The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

CLERKENIVELL.-(THIS DAY.,

A very miserable-looking lad, who described himself as
a musician, named John Fitzgerald, was charged with wilfully
breaking a pane of glass in the Robin Hood public-house,
Church-lane At. Giles's.

It appeared, from the evidence, that the prisoner was; on
the previous evening, engaged in ministering to the musical
taste of a select party, at the Robin Hood public-house ; but
the charms of his lyre had not the effect of soften.
ing the sordid propensities of his auditors, and pm
smallness of the sum they tendered was considered
by this son of Orpheus as so utterly unworthy' of
his deserts that he left the room in high dudgeon, and in Ithe
excess of his wrath drove his hand through a pane of glass
in the public. house. He was immediately arrested, but the
unfortunate musician was found to have mangled his hand
so dreadfully that the landlord, with becoming humanity,
declined to press the charge of wilful damage against hitn.
The poor fellow seemed so woe-begone when placed in the
dock, with his arm in a sling, and his face deadly pale, that
every one present felt grateful to the publican for setting
him at liberty.

' MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)J
Sarah Barnard, Elizabeth Morgan, Martha Elliott, and
Jane Manners, four girls belonging to the Marylebone work-
house, were broughttefore Mr. Rawlinson, charged by Japies
Jones, the master, with disorderly conduct.
- It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Jones and two of the
intnates, that the prisoners were most incorrigible, haiing
been more than once convicted already for similar effe'es.
They were therefore kept apart from the others and locked
up in a different part of , the building,. communicating wit an
inclosed yard. • After the inmates had retired to rest yester-
day evening, the four girls at the bar lighted a bonfire inithe
yard communicating with their rooms. Chairs, stools, and even
portiOns of their dress being put- in requisition for the laud-
able purpose of, as Manners said, "setting the b— placo on
fire." Fortunately the " row " was discovered in time, Find
the girls were handed over to the tender mercies of the police.
Mr. RAwraNsort—ltseeins to me that there is a reprehen-
sible carelessness somewhere. Surely some precaution might
be adopted to prevent even the possibility of these girls
having the power of, setting the house on fire.
Mr. Jones said that the prisoners were subjected to a strict
surveillance, but it was impossible to know what they were
after until the fault had been committed.
The girls said that their bedrooms were locked, and they
were therefore obliged to remain in the yard, but this asser-
tion was disproved by the master. They next stated that
they were angry, because their own " nurse" was taken from
them.

Mr. RawLmsolt—You are no babies, but I'll take care that
you shall be nursed in the House of Correction, where
,you
will each go for twenty days.

UNION HALL.--(THIS DAY.),
Francis Tunics, a shopboy in the employ of Thoinas
Winyat, a boot and shoemaker, was charged with robbing
his employer.
It appeared that the prisoner had been about three months
in the complainant's employ, and that about a week !ago
the daughter of the litter, a little girl between three and
four years of age, seeing the prisoner open the till, mentioned
the circumstance to her father. When he examined the till he
missed a sovereign, but the boy being questioned on the sub-
ject, denied taking the sovereign with such earnestness, that
no further notice was taken of it. A strict watch
however was kept on the prisoner, and some silver having
been. missed from the till, he was again questioned, but he
declared his innocence in the most emphatic manner, and
offered to be searched on the. spot to prove his honesty. He
then submitted to an examination, but nothing was found
until his shoes were taken off, and in them was found the
whole of the money abstracted from his employer's till. ,
He was committed for trial. •
Sarah Adams was charged with stabbing her husband in
the arm with a knife.

It appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock on the
preceding night, a man named Conney, on passing Smith's-
place, Smith's-street, Camberwell, hearing cries of murder,
proceeded into the house,. and saw a woman with a table
knife, in the act of stabbing a man, whom she wounded
in, the arm. The, witness interfered, and seizing
the knife from her hands, she then flew to the fire-place, and
taking up the poker struck her husband on the head with it ;
this weapon being taken.out of her hands, she then grasped a
paif of scissors, and attempted to use them also, but being
overpowered she was then taken into custody. The husbanu,
who did not attend the examination, was represented as hav-
ing been very seriously injured.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that her husband dragged
her by the hair of the head, and attempted to throw her out
of the window, and that she took up the weapons to defend
herself.

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Mr. TRAIL remanded the prisoner until Friday.

QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)
Jeremiah Austin and Wm. Harley, two fashionably-dressed
young men, residing in Euston-square, were charged with the
following " gentlemanly" conduct in the public streets :
Between twelve and one o'clock this morning, the defend-
ants, who had evidently taken more than a quantum sujjicit
of wine, were proceeding along the Brompton-road, from the
neighbourhood of which they had not long emerged, and the
night,air acting upon the fermented liquors, which they had
quaffed, and their reason having evaporated, they evinced a.
predilection for a "lark," not by wrencking knockers from
the doors of the houses which they passed, a mode of amuse-
ment latterly at a lamentable discount, but by unceremoni-
ously bumping up against peaceable and unoffendix% pedes-
trians, ejecting them from the pavement, and laying them
sprawling in the dusty road; women, too—perhaps those
frail' creatures who crowd the broad pavements of our London
streets at night they, too; were rather roughly dealt
with by these inebriated " gentlemen." The police,
in their laudable anxiety for the public- safety, re-
monstrated with the defendants on the impropriety
and indecency of their conduct. What ! a policeman dare
to advise gentlemen, to remonstrate.with them, to interfere
with their rational, innocent amusements ! Mr. Austin, cer-
tainly the most violent, and most dissipated, when we con-
sider that it required a who!e posse of policemen to take him
to the station-house, struck and kicked the policeman
several times, who, in self-defence drew his staff, and sprang
his rattle for assistance. Blood flowed in copious streams
from the constable'a nose ;- another policeman was kicked
severely on a dangerous part of hii person, from which he

suffered the most acute pain. Mr. Harley was too
inebriated to offer such formidable opposition to the police
authorities, with the exception of a faint attempt to rescue
his friend from the confinement which then awaited him.
The defendants severally cross-examined the witnesses
without shaking their testimony as to the violence of their
conduct ; and is their defence complained of the violence of
the police, Harley asserting that the police would say any-
thing, and that he took the arm of one of the policemen,
and walked to the station-house without the slightest re-
luctance. Both the defendants, who appeared to be well-
educated young men, said it was the first time they had ever
been in " durance vile," and seemed ashamed of the position
in which they stood.
Mr. BOND severely reprimanded the young men for their
misconduct. Respectable persons were not to be annoyed
whilst passing:along the streets. He should fine Harley 205.,
or, in default, commit him for fourteen days. The case was
of a different nature against Austin, who not only assaulted
the policeman when spoken to, but after he was taken into.
custody. With respect to the alleged violence of the police,
many persons complained when brought before him that
their clothes had been torn by the rough manner with which
they had been handled by the police; but they (the police)
had no object in ill-treating persons whom they took into
custody, and whenever they used violence, it merely showed
that the parties were violent themselves. He (Austin) must
pay a fine of 31., or be committed for one month.
We believe the fines were ultimately paid.