The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-12 00:00:00

LAMBETH,

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tempting to commit suicide, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Norton for final examination under various charges of felony.
The prisoner when put in the felons' dock, did not exhibit any
of those theatrical airs which she had assumed at her last ex-
amination. On the contrary, during her presence at the bar,
she continued to shed tears in abundance, and endeavoured, as
well as she could, to conceal her face from the observation of
the numerous persons who had thronged the Court during the
investigation.
When the prisoner was first brought before Mr. Norton, on
a charge of attempting to commit suicide, her statement about
her being the daughter of a Dissenting clergyman at Bath, and
being seduced and robbed, was so plausible, as not only to mis-
lead every person in Court, but the magistrate himself, and
with that humanity and kindness for which he has been always
distinguished, Mr. Norton directed English, one of the sum-
moning officers, to take care of her, until an answer could be
received from her father, and also requested the chief clerk to
write to the latter. This was done, and in reply to the letter
sent the following was received :

" Guildhall, Bath, 7th June, 1845.
" Sir,--1n answer to sour letter of the sth itist., I have to
inform you that the young woman who gave her name Mary
Ann Salisbury is the daughter of .—Salisbury, a poor man,
residing at No. 4, Trim-bridge, in this city, and a shoemaker.
She left her home about two months ago, and her address,
known here, is ' Post-office, London.' Her age is l 9 years.
Her statement as to Alfred Bartram is a falsehood, no such
person being known here. She is considered not right in her
mind. Her statement as to the gold watch and jewellery is

not true, her friends are too poor to fetch her home, but ert
anxiously waiting her return
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
„WILLIAM HALL, Chief Officer.
To the Chief Clerl-, Lambeth Court."
A City constable attended and informed Mr. Norton that
the prisoner had been before the Lord 3layer on a charge of
attempting to commit suicide at London-bridee, when she
made a long and rambling statement about her respectability,
her being seduced, &c., but it differed in many e.sient als from
that which she had made at this Court. It also appeared that
she had gone to the Southwark Court for the purpose of getting
relief, but having on her hand at the time two valuable rirgs,
she was not deemed a person in absolute want, and no assis-
tance was afforded her.
Mr. NORTON also produced a letter which he had received
from the Rev. L. Cappel, minister of St. George's German
Lutheran Chapel, in Great Alie-street, Goodman's-fields,
stating that on the 2Srh of last month the prisoner called
upon him with the view, no doubt, of getting pecuniary as-
sistance under grossly false pretences. She then gave her
name as Lucy Spencer ; said she was the daughter of a clergy-
mar,, and sister to the Rev. Mr. Spencer at Bath, and said
a foreign lady, Mrs. Francis, had sent her to him (the Rev.
Mr. Cappel). She then in the most artful manner, and appa-
rently deeply affected, told the same story that she had re-
peated to the magistrate, with some slight variations, and

expressed herself very anxious to return to Bath, but was
without the means of doing so, as her lover had robbed her of
everything, and then endeavoured to induce her to commit
suicide. Something in her manner had induced the Itev.
Gentleman to doubt her story, hut at the same time he offered
to assist her, provided she allowed him to accompany her to
Mrs. Francis, the lady who, as she stated, had recommended
her to him. This, however, was evidently inconvenient. She
made some evasive excuses and left the house. Tl.e Rev. Gen-
tleman in his note describes the prisoner to be one of the most
a •tful imlo,tors he had ever met with, and most likely to suc-
c,ed on account of the details which she could give to her
stories.

The first case of felony taken against her was that of a Mrs.
Farthing, in Ashley-crescent, City-road, and, from the evidence
adduced, it appeared that the prisoner had entered her service
as servant of all-work•on the 14th of April last. She then
represented that she had just come from Bath, where she had
lived with a lady named Salisbury for nearly tour years, and
gave her own name as Lucy Spencer. Witness wrote to Bath
to Mrs. Salisbury for her character, and, singular to say, she
received an answer by return of post, giving the prisoner the
highest character; but this letter, witness was now con-
vinced was in the prisoner's own handwriting. After nine
days witness discharged the prisoner, finding her neither
able nor willing to do her work, and a great deal too romantic
in her manners and expressions. After she was gone witness
missed a great variety of property, and that now prolut el by
English, the officer, was part of it.
English, one of the summoning officers of the Court, de-
posed that the prisoner was placed under his care until proper
inquiries were made about her. She told him her name was
Salisbury, and that she was the daughter of a Dissenting Mi-
nister at Bath—that her father had a country house at Bath,
and had a farm also, which she superintended. She said no-
thing whatever of having been in service at Bath ; and on
searching her box at her lodgings he found the property iden-
tified by the last witness, and some duplicates relating to other
property.
This completed the first charge.
The second charge was that of Miss Mary Bartrara, assistant
to Mrs. Ford, a dressmaker in the Blackfriars-road, who de.
posed that on the 12:h of May last the prisoner entered the
service of Mrs. Ford, when she gave the name of Lucy Spen-
cer, and, after eight days, had been discharged. A day or
two after she was gone witness lost a cloak, and other articles
had been missed, of the stealing of which the prisoner had
been suspected. A lace shawl had been missing, and for some
considerable time the workpeeple in the house had laboured
under the most unpleasant suspicions, as the property had dis-
appeared in a very misterious manner ; but the mystery was
now cleared up, as the shawl was found in the prisoner's box,
with several other articles. Witness further stated, that she
had frequently heard the prisoner talk of having a sweetheart
in Bath, who had died three years ago, and say she should
never have another.

The witness further identified the cloak produced by a pawn-
broker as hers ; and English, the officer, deposed to having
found the duplicate relating to the cloak, which was pledged
for 65., in the box of the prisoner.
This completed the second charge.
The third charge was that of stealingthree shawls, a piece of
silk of twelve yards, five yards of cloth, a white petticoat, and
other articles, the property of Mary Ann Clark. In this case
it appeared the prisoner went to lodge in the same house with
the prosecutrix in Fell-street, Wood-street, Cheapside, on the
10th of May last, and only stayed there two days, and when
she was gone the property was missing.
A shopman to Mr. Demster, a pawnbroker in Blackfriars-
road, produced the property, which had been pledged on the
12th of May, in the same name and by a person giving the same
address as the person who pledged the cloak.
The prisoner, who, in a low tone of voice pleaded guilty to
the whole of the charges, was fully committed for trial on each,
and was then removed from the bar.
TIIAMES POLICE.

The whole day at this Court was consumed in hearing a series
of cases the evidence to which is utterly unfit for publication,
so unparalleled was the revolting infamy it disclosed. In one
of the police-sheets from the Denmark-street station-house, St.
George's-in-the-East, H division, were charges by which
Jacob Gill, 38 years of age, a tailor, residing at No. 6, William-
street, Gloucester-street, St. George's-in-the-East, and Hart-
ley Archer, both professing to belong to the Society of Friends
or Quakers, and also to have taken the teetotal pledge ; Thomas
Young, a journeyman brewer; and two Jew boys, named
Henry and John Hart, cigar makers, who are cousins, and each
about 16 years old, the former residing at No. 3, New-street,
Mite-end Old-town, and the latter at 16, King-street, St.
George's-in-the-East, were accused of an abominable crime.
On the previous day Edward Hyatt, a tailor, but at present
carrying on business as a baker, at 74, Long-alley, Worship-
street, made a communication to Inspector Donegan, who in-
stantly sent Sergeant O'Brien, 5 H, to make the necessary in-
quiries, and the result of an active investigation was, that the
whole of the prisoners were in custody on the above charge be-
fore ten o'clock the same night. Mr. Pelham defended the
two Quakers, Gill and Archer ; Mr. Lewis appeared for the
Jew lads, and Young was undefended. It appeared that the
boy Hyatt went on trial to Gill as an assistant in the tailoring
business, on Thursday last, and from his account of the proceed-
ings these suspicions were excited against Gill. The evidence
of this boy, who fainted away several times whilst giving his
testimony, was absolutely hideous. The evidence against Hart-
ley Archer was equally conclusive.
At the instance of Mr. Lewis, the case of the two Jew lads
Hart, was taken first, and they were acquitted and discharged.
Young was locked up in default of bail for the misdemeanour,
and, on committing the prisoners Gill and Archer oa the ca-
pital charge,
Mr. BRODER'? said charges of so shocking a nature
were very easily made, and, at the same time, very difficult
to be disproved. The evidence in the present case de-
pended on the testimony of a lad, who gave it under ap-
parently great mental suffering, as was obvious to all pre-
sent, and yet he cent through the horrible details, which
it was his (the worthy magistrate's) most painful duty to,
hear, with great clearness and precision. It would be for a
jury to say what credit they would attach to the lad's evi-
dence; but, whatever might be the result, he could only say
that the disgusting details of abominable profligacy, exposed
in the odious narrative which had occupied the Court during
that day, exceeded in its revolting grossness all that cams,
under his observation during the twenty years in which he had
sat upon the bench. Gill be would commit as principal on one
charge, and accessory to another. Archer should be also com-
mitted as a principal, and it would be the province of a jury tea
say whether they were or were not guilty of the crimes alleged
against them.