The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Richard Durell, a stout-built fellow, was
charged before Mr. Bingham with stealing a large tawnk
full of wearing apparel and other articles, the property
of a tradesman named Rose, residing in Ecward-street,
Bethnal-green.
It appeared -from the evidence, that between eleven
and twelve o'clock that day, as the wife of the prosoctor
was sitting'with her mother in her back parlour, they
heard a strange kind Of DOW in the adjoining room,

and Mrs. Rose immediately hastened into the passage to
ascertain the cause of it; there she encountered the pri-
soner, who was leisurely walking from the back par-
lour, with a large trunk full of property belonging to her
husband on his shoulder. She demanded what business
he had there, and the prisoner coolly told her that he
had been sent for the trunk by a lodger, whose name he
mentioned correctly, and still kept walking off with the
trunk, when she expressed her determination to detain
him. On this the prisoner dashed down the trunk in
the passage, and, violently thrusting her against the
wall, darted out into the street. Mrs. Rose, however,
raised an outcry after and pursued him through several
streets, and he was at length stopped by a policeman and
taken into custody.
The prisoner, in defence, still' adhered pertinaciously
to the statement he had made to Mrs. Rose, that he had
been sent for the trunk by the lodger mentioned in that
person's testimony, and the magistrate, who did not
credit this story, ordered him to be brought up again
next week that inquiries might be made about him.
Wm. Rickards, a middle-aged, respectable-looking
man, was charged on suspicion of stealing between 50
and 60 sovereigns, and securities for Three per Cent.
Consols of the value of 100 L, the property of Thomas
Hogg, a pensioner in the East India Company's service,
living in Suffolk-street, Bethnal-green.
It appeared from the evidence in this case that the
wife of the prosecutor, between 6 and 7 o'clock on Satur-
day evening last, went out to market accompanied by a
lodger named Lovell, leaving her husband, an old and
exceedingly deaf man, in care of the house. Shortly
after the wife had left, the prisoner, who had lodged in
the house about six months, came in, and after a short
conversation with the prosecutor in the kitchen, went up
stairs, as he said, to get his great coat, remained there
about ten minutes, came down again, and shortly after
left the house. The prisoner had only been gone about
half an hour, when Mrs. Hogg returned home, and on
entering her bed-room, which adjoined that of the pri-
soner, found everything strewn about in the utmost dis-
order, and that one of her drawers, in which she had
locked up before she went out a tea caddy containing
the property above-mentioned, had been broken open,
and the caddy, money, and securities carried off by the
thief. As the prisoner had been the only person ad-
mitted while the wife was out, suspicion naturally at-
tached to him, and Sergeat Townshend being apprised of
the robbery went in pursuit of him, and found him par-
tially intoxicated at the Durham Arms public-house, a
few streets off..On being taken into custody and accused
of the offence, the ;prisoner most strenuously denied all
knowledge of the transaction, and threw the blame of
the affair upon his fellow-lodger, who had been assisting
the sergeant in his apprehension.
Policeman Kersey, 112 K, proved having carefully
examined the prosecutor's house, and that there were no
external marks denoting a forcible entry, while on
searching the lower part of the premises he discovered
and now produced a chisel, which exactly fitted the in-
dentations in the front of the drawer from which the
stolen property had been abstracted.
In answer to the charge, Mr. Pelham, who attended
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for the prisoner, submitted that not a tittle of the evi-
dence which had been produced inculpated his client, and
claimed his discharge. lie had a number of highly re-
spectable witnesses in Court, who had known the pri-
soner for many years, and who would not only bear
testimony to his irreproachable character, but also be-
come bail for him to any amount, if the Magistrate
thought it a case even for securities.
The MAGISTRATE said, that this was not a question of
character at all, but one of facts, and the evidence ad-
duced presented a case of strong suspicion against the
prisoner. He would, however, consent to admit him to
bail, which must be, the prisoner himself in 801., and
two responsible sureties in 401. each.
The bail was immediately put in and the prisoner
liberated till next week.
SOUTHWARK.

Yesterday Isabella Ludham was brought before Mr.
Traill, charged with robbing the captain of a vessel
called the Sir Robert Sale, lying in St. Katharine
Docks, of a watch and guard, together with a gold pin
and a cloak ; and William Simms, a man in business,
with whom she cohabited, was charged as an accessary
after the fact.

It appeared that on the night of the 27th ult.'the cap-
tain of the Sir Robert Sale was induced to accompany
the female prisoner to a house of ill-fame, in Herbert's-
buildings, Lambeth. When he awoke in the morning
he found his companion had gone off, ;taking with her
the articles above specified, although he took the pre-
caution of deposting his watch, which was a valuable
oue, underneath the pillow. Having given a description
of the prisoner at the station-house, she was taken into
custody, brought before the magistrate at Union-hall,
but was ultimately discharged, in consequence of none
of the stolen property being traced. Nothing more was
heard of the charge until the preceding night, when the
whole of the facts attending the robbery were brought to
light owing to the accidental circumstance of a serious
quarrel between the two persons in custody, which will
be gathered from the subjoined account.
Policeman 33 B stated, that on the preceding night at
a late hour, while on duty in Tothill-street, Westmin-
ster, his attention was arrested by hearing a violent
quarrel between the prisoners, and on his approaching,
the man Simms immediately accused the woman with
having robbed the captain of an Indiaman, and insisted
upon giving her into custody. The parties were then
taken to the station-house, where Simms reiterated the
charge against his fellow prisoner, and entered minutely
into all the details of the robbery, and also described
where the stolen articles were pledged. The woman
against whom the charge was made did not attempt to
deny the truth of all that had been uttered against her,
and declared that she was the victim of the man who had
divulged the robbery ; that it was owing to his persua-
sions she committed it, and that having shared in the
plunder he afterwards betrayed her. The policeman
added that both the prisoners were detained at the
station-house.

Mr. TKAILL here directed Simms to be released from
the bar and to ascend the witness-box, in order to give
his evidence. He stated that he was a plasterer by
trade, and lived at No. 1, Catherine-court, near the
Cloisters, Westminster, and that the prisoner had been
under his protection for a considerable time.
He was here asked if he had any charge to make
against the accused, and he replied in the affirmative,
and then proceeded to state that at an early hour on the
morning of the 28th ult. she returned home, and on
entering the room where he was waiting her arrival she
immediately produced a watch, gold pin, and a gold
guard, and also a cloth cloak, and said that she had
robbed a captain of a vessel while he was asleep. Simms
went on further to state that the articles in question
were subsequently pledged by the prisoner, and he men-
tioned the names of the pawnbrokers with whom she had
deposited them. He added, that she had pledged the
articles herself, and that he had no hand in it ; that they
had quarrelled the night before, and that he determined
on divulging the circumstances, and accordingly did so,
and was surprised that after such a disclosure as he had
made it should have been deemed requisite to take him
into custody.

Mr. TnaiLL (to the prisoner)—You have heard what
this man has stated : have you anything to say ?
The prisoner, who is an extremely well-looking young
woman, said that now matters had assumed the aspect
they did she had no intention of denying the accusation
made against her that day by the man of all others who
was the last who ought to have betrayed her. That in
order to support him in comfort she had become a pros-
titute, and he knew it well. That on the very night she
robbed the captain of the vessel before she left home
Simms, addressing her, desired her to go out, threaten-
ing to beat her if she returned without money or money's
worth ; that he told her to pick up the first well-dressed
man she met, and that when he was asleep in the house
where she took him that she could then rob him of all
he had about him, and leave the house. She added that
she was now aware that she was wrong for adopting that
advice, but still she confessed she did it ; and she
solemnly protested that the man to whom she had fallen
a victim had accompanied her to the pawnbrokers',
waiting outside while she went in and pledged the stolen
articles, she giving him the greater portion of the money
raised upon them.
Simms, however, denied the latter assertion, and said
that he was always willing to support the prisoner, but
that her love of dress and company was her ruin.

Mr. TRAILL asked Simms why he had kept the secret
of the robbery for 10 days, and now came forward to
appear against the accused ?
Simms, in reply, said that he was only influenced by a
sense of justice in the case. That when he first threat-
eued to divulge the circumstances attending the robbery
the prisoner declared that if he did she would try all
she could to transport him, but that having had
some high words with her on the preceding night
he thought it a ♦ery fit opportunity for disclosing
the facts.

The captain of the Sir Robert Sale, who was in attend-
ance, having been apprised of the apprehension of the
prisoner, identified her as the person whom he accom-
panied to the house in Herbert's-buildings, and de-
scribed the circumstances of the robbery, and of his
having missed her from his side on the morning it was
committed.

The prisoner, who seemed to be much affected at
the situation in which she was placed, was then re-
manded.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 14.—The St. Vincent, 120, Capt.
Rowley, undocked on Saturday, was brought under the
shears for masting this day.
The Mercury tender arrived from Devonport with
hands for the vessels fitting out here on the 11th.
The Britannia, 120, advanced ship, was taken into
dock yesterday, to be completed as an entirely advanced
ship. She will be coppered up to her bends.
The Pelican, 16, Commander Justice, arrived last
evening at Spithead from Singapore, with specie to the
amount of about 250,0001. on board. She sprung a leak
soon after starting from Singapore, and transhipped two -
thirds of her valuable freight on board the Harlequin,
which arrived safe on Sunday. The Pelican came
through the Needles, and in coming up from the west-
ward with a light wind she went too close in shore, it
being low water, and tailed on the Kicker-point, be-
tween Fort Monckton and Stoke's-bay ; she immediately
commenced firing minute guns, as signals of distress,
and sent up several rockets, but which, however, were
not answered for upwards of an hour, when, we be-
lieve, the Victory answered the signal, and dispatched
the Comet steamer to her assistance. The grounding
of the Pelican occurred about a quarter-past eighto'clock, and assistance from the harbour did not arrive
until near eleven! The circumstance of signal guns
firing on a fine calm night, at-such an hour, excited the
utmost consternation in the town, and the ramparts were
quickly thronged with spectators, anxious to ascertain
the cause of their unseasonable disturbance. The first
who put off to the assistance of the stranded vessel was
Lieutenant Grandy, of the coast-guard station, Block-
house, who, with his boat's crew, quickly got alongside
the distressed vessel, and, soon after, the Comet steam-
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Yretyman, with a dock-