The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-09 00:00:00

mother, he has ;" but as her fathei and sisters were
present she refused to detail the circumstances. When
they were gone she stated particulars too gross and
filthy to be particularised, adding that the prisoner
had behaved to her in the same manner four or five
times, The last assaUlt was committed on Thursday
week.

Mr. Pelham, who defended the prisoner on both
occasions, cross-examined the girl, with a view to
show that the present charge was suggested by the
previous one, and that the whole was, as he had been
instructed, a foul and abominable conspiracy to de-
stroy the reputation of a man who for twenty-seven
years had sustained a most unimpeachable character
in the neighbourhood. The little girl, however, with
an- open artlessness adhered steadily to the statement
which she made in the first instance to her mother
and afterwards to the Magistrate.
Mr. BALLANTINE observed that the girl's state-
ment, notwithstanding some discrepancies— in her
cross-examination, was perfectly consisten*. The
worthy Magistrate then examined Mrs. Collenbourne,
for- the purpose of ascertaining whether there was
any private pique, or- any difference about money
matters, between her and the prisoner, but no such
motive appeared. She was not in his debt, nor did
he owe her more than a few pence for milk ; and, so
far from attaining any object by the charge, the com-
plaining party had every likelihood of losing a cus-
tomer.

Mr. Pelham—But we heard nothing of this matter
until the former charge was made.
Mr. BALLANTEcE—ExactIy so ; and, but for that
charge the matter might have never come to light.
But the girl's mother, hearing of that charge, and
knowing that her daughter had gone occasionally to
th- prisoner's house, became naturally alarmed; and,
on questioning her daughter, the matter was revealed.
The child said that, since the last assault, the pri-
soner beckoned to her to come across to his shop, but,
remembering how he had treated her she refused to
do so. Her mother tore up a book which the prisoner
gave her.

Mrs. Collenbourne, who scetne'l a respectable
woman, said she destroyed it, not wishing that her
child should preserve any memorial of the indecency
which had been practised upon her.
Mr. SALLANTINE said she had done perfectly right.
He would send the case for trial, but, as the prisoner
had entered into two sureties of 501. each to answer
a similar charge in another place, he would take his
own recognisance of 1001. to appear and take his trial
for the present one.

The recogni-ances were then enterel into, an 1 tr e
parties bound over to prosecute.

UNION-HALL.

Peter M Walter, the young Irishman with the car-
pet-bag, who stands charged with robbing several
taverns and public-houses in the metropolis, was
brought up, on Saturday, for re-examination.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he had received a letter
from Lieutenant Ward, of the llth Hussars, quar-
tered in Dublin, stating that, having read an account
of the prisoner's examination in the weekly news-
papers of last Sunday, he had no doubt, from the
description, that his name was Waters, and that he
was the same person who was living as his (the
writer's) servant in Portobello barracks, and who
robbed him of a large sum of money, with which he
absconded. The Magistrate then proceeded to ask
the prisoner some questions on the subject, in reply
to which he said that he was a native of Dublin—that
he was never in the army, nor had he lived in the
service of Lieutenant Ward—that he did not know
where Portobello barracks were situated—and that he
never passed by the name of Waters, either in Dublin
or elsewhere.

A gentleman stood forward and stated that a short
time since he was staying at the Steam-packet Hotel,
in Thames-street, and that amoiigs other property
stolen from him, there were two silk handkerchiefs,
several linen collars, and also a walking .stick. The
latter articles were now produced and identified by the
complainant, a policeman stating that he found them
in the prisoner's possession when he was taken into
custody.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that the prisoner was already
committed on three different charges of robberies at
taverns, but that if Lieutenant Ward was pres2nt and
identified him, instead of sending him for trial here he
should send him over to Dublin, where that offence
was committed.

The Magistrate then directed that inquiries should
be made at the Horse Guards, to ascertain if the pri-
soner was known there as belonging to the army, and
he was again ordered to be taken back to gaol.
Edward Wheeler, a young man in the employ of
Mr. Cox, livery stable-keeper, in Stamford-street,
was charged with stealing 580 farthings, the property
of John Underwood, of Brunswick-street, Black-
friars. The prisoner lodged at the house of the com-
plainant, an aged man, who from his infancy, it was
described, was in the habit of collecting farthings,
1,000 of which coin he kept in a bag, which was de-
positel in a box in the room where the prisoner slept.
Some of the farthings were on a recent occasion
missed out of the box, and, with a view of discovery,
as another man occupied the same room with the pri-
soner, the complainant's daughter bored a hole in the
partition that separated her room from that of the
prisoner. On the preceding day, while the prisoner
was home, the witness looked through the aperture,
and caught him in the very act of ransacking her father's
box, containing his treasure of farthings. When the
farthings were subsequently counted, 580 out of the
1,000 were missing, and it was also ascertained that
the prisoner had been for some time in the habit of
using a coffee-shop, where he usually paid for his re-
freshments in farthings, some of which were those of
former reigns, and formed a portion of those collected
by the complainant in the early party of his life.
Ariother charge of robbery was also preferred
against the. prisoner, that of stealing a pair of boots
out of his employer's counting-house, and he was com-
mitted to the sessions on both charges.
Richard Edwards, a well-dressed young man, was
charged on suspicion of stealing a valuable gold watch.
The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next.