The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET,

A dissipated-looking man, named Jeremiah Sulivan, was
placed before Alr. Jardine, charged with stealing a pair of
Wellington boots from the feet of another prisoner in the
station-house cell. .

The prisoner had been given into custody on a charge of
housebreaking, but the case was not substantiated, and he was
discharged. As he was leaving the dock the officer said there
was another charge against the prisoner. When he went to
the cell this morning to bring the prisoners out, the prosecutor,
Mr. Hudson, who had been brought to the station-house for
being drunk, said that some one had taken his boots off in the
night. The witness examined the cell, and found the boots on
the feet of the prisoner. On further examination he discovered
the shoes the prisoner wore when taken into custody in the
water-closet. The prisoner said the boots were not the pro-
secutor's, for he (the prisoner) had bought them the day before
in Monmouth-street.

Mr. Hudson, the owner of the boots, said he was brought to
the station-house in a state of intoxication, and after he had
been in the cell a ,host time, he fell asleep. He was aroused
soon after by feeling some one taking off his boots, but he took
no notice of this, as he thought he was at home, he being in
the habit of having his boots taken off for him.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was drunk, and did not
know what he was about.

Mr. JARDINE asked the officer if this was the case? The
officer said the prisoner was drunk.
Mr. JARDINE said it was just possible that the prisoner's
story was correct, and therefore on this occasion he would be
discharged. But he would advise him to be very cautious in
future, as he had had a very narrow escape.
MARYLEBONE.

Edward Burton, a person having the appearance of a gen-
tleman's servant, was charged with having swindled an Irish
farm servant of two sovereigns.
The Irishman had lately arrived in London from New South
Wales, and was about to go by railway to Bristol, and while
waiting with his luggage at the Mint public-house, the pri-
, saner came in and entered into conversation; an accomplice
followed, and they contrived, by showing a large sum of money
(counterfeit of course) to get two sovereigns from complainant.
He discovered the trick, and when the prisoner attempted to.
escape, and dropped the two sovereigns, he caught him by the
collar, and gave him into eustody. The complainant added
that he had now lust his passage, and could not leave for Bristol
=for another week.
The prisoner, in answer to inquiries from the Magistrate,
said, that he was a groom, and had formerl. lived in the service
of some of the first noblemen, and amongst others the Duke of
Rutland, the Earls of Onslow and Fitzwilliam, as also in that
of Mr. Tierney, of Somerset House. His present residence he
refused to disclose.
Mr. RAWLINSON said ►hat it would be an act of injustice to
bind over the poor Irishman to l rasecute at the sessions, and he
would, therefore, as the more merciful mode of remunerating
him for loss of time and trouble, give him his two sovereigns,
and add him a third to pay his .expenses during the time he
would be obliged to wait his passage. He would remand the
prisoner till Thursday next.
The Irishman expressed his heartfelt gratitude, and then left
the Court.