The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

MAI?YLEBOIVE.

Yesterday a shabbily-dressed man, named Thomas
Tyndall, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson,
charged with having, in the following very daring man-
ner, stolen a watch, the property of Mr. Morley, 47,
Oxford-street.
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous
evening, about six o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop,
and asked Mr. Morley the price of a good silver watch ;
one of the value of 31 18s. was shoWn to him, and, after
looking at it for a few minutss, he expressed a wish to
see one of a somewhat superior kind ; a watch of the
price of seven guineas was laid down on the counter for
his inspection, when he immediately took it up and ran
out of the shop with it as fast as lie could ; he was pur-
sued, and on a cry of" Stop thief" being raised, lie was
ultimately taken into custody. In his progress along
one of the streets he flung the watch into the road.
The prisoner, whose only defence was that he was out
of employ, and had not a decent shoe to his foot, was
committed to Newgate for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Jane Brown, a smartly-dressed and pretty
ittle woman, was brought up on a warrant before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having attempted to stab James
Golding, a general dealer, living in Wellington-street,
Shacklewell.
Mr. Wolfe appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Hal-
lett for the prosecution.
The prosecutor said the defendant had run up a bill
with him to the amount of 1/. 65., and after repeated ap
plications for the money without effect, he was obliged
to take out a summons to enforce its recovery. Wish-
ing, however, to avoid resorting to such harsh measures,
if possible, he went on the 4th inst. to the defendant's
house, in Amherst-terrace, in the hope of quietly
arranging the matter. The door was opened by a
woman, who said the defendant was not at home, and
he turned round to go away ; but he had no sooner
reached the garden gate than the defendant appeared at
the street door, and called out, " Here I am, and if you
advance an inch further I will run you through with
this." She then ran towards him, brandishing a naked
sword, with which she suddenly made a thrust at his left
breast, and the sword struck him very sharply ; but he
stepped rapidly backwards, and fortunately escaped any
personal injury ; but as it was the point of the sword
entered the breast of his coat, and made an incision in it
to the extent of several inches. Apprehensive of fur-
ther violence, he ran offto the station-house and communis
cated what had occurred to an officer, who went to the
house and took the defendant into custody : but in con
sequence of his being unable to appear sufficiently early
against her at this Court she was discharged, and had
since then had the assurance to commence proceedings
against him for false imprisonment. (The prosecutor
exhibited his coat, which had a cut in the left breast of
it about the extent described in his evidence.) Ile was
cross-examined as to his having used violent and threaten-
ing language previous to the defendant's attack upon him,
and denied having done so most positively.
N, at the desire of the last
witness, of the defendant, the door of
which Constable
wentn s
opened Brannan,
o the house
h
hu6:9e r. She still had the sword its
her hand, but on telling her his business she dropped it
in the passage. The sword was an ordinary ship's t
b 0
cut-
lass, and very sharp pointed, but was jagged at the edge
and had sects some service.
Inspector Howie said, immediately after the warrant
was issued against the prisoner she and her husband
absconded from the neighbourhood, and he bad been
unable to obtain any clue to their residence until the
preceding day, when he traced them to a house in
Shepperton-street, Hoxton, and took the prisoner into
custody.
In derencs, Mr. Wolfe said that on the prosecutor
going to his client's house he made use of the most violent
and disgusting language, and the defendant being ap-
prehensive he would commit some personal violence upon
her, took up the sword to defend herself, but without the
slightest intention of using it. He called two witnesses,
named Anne Dallaway and Catherine Stabbing, who
described the prosecutor's language in similar terms; but
they differed very materially in some of the facts, and
both denied seeing the sword used, though both were
present at the time.
Mr. Bitoucirrox disbelieved these witnesses, and was
satisfied, from the evidence, the prosecutor had con-
ducted himself on the occasion in a proper and tempe-
rate manner. Had the defendant succeeded in executing
her threat, it would have been an undoubted case of
murder, and had the sword only drawn blood. aed the
jury were satisfied of her intention, she would have been
liable to fifteen years' transportation. As it was, he
should only convict her of a very aggravated assault,
and order her to pay a fine to the Queen of 505., or, in
default, undergo six weeks' imprisonment in the House
of Correction.

A great number of tradesmen, comprising butchers,
bAken, publicans, and others, press( d forward, and ap-
pealed to the magistrate as to what steps they should
adopt to recover the value of goods they had incautiously
supplied to the defendant and her husband on the faith
of their reipectability before they absconded from the
house in Amherst-terrace. One of the tradesmen, who
was a publican, had supplied them with beer, spirits,
&c., to the extent of 251., during their short residence in
that neighbourhood.

Mr. BROUGHTON regretted he coul I render the com-
plainants no assistance, but if they could establish a case
of fraud against the defendant and her husband, they
might give them into custody.
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UNION-HALL.
Emma Smith, a pretty looking woman, was brought
up in custody, charged with stealing a 5/. Bank of Eng-
land note and some sovereigns, the property of Henry
Watts, of 18, Princes-street, Blackfriars-road.
The complainant commenced by saying the prisoner
had given in a wrong description, by styling herself as
Mrs. Smith on the police-sheet, when in point of fact
she was his wife. That by care and frugality he had
saved the above sum, which he deposited for safety in a
drawer in his bed-room. That the prisoner was aware
of the fact, and that on Sunday she urged him to go to
bora, and that during his absence she went to the little
hoard, took every shilling, and went off and married
another man.

Mr. COTTINGHAM-If that is the case, there is an end
to the charge of stealing, for whatever property is yours
is also your wife's.
The prisoner declared that although she had been
living under the protection of the complainant for the
fait eight years, still that she was not his wife, and,
added she, looking daggers at the complainant, " you
are a wicked man for )ringing me here."
The prisoner frequently interrupted the complainant
by exclaiming, " Oh, you wicked man, my lawful hus-
band is outside the Court, and I defy you to prove that
ever I was your wife. Give me into custody, if you dare
for bigamy, and I shall have you tried for perjury."
She then called out fur Smith, at the top of her voice,
desiring him to come into Court and hear what the old
monster, Watts, had alleged against her.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said he could not entertain the
charge on wWch the prisoner was brough there, as the
complainant still persisted in the assertion that she was
his wife. The magistrate then asked the complainant if
be could prove that the mau whom be alleged married the