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

MARYLEBONE.

Yeste-rday 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,
Ox fo rd- 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 he could ; he was pur-
sued, and on a cry of " Stop thief " being raised, he 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
commuted to Neivgate for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Jane Brown, a smartly-dressed and pretty
little 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 11. 65., and after repeated ap •
plications for the money without effect, he was obliged
to take oat 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 off to the station-house and communi-
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.) He 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.
Constable Brannan, 69 N, at the desire of the last
witness, went to the house of the defendant, the door of
which was opened by her. She still had the sword in
her hand, but on telling her his business she dropped it
in the passage. The sword was an ordinary ship's cut-
lass, and very sharp pointed, but was jagged at the edge
and had seen some service.
Inspector Howie said, immediately after the warrant
was issued against the prisoner she and her husband
absconded from the neighbourhood, and he had been
unable to obtain any clue to their residence until the
preceding day, when he traced them to a house in
, and took the prisoner into
cSuhsetpopdyer.ton-street, Hoxton
In defence, Mr. Wolfe said that on the prosecutor
going to his client's house he made use of the moat 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 Stebbins, 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. BaouceeroN 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, and 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,
bakers, publicans, and others, pressed 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 respectability before they absconded from the
house in Amherst-terrace. Ono 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 could 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.

UNION.HALL.
Emma Smith, a pretty looking woman, was brought
up in custody, charged with stealing a 51. Bank of Eng-
land ❑ote and some sovereigns, the property of Henry
Watts, of 18, Princes-street, Blackfriars-road.
The complainant cemmenced 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 ho had
saved the above sum, which he deposited fur 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
church, 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 alse your wife's.
The prisoner declared that although she had been
living under the protection of the complainant for the
last eight ySars, still that she was not his wife, and,
added she, looking daggers at the complainant, " you
are a wicked man for bringing me here."
The prisoner frequently interrupted the complainant
by exclaiming, " ()h, 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 for 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. COTTINGIIAM said he could not entertain the
charge on which the prisoner wa- brought there, as the
complainant still persisted in the assertion that she was
his wife. The magistrate then asked the complainant if
he could prove that the man whom be alleged married the