The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-04 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STI?EET.

Awes Wilkins, a lad between 17 and 18 years of age,
was charged with stealing a cake, of tho value of ls.
the property of Mrs. Rebecca Wittleston, of No. 15,
\Nrtrien street, Tottenham-court-road. .

The prosecutrix stated that between eight and nine
the previous evening the prisoner rushed into her shop,
and si,a:ching up the cake from off the counter ran into
the street, and was making off as fast as his legs could
carry him, but the cry of "Stop thief" being raised, he
was pursued by a police-constable and secured.
Mr. MALTBY asked the prisoner if he wished to say
anything ?

The lad said want of food had driven him to do it
!le had been unable to work lately, and for the last eigla
days had been starving about the streets, without shelter
or a resting place. During the last two days he had
not tasted food of any kind. When he took the cake he
c.)uld not resist his hunger any longer.

The constable said he-made a similar statement when
taken into custody-.
Ile was remanded until Monday week, in order that
inquiries might be made abut him.
Mary Joyce, an aged female, of a very miserable ap-
pearance, was charged with wilfully breaking eight
ignores of plate glass, of the value of fifteen guineas, in
the shop of Mr. Dobree, of No. 12, Gilbert-street, Ox-
ford-Street, silversmith and pawnbroker, between seven
and eight o'clock the previous evening.
The prisoner at the time seemed to be in a very ex-
ci.ed state, but not from liquor, and she effected the de-
molition of the panes with a large stone she picked up
out of the street.

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she had
broken the windows in order to get sent to prison, as
she had been starving about the streets and could bear
it no longer. She had applied to the parish, but they
would do nothing for her. If she as not sent to prison,
or something done for her, she had made up her mind to
destroy her life. She therefore entreated she might not
be discharged.
Mr. MALTBY asked to which parish she belonged
-

•The prisoner said to St. George's, Hanover square.

She ;vas ordered to be taken to the workhouse.
John Clark was brought before Mr. Maltby for final exami-
nation, charged with having stolen a dressing-case, containing
jewellery and other articles, worth between two and three
hundred pounds, the property of Lady Hannah Campbell, wife
of Sir John Campell, of Ardnarmurchan.
The robbery was effected in a very ingenious way. The
prisoner, who was hanging about Curson-street, saw an omni-
bus, containing Sir John Campbell's servants and baggage, stop
at a house in the street. He immediately made himself busy
in assisting to remove the property into the house, and this he
wail emitted to de:because the people of the house believed that
he belonged to the omnibus, and the driver of the omnibus
thought from his proceedings that he had a place in the family.
William Lockhart said he was butler to Sir John Campbell,
of 39, Curzon-street. On Friday, the 22d ult„ about half-
past three, witness arrived from Leith, in an omnibus contain-
ing luggage, which the prisoner assisted to unload. Shortly
afterwards Sir John and Lady Campbell arrived, in their car-
riage, and the prisoner again assisted to unload and to place
the things in the hall. Witness paid the prisoner sixpence for
his trouble. About ten minutes after the prisoner had gone
away witness missed the case which he had previously taken
from the carriage, and placed in the hall
Joyce 13ryatt, cook to Sir John Campbell, said, seeing the
prisoner making himself handy in removing the luggage, he
'gave him a shilling, and asked him to go for some salt and
pepper. Witness then went upstairs, leaving tke prisoner in
the hall.
Police-sergeant Driscoll, 2 C, said, on receiving information
of the robbery, and a description of the thief, he made search.
for the prisoner, and on the night of the 25th ult. he wont
into the gallery of the English Opera-house, and took the pri-
soner into custody, and afterwards to the station-house. On
searching the prisoner a bunch of small keys was found, and
also another key. Witness went in company with police-ser-
geant Miller to No. 5, Pipemaker's-alley, Bedferdbury,vand
with ens of the keys opened the door of a room occupied by
the prisoner, and there found the stolen dressinge•ease.
Police-sergeant Miller, C 14, said he took charge of the pri-
soner from Driscoll, and told him he was taken into custody on
suspicion of stealing a dressing-case from Curson-street.
The prisoner said he knew nothing about the dressing-case,
and denied having been in Carson-street on the day of the
robbery.
Catherine Berifield said she let the room in Pipemaker's-
alley to the prisoner a few days before the robbery.
Lady Campbell said the dressing-case now produced was her
property. The property in the case, before it was stolen, was
of the valve of 2001. and upwards. All the best of the dia-
mond rings had been taken out of the case, and the articles
deficient were worth about 801.

In defence, the prisoner said he took the dressing-case. The
woman in whose house it was found knew nuthing about its
being in the room.
The prisoner was fully committed.
13ENEVOLENCE.—Mrs. Murray has sent the half of a 5/. note
for charitable purposes.

DARING ABDUCTION OF A YOUTII BY BANDITTI.—
The commune of Saratena, in the island of Corsica, has been
frightened from its propriety by the following bold act o:
brigandage. A boy named Pierre Marabotti, while walking in
the square of the town, was told that a horse had entered a field
a short distance outside the town, belonging to a relation, and
proposed to another lad named Susini to go and catch it, which
they accordingly slid, and were leading it out of the field, when
two ferocious looking men, with long earabines, and armed from
top to toe, presented themselves from behind a fountain, and
panting their guns at the two boys, eommanded them in an
imperious tone, not to budge a step. They then seized Mara-
botti, telling Susini he might go, but not to enter the town tilt
night-fall, on pain of death, and disappeared with Marabou:
through a dense thicket. Three days afterwards, on the 17th
iilttant, a. letter was Mound in the letter-box, addressed to the
father Olitar4l4oVi, hint that sinless they receiveds,oo6
frit,;as (2001.) within five-days; 'O4 xopl4
inial-
be Mr nolated, adding; ha was securely conerafpd Ole
forest of Cagna. The distress of the father, who finds himsel.
in the impossibility of raising such a sum, and who is thus re-
duced to the necessity of sacrificing his off.pring, may be ima-
pinedi
n this t iwn have delmVatiCCILS. an—
but cannot be described.—Gazette de Tribunaux.
em-
ployers have acceded to the same
ADVANce; ::tation counterpanect.eheotaamount
oae3lciafn
4nNNilit•rhaellyl,
per cent.--Vaten Free Press.