved the case,
The boy said he saw two ladies fighting, and a
gentleman drop his handkerchief, and he picked
it up.
Gordon said the boy tried several pockets.
Mr. Knox remanded the boy.
STABBING A WlFE.—Dennis Sullivan, a labour-
ing man, charged with stabbing his wife, Honora
Sullivan, at No. 33, Dudley - street, was again
brought before Mr. Knox.
It may be remembered that the prisoner went up
to his wife, from whom he had been separated for
three years, as she was wishing some friends who
had been to see her good bye, and stabbed her in
the face.
Mr. Theophilus Bryant, house surgeon at the
Charing-cross Hospital, said that when the injured
woman was attended to at the hospital she had two
wounds, one in the cheek and the other in the
nostrils, and from the latter she had lost a great
deal of blood. The wounds were inflicted with
some sharp instrument, and might have been in-
flicted with the piece of steel produced (found in
the prisoner's pocket).
Mr. Motum, secretary to the Society for the Pro-
tection of Women and Children, No. 20, Hay-
market, attended to watch the case.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THAMES.
THE MARQUIS AND THE DESTITUTE GIRL.—
Angelina Pike, a poor and pale-faced destitute
girl, was brought before Mr. Benson, at the in-
stance of the Marquis of Townshend, who found her
seated on a door-step in the Commercial-road,
Stepney. She was destitute, had no home, no
means of procuring food, and both parents were
dead. The noble Marquis wished her to be pro-
vided for, not punished, and said there were many
poor wanderers like her to be found in all parts of
the metropolis, and be did wish that humane indi-
viduals would look of ter them, bring them before
the magistrates for their cases to be inquired into,
and comps boards of guardians, relieving
officers and others, to do their duty towards those
destitute creatures. He believed from inquiries he
had made that the statement of the girl was a true
one.

The girl said that since the death of her parents
she had been servant to a dressmaker, and followed
other occupations. She had also picked up a few
halfpence by singing in public-houses. She had
endured great privations.
Air. Benson said it was very creditable to the
noble marquis to interfere for the homeless and
poverty-stricken wanderers in this vast metropolis.
He should remand the prisoner to the Stepney
Workhouse for a week.

With respect to the poor lad who was turned out
of Ratcliff Workhouse with all manner of absurd
inscriptions stencilled on a canvas suit, and whom
the Marquis of Townshend brought to this court a
fortnight ago, it turns out that he is of weak intel-
lect, and that, notwithstanding, the poor creature
was subject to the degradation of being turned
upon the streets and exposed to the ridicule of the
unthinking of the roughs and blackguards of the
town. The labour-master of the Ratcliff Work-
house, who turned thedestitute casual into the street
has received a reprimand from the board of guardians
of the Stepney Union, and he was let off with this
slight punishment owing to his general good cha-
racter, and his humanity to the poor. The poor
lunatic has since wandered from the dwelling pro-
vided for him by the Marquis of Townshend, and it
is feared that he has been robbed of the clothes
and linen purchased for him. The Poor Law Com-
missioners have been written to on the subject, but
they .have not replied to the communication ad-
dressed to them by the Marquis of Townshend, who
has it in contemplation to adopt other measures re-
specting the novel punishment inflicted on an im-
becile casual for the crime of being destitute.