The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-09 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)

Mary Howe, John Howe, and Mary Howe, jun.,
were charged with stealing a large quantity of surgical
instruments, a coat, and other property, belonging to Mr.
Sydney Mosely, a surgeon, residing at 32, Haymarket;
also with being concerned in numerous other robberies.
It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday even-
ing Mr. Mosely paid a professional visit to a gentleman's
house in Great Russell-street, on his return from the
railway station at Shoreditch. The cab was No. 2,350,
and the badge 6,218. The driver fell asleep on the seat,
and during the nap the cab was plundered of all the
articles it contained. Mr. Mosely immediately gave
notice of the robbery to the police, and police-constable
Gough, 134 E, traced the prisoners to Church-lane, St.
Giles s, where he found Liam in a room. Nothing could
be found in the room, after the most diligent
search, but en casting his eye along the floor
boards perceived one more raised than any ot the others.
He took up this one, and found beneath it all the plun-
der, and a vast quantity of other valuable property, in-
cluding 37 forceps.. The prisoners denied all knowledge
of the matter. In another house convenient there was a
large quantity of other property, and a female named
Ellen Brown identified the female prisoner, Mary Howe,
jun., as having been in possession of a portion of the
stolen articles, consisting of surgical instruments, and
those used by dentists.
The prisoners' statement was, that a young man,
whose name and addsess they gave, had put them in pos-
session of the articles, and said he would murder them if
they " peached at the plant."
They were all remanded, the police stating that they
would probably be able to trace the remainder of tl:e
plunder to its lawful owner.

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Charlotte Barber, and Thomas Barber, her son, a youth
of eighteen years of age, were charged with assaulting
Richard Barber, the husband of the former prisoner, and
wounding him on the head with a poker.
The complainant, whose head was severely cut, stated
that on the preceding day he had an altercation with his
wife, who was in the habit of ill-treating him, and en•
couraging her son to follow her example. In the course
of the dispute his wife took up the shovel and struck him,
and his son armed himself with the poker, and, striking
him on the head, inflicted the wound he now exhibited.
Several of the neighbours stated that the defendants were
in the constant habit of treating the old man with great
brutality, and they were fined forty shillings each, and,
in default of payment, committed for fourteen days each.
Eliza Sheffield, a young girl, with her head and face
decorated with a great profusion of artificial flowers, was
charged with robbing her brother-in-law of a gold
broach and two sovereigns.
The prisoner gave out that she wis going to be mar-
ried this day, and was invited to her brother-in-law's
house to spend the preceding day. While in the house
she took an opportunity of breaking open her brother's
box, from which she took the two sovereigns and the
broach, and was on the way to Gravesend when she was
taken into custody.
The prisoner began to cry, and said this affair wou'd
knock her marriage on the head, and begged forgiveness.
She was remanded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Brown, between thirty-five and forty years of
age, of respectable appearance, was charged with robbing
his employers, under the following circumstances :
For the last five or six years the prisoner had been
in the employ of Mr. Thomas Morris, of Walker's-court,
Soho, finendraper and haberdasher, and not the most re-
mote idea was, until lately, entertained of his being dis-
honest. However, certain sums in money had been re-
cently missed from the till at different times, and for the
purpose of detecting the thief, a friend of Mr. Morris
made a purchase at the shop, and gave in payment a
marked half-crown. This was on Saturday evening, and
about twelve o'clock at night the half-crown was missed
from the till, to which, in the interim, he had had fre-
quent access. He was accused of stealing it, but he
strongly protested his innocence ; but on his being
searched, the identical half-crown was found in his shoe.
The prosecutor said he did not wish to press the
charge, as the prisoner had been in better circumstances,
and had a young and numerous family to support.
The prisoner foolishly persisted that the half-crown
was his own.

Mr. MALTBY said the case would then be proceeded
with, and remanded the prisoner until this day week.
The prisoner on hearing this wept aloud.
Elizabeth Henry, a female of respectable manners, and
about thirty years of age, whose garb denoted the very
extreme of destitution, was charged with attempting to
commit suicide.
Between five and six o'clock last evening she was
observed to throw herself into the Serpentine River.
She was got out after she had floated to the distance of
about fourteen yards from the bank, just as she was
sinking. She was then in a state of insensibility, but
was speedily restored to a state of consciousness. She
at first declared that she had fallen in by accident, but
afterwards admitted that she had thrown herself in pur-
posely to put an end to her life, as she had not had any
work for a long time, and was in ill-health, and com-
pletely destitute. For many months past she had
worked at shirt.making.
Mr. MALTBY humanely ordered that she should be
taken care of for the present.